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Title
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Hamilton in A history of the town of Keene by Simon Goodell Griffin
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Type
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Text
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Date
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1880-05-28
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Description
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Hamilton, a Black man, had been arrested for the murder of Alvin C. Foster but was not tried
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Format
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PDF
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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University of New Hampshire Library
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Contributor
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Carroll, J.
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Bibliographic Citation
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Simon Goodell Griffin, "A history of the town of Keene from 1732, when the township was granted by Massachusetts, to 1874, when it became a city," 1904, page 684, https://archive.org/details/historyoftownofk00grif/page/684/mode/2up
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Location
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Keene, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, US
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extracted text
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HISTORY OF KBENB.
684
1880.
Horatio Kimball, mayor
John H. Donovan, while operating a
Cheshire railroad snowplow, on Jan. 1, w^as killed by a blow on the head.
Jan. 27, death of Dauphin W. Buckrainster, register of probate since
death of Mrs. Eleanor McCrae, nearly ninety-four years
in the city
her husband, a veteran of the
February, Henry O.
war of 1812, died three years before, aged ninety
Keene Commandery, No. 90,
Coolidge appointed register of probate
Feb. 13, John Sedgwick Post, No. 4, G. A. R.,
U. 0. G. C, organized
revived; Col. John W. Babbitt, commander; post first organized Feb. 3,
Hale & Sturtevant manufactured
1868, dormant since Sept. 5, 1872
from 250 to 300 suits of furniture per week at Ashuelot mills
Keene
Brass band uniformed as the Second Regiment band by the state
March, Josiah Parsons Cooke died in Boston; he was son of Noah
Cooke, who died at his house on West street in 1829 at the age of
eighty years, and brother of Noah R. Cooke, who died at the old homeMarch 11, death of Dea. Elisha Rand,
stead on West street, in 1872
aged eighty-five years, a native of Hopkinton, Mass., but nearly a life
long resident of Keene, one of the founders of the Second Congregational
church and society
March 24, Clarke's block destroyed by fire
March 25, paint shop of Keene Chair Company at South Keene,
destroyed by fire
March 26, the First Congregational society gave a
supper to the firemen, as a thank offering and in appreciation of the
1871
Feb.
of age
2,
and the oldest person
;
services rendered by the fire department on Wednesday night,
March 24
April 29, one of the familiar landmarks of West street,
"the old Cooke house," opposite the head of School street, taken down.
gallant
May 7, Madam Elliot, widow of John Elliot, died in the ninetyfourth year of her age, at the house on Main street where she had lived
May
for sixty-five years
20,
Frank M. Chapin ordained to the min-
as a missionary to North
China, in the Second Congregational
church
City councils passed a new fire precinct ordinance
In May,
Gideon E. Lee, Fred W. Dodge and George R. Spencer were tried for
murder of Alvin C. Foster and acquitted. A negro namfed Hamilton had
previously been arrested for the crime but was not tried
May 28,
Stephen Preston Ruggles, the well known inventor, died at Lisbon and
his remains were brought to Keene for burial; he invented the Ruggles
istry
printing press, the first of machine presses, and the raised alphabet for
the blind; was a writer on the subject of mechanical education
June
2, stockholders of Cheshire railroad voted to accept lease of the Monadnock road agreed upon by the directors
Population, Ward 1, 1,732;
ward
2,
1,091;
increase since
ward
3,
1,479; ward 4, 1,165; ward 5, 1,322; total, 6,789;
(Population since the first census was taken
1870 of 818.
:
1775, 756; 1790, 1,314; 1800, 1,645; 1810, 1,646; 1820, 1,895; 1830,
2,374; 1840, 2,611; 1850, 3,392; 1860, 4,320; 1870, 5,971; 1880, 6,789;
1890, 7,446; 1900, 9,165)
July 1, new council rooms completed in city
hall building
July 26, M. A. Bailey, of Middletown, Conn., elected
principal of the high
from
St.
James
school
street to
Vernon
Aug. 12, Deluge engine house removed
street lot
City hall remodeled, stage
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