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Rollins, Edward Henry

merchant, congressman, United States senator, was born Oct. 3, 1824, in Rollinford, N. H. He was a member of the New Hampshire state legislature in 1855-57, serving as speaker during the last two years. He was elected a representative from New Hampshire to the thirty-seventh congress; and was re-elected to the thirty-eighth and thirty-ninth congresses.

He was elected secretary of the Union Pacific Railroad company in 1869, and treasurer in 1871. He resigned those positions when elected a United States senator from New Hampshire for the term of six years from March 4, 1877. His portrait hangs in the new library building of the state capitol. He died July 31, 1889, on the Isle of Shoals, N. H.

ROLLINS, MRS. ELLEN CHAPMAN [HOBBS], author, was born April 30, 1831, in Wakefield, N. H. She was a writer of Philadelphia; and the author of New England Bygones; and Old-Time Childlife. She died May 29, 1881, in Philadelphia, Pa.