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HAYNES, Martin Alonzo, a Representative from New Hampshire; born in Springfield, Sullivan
County, N.H., July 30, 1842; moved with his parents to Manchester, N.H., in
1846; attended the common schools; apprenticed to the printers trade; enlisted
in June 1861 in the Union Army as a private in the Second New Hampshire
Regiment and served three years; moved to Lakeport, Belknap County, N.H., in
1868, where he established the Lake Village Times, which he conducted for
twenty years; member of the State house of representatives in 1872 and 1873;
clerk of the supreme court for Belknap County 1876-1883; president of the New
Hampshire Veterans Association in 1881 and 1882; department commander of the
Grand Army of the Republic in 1881 and 1882; elected as a Republican to the
Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1887);
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1886 to the Fiftieth Congress;
internal-revenue agent of the Treasury 1890-1893 and 1898-1912; established
internal-revenue service in the Philippine Islands; died in Lakeport, N.H.,
November 28, 1919; interment in Bayside Cemetery.
BibliographyHaynes, Martin A. (Martin Alonzo).
History of the Second Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers: its camps,
marches and battles. Manchester, N.H.: C.F. Livingston,
1865
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