. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. range in 1895, and is at present aState Grange deputy for District No. 17. Mrs. Ball isalso active and earnest in Grange work, and is thepresent worthy Pomona of the State Grange. OILMAN GREENOUGH, Atkinson. There is no man in the section of the state contiguousto the Boston & Maine railroad between the town ofExeter and the city of Haverhill, Mass., who enjoys awider acquaintance, or is more favorably known thanGilman Greenough of Atkinson. Mr. Greenough is ason of the late Richard and Hannah B. (Towle) Green-ough, born on the old Pete
. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. range in 1895, and is at present aState Grange deputy for District No. 17. Mrs. Ball isalso active and earnest in Grange work, and is thepresent worthy Pomona of the State Grange. OILMAN GREENOUGH, Atkinson. There is no man in the section of the state contiguousto the Boston & Maine railroad between the town ofExeter and the city of Haverhill, Mass., who enjoys awider acquaintance, or is more favorably known thanGilman Greenough of Atkinson. Mr. Greenough is ason of the late Richard and Hannah B. (Towle) Green-ough, born on the old Peter Clement place, where henow resides. May 29, 1835. ^^ ^^^^ educated in thecommon schools and at Atkinson academ^^, where hewas for some time under the instruction of William of that town, the well-known educator, nowspecially noted for his recent liberal donation to the Bos-ton public library, for the maintenance of a newspaperreading-room. Though born and reared on a farm and making agri-culture the basis of his life-work, Mr. Greenough has. 39^ NEW HAMPSHIRE AGRICULTURE. been extensively engaged as a land surveyor and con-veyancer since early life. He has also a very extensivebusiness as a probate attorney, and in the settlement ofestates; and, as the only acting justice in the town, hisservices are frequently in demand in the adjudication ofquestions involving the public peace, as well as mattersof private right. In April, i860, he was united in marriage with MaryC. Carter of Hampstead, who is still living. They have two children, FrankW., born January 19,1861, and Ada Mary,October 2, 1864, thelatter now being thewife of W. E. Ham-ilton of Haverhill,Mass. The son, FrankW. Greenougii, is nowthe active managerand a part owner ofthe homestead farm,which embraces abouttwo hundred acres ofland. From fifty tosixty tons of hay areannually produced,and four or five acresof field corn, and some two acres of corn for leading industrj-is the production of milk for th
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