Manchester NH’s Harriman Park Namesake: WW1 Casualty 2nd Lieut. Lynn Harold...
Harriman Park is located at the corners of Hall Street and Lake Avenue. The park was originally smaller and called Wilson Road Square. In June of 1905 the City Council voted to purchase adjacent land...
View ArticleNew Hampshire Missing Places: Janeville
New Hampshire has had very few places named after women. In fact, I don’t know of any others beside Janeville (Janesville in some documents). Leave it to the city “fathers” to obliterate the name of...
View ArticleCow Stories: Claremont New Hampshire’s American Mammoth Ox and Hon Isaac Hubbard
My regular readers know, due to my blog title, that it is mandatory for me to throw in a bovine story from time to time. I came across a marvelous lithograph of a great ox, and heard a tale immediately...
View ArticleNot New Hampshire: President John Q. Adam’s New Years Day of 1827
Are you expecting a crowd on New Year’s Day? Is your home the epi-center of your family’s festivities on January 1st? Be happy that the following did not happen to you. It did to John Quincy Adams in...
View ArticleNew Hampshire Tidbits: Milford New Hampshire’s Oddity Party of 1876
In olden times, Oddities were people with odd or strange looks or mannerisms. Think–Barnum & Bailey’s side show. Parties where attendants would dress as ‘oddities’ were being held as late as 1900...
View ArticleChief Nurse of WW1 Expeditionary Forces, Red Cross Chief Nurse Harvard Unit,...
Carrie M. Hall’s career was long and varied. She was first an educator, then an organizer, and always a nurse. Because of her essential and important role in the American Red Cross, as Chief Nurse of...
View ArticleConcord New Hampshire’s First Female Physician: Dr. Lucinda S. (Capen) Hall...
Mrs. Lucinda S. (Capen) Hall, M.D. was not only Concord, New Hampshire’s first woman physician, but she also was the first woman to receive a medical degree from a New England institution, graduating...
View ArticleWorld War I Memorials in Nashua New Hampshire
Nashua, New Hampshire has a rich military history. The local veteran organizations have never shirked their duty to recognize and remember those who have fallen. In compiling a list of World War I...
View ArticleNew Hampshire World War I Military: Heroes of The Great War
“New Hampshire World War I Military” a series of stories that revolve around the lives of heroic men and women who participated in The Great War (or World War) of 1917-1919. Most of these heroes fell...
View ArticleManchester NH Athlete, Legendary Skiing Coach and Promoter, Sports...
Robert P. “Bob” Beattie was born 24 January 1933 in Manchester, New Hampshire, the son of Robert A. & Katherine S. (Prime) Beattie. He was raised in Manchester, attending the local schools, and...
View ArticleNew Hampshire WWI Military: Heroes of Goffstown
It was less than a year before the World War would be declared by the United States that Goffstown dedicated a monument to its Civil War heroes on 16 June 1916. The monument was a gift to the town of...
View ArticleDescendant of Rev. James MacGregor of Londonderry NH — World War One Heroine:...
I was recently reviewing the list of “Gold Star Women” who had died during World War I service, and came across the name of a Delaware resident, Ruth MacGregor. Normally I would not be writing about...
View ArticleNew Hampshire Suffragist, Lecturer, Clubwoman: Mabel Harlakenden (Hall)...
Mabel Harlakenden Hall was born on 5 September 1873 in New Haven CT, daughter of George Duffield & Louise (Allen) Hall. She died on 26 May 1945 in Plainfield, Sullivan NH, and is buried at...
View ArticleNot New Hampshire: Sculptor Carl H. Conrads of Germany and West Hartford CT
Carl Henry Conrads (erroneously called Charles Conrads in some sources) was not a New Hampshire native, nor did he ever live within our state’s boundaries. But he did sculpt some of our most famous...
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