Clarence N. Garvin Biography from History of Rockingham County, NH
From: Bill Prokasy - wprokasy@arches.uga.edu

Surname: GARVIN
Source:  History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens
          by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill., 1915

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   CLARENCE N. GARVIN, who has been postmaster of Derry, N. H.,
since 1903, is one of the leading and progressive men of the community. As
the executive of the affairs of his office he has been most capable, which, to-
gether with his courteous treatment of all the patrons, has made him a very
satisfactory public official. Mr. Garvin was born in Londonderry, N. H.,
and is a son of Benjamin F. and Nancy M. (Spinney) Garvin. The father
was born in Litchfield, N. H., and for twenty or more years was station agent
at Londonderry. The mother was born in Manchester, N. H., but was reared
in Londonderry .
   After leaving school, C. N. Garvin was for a number of years a book-
keeper in Manchester, N. H. He then came to Derry and was with the Pills-
burys in shoe manufacturing until 1903, when he received appointment on
February 1St as postmaster of West Derry. The name of the village was
changed in July, 1907, to Derry and Mr. Garvin received a vacation appoint-
ment as postmaster, serving under that commission until Congress convened
in December of that year, when he was honored with reappointment.
Mr. Garvin was joined in marriage with Miss Abbie D. Wilson, a daugh-
ter of John Pinkerton Wilson, who was descended from the old and well
known Wilson family of Londonderry, his mother being a Pinkerton. Mrs.
Garvin died in 1910, and besides her husband is survived by three children,
namely: Fred E. of Newark, New Jersey, Lillie B. and Chester A., who is

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identified with the rubber shoe business at Beacon. Falls, Conn. The Wilsons
were among the oldest settlers of Londonderry; the old Wilson residence
still standing is perhaps the oldest residence in Londonderry. The Wilsons
were prominent in the Colonial period and many were officers in the Ameri-
can army during the Revolutionary War.

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