The Granite monthly, a New Hampshire magazine, devoted to literature, history, and state progress . Hon. Ira Colby health, has been five times elected tothe lower branch of the legislature,and twice to the state senate; has beena delegate-at-large to the Republican JV^ew Hampshires Ziargest Toton 149 National Convention; was for morethan twenty years solicitor for Sul-livan County; declined an appoint-ment to the bench of the SupremeCourt, and has been for many yearsa member of the committee for the ex- that manifests itself in the generallife of the town. His has been anactive career, charact
The Granite monthly, a New Hampshire magazine, devoted to literature, history, and state progress . Hon. Ira Colby health, has been five times elected tothe lower branch of the legislature,and twice to the state senate; has beena delegate-at-large to the Republican JV^ew Hampshires Ziargest Toton 149 National Convention; was for morethan twenty years solicitor for Sul-livan County; declined an appoint-ment to the bench of the SupremeCourt, and has been for many yearsa member of the committee for the ex- that manifests itself in the generallife of the town. His has been anactive career, characterized by cour-age, self-reliance and application, ac-cording to the promise cropping outin the fact that he was admitted to. Ed^vard E. Leighton aminatiou of candidates for admis-sion to the New Hampshire bar. Prominent among the youngermembers of the legal profession intown is Edward Everett Leighton,who though scarcely yet in middlelife, is widely known as a successfulmember of the Sullivan County bar,and is possessed of an indivicluality the bar before he had attained hismajority, although compelled tomake his own way in the world afterhe was fourteen years of age. Mr. Leighton was born in Laconia,the son of Edward and Selecta Leigh-ton, but he passed his boyhood inConcord, to which city the family re-moved when he was an infant. He 150 N^ew Hampshires Largest Town attended the public schools and stud-ied under private tutors. In 1897he graduated from the Boston Uni-versity Law School and was admit-ted to the New Hampshire bar at asitting of the court in Dover, asstated, before he had attained his ma-jority. As soon as he was twenty-onehe began practice in Concord. WithF. T. Woodman, he later formed thel
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