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1800, Sept. 4 | Born, Chester, N.H. |
1825 | Married Elizabeth Richardson (died 1861) |
1828-1830 | Assistant clerk, New Hampshire state senate |
1831-1833 | Representative, New Hampshire legislature |
1833 | Accepted appointment in clerk's department of the United States House of Representatives |
1845-1847 | Clerk of the United States House of Representatives |
1847-1850 | President, Magnetic Telegraph Co. |
1853 | Appointed commissioner of public buildings by President Franklin Pierce (resigned 1855) |
1857 | President, Republican Association of Washington, Washington, D.C. |
1859-1865 | Grand master of Templars of the United States |
1861 | Chief marshal of District of Columbia at inauguration of Abraham Lincoln |
1861-1867 | Commissioner of public buildings under presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson |
1862 | Married Mary Ellen Brady |
1870, Aug. 12 | Died, Washington, D.C. |
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1837, Sept. 12 | Born, Chester, N.H. |
1857 | Graduated, Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass. |
1859 | LL.B., Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Mass. |
1861 | Married Ellen Tuck |
1862 | Appointed deputy naval officer of customs, Boston, Mass. |
1865 | Joined banking firm Samuel A. Way & Co., Boston, Mass. |
1870 | Joined banking firm Jay Cooke & Co., New York, N.Y. |
1873 | Promoted to partner, Jay Cooke & Co. |
1874 | Member of a group that acquired control of the First National Bank of New York |
1880 | Disposed of his interest in First National Bank of New York and retired |
1888-1893 | President, Manhattan Trust Co., New York, N.Y. |
1893, Feb. 26 | Died, Tuxedo Park, N.Y. |
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1810, Aug. 2 | Born, Parsonsfield, Maine |
1834 | Married Sarah Nudd (died 1847) |
1835 | Graduated, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H. |
1838 | Began law practice in Exeter, N.H. |
1842 | Representative, New Hampshire legislature |
1847 | Married Catherine Townsend Shephard (died 1876) |
1847-1853 | Member, United States House of Representatives |
1853-1854 | Assisted in founding the Republican party |
1860 | Member, platform committee, Republican party national convention, Chicago, Ill. |
1861 | Delegate, Peace Congress, Washington, D.C. |
1861-1865 | Naval officer of the district of Boston and Charlestown, Mass. |
1865 | Resumed law practice |
1879, Dec. 11 | Died, Exeter, N.H. |