The Granite Monthly, Vol. 1
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Excerpt from The Granite Monthly, Vol. 1: A New Hampshire Magazine, Devoted to Literature, History, and State Progress The first mental training, outside the district school, of which he secured the advantage, was afforded by a private school at the village, under the tuition of Samuel H. Worcester, who subsequently became a noted teacher, and is now a well known physician of Salem, Mass. After this he attended several terms at the Blanchard Academy in Pembroke and in the fall of 1850 he entered the preparatory course at Phillips Academy, Exeter, a year in advance, remaining three full years, so that in the fall of 1850, he was enabled to enter the Sophomore class at Dartmouth, where he graduated with honor in 1850. Among his class mates at Exeter was Jeremiah Smith of Dover, subsequently an Associate Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, and among the same at Dartmouth were F. D. Ayer now pastor of the North Church at Concord, Sullivan M. Cutcheon, late Speaker of the Michigan House of Representatives, and Lyman G. Hinckley of Chelsea, Vt., subsequently Lieutenant Governor of that State. While at Dartmouth he was a member, and at one time president, of the United Fraternity literary society, and at Exeter he was a member of the Golden Branch society in which he occupied the position of president and orator. Soon after his graduation Mr. Prescott entered the office of H. A. & A. H. Bellows, at Concord, as a student at law, where he diligently pursued his studies until 1859, when he was admitted to the Merrimack County bar and commenced the practice of the profession, which he continued at Concord for about two years. In 1861, upon the appointment of Hon. George G. Fogg, editor of the Independent Democrat, as Minister to Switzerland, he was offered the position of associate editor of the paper, which he accepted, remaining with Mr. Hadley, in charge of the paper until Mr. Fogg´s return from Europe in 1866. The period of his editorial service covered that of the war of the Rebellion, and the development of the reconstruction policy of Congress, and the vigorous supportwhich the Independent Democrat gave President Lincoln and the measures of the Administration party was due in no small degree to the earnest nature and forcible pen of Mr. Prescott. During the latter part of Lincoln´s administration he received an appointment as Special Agent of the Treasury, which position he held until the change of policy under President Johnson,when he was removed and Harry Bingham of Littleton appointed in his stead. Subsequently he held the same position for a time under President Grant. After the death of his father in 1866, Mr. Prescott devoted much of his time and labor to the improvement of the old homestead at Epping, which thereupon came into his possession, though retaining his voting residence in Concord until some three or four years since. In 1872 he was chosen by the Legislature, Secretary of State, and was re-elected the following year, as he was in 1875 and 1876, holding the position at the present time. Through his long incumbency in this office he has not only become intimately acquainted with the leading men of both parties in all sections of the State, but has also acquired a thorough understanding of public affairs, which qualifies him in an eminent degree for the discharge of the duties of the Executive office, which he is to assume next June. Moreover, it will not, we trust, be improper to remark in this connection, that, in all his relations with the public in the performance of his duty as Secretary of State, he has given the highest degree of satisfaction to men of all parties, and his unfailing courtesy, as well as faithful attention to duty, has unquestionably drawn to his support some, who, had any other individual been the candidate in his stead, would have given their votes to the opposite party. As is well known to many, Mr. Prescott has a dec
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