Currier, Moody (1806-1898)

Name:

Currier, Moody (1806-1898)

Title:

Principal, Hopkinton Academy
Principal, Lowell (Massachusetts) High School
Co-Editor, New Hampshire Gazette, Concord, NH 1834
Editor, Manchester Democrat, 1842
Cashier, Amoskeag Bank, Manchester, 1848-
Director, Manchester Mills
President, Manchester Gaslight Company
Treasurer, Concord & Portsmouth Railroad
Treasurer, Concord Railroad, 1871
President, New Hampshire Division, Eastern Railroad, 1872
President Amoskeag Axe Company
Treasurer, New England Loan Company
Director, New Hampshire Fire Insurance Company
Clerk, New Hampshire State Senate, 1843
Member, New Hampshire State Senate, 1856-1857
President, New Hampshire State Senate, 1857
Member, Governor's Council, State of New Hampshire, 1860-1861
Member, New Hampshire Historical Society, 1882-1898
Governor, State of New Hampshire, 1885-1887

Born:

04/22/1806

Birthplace:

Boscawen, NH

Died:

08/23/1898

Death Location:

Manchester, NH

Residence:

Boscawen, NH
Concord, NH
Hopkinton, NH 1835
Lowell, MA 1836-1841
Manchester, NH 1841-1898

Nationality:

American

Occupation:

Teacher
Lawyer 1841-1848
Banker
Newspaper Editor and Publisher
Politician

Father:

Currier, Moody

Mother:

Putney, Rhoda

Spouse:

(1) Lucretia C. Dustin, 1836
(2) Mary W. Kidder, 1847
(3) Hannah A. Slade,1869

Children:

Lucretia D.
Infant son

Notes:

Currier Museum of Art named for him.

Ezra S. Stearns, Editor. Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the Founding of a Nation. Volume I. (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), 112-114.

"Necrology," Proceedings of the New Hampshire Historical Society. Volume III. Part II. June 1897 to June 1899. (Concord, New Hampshire: New Hampshire Historical Society), 499-502.

Valley Cemetery, Manchester, NH