BIOGRAPHY OF MOISE VERRETTE of Manchester NH ------------------------------------ Information located at http://www.nh.searchroots.com/Manchester On a web site about GENEALOGY AND HISTORY OF MANCHESTER NEW HAMPSHIRE TRANSCRIBED BY JANICE BROWN Please see the web site for my email contact. ---------------------------------- The original source of this information is in the public domain, however use of this text file, other than for personal use, is restricted without written permission from the transcriber (who has edited, compiled and added new copyrighted text to same). ======================================================== SOURCE: One Thousand New Hampshire Notables: Brief Biographical Sketches of New Hampshire Men and Women, by Frances Matilda Abbott, 1919, Rumford Printing Company. --------------- page 321 MOISE VERRETTE Merchant; mayor of Manchester NH. Born Stanfold, Canada, March 1, 1857, son of Moise and Elizabeth (Bourgoin) Verrette; educated public schools; removed with his parents to Manchester NH in childhood, where he lived; engaged in grocery and provision business in 1885, in which he continued, building up an extensive trade, wholesale and retail; Catholic; Democrat; delegate-at-large to National Democratic Convention at St. Louis, 1916; member N.H. executive council, 1917-18 (first man of French Canadian birth to hold the office); mayor of Manchester, 1918-19; member Canado-American Assn't, St. John Baptist Soc., Club Joliet, Manchester; m. July 12, 1886, Virginie Pigeon; children: Virgile M., b. Aug 1, 1889 (Mount St. Louis College, Montreal, 1908), now mayor's secretary; Lionel G., b. Sept 15, 1890, manager of store; Avite J., b. July 30, 1892, now in U.S. Army service; Adrien, b. July 18, 1897 now in St. Mary's Seminary, Baltimore, studying for the priesthood; Armand L., b. Aug 20, 1898 (Class of 1919, Assumption College, Worcester, Mass.) Residence, Manchester, NH. (end)