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Caverly, Robert Boodey

lawyer, historian, poet, was born July 19, 1806, in Strafford, N. H. He attended the schools of his native town, Pembroke academy, and in 1837 graduated from Harvard university. When quite young he held the office of colonel in the major-general staff, and inspector in the New Hampshire militia. In his younger days he taught school, and subsequently practiced law in the courts of Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and in the District of Columbia; and in 1857 served as city solicitor of Lowell, Mass. He was the author of The Merrimack, in two volumes; Caverly's Poems, two volumes; Poems, Epics, Lyrics and Ballads; The Voice; Hannah Duston and Indian Wars of New England and John Eliot; History of Barnstead; The Caverly Annals; The Boody Annals; and several other interesting books. He was instrumental in erecting a monument to the memory of Hannah Duston on Contoocook Island, in the Merrimac river, near Fisherville, N.

H.; and also urged the erection of stones to the unmarked soldiers' graves in the cemetery in Lowell. He died Oct. 20, 1887.