Monthly Archives: August 2013

Derry, Rockingham County, New Hampshire Educator & Library Trustee: Mary Harriett (Day) Low (1868-1957)

A 36-year-old Mary Harriett Day, also known as “Hattie” peers out at you from this circa 1904 photograph.  She was unmarried at the time the photograph was taken, and probably a school teacher in the Derry-Londonderry area.  Within a year … Continue reading

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Manchester New Hampshire’s Michael Prout: He put the ‘Prout’ in ‘Prout Park’

Michael Prout was an English farmer’s son, born 24 Feb 1824 in Plymouth, Devon, England.  It is not known what influenced his immigration to the United States, that  occurred about 1845.  What is definitively known is that Michael Prout was living … Continue reading

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