Harvey Perley Hood Biography from History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Surname: HOOD
Source:  History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens
          by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill., 1915

Page 1210

     HARVEY PERLEY HOOD, founder of the firm of H. P. Hood & Sons.
fourth in size in the dairy business in the United States, also owner 
and founder of one of the finest dairy farms in the state of New 
Hampshire, located in the town of Derry, Rockingham County, and 
comprising over one thousand acres of tilled land and pasturage. was 
born in Chelsea, Vt., June 6, 1823, a son of Harvey and Rebecca (Smith) 
Hood.
   Mr. Hood was educated in the schools of his native town and after
graduating from Randolph Academy returned to the farm, remaining there
with his father until he was twenty-three years old. In 1845 he went to 
Boston and obtained employinent in a bakery and it was during this 
apprenticeship that he became interested in the dairy industry of New 
England. The opportunities in this industry seemed to open so great a 
future that in 1846 he left the bakery and founded the business that 
still bears his name. In 1856 Mr. Hood found that his health was better 
in the country and he therefore gave up his home in Boston and moved to 
Derry where he continued in the milk business and brought a carload of 
milk from Derry to Boston each day. Two years later he bought the 
Redfield farm which he re-named Hood Farm and at once began to improve, 
remodel and enlarge the old buildings and erect new ones. He was 
engaged in this work and in the transportation of milk to Boston until 
his death on June 17,1900. The bussiness he founded steadily grew until 
today the firm of H. P. Hood & Sons is known throughout the country as 
one of the largest and most reputable dealers in dairy products. Mr. 
Hood, in the early fifties, founded a grain business which has steadily 
grown in size under the present firm.

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Page 1213

Mr. Hood was for many years a director in the National Bank of Derry
and on two occasions represented the town in the State Legislature. He
was known among all his friends and business associates as a man of 
sterling integrity and great business ability, while at the same time 
he took a great interest in all benevolent work and in furthering and 
assisting all plans for  the benefit of the town and its citizens. Few 
men have; had so successful a career or have better deserved the reward 
from intelligently directed industry.
  In 1850 Mr. Hood married Miss Caroline Laura Corwin, a native of
Tunbridge, Vt., but whose home had been in Boston several years prior
to her marriage. Six children were born to this union, three sons and 
three daughters-Charles H. Edward J., Gilbert H., Laura. C. Clara R., 
and Ne1lie F. The sons inherit their father's business ability and are 
carrying on successfully today the great industry which he established 
and in which he took so active a part.

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