New Hampshire’s Fighter Pilot Ace and Institute President, Brigadier General...
Harry Thyng was born in Laconia New Hampshire in 1918, and grew up in Barnstead, and attended Pittsfield High School ... Continue reading →
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Lee New Hampshire's Physician, Dean, UNH Marine Docent, Historian and "Old...
Bob Tuttle's first visit to the Isles of Shoals was in 1941. He was a lowly UNH microbiology student who was ... Continue reading →
View ArticleNew Hampshire’s First WW2 Naval Officer Killed: Manchester’s LTJG Ben Richard...
BRONSTEIN PARK, formerly known as Hanover Square is located on Hanover and Beech Streets in Manchester, New Hampshire. The official City of Manchester web site describes it as “the small, 2.84-acre...
View ArticleU.S. Airmail Service Casualty: Manchester NH’s 2nd Lieut. Jean Donat Grenier...
Jean Donat Grenier was born in November 24 1909 in Manchester, New Hampshire, the son of Canadian immigrants, Alphonse and Ursula Nora (Gadbois) Grenier. He grew up at 302 Cartier Street, and then...
View ArticleWW2 U.S. Infantry Casualty of Operation Overlord: Capt. Jeremiah Aidan...
Jeremiah Aidan Sheehan was born 8 October 1911 in Manchester NH to Irish immigrants, Daniel & Mary Agnes (Sullivan) Sheehan. He grew up in a his parents home at 430 Auburn Street, a house that...
View ArticleNew Hampshire’s First Lady, Artist, Author, Trustee: Rachel Leona (White)...
Rachel Leona White was born in 1905 in Mount Holly, Rutland Co. VT. Her father was a house painter and decorator (her grandfather was a carriage painter) in a rural area of Vermont. She had a great...
View ArticleNew Hampshire WWI Military: 2nd Lieut. George D. Parnell of Manchester NH...
George Downes Parnell was born 15 March 1894 in Manchester NH, son of Fred Oakley & Georgia W. (Downes) Parnell. He would have attended local Manchester schools. In the 1900 United States Census,...
View ArticleThe Face of Eldred Louis Sanborn of Sanbornton NH (1890-1967)
A 1917-era postcard shows a handsome young man seated before a table. He is dressed in a WWI uniform. On the back of the card in dark ink is inscribed: “Eldred L. Sanborn, Lochmere, N.H.” Lochmere, for...
View ArticleDover New Hampshire Suffragist and UNH Administrator: Carmita Aileen...
New Hampshire women take for granted that they can vote. Many believe that with the passage of the federal suffrage amendment in 1919 New Hampshire women were automatically given complete voting...
View ArticleNew Hampshire WWI Military: Lieutenant Paul E. Corriveau USMC of Concord NH...
Paul Edouard [Edward] Corriveau was born 2 October 1893 in Concord, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, son of Paul & Sarah (Patoine) Corriveau. Paul had siblings, Eugene Joseph (1889), Joseph, Peter...
View ArticleNew Hampshire Women and World War I ‘Food Work’
Food and meal preparation was a serious matter during World War I and it was mostly women upon whom the burden fell to create solutions. With a great deal of foodstuffs being send to Europe to feed the...
View ArticleDerry New Hampshire’s Premier Woman Poultry Farmer: Celia (Gardner) Whitney...
History is composed of time or location-related people, events and artifacts. Usually the ones we hear or read about are touted as being famous or important from someone’s viewpoint. Yet the majority...
View Article2019 Black History Month in New Hampshire
February is African American History Month, an annual celebration of achievements by African Americans and a time to recognize the role of black men and women in United States and also in New Hampshire...
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