Dr. Lewis O. Pollard Biography from History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Surname: POLLARD
Source:  History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens
          by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill., 1915

Page 950

     DR. LEWIS O. POLLARD, the leading dentist of Raymond, N. H.,
was born in West Epping, Rockingham County, N. H., December 13,
1860, a son of Charles Alfred and Olive J. (Durgan) Pollard. The father
of our subject was also born in Raymond, March 10, 1828, and died
in 1908. His wife, who was a native of Nottingham, survived her hus-
band only two months, dying in the same year: They had six children,
of whom Lewis 0. was the fourth in order of birth.
     Lewis 0. Pollard attended the public schools of Raymond until he
was fourteen years of age. He then left school to work for his father,
with whom he continued until he was twenty-one, receiving his board
and clothes for his work. He then went to Rhode Island, where he
obtained work in a worsted mill. Having persevered in this
economical mode of life for about two years or more, in 1883 he went
to Boston, where he entered the Boston Dental College and began the
study of his profession. He was graduated in 1888. He then came

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back to Raymond and began the practice of his profession here, where
he has since remained, being the only dentist in this part of the county.
He has built up a large practice. .
     On April 3, 1884, Dr. Pollard was united in marriage with Jessie
May Hazelton, of New Market, N. H., and he and his wife are the par-
ents of two children, Ethel May and Frank Lewis. The former was
born August 27, 1889, and after attending school in Raymond, entered
the seminary at Kingston, where she subsequently graduated. She
was later graduated as a professional nurse from the Memorial Hos-
pital at East Bridgewater, and is now following her profession at Provi-
dence, R. I.  Frank Lewis Pollard was born June 15, 1891, and was
educated in the schools of Raymond. He married Ellen Bellevance, and
has a daughter, Margery May, born March 4, 1912.
     Dr. Pollard is a member of the Knights of Pythias, in which order
he has held all the chairs and has been secretary of his lodge for about
twenty years. He also belongs to the Grange and was treasurer of the
Gold Cross for several years. He is a trustee of the public library in
Raymond and has served the town efficiently on the school board. The
family to which he belongs is an old one in this locality, the original
ancestor coming from England. His great grandfather, Barton Pollard,
was one of the first settlers of Fremont, N. H: Mrs. Pol1ard is a gradu-
ate of the Robinson Female Seminary (class of I880) at Exeter, N. H.
Her domestic duties occupy too much of her time to permit her to
devote much of it to club work, but she is a member of the Grange, and,
with her husband, takes an appreciative interest in all movements for
the general welfare and the improvement of local conditions.

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