Biography:  CAPT. HENRY B. ATHERTON, Hillsborough  Co., NH

Granite State Magazine An Illustrated Monthly Devoted to the History,
Story, Scenery, Industry and Interest of New Hampshire 
Edited By George Waldo Browne 
Volume I. January to June, 1906 
Manchester, N.H.:
Granite State Publishing Company 1906

page 307-308

CAPT. HENRY B. ATHERTON was born in Cavendish, Vt., September 21,
1835, and died in Nashua, February 6, 1906. He was educated in the
local schools until he entered Dartmouth College, from which he
graduated in 1858, He graduated from the Albany Law School in 1860,
and the following year he entered the service in the Civil War as
captain of Company C, Fourth Vermont Volunteers. He was wounded in the
Peninsular campaign, discharged for disability and came to Nashua,
where he passed the remainder of his life. He was one of the foremost
lawyers in this vicinity and a picturesque figure in social and
political circles. Among the many positions of trust and honor that he
held were those of treasurer of Hillsborough county; postmaster of
Nashua, 1872 to 1876; representative to the legislature, 1867-68 and
1885-86; delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1884. He
was land commissioner, under President Harrison, for Samoa under the
Berlin treaty. He was a 33d degree Mason and a member of John G.
Foster Post, G. A. R. He married, in 1861, Miss Abbie L. Armington of
Ludlow, Vt., who died in 1886, and in 1898 he married, second, Ella
Blaylock, M. D., who survives him, as well as her two children,
Blaylock and Ives. Four children by his first wife are living: Maud,
who married A. W. Griswold of New York; Grace, who married Dr. William
F. Haselton of Springfield, Vt.; Anna, wife of Charles Snow of Nashua;
Henry Francis, a student at Harvard University.



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