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- Was Your New Hampshire Ancestor a Suffragist? | Cow Hampshire on New Hampshire Suffragist, Physician, Teacher and Civic Leader: Dr. Jennie Sarah Barney of Grafton and Franklin (1861-1956)
- New Hampshire’s Centennial Celebration of the 19th Amendment | Cow Hampshire on New Hampshire Suffragist, Lecturer, Clubwoman, Civic Leader: Susan Cushing (Wood) Bancroft of Concord (1861-1948)
- New Hampshire Missing Places: Gosport, Isles of Shoals | Cow Hampshire on New Hampshire’s "Lakawaka": Terror of the Isles of Shoals
- Richard Bartlett Brubaker on New Hampshire WWI Military: Heroes of Hanover
- Janice Brown on New Hampshire Suffragist, Deputy Commissioner, Public Educator, Club-woman: Harriet Lane Huntress of Center Harbor and Concord (1860-1922)
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Tag Archives: celebration
New Hampshire Suffragist, National & Local Civic Leader, Peace Proponent, Lecturer, Teacher: Mary Nettie Chase of Andover (1863-1959)
With the upcoming 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment being passed by the U. S. Congress, my focus shifts to women (and men) who promoted suffrage in New Hampshire and nationally. When Mary Nettie Chase’s name was mentioned on “The … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Genealogy, History, New Hampshire Politics, New Hampshire Women
Tagged baptist, celebration, centennial, Chase, Hampshire, human, Mary, Mary N Chase, Nettie, new, New Hampshire, NH, peace, Rev., rights, suffrage, suffragette, suffragist, Uriah
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New Hampshire Tidbits: Fun Things To Do Before 1880
The Cheer of New England Life For one, I utterly deny that the rural society of New England, taken as a whole, is in a grim, stern or extravagantly repressed condition. I do not know much of Connecticut, but I … Continue reading
Posted in History, NH Tidbits
Tagged 1880, Amusement, before, celebration, Cornwallis, early, event, fun, party, things, tidbit, to do
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100 Years Ago: A World War I Mother’s Day
One hundred years ago Mother’s Day was celebrated on May 12, 1918 in New Hampshire. Two days before the Portsmouth Herald newspaper announced: “Sunday is Mother’s Day. Carnations Will Be Worn in Honor or Memory of Her That Day.” The … Continue reading
Posted in History, Military of New Hampshire, New Hampshire Women, NH WW1 Military
Tagged 1, 1918, 2018, carnation, celebration, custom, Day, I, mother, mother's, One, puzzle, Salvation Army, tradition, war, world, WWI
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100 Years Ago: Fourth of July 1917
On July 4th 1917 the World was at War. Just a week earlier, on June 26 the first 14,000 United States infantry troops had landed in France, and were beginning to train for combat. The local weather was temperate. The … Continue reading
Posted in History, Military of New Hampshire, NH WW1 Military
Tagged 1, 1917, 4, 4th, celebration, events history, Fourth, Hampshire, I, July, new, New Hampshire, newspaper, NH, One, war, wartime, world, WW1, WWI
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