Robet R. Lear Biography from History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire
From: Barbara Gottlock - BGOTTLOC@ccsd.edu

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


Page 1272

     ROBERT R LEAR,* owner and proprietor of a flourishing grocery and
provision store at No.95 Mechanic street, Portsmouth, N. H., and also one
of the port wardens, was born in this city September 5, 1866, a son of William
H. and Mary E. Lear. The father was a stevedore by occupation. He and
his wife are now both deceased. They had a large family of twelve children,
nine of whom are still living.
     The subject of this sketch was educated in the common schools, which he
attended until seventeen years of age. He then found employment as clerk
in a dry goods store, subsequent to which he worked in a shoe factory for
seventeen years. He then started his present business, in which he has been
successful. In addition to groceries and provisions, of which he keeps a large
and well selected stock, he deals in gasoline and yacht supplies, and also has a
branch store at Little Boar's Head, North Hampton. In his Portsmouth
store he employs two men. Mr. Lear is a member of the republican party
and takes an active part in local politics, being now a member of the city,
state, county and ward committees of his party. He belongs to the Ports-
mouth Yacht Club, the Country Club, and the Benevolent and Protective Order
of Elks; also to the Masonic order, in which he has taken nine degrees. He
married Anna L. Marr, daughter of Holman P. Marr, a shipwright of Kit-
tery, Me. They attend the North Congregational church.

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