{"product_id":"1847-a-guide-to-officers-of-towns-revised-statutes-of-new-hampshire","title":"1847 A Guide to Officers of Towns, Revised Statutes of New-Hampshire","description":"\u003cp\u003eFox, Charles J.; Bell, Samuel D. \u003cstrong\u003eA Guide to Officers of Towns; containing the Statutes relating to their official Duties, with Forms, Directions, and Legal Decisions: adapted to the Revised Statutes of New-Hampshire. \u003c\/strong\u003eConcord: G. Parker Lyon, 1847. A New Edition, with some Additions, including Acts since passed. By Samuel D. Bell. [12422]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFull brown leather with a red leather spine title label, binding very good, 7 1\/2 x 4 1\/2 inches. xii, 416 pp, with index. Foxing. Very good. Hardcover.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The object of the compiler has been merely to furnish a GUIDE, to point out to the inexperienced officer his general pathway...If the work is accurate, clear and methodical, it will fully repay the care and labor of The Compiler.\" - Preface.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCharles James Fox (1811-1846), b. \u0026amp; d. at Nashua, New Hampshire. He graduated at Dartmouth College (1831), studied at Yale Law School, and opened a practice in his home town.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Few men in our State have possessed the versatility of powers that characterized this namesake of the great English Whig orator. He prepared himself for his profession at the Yale Law School and in the office of Daniel Abbott at Nashua, and there settled in practice. In 1835 he was appointed solicitor of Hillsborough County; in 1837 he was a representative in the legislature; in 1840 he prepared and nearly completed a history of the old town of Dunstable, published in 1846; in 1841 he was one of the commissioners to revise the statutes of the State, in conjunction with Joel Parker of Keene and Samuel D. Bell of Manchester...he was the collaborator of Rev. Samuel Osgood in gathering and preparing for the press the '\u003cem\u003eNew Hampshire Book; Specimens of the Literature of the Granite Stat\u003c\/em\u003ee,' issued in 1842...As a lawyer, a poet, a historian, and a philanthropist, he was equally untiring in his labors.\" - Bella Chapin, \u003cem\u003eThe Poets of New Hampshire\u003c\/em\u003e (1883).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Haaswurth Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45231008415810,"sku":"ABE12422","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0191\/6066\/2082\/files\/DSC08399BackgroundRemoved.png?v=1789662988","url":"https:\/\/www.haaswurth.com\/products\/1847-a-guide-to-officers-of-towns-revised-statutes-of-new-hampshire","provider":"Haaswurth Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}