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Name	Hartford, Fernando Wood, 1872-1938
Born	1870
Birthplace	Chateauguay, NY
Deceased	Apr. 10, 1938*
Deceased where	Portsmouth, NH
Places of residence	Chateaugay, N.Y. Manchester, N.H.
Occupation	Clerk at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. Reporter and newspaper publisher. Mayor of Portsmouth, N.H., 1921-1922 and 1928-1932. Owner at various times of the newspapers: Penny Post, Herald, Chronicle, Daily Chronicle, New Hampshire Gazette, Portsmouth Journal, Portsmouth Times and Portsmouth Herald. In 1918, vice president of the Portsmouth Chamber of Commerce and member of its Housing Committee, also member of the Shattuck Corporation.
Father	Mark Hartford
Mother	Eliza Jane Silver
Spouse	Elizabeth Hill Downing of Eliot, Me., b. 1879, d. 1953. She married 2nd. Harold
Children	1. Beatrice Elizabeth Hartford, b Aug. 21, 1891, m. A. W. Scarborough. 2. Emma Helen Hartford, b Sept. 18, 1893, m. William A. Nelson. 3. Justin Downing Hartford, b. Jan. 21, 1898, graduated from the Naval Academy and served in the Navy until the mid 1920s to help his father fun the publishing business, m. 1. Margorie Marvin, m. 2. Dorothy Lewis, m. 3. Aarona E. Hartford and m. 4. Margaret Manson.
Education	Morse Business College (Manchester, N.H.)
Notes	* Some sources have Jul. 22, 1938. Image from "Portsmouth Vicinity Souvenir, 1906."
Titles & honors	Member of the Portsmouth Athenaeum Member of the Warwick Club
Relationships	Spouses: Elizabeth Hill Downing of Eliot, Me., b. 1879, d. 1953. She married 2nd. Harold MaGraw and moved to Slyvan Beach, N.Y.
Imagefile	People\Hartford_FernandoWood_1872-1938.JPG

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