Herbert O. Prime of Portsmouth, NH Biography from A History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire (1915)

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

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   HERBERT 0. PRIME, assistant superintendent of the Consolidation
Coal Company of Portsmouth, N. H., was born in this city in 1871, a son of
Edwin B. and Araette (Hoitt) Prime.  His father, a native of Exeter, N. H.,
was an insurance broker; the mother of our subject was a native of Ports-
mouth.
   Herbert 0. Prime was the only child of his parents.  His education was
obtained in the common schools and he then began work for E. F. Sise &
Co., coal dealers.  On the subsequent death of William H. Sise in 1896 a
partnership was formed under the name of Gray & Prime, consisting of
Mr. Prime and Charles W. Gray, who carried on the business successfully
until April 1, 1911, when the firm was taken over by The Consolidation
Coal Co., both partners being retained by the company.  Mr. Prime is a

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Republican in politics and an up-to-date and progressive citizen.  He belongs
to the Warwick Club, is a Blue Lodge Mason, an Odd Fellow, an Elk and a
member of the Royal Arcanum.
   Mr. Prime was married in 1898 to Harriet G. Simpson of Newfields,
N. H., a daughter of John E. and Louise E. (Saunders) Simpson.  Her
father was a railway postal clerk from Quincy, Mass.; her mother was a native
of England.  Mr. Prime is an Episcopalian in religious belief, but with his
wife and two daughters, Katharine S. and Elizabeth, attends the Congrega-
tional Church.