The history of Concord : from its first grant in 1725, to the organization of the city government in 1853, with a history of the ancient Penacooks ; the whole interspersed with numerous interesting incidents and anecdotes, down to the present period, 1855 ; embellished with maps ; with portraits of distinguished citizens, and views of ancient and modern residences . Fryeburg, Me., and vicin-ity, many of whom were poor or in moderate circumstances; andmaking, also, generous legacies to the relations of his wife, and toparticular friends, he left the residue of his estate to Dartmouth Col-lege a
The history of Concord : from its first grant in 1725, to the organization of the city government in 1853, with a history of the ancient Penacooks ; the whole interspersed with numerous interesting incidents and anecdotes, down to the present period, 1855 ; embellished with maps ; with portraits of distinguished citizens, and views of ancient and modern residences . Fryeburg, Me., and vicin-ity, many of whom were poor or in moderate circumstances; andmaking, also, generous legacies to the relations of his wife, and toparticular friends, he left the residue of his estate to Dartmouth Col-lege and to the Asylum for the Insane in New-Hampshire,—amount-ing, as stated above, in all, to seventy-five thousand dollars. The Scientific School which he established at Dartmouth Collegeis now in successful operation. The gentlemen who were appointedby Mr. Chandler executors of his will, and visitors of the school,are John James Maxwell and Francis Brown Hayes, Esqs., of Bos-ton, who were also Mr. Chandlers personal friends. GOV. ISAAC HILL. Among the men who were not natives, but for a long time citizensof Concord, few have rendered their names more conspicuous in theaffairs of the town and of the State, than Isaac Hill. The followingtribute to his memory appeared in the New-Hampshire Patriotthe week following his death; which occurred at Washington, on the. ^^^^^^i^/^^^. BIOGRAPHICAL. 601 22d of March, 1851,* of catarrhal consumption, at the age of 63years. Isaac Hill was born in a part of Cambridge, Mass., which is nowincluded in the town of Souierville, on the 6th of April, 1788. Hisparents were poor, and his advantages for obtaining an education wereexceedingly limited. In 1798, when he was ten years of age, hisparents removed to Ashburnham, where they had purchased a smallfarm. And here he had little schooling and much hard work forfour years, when, at the age of fourteen, in 1802, he was apprenticedto Joseph Gushing, Esq., now of Baltimore, who had just commencedthe publ
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