Lewis E. Staples 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

Page 1040 

   LEWIS E. STAPLES, a prosperous dry goods merchant of Ports-
mouth, N. H., whose store is located at No. 7, Market Street, was born
in this city August 25, 1851, a son of Foxwell C. and Emily (Sendig)
Staples. The father, born in Newcastle, N. H., was a carpenter by
trade.
   Lewis E. Staples was educated in the public schools and became con-
nected with the dry goods business when a lad of fifteen years, since
which time he has continued in it. He established his present business
in 1878 in the same building in which he first began work. A man of
energy perseverance and good business ability, he has been successful
and is now one of the leading merchants in his line in the city. He is
also a trustee of the Piscataqua Savings Bank. Fraternally he belongs
to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
   Mr. Staples was first married to Miss Williametta Conn, a daughter
of William Conn. She died in 1909, and he married for his second wife
Miss Edith Ray of Hillsboro, N. H. There is an adopted daughter,
Thelma. Mr. Staples and family are members of the Middle Street
Baptist church and at the present time he is serving as treasurer of
the New Hampshire Baptist convention and treasurer of the Trustees of
the Portsmouth Hospital. Though he takes no active interest in poli-
tics beyond casting his vote, and has never sought office, he is in sympa-
thy with every movement having for its object the welfare of society
and the moral and material betterment of the community in which he

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lives. He and his family have a pleasant residence at No. 425 Islington
Street.