been an industrious and successful manufacturer, and is highly respected. He is an active member of the Congregationalist church. Mt. Horeb Commandery.

John Fletcher of the Granite Mills Company was born in Utley. near Keighley, Yorkshire, Eng., April 6, 1825, third of family of seven. Came to America in 1848. Taught music in Trenton, N.J., from 1850 to 1864, when he settled in Methuen one year; came to Tilton the fall after Mr. Ballantyne. Married in November, 1846. Has had four children: two daughters, both married; and one son, Francis W. Fletcher, in the employment of the firm. Mr. Fletcher is church organist at Trinity Church. Lives in Northfield. Mt. Horeb Commandery.

2 Mr. Peabody was born in Sutton, Jan. 15, 1839, but was brought to Sanbornton Bridge in 1843, where he was educated. Studied medicine with Dr. Seyfarth of Lawrence; but, before taking his degree, enlisted in 1862 in 40th Mass. Regt. Vols., and served in Quar. and Com. Dept. three years; returned and entered wholesale drugstore in Boston. Returned to Tilton in 1868, where he has since resided. Married, in 1867, Elizabeth S. Richards of Bedford, Mass.; child, Isabella W. Peabody. Attends Congregationalist church. Mason, Mt. Horeb Commandery, Concord; Pythagorean Council, Laconia; St. Omer Chapter, Franklin; Doric Blue Lodge of Tilton. 3 Albert C. Lord, senior partner of the firm The Lord Brothers' Manufacturing Company, is a native of Tilton; born July 30, 1852. Learned the trade of jeweller in the village; commenced in a small way to manufacture spectacles and eye-glasses and cases about 1875; enlarging in 1878. The firm employ thirty hands on an average, and do a large business. The goods are sold all over the United States and Canada. They make fifteen hundred to twenty-five hundred pairs a day, and have been very successful. The firm was organized in April, 1884.

George W. Lord came into the business in 1876. They built the block they occupy in 1877. They have one of the neatest jeweller's stores in New Hampshire, and carry a very large stock.

A. C. Lord married Alma W. Neal of Franklin, Sept. 15, 1875. Has three children, boys. Attends the Methodist church.

George W. Lord, born April 24, 1847, who carries on a drug-store in the same block, married Sept. 12, 1869, Mary E. B. Johnson of Northfield. One daughter.

The brothers attend the Methodist-Episcopal church. 4 He was born Aug. 6, 1816. Until the last twenty years he was engaged in New Hampton, Gilford, and Bristol, for the most part in the second town, carrying on a sawmill. During the war he returned to Tilton, and built the three mills near the centre, and carries on the gristmill himself. His son, George A. Copp, representative this year, carries on the saw-mill in Gilford. His two daughters are married and settled, - one in Tilton, one in Franklin.

Mr. Copp is a Mason, K. T. of Mt. Horeb Commandery, and a member of the Lodge and Chapter Council of Laconia, of which he has been treasurer for many years. Odd Fellow.

5 Mr. Buell is a native of Newport, born Jan. 13, 1833; married, settled in Franklin in 1855, where he has since lived. For sixteen years he was in business with Walter Aiken, 1862-79. He purchased the power in February, 1880.

During the war he served one year in 1st Mass. Vols. as a member of the band, 1861-62.

6 Mr. Dodge is the son of the late John W. Dodge of Hampton Falls, whose mother, when left a widow, conducted the Summit House of Mt. Washington for nine years. Mr. Dodge is a brother-in-law of Walter Aiken, with whom he learned the business. He was born July 19, 1862.

7 Mr. Cass is a native of Andover; born Feb. 7, 1826. He has been moderator and town treasurer, but has not had time to accept other offices tendered to him. Mr. Cass married Mary E. Locke of Concord. Four children, two living; the son, Arthur T. Cass, assisting his father, after having prepared for college. The daughter, Minnie A. Cass, is in the junior class, Boston University.

8 Herbert C. Boynton is a native of Thornton, born Aug. 11, 1852. When twenty-one years of age, he came to Tilton, and entered the employ of Hill & Philbrick. In October, 1880, he went into business with Andrew B. Davis, whom he bought out in April, 1885. He married, May 10, 1881, Emma Davis. They attend the Congregational church.

9 Mr. Taylor is a native of Sutton; born June 1, 1829; settled in Tilton in 1843. In 1850 went into business with Amos Dodge, afterwards of Concord, and continued for two years, when, on account of his father's ill health, he went on to a farm, and kept at farming for eight years. In 1858 went into business with Henry T Hill, now of Manchester, the firm continuing until 1869; since which date he has been in business for himself. Married, in 1851, Lydia J. Proctor of Franklin. Children, Sidney W. Taylor and Harry Taylor: the elder in the employ of his father; the youngest graduated at West Point in June, 1884, sixth in his class, and is Second Lieutenant of Engineers, now stationed at Willet's Point, N.Y. Attends Episcopal church. Representative from Sanbornton, 1867-68; town treasurer of Tilton; State Senate, 1885.

10 The brothers Joseph Hill and William P. Hill were natives of Mount Vernon. Joseph Hill came to Tilton about 1845; William P. Hill, about 1852. About 1857 they formed a partnership which continued for fifteen years. Together they built the fine business block near the centre of the village. Since 1872, W. P. Hill has carried on the provision business in a block east of the brick block, which was also erected by the firm. His son, Herbert W. Hill, is with his father in busi

ness.

11 William P. Fletcher was born in Ballardvile, Mass., Oct. 21, 1855. Married Kate Barnes, and has one child. The firm do a large business in this and adjoining towns.

12 Mr. Sanborn is a native of Colebrook; learned the business with Webster, Russell, & Co., of Plymouth; was with them eight years. Started in business in Tilton in March, 1884. He married, Oct. 30, 1883, Julia E. Hobart of Plymouth.

13 Mr. Enoch G. Philbrick, a native of the town, born July 7, 1841, commenced business at the east part of the town in 1867, and moved to the village in 1870. He married, Aug. 3, 1864, Ann Hill, daughter of Benjamin Hill of Northfield; a Mason and a Congregationalist; two children.

14 Mr. Frank Hill is a native of Northfield; born Nov. 29, 1849. Married, May 22, 1872, Clara C. Scribner of Northfield; a Mason; Methodist; and has one child.

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HON. STILLSON HUTCHINS, editor of "The Washington Post,"-who, by the way, is a native of Whitefield, and during the last session of the New-Hampshire Legislature was the acknowledged leader of the Democratic phalanx in the House of Representatives, has lately purchased what has long been known as Davis's Island, or more properly Governor's Island, the largest island in Lake Winnipiseogee, and has projected, and is carrying out, an extensive scheme of improvements, the renown of which has gone forth throughout the State.

The island contains about six hundred acres, irregular in its shore outline, but presenting at a distance the appearance of a nearly submerged sphere floating on the lake. Its shore nearest the mainland in the town of Gilford, and distant about a hundred yards, is connected with the main by a causeway, with a draw-bridge across the channel to afford a passage for boats and steamers. The sides of the island are steep, but not precipitous; and the highest elevation is one hundred and eighty feet above the surface of the water.

When Mr. Hutchins made the purchase, the island was a pasture, supporting through the summer a thousand head of cattle and sheep. It is supposed that the commissioners from Massachusetts Bay Colony, who marked the Endicott rock at the Weirs in 1652, built a mound on the island as a bound to the Colony. Its situation would warrant this supposition. There is also a probability that it derived its title of Governor's Island from Gov. Shirley, an extensive land-owner. It was

first granted by the authorities of New Hampshire as a part of Gilmanton, which later became Gilford, and may have been a reservation for Gov. Wentworth. Its authentic history, however, dates back only to about the year 1800, when it came into possession of Nathaniel Davis, then a young man. Its soil was remarkably rich and deep, and eventually it was divided into thirteen farms, each supporting the oldfashioned New-Hampshire family. Mr. Davis was an ardent follower of, and firm believer in, the doctrines advanced by Miller the adventist; and tradition asserts, that on an appointed ascensionday many thousand of the faithful here gathered in their robes to bid farewell to earth. Mr. Davis died Aug. 17, 1857, and was buried by the side of his two wives and daughter on the island; modest tomb-stones marking their resting places. Two years later James Plummer came into possession of the island, and made the most of it. Under the ownership of Isaac Morrill, it was used as a pasture for twenty years.

Mr. Hutchins is making a garden out of a wilderness, a farm out of a sheeppasture. To make his purchase entirely within his own control, he bought the land on the main bordering on the approach to the island. He has laid out a marginal road following the shore, spanning ravines with rustic and artistic bridges. About the crest of the island he has projected another drive. All the old stone walls are being removed. New fences, radiating from the centre, will run between the two roads, dividing the land conveniently. On the slopes

he is planting many thousand oak and rock-maple trees, and clearing the underbrush from the already existing groves. From the causeway the road extends straight to the crest of the island, where are situated the model Queen Anne farmhouse, barn, and various out-buildings. Last year (1884) he broke up seventy-five acres, and has got wonderful crops from the soil. The land has produced two hundred bushels of corn to the acre, and other commodities in proportion.

On the western brow, facing the Weirs several miles distant, is being built a residence of the most substantial and artistic character. A. B. Mullett, the distinguished supervising architect of the Treasury for so many years, is the designer; and Job W. Angus, who built the Smithsonian Institute, is the constructor. The masons were brought from Washington and Boston. The granite of which the house is built is quarried on the island, and is laid in broken range and ashlar masonry. When completed, it will be the most elegant private residence in the State.

Back of the house, and encroaching upon it, is a grove of pine-trees of many acres, affording delightfully cool and shady glades. The rocks on the island are doomed to go, to fill up hollows and help construct a sea-wall or lakewall. An ingenious gravity railroad is used to move off the stones.

The landscape-gardening and arboriculture is under the supervision of F. L. Temple, a disciple of Frederick Law Olmsted.

The views from the wide veranda of the new mansion are superb, but are not quite equal to those obtained from the eastern crest, which is the highest point of the island. From here, the site of some possible hotel in the future, the whole expanse of Winnipiseogee with its thousand islands is in view, and one is in an ampitheatre of hills and mountains.

When all his plans and designs are carried out, Davis Island, or Governor's Island, under the new name by which it will be christened, will be one of the most charming spots in New England. Art will be combined with nature to produce the most charming effects. It will be a farm, a park, an estate, a never-failing delight to its owner, to his guests, and to his tenants if he permits his friends to build cottages in keeping with the surroundings on different parts of the island.

During the construction of his residence, Mr. Hutchins has entertained his numerous guests in a camp-like group of cottages on the "Beeches," a section of the lake-shore on the main land adjoining his island. Wooden tents are grouped on each side of a central parlor and spacious hall. And the little waves break within a few feet of each cottage-door.