Jonathan H. Hiscock Biography from History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Surname: HISCOCK
Source:  History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens
          by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill., 1915

Page 974

     JONATHAN H. HISCOCK, a well known and highly esteemed
citizen of Exeter, N. H., where for the last twelve years he has held the
position of assistant postmaster, was born in this town, January 9, 1873.
His parents were Jesse F. and Mary S. (Ladd) Hiscock. The father,
a native of Maine, was a carpenter by trade, and after coming to Exeter,
about 1871, engaged in business here as a contractor, which occupation
he followed for some years. He then became foreman in a shoe factory
here and was thus engaged up to the time of his death. His wife Mary,
to whom he was married in Newport, Me., was a native of New Hamp-
shire. She now resides in Exeter. They had only one child, the sub-
ject of this sketch. Jesse F. Hiscock voted with the Republican party
but was never active in politics. He was a good and worthy citizen
who did his- duty to his neighbor and had many friends. He and his
wife were members of the Baptist church, to which Mrs. Hiscock still
belongs.
     Jonathan H. Hiscock acquired his education in the district schools
of Exeter and also the high school, from which he was graduated in the
class of 1889. He began industrial life in the shoe factory where his
father was foreman, and was there employed as a journeyman for thir-
teen years. Then, after his father's death, he succeeded him as fore-
man, which position he held for about ten years, during the next two
years being foreman in the lumber yard of John Fellows. He was then

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appointed to his present position as assistant postmaster, which he has
since held, and in which, being a man of methodical habits and good
executive ability, he is serving with credit to himself and benefit to
the public. He is also a director of the Exeter Banking Company. Mr.
Hiscock is a man of wide acquaintance. His social affiliations include
membership in the Swampscott Club, of which he is president; Star in
the East Lodge, A, F. & A, M., Exeter; also the Chapter and Council at
Exeter; the Knights of Pythias, and the New England Order of Pro-
tection. In politics he is a Republican. He attends the Baptist church.

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