This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 Excerpt: ... and is, therefore, a historic landmark. Mr. Goodhue was educated in the town schools, and has passed his life thus far in the pursuit of agriculture. At the age of twenty-one years, he purchased of his father Home Of George VV. Goodhue, Hancock. a half interest in the farm, and a few years later the remaining half. He ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 Excerpt: ... and is, therefore, a historic landmark. Mr. Goodhue was educated in the town schools, and has passed his life thus far in the pursuit of agriculture. At the age of twenty-one years, he purchased of his father Home Of George VV. Goodhue, Hancock. a half interest in the farm, and a few years later the remaining half. He has about seventy acres of land, altogether, in Hancock, and a hundred-acre pasture in Nelson. His hay crop amounts to about thirty-five tons per annum, and he also puts in about sixty tons of ensilage, having been the first man in town to build a silo, some fifteen years ago. He has a fine, modern barn, 36x68 feet, with cellar under the whole, and keeps eighteen to twenty head of cattle and two horses. He makes a specialty of private dairying, producing some fifteen hundred pounds of choice butter per annum, which he sells to special customers in Hancock and Boston. He has a good supply of fruit of all kinds for family use, and a good surplus of apples for the market. He is a member of John Hancock grange, and has filled various offices in the organization, including that of Master for two years. He is also a charter member of Hillsborough County Pomona grange, No. 1. In politics, he is a Republican, and he is also a member of the Congregational church. He has served the town three years as a member of the school-board, four years as selectman, and was a representative in the legislature of 18Sp-'po. In September, 1879. he was united in marriage with Miss Ella L. Tuttle of Hancock, who is his faithful helpmeet and co-laborer in all things. WILLIAM H. CHILD, Cornish. In the year 1775, Stephen Child, from Woodstock, Conn., settled upon a farm of 130 acres, about one mile south of the present village of Cornish Flat. It was a farm valued chiefl...
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