March 22, 1851: Former New Hampshire governor and U.S. senator Isaac Hill dies at the age of 63. Hill was once editor of Concord's New Hampshire Patriot and served in President Andrew Jackson's “Kitchen Cabinet.”
March 22, 1965: The Monitor reports growing disapproval of a bill to impose a $5,000 minimum pay law for teachers. Towns would have to foot the bill and leaders say it would infringe on local control. The bill will be defeated.
March 23, 1867: Forty-two years after becoming Concord's Congregationalist minister, the Rev. Nathaniel Bouton resigns. During his tenure, Bouton became a trustee of Dartmouth College and, in 1856, published a history of Concord. Seven months before leaving the pulpit, he was named state historian.
March 23, 1825: Nathaniel Bouton is ordained as minister of the First Congregational Society of Concord. From 1730 until now, the town of Concord, voting as a parish at town meeting, appropriated money to pay the pastor and support the church. The new society will sustain itself without taxpayer support.
March 24, 1967: In their nationally syndicated column written out of Concord, Rowland Evans and Robert Novak say that Richard Nixon's advantage over Michigan Gov. George Romney in next year's GOP presidential primary is “so small it approaches meaningless.” “We need new blood,” a retired Concord car dealer has told the columnists. Another Concord Republican says: “We all think of Dick Nixon as one hell of a guy who's going exactly nowhere.”
March 26, 1969: The Legislature votes to cut five days off the sentences of prisoners who donate a pint of blood to the American Red Cross.
March 26, 1853: Concord elects its first mayor, Joseph Low, a grand-looking man with a gold-headed cane. Before this date, the city was a town, run by selectmen.
March 27, 1998: Is it summer already? Concord residents enjoy a high temperature of 76 degrees.
March 28, 1919: Gov. John Bartlett signs a law prohibiting the teaching, advocacy or practice of Bolshevik ideas in New Hampshire. Bartlett issues a statement warning “Bolsheviki” that he has ordered law enforcement “to rake the state with a fine-tooth comb to find evidence of their work. . . . No cost will be spared to suppress the social viper.”
