Clarence N. Garvin

• General Notes
  • Excerpt from History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill., 1915:
    
    Page 1164
    
    Clarence N. Garvin, who has been postmaster of Derry, New Hampshire, 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, together with his courteous treatment of all the patrons, has made him a very satisfactory public official. Mr. Garvin was born in Londonderry, New Hampshire and is a son of Benjamin F. and Nancy M. (Spinney) GArvin. The father was born in Litchfield, New Hampshire and for twenty or more years was station agent at Londonderry. The mother was born in Manchester, New Hampshire, but was reared in Londonderry.
    After leaving school, C. N. Garvin was for a number of years a bookkeeper in Manchester. He then came to Derry and was with the Pillsburys 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 appointment 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 daughter of John Pinkerton Wilson, who was descended from the old and well known Wilson family of Londonderry, his mther 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..