Mrs. Mary L. Field of Exeter, NH Biography from A History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire (1915)

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Source: A History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens
         by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill, 1915

Page 1051

   MRS. MARY L. FIELD, who has proved that sex is no bar to busi-
ness capacity, is the proprietor of a first class furniture store and in con-
nection conducts an undertaking business, at Exeter, her business ter-
ritory extending many miles in every direction, taking in the villages of
Stratham, Brentwood and Hampton. Mrs. Field was born at Lebanon,
Me., and is a daughter of Charles and Elizabeth (Morse) Sanborn. The
mother of Mrs. Field is deceased but the father survives and has reached
the venerable age of ninety years. During active life he was a furni-
ture dealer at Somersworth, where Mrs. Field was reared. He still
keeps interested in public matters and votes the Republican ticket. His
children are: Sarah Elizabeth, who is the wife of Nathaniel T. Palmer;
Arthur; Annie F.; Eleanor J., who is the wife of Charles 0. Nason;
Mary L. and Martha W., twins; Carrie B., now deceased, who was the
wife of Arthur Foote; Charles Henry; Grace M., who is the wife of
Fred W. Harmon; and Fred B., who is a physician.
   Mrs. Field established her present business in 1891. She has the
assistance of F. L. Jenkins, a licensed embalmer, and has a complete
line of undertaking necessities and equipments and the efficient and
dignified manner in which funerals under her charge are conducted,
has brought her personal esteem as well as a wider business reputation.
Her furniture store offers the most modern and attractive articles in
this line and her excellent trade relations enable her to procure any
special piece of furniture, drapery or bric a brac a customer may desire.
Mrs. Field has three sons: James Lincoln, Charles Curtis and Richard
A. Field. She was reared in the Baptist church, of which she is a valued
member at Exeter.