LAWYERS WHO LIVED AND PRACTICED IN PLYMOUTH, NEW HAMPSHIRE

Moses Dow Born in Atkinson. Practiced in Plymouth from 1774 until 1779.

John Porter Born in Boxford, Massachusetts. Practiced in Plymouth from 1780. Died in 1813.

Phineas Walker Born in Brookfield, Massachusetts. Practiced in Plymouth from 1794 until 1835. He moved to Newport, Maine, where he died in
1843.

Stephen Grant Born in Alstead. Practiced in Plymouth from1803 until 1830.

Samuel C. Webster Native son. Admitted to the Bar in 1812. Began practice in 1814. Died in 1835 at Haverhill, New Hampshire.

Benjamin Darling Born in Sanbornton, NH. Began here in 1815. Died in 1824 in Rumney, New Hampshire.

David Smiley Born in Jaffrey, New Hampshire. Practiced in Plymouth from 1817 until 1819 when he moved to Grafton. Died there in 1845.

Nathaniel P. Rogers Native son. Admitted to bar in 1819. Died in 1846
He was a well known abolitionist and editor of "The Herald of Freedom," dedicated to the cause of anti-slavery.

William C. Thompson Born in Salisbury in 1802. Practiced in Plymouth from 1826 for 26 years, moving to Worcester, Massachusetts in 1852
and died there in 1877.

Jonathan Bliss Born in Randolph, Vermont. Graduated from Dartmouth College. Practiced in Plymouth from 1828 to 1832.

James McQuesten Born in Bedford, NH. Practiced in Plymouth from 1847 when admitted to the bar. He was in poor health but was more of an
office lawyer, not engaging in many court trials. He died in 1875 in Illinois.

David Haynes Collins Born in Deerfield. Practiced in Plymouth from 1838 for one year.
His health failed early and he died in 1843.

William Leverett Born in Windsor, Vermont in 1813. Practiced in Plymouth from 1840 for 35 years. He died in Plymouth in 1874.

Ralph Metcalf Ralph Metcalf was born in Charlestown, NH. Practiced in Plymouth from 1840 for only one year. He was Governor of NH in 1855
and 1856. Died in 1858.

Ellery A. Hibbard He was born in St. Johnsbury, Vermont. Practiced in Plymouth from 1849 until 1853. Was appointed Associate Justice of the
Supreme Court in 1873. Died in 1903.

Napoleon B. Bryant Born in Andover in 1825, he practiced in Plymouth from 1853 until 1855. He was a delegate to the National Republican
Convention which nominated Abraham Lincoln in 1860.

Joseph Burrows A native son of Maine, he practiced in Plymouth from 1858 until his death in 1883. He was a Representative from Plymouth four
terms, and a member of the school board for many years.

Henry William Blair Born in Campton. Practiced from 1859 until 1879. Was in the Civil War In 1879, and was severely wounded twice in his right
arm. In 1879 he was elected to the United States Senate.

John W. Ela Born in Meredith, he practiced in Plymouth from 1860 for two years. One more year of practice in Plymouth after he mustered out of
Army in 1863. He then moved to Illinois. He died in Philadelphia at an annual meeting in 1902.

Joseph M. Burrows He was born in Effingham in 1840. Practiced in Plymouth from 1864 for one or two years before moving to Chicago, Illinois.

Alvin Burleigh Adopted by Alvin Thompson Burleigh, he was a native son of Plymouth. Served in the Civil War. Studied law with henry W. Blair.
Practiced law here from 1874.

Charles Adams Jewell Practiced in Plymouth from 1875 until 1886. He was born in Campton in 1844 and moved to Plymouth when he was ten
years old. In 1900, he began practicing law in Boston.

George Herbert Adams Born in Campton, he practiced law in Plymouth from 1876. He was a graduate of Dartmouth College. He was a
representative of Plymouth in the Legislature of 1883 and a State Senator in 1889 and 1905.

Joseph Clement Story He was born in Sutton. Attended the Boston Law School for one year, graduating in 1880. Began practice in Plymouth in
1883. He died in 1894.

Alvin F. Wentworth Practiced in Plymouth from 1893. He was born in Moultonborough and graduated from the New Hampton Literary Institution.
Graduated from the Law School at the University of Michigan in 1892.

Charles J. Fox Stone In 1827 he was born in Boscawen. Attended the Military Academy in Norwich, Vermont and attended Harvard Law School
in 1854 and 1855. Came to Plymouth in 1856 and was admitted to the bar in 1857. He died young, in 1860.

John Alvin Putney A native of Concord, he graduated from Dartmouth College in 1856. He came to Plymouth in 1857 for about one year. In 1860
he moved to Tennessee, where he died in 1865.

Joseph Clark Graduated from Dartmouth College in 1854. He was born in Campton. He read law in Plymouth and taught at the Plymouth
Holmes Academy. He often practiced law with his brother, Benjamin Clark. In 1902 he died in San Francisco, California, where he had moved in 1875.

Benjamin Clark Two years younger than his brother, Joseph, Benjamin Clark graduated from Dartmouth College in 1855. A Campton native, he
moved to Plymouth in 1858 and practiced four years here with his brother. In 1862 he moved to Minnesota and later to North Dakota, where he died in 1896.

More extensive biographies of the gentlemen listed above can be found in Volume I of Stearns History of Plymouth, published in 1905. The two
volume history was re-published by the Plymouth Historical Society in the early 1990s and is available for sale through the Plymouth Historical
Society and Historical Museum, Court Street, Plymouth, New Hampshire 03264. The cost of the two column set is $50.00 plus shipping and
handling.