ART FOR YOUNG FOLKS. Illustrated. Boston: D. Lothrop & Co. Price, $2.00. This large and elegantly bound volume is made up of two distinct parts, although the subjects of both are akin. In the first the author describes the visit of two New York boys, John Angelo and Teddy Landseer, to the water color exhibitions in that city, and the story of what they saw and thought worthy of special notice is very fully and beautifully illustrated. Following this is a chapter in which "the Professor" gives full instructions as to what young students in art need to begin with-pencils, crayons, colors and brushes; and sets forth some general rules as to perspective, landscape, animal and figure drawing, with hints as to what books to study, and information concerning the best schools for the study of art. Supplementary to this chapter is an account of a novel art school for children in New York City, called "The Children's Hour," founded in 1878 by Miss Mary Cook, and superintended by Miss Alice Donlevy. The second part consists of twenty-four biographies of well-known artists, such as George L. Brown, Samuel Colman, George Inness, David Neal, John Lafarge, Daniel Huntington, E. L. Weeks, and others. Each article is accompanied by a portrait of the artist, with a view of his studio and are production of one of his pictures. For one interested in art, young or old, the volume will have deep and permanent interest. It is printed on heavy paper, and is handsomely bound, with gilt edges, and is enclosed in a pasteboard box.

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VOL. IX.

To men of their own energetic stock, who, refusing all political preferment, have given comprehensive abilities, sterling integrity, and sagacious industry, to the development of business, many New-Hampshire towns owe an imperishable debt. John McDuffee's record is in the prosperity of Rochester.

The name itself suggests that strong Scotch-Irish blood which endured the siege of Londonderry, in which were Mr. McDuffee's ancestors, John McDuffee and his wife Martha, honored in tradition. John and Martha McDuffee had four sons; viz., Mansfield, Archibald, John, and Daniel. Mansfield went to London, England; the other three came with their parents to America in the emigration which gave New Hampshire the powerful stock of Derry and Londonderry. John, the father of these sons, settled in Rochester, in 1729, on land on the east side of the Cocheco River, adjoining Gonic Lower Falls, -the farm of eighty-five acres remaining without break in the family, and now owned by the subject of this sketch. The Rochester settler was, as just stated, the father of Daniel McDuffee, and also of Colonel John McDuffee, a gallant officer in the old French and Revolutionary wars, lieutenant-colonel in Col. Poor's regiment, who, never marrying,

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adopted his brother Daniel's son John, and eventually made him his heir. John, the colonel's heir, was a farmer in good circumstances, married Abigail, daughter of Simon and Sarah (Ham) Torr, and was father of John McDuffee, the subject of this sketch, who was born on the farm once the colonel's, about a mile and a half from Rochester village, on the Dover road, Dec. 6, 1803.

Of course, while working on the farm more or less, he had for five or more years the advantage of a good school.

In 1818, at the age of fifteen, the boy entered Franklin Academy, in Dover. In 1821, at the age of eighteen, he went into the store of his uncle, John Greenfield, at Rochester.

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After two years' experience, he began the same business for himself on the same square; was successful, and, after two years, took into partnership his uncle, Jonathan H. Torr. this period he was commissioned postmaster of Rochester, being not of age when appointed; and he held this office until removed on Jackson's accession to the presidency.

In the spring of the year 1831 he went to Dover, and began the same business on a broader scale. Steady success continued to reward his energy and industry. In February, 1833, he

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sold out his business in Dover, and returned to Rochester to settle the estate of his wife's father, Joseph Hanson, an old and wealthy merchant of Rochester, whose daughter Johanna Mr. McDuffee had married June 21, 1829.

There was no bank in Rochester. Mr. McDuffee saw that a bank was needed. He prepared the plans, secured signatures, obtained a charter from the Legislature in 1834, and organized the Rochester Bank. He be came cashier, his brother-in-law, Dr. James Farrington, being president.

Cashier for twenty years, on the then renewal of its charter, Mr. McDuffee resigned the cashiership in favor of his son Franklin, and became president. The bank did not become a national bank until 1874, and in the six years previous he and his son formed the house of "John McDuffee & Co., private bankers," took up the old bank's business, and successfully carried it on. In 1874 they merged it in a national bank, the one being president and the other cashier, as before, and the two taking two-fifths of its stock.

Mr. McDuffee was one of the original grantees of the Dover National Bank, and for a short time was a director. He is a heavy stockholder in the Strafford National Bank, and has been an active director since 1870.

The Norway Plains Savings Bank, at Rochester, was chartered in 1851, and Mr. McDuffee became its treasurer, being succeeded by his son Franklin in 1867, and himself becoming president, an office in which he still remains.

Mr. McDuffee early saw the advantages of manufacturing to a community. By his own means and a liberal allow ance of banking facilities he has greatly aided their development: the first such enterprise in Rochester, the Mechanics'

Manufacturing Company, being decided to locate there by the new banking facilities. Mr. McDuffee was a director. It was a manufacture of blankets, and its successor is the Norway Plains Manufacturing Company. The original company Mr. McDuffee carried safely through the crisis of 1837. The mill property at Gonic Mr. McDuffee bought in 1845 to lease to N. V. Whitehouse, that the business might not be given up. He held his purchase for about ten years. The effort was successful, and the property was eventually taken by a jointstock company.

Stephen Shorey, owning some facilities for manufacturing at East Rochester, came to Mr. McDuffee to see if the bank would advance means to build. Mr. McDuffee at once pledged the means, and the mills were built. A stock company afterwards purchased mills and machinery, and the thriving village of East Rochester owes its prosperity to Mr. McDuffee's liberal policy. Thus have been developed the three principal water-powers of Rochester.

Mr. McDuffee's personal interests in manufacturing were also in the Great Falls Manufacturing Company, in whose great business he was a director for four years. Capital, one million five hundred thousand dollars. In 1862 he bought large interests in the Cocheco Manufacturing Company, and has there remained. Since 1874 he has been a director of that corporation.

The need of railroad facilities at Rochester was early apparent to Mr. McDuffee. In 1846 he entered into two enterprises, the Cocheco road, from Dover to Alton Bay, and Conway road, from Great Falls to Conway. Each was to, and did, pass through Rochester.

In each road Mr. McDuffee was the