GENERAL CATALOGUE. 



and for other agricultural journals. He was also a contributor to 

 the reports of the Agricultural Department at Washington. Was 

 active in the formation of the Rockingham County Agricultural 

 Society, and was for several years its president. Was a vice-pres- 

 ident of the United States Agricultural Society. Honorary mem- 

 ber of the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Harvard College, 1861. 

 The honorary degree of M. A. was conferred on him by Dart- 

 mouth College in 1852. 



Author of " Farm Drainage," 1859 ; republished by the Orange 

 Judd Co., New York, 1884. Contributed the following papers to 

 the reports of the U. S. Department of Agriculture : " Drain- 

 age," 1856; "English Plows and Plowing," 1859; "English 

 Husbandry," 1860; " Agricultural Colleges," 1865; "Country 

 Roads," 1866. Among his other contributions may be mentioned 

 "On Fruit Growing," Trans. Neiv Hamp. Agr'l Soc., 1850-2; 

 " Farming Present and Prospective " Rept. New Hamp. Board 

 of Agric., 1873; "Drainage for Health," Annual Report State 

 Board of Health of Mass., 1873; "Count Pulaski's Strange 

 Power," Atlantic Monthly, June, 1878. 



He died from an affection of the heart, at Concord, Mass., 29th 

 November, 1885. He married first, 9th October, 1838, at Ches- 

 ter, N. H., Anne, daughter of Chief Justice William M. Richard- 

 son of New Hampshire, who died 29th August, 1856, at Exeter, 

 N. H. ; second, 29th September, 1859, at Keene, N. H., Pamela 

 Mellen, daughter of John Prentiss, Esq., editor of Keene Sentinel. 

 He leaves four children, all by his first wife. 



Mr. French was all his life interested in agriculture, and was a 

 successful practical farmer. He did much to improve the appear- 

 ance of the towns of Chester and Exeter, N. H., planting many 

 of the trees which now beautify and adorn their streets. The 

 Exeter public library was founded mainly through his efforts, and 

 he was prominent in the management of the public schools and in 

 other town matters. In anti-slavery days he made many speeches 

 in support of President Lincoln's emancipation policy. During 

 his nine years connection with the U. S. Treasury he often acted 

 as secretary and sat as a member of the cabinet. 



PAUL ANSEL CHADBOURNE, M. A., M.D., D.D., LL.D., was 

 born 21st October, 1823, at North Berwick, Me. At the age of 

 seventeen he apprenticed himself to a druggist at Great Falls, N. 



