George Hamlin Willey Biography from History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire
From: Patricia Cooper - pcooper@peaknet.net

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

Page 1193

  GEORGE HAMLIN WILLEY, a prosperous and substantial business
citizen of New Market, New Hampshire, is proprietor of the Hotel Willey
which enjoys an enviable reputation with the traveling public 
throughout this section of the state. He was born on a farm in 
Middleton, N. H., February 3, 1863, and is a son of Jonas Durgin and 
Abbie (Horn) Willey. He is descended from Benjamin Willey of 
Revolutionary fame. The father of the subject of this sketch is now 
deceased and the mother still is a resident of Middleton.
  George Hamlin Wil1ey attended public schools until he was seventeen,
then went to Farmington where for two years he worked in a shoe 
factory. He served two and a half years as mail agent between North 
Conway and Boston under appointment of President Cleveland. Afterward 
he worked first as brakeman and later as conductor on the Boston and 
Maine Railroad. He continued for seven years and then in November, 
1894, came to New Market where for eight years he operated a local 
express. In 1902 he bought the hotel, now widely known as the Hotel 
Willey. He also is proprietor of the largest wholesale liquor store in 
New Market, patronized largely by towns throughout the state and the 
recipient of a large local family trade. Mr. Willey has been 
prominently identified with local affairs and has a large fol-
lowing of personal friends. He is a democrat in politics and for the 
last six years has been chairman of the water board. In 1892 Mr. Willey 
was elected to the legislature from his native town of Middleton, N. 
H., by a very flattering vote and served for two years. He was also 
elected from New Market, by a large majority in June, 1912, to the 
Constitutional Convention. He is president of the New Hampshire State 
Association of Licensees.
  November 29, 1894, Mr. Willey was married to Miss Eva E. Nute, a
daughter of Jeremy 0. and Martha (Phelps) Nute of Farmington. Her
father was prominent in public affairs and at one time was a railroad 
commissioner and also was president of the Senate. This union resulted 
in the birth of one son, George Nute Willey.

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