Amos Hadley

Amos Hadley (May 14, 1825 – May 1908)[1] worked in the newspaper business, served as a state representative, was New Hampshire superintendent of public instruction, and founded the historical commission in Concord, New Hampshire, that published an official history of the city. He published a book on Walter Harriman. He served as a state representative from Bow, New Hampshire, in 1850 and 1851. He served as state superintendent of public education.[2]

This article is about the politician from New Hampshire. For the politician from New York, see Amos K. Hadley.

He graduated from Dartmouth College. He was in a society there.[3]

He published a history of Dunbarton, New Hampshire, with two addresses before the Dunbarton Lyceum.[4] In 1863 he was state printer.[5][6] In 1865 he published the Quartermaster General's report.[7]

In 1903 he was one of the incorporators of the Historical Commission of Concord.[8]

Work
  • Life of Walter Harriman: with selections from his speeches and writings Houghton, Mifflin and Company (1888)[9]

References
  1. Dartmouth College Necrology, 1907-1908, Hanover, N.H. - Trans. by K. Mohler via http://genealogytrails.com/newham/merrimack/obits_dartmouthnecrology.html
  2. A Genealogy of the Descendants of Abraham Colby and Elizabeth Blaisdell, His Wife, Who Settled in Bow in 1768; By One of Them, Concord, New Hampshire. Printed by the Republican Press Association 1895 via https://sites.rootsweb.com/~colby/colbyfam/b495.html
  3. College), Phi Beta Kappa New Hampshire Alpha (Dartmouth (November 1, 1844). "Catalogue of the Fraternity of [Phi Beta Kappa], Alpha of New Hampshire, Dartmouth College, Hanover" – via Google Books.
  4. "New Hampshire Historical Society - The literary hours of the laboring man; early history of Dunbarton : two addresses (with additions and emendations), before the Dunbarton Lyceum, October 18, 1844 and January 31, 1845 / by Amos Hadley. - The literary hours of the laboring man; early history of Dunbarton : two addresses (with additions and emendations), before the Dunbarton Lyceum, October 18, 1844 and January 31, 1845 / by Amos Hadley".
  5. Miller, Richard F. (November 5, 2013). States at War, Volume 1: A Reference Guide for Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont in the Civil War. UPNE. ISBN 9781611683776 – via Google Books.
  6. Representatives, New Hampshire General Court House of; Senate, New Hampshire General Court (October 31, 1865). "Journal of the House of Representatives of the State of New-Hampshire, at Their Session ..." – via Google Books.
  7. Miller, Richard F. (November 5, 2013). States at War, Volume 1: A Reference Guide for Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont in the Civil War. UPNE. ISBN 9781611683776 – via Google Books.
  8. Commission, Concord (N H. ) City History; Lyford, James Otis (October 31, 1896). "History of Concord, New Hampshire: From the Original Grant in Seventeen Hundred and Twenty-five to the Opening of the Twentieth Century". Rumford Press – via Google Books.
  9. "Hadley, Amos | The Online Books Page". onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu.


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