In 1893 Calvin B. Perry, a former merchant and postmaster from Fitzwilliam, opened the Calvin B. Perry insurance agency in Keene, specializing in fire insurance. Calvin’s sons Walter and William soon joined their father and out of their agency grew the Peerless...
Monadnock Moments
Era 9: 1946-1960Monadnock Moments No. 64: Granite State Mowers
In the 1830s Cyrus Newhall opened a machine shop in the town of Hinsdale, New Hampshire. Some twenty years later the firm became known as Newhall & Stebbins when Lorenzo Stebbins became part owner. Shortly thereafter, in 1860, the company began to manufacture...