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Category Archives: Genealogy
How Newspapers Can Help Tell Your Family Story
For years I worked on my genealogy without using a newspaper as a reference. I had boxes of starter material, and of course both my parents were alive to allow me to interview them. Easily 20 years had passed before … Continue reading
Posted in Genealogy, Holidays
Tagged Berwin, burning, fence, Hampshire, Merrimack, motorcycle, new, New Hampshire, newspapers, NH, wall, Webster
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New Hampshire Tidbits: Not On The Fourth of July
Many Americans accept the Fourth of July as the anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. However it was not signed on that day. The Trenton (New Jersey) Evening Times of 26 March 1885 credits the research of … Continue reading
Posted in Genealogy, History, New Hampshire Men, NH Tidbits
Tagged 4, 4th, Boston City Library, Chamberlain, Dartmouth, declaration, Fourth, Hampshire, Harvard, historian, Independence, July, librarian, Mellen, new, New Hampshire, NH, Not, Pembroke, sign
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New Hampshire Suffragist, Civic Leader, and Philanthropist: Julia Beatrice (Ball) Thayer of Winchester and Keene (1835-1905)
She was born Julia Beatrice Ball on 19 January 1835 in Winchester NH, daughter of David & Fanny Parker (Capron) Ball. She would have attended the local Winchester NH schools, and possibly either an academy or a music school, for … Continue reading
Posted in Genealogy, History, New Hampshire Women
Tagged Ashuelot, Association, ball, Cheshire, Co., county, Delos, Hampshire, hospital, Julia, Keene, Library, MA, Massachusetts, new, New Hampshire, NH, philanthropy, suffrage, suffragist, Thayer, Uxbridge, Winchester
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New Hampshire Suffragist, Performer, Composer, Poet, Human Rights Advocate: Abby J. (Hutchinson) Patton of Milford (1829-1892)
“She was interested in the education of women and was an earnest believer in women’s suffrage, which movement she has aided by tongue and pen,” is how she was described in the book, “A Woman of the Century; Fourteen Hundred-Seventy … Continue reading
New Hampshire Men Were Suffragists
When we think of the events leading up to the passage of the 19th Amendment, we picture women in white parading in orderly fashion down wide avenues, or wearing large hats carrying placards in front of the White House. In … Continue reading
Posted in Genealogy, History, New Hampshire Men
Tagged 19, 19th, 19th Amendment, for, Hampshire, male, men, new, New Hampshire, NH, pro, promote, suffrage, suffragist, support, vote, woman, women
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