An Index of the Historical Matter Contained in the New Hampshire Registers From 1772-1892: In the Political Manual From 1857-1872; And in the People ... Biological Sketches of Most of the Compilers - Softcover

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Excerpt from An Index of the Historical Matter Contained in the New Hampshire Registers From 1772-1892: In the Political Manual From 1857-1872; And in the People Hand-Books for 1874, 1876, and 1877; Preceded by Brief Biological Sketches of Most of the Compilers

Dr. Curtis was for many years a marked character in the town of his adoption. He was a native of Sharon, Mass., a graduate of Harvard College, in 1766, a doctor of medicine, and served for a time as a surgeon in the Army of the Revolution. He came to Amherst about 1789, where, after relinquishing his profession, he became a tavern keeper and an apothecary, keeping his drug shop in his inn.

The doctor had, or thought that he had, an aptitude for a wide range of employments. He not only kept a tavern and a drug shop, but compiled Registers, was a grantee of the Antean Academy,-in 1791, and of the Amherst Social Library in 1797, was a Justice of the Peace in 1802, and, for a period, the ringer of the meet ing-house bell, at a salary of twenty-four dollars a year. From 1800 on for several years, he was postmaster of the town, and in 1811 he was a member of the school committee.

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