Sketches of Successful New Hampshire Men

A remarkable time capsule of 19th-century American ambition, this collection profiles eighty-eight men who built New Hampshire. Published in 1882, it captures an era when railroads were stretching across the landscape, when civic duty meant serving your town, and when a man's worth was measured by what he contributed to his community. Here you'll find General George Stark, whose railroad work connected the region to the wider world, alongside Hon. Hiram A. Tuttle, whose business instincts and public service defined what it meant to be a leading citizen. These aren't polished myths but contemporaneous assessments of men whose grandchildren were still alive when the book was new. For readers drawn to local history, genealogy, or the rough-hewn values of the Gilded Age, these sketches offer something increasingly rare: a direct line to what ordinary Victorians considered worthy of remembrance.