. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. bout six hundred apple trees on the placeand in the future fruit promises to be an importantproduct. Mr. Ayers is an enthusiastic Patron of Husbandry,having joined Capital Grange of Concord in 1886, andtransferring his membership to Ezekiel Webster Grangeof Boscawen after his removal. In 1896 he was over-seer of the latter grange, while his wife was secretaryand his eldest son assistant steward. He married June 4,1873, Clara Maria, daughter of Hon. John Kimball ofConcord. They have five children—Ruth Ames, JohnKimball, Helen McGregor, A
. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. bout six hundred apple trees on the placeand in the future fruit promises to be an importantproduct. Mr. Ayers is an enthusiastic Patron of Husbandry,having joined Capital Grange of Concord in 1886, andtransferring his membership to Ezekiel Webster Grangeof Boscawen after his removal. In 1896 he was over-seer of the latter grange, while his wife was secretaryand his eldest son assistant steward. He married June 4,1873, Clara Maria, daughter of Hon. John Kimball ofConcord. They have five children—Ruth Ames, JohnKimball, Helen McGregor, Augustine Haines, and Ben-jamin Kimball, the eldest being a special student in Cor-nell University. Mr. Ayers is a member of the SouthCongregational church of Concord, Rumford Lodge,I. O. O. F., and E. E. Sturtevant Post, G. A. R. WALTER SARGENT,Warner. Elm Farm, charmingly located in the town ofWarner, about two miles above the village, on the roadto Kearsarge mountain, has been the delightful summerhome of numerous rest- and pleasure-seekers for many. Walter Sargent. PERSONAL AND PARM SKETCHES. II7 years past. Its proprietor, Walter Sargent, is a nativeof the town, born December 25, 1837, ^s father, AbnerSargent, being then a partner of Thomas H. Bartlett inmercantile business. His first ancestor in this country wasWilliam Sargent, a son of Richard Sargent of the BritishRoyal navy, who settled in Ipswich, Mass., in 1633, andfrom whom he is a lineal descendant in the eighth gen-eration. When he was about two years of age his father soldout his business in Warner and settled on a farm in thatpart of Boscawen which is now Webster, where he grewto manhood, meanwhile industriously laboring upon thefarm, attending the district school, and the Salisbury,Hopkinton, Franklin, and Contoocook academies, andteaching school, himself, winters, for a number of also worked considerably at carpentering, and ac-quired a good knowledge of the business, which he hassince found advantag
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