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Immediately after graduating,
in August, 1864, he entered the service of his country as
paymaster's clerk for Major Israel O. Dewey, of Hanover, New
Hampshire. In the discharge of his duties, he was stationed at
Hilton Head and Beaufort, South Carolina, remaining there
until he was compelled by sickness to return home in January,
1865. After about three months spent in recuperating, he went, in April, 1865, to
Manchester, New Hampshire, and began the study of law in the office of Morrison,
Stanley & Clark. He was admitted to the bar of New Hampshire in September, 1867,
at Nashua, New Hampshire. In October, 1868, he was admitted to practice in the United
States District Court at Manchester, New Hampshire. He began the practice of his
profession immediately, with the firm of Morrison, Stanley & Clark, and continued with
them until October, 1869, when he went to Boston, Massachusetts, and was admitted to
the bar of Suffolk County, Massachusetts. He remained in practice at Boston until
January, 1871, when he was taken sick and returned to his old home at Lyman, New
Hampshire. He did not resume his practice until April, 1874, at which time he went to
Littleton, New Hampshire, and formed a copartnership with Hon. Charles Rand, which
existed until the death of Mr. Rand, in August, 1874, after which he continued alone in
practice. In the Spring of 1875, he was chosen Justice of the Police Court at Littleton,
and held that position until January, 1877, when he removed to Lisbon, New Hampshire,
where he has continued in the practice of law up to the present time.
He gives his religious preferences as Orthodox; in politics, he is a Republican.
He was married January 14, 1875, to Miss Augusta L. Stevens, of Haverhill, New
Hampshire.
They have had four children: Grove H., born October 21, 1875; Helen P., born
April 11, 1877; Johnnie L., born September 5, 1878; Ray Stevens, born October 5, 1880.
Johnnie L. died October 24, 1881.
Source: "Memorialia
of the Class of '64 in Dartmouth College" complied by
John C. Webster, Shepard & Johnston, Printers, 1884,
Chicago
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