Joseph Hubbard Weare Biography from History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Surname: WEARE
Source:  History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens
          by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill., 1915

Page 1004

     JOSEPH HUBBARD WEARE, a successful farmer and business
man of Hampton Falls, was born in this town, April 9, 1868, a son of
Benjamin F. and Lydia J. (Fogg) Weare. His paternal grandfather,
John Weare, son of Deacon Jonathan, at one time owned most of the
mills in this town and was especially noted for making an extra quality
of Indian meal. He served as representative in 1836 and 1838, and
died in 1877.
     Benjamin F. Weare, father of the subject of this sketch, was born
in Hampton Falls, N. H., May 29, 1833. He was educated in the public
schools and at Dearborn Academy. He was a farmer and a large lumber
dealer, operating a sawmill. He served the town as selectman and was
a member of the constitutional convention in 1903. By his wife Lydia
he had two children, Joseph H. and Minnie 0., the latter of whom mar-
ried S. D. Perkins. Mrs. Lydia J. Weare died in 1875 and Mr. Weare
later married Lucy W. Smith, of which union also there are two chil-
dren, namely: Abby F., born March 2, 1880; and Percy S., born Sep-
tember 27, 1878. 
     Joseph Hubbard Weare was educated in the public schools and Dear-
born Academy. He then took up farming for awhile, afterwards ac-
cepting a position as clerk in a grocery store. He remained thus occu-

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pied until 1905, at which time he bought his present farm which he is
now carrying on successfully. For the last five years he has dealt in
flour and grain and in addition to this he has recently started a grocery
store in Hampton Falls. He has served as tax collector three years and
was representative to the State Assembly in 1913 and 1914.
Mr. Weare was married in 1892 to Miss Jennie B. Smith, daughter of
Elbridge and Malvina (Boyton) Smith.

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