Rosecrans W. Pillsbury of Derry, N.H. Biography from History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire

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

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     ROSECRANS W. PILLSBURY, attorney at law, of Derry, N. H., is
a man of exceptional ability and is, moreover, one of the best known men
in the political life of the state. He was born in Londonderry, N. H., Sep-
tember --, 1863, a son of Col. W. S. and Martha (Crowell) Pillsbury. His
father, founder of the famous Pillsbury shoe factories, was one of the most
prominent business men in Rockingham County.
     The subject of this sketch acquired his elementary education in the public
schools, subsequently attended Pinkerton Academy, and then entered Dart-
mouth College as a member of the Class of 1885. After working in his
father's shoe factory for awhile, also being engaged in other enterprises. He
entered the law office of Drury & Peaslee, at Manchester, N. H., where he
began the study of his profession, later continuing it at Boston University.
He was admitted to the bar in 1890.
     Mr. Pillsbury has ever taken an active interest in public affairs, and has
made a careful study of politics. He is a prominent member of the republi-

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can party, has served on the Republican State Central Committee, also four
terms in the legislature; in 1889 he was the youngest member of the Consti-
tutional Convention, and also served in the Constitutional Convention of 1901
and 1911. He was offered by Governor Smith the position of judge advocate
on his personal staff, but declined the honor. In the present year (1914) he
was a prominent candidate for the republican nomination for Governor. A
man of wide knowledge, broad views on public questions, with a sympathetic
understanding of the wants and needs of the various classes of the popula-
tion, he has all the essential qualifications for an ideal public official, 
and doubtless the future has still much in store for him.