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20, 1806, and was educated there, moving to Haverhill when 

 15. He went to sea at 18, and soon became Master. At the 

 end of twenty years he retired and became a clerk at the State 

 House, and was afterwards Cashier of the Essex National Bank 

 in Haverhill, for thirty-six years. The "Captain" was univer- 

 sally respected for his rugged integrity, acumen, and kindness 

 of heart. He leaves a widow and son. He was constant at 

 the Unitarian Church. 



Samuel N. Currier, of Haverhill, died March 7, 1889. A 

 native of Hill, N. H., where he was born Jan. 10, 1822, came 

 to Haverhill in 1855 permanently, having been there employed 

 previous in shoe manufacture, which business he followed until 

 entirely burned out in the great fire of 1882. He was a Director 

 of the Merrimack National Bank, Vice President and Trustee of 

 Five Cents Savings Bank, a Trustee of the City Hospital, was 

 an Alderman in 1872. In fraternal association he was member 

 of Lodge, Chapter and Commandry of Masons. In religion his 

 home was the First Baptist Society. As a citizen he was a man 

 of high integrity, and greatly esteemed. 



John Brown, of Ipswich, became a member in 1869. He 

 died Feb. 12, 1889, aged 74 years. He was a successful farmer, 

 and a kiud neighbor. 



John J. England, of Merriraac, who became a member of 

 the Society in 1884, died Aug. 14, 1889, aged 68 years, 8 

 months, 12 days. 



Charles H. Nicholas, of Merrimac, who joined the Society 

 in 1868, died Jan. 13, 1889, aged 72 years. 



George Washington Gage, of Methuen, who became a mem- 

 ber in 1848, died in 1889, was very much interested in the Society, 

 serving on many committees, Trustee for several years, a frequent 

 exhibitor, his services, reports and papers to the Society, and 

 before its Institutes, have been of much value. He made a 



