Partying with Franklin Pierce and death by dirt

– June 8, 1941 – Yankee third baseman Red Rolfe of Penacook hits a homer in the first game of New York's doubleheader sweep at Cleveland. Rolfe's teammate, Joe DiMaggio, homers twice in the first game and has two hits in the second. His hitting streak now stands at 24 games.

– June 9, 1830 – The New-Hampshire Savings Bank in Concord opens its doors. The first year, the amount of deposits, by 221 people, totaled $19,433.25.

– June 10, 1900 – A Concord police officer arrests clerk Walter Davis at Fitch's Drug Store for selling soda water on Sunday. The law allows for Sunday sales of only “bread, milk and the other necessities of life.” A judge will let Davis off, saying that soda is as necessary to life as milk.

– June 11, 1837 – Samuel Coffin Eastman is born in Concord. A great-grandson of Ebenezer Eastman, Concord's first settler, will become a prominent lawyer, bank president, railroad man, speaker of the New Hampshire House. In 1915, he will be recognized as the city's most prominent citizen and “president of the day.”

– June 12, 1886: The Daniel Webster statue is dedicated in front of the State House.

– June 13, 1820 – Died in this town, a child of Mr. Runnells, aged two years, in consequence of eating dirt the day before.

– June 14, 1831 – Benjamin Brown French, a rising politico from Chester, goes to a party in Concord with future U.S. senator Charles G. Atherton and future president Franklin Pierce. His companions, both in their 20s, are ” 'smashed' by a pair of bright eyes & a beautiful face,” but French “would as soon think of falling in love with an elegant piece of statuary.” He tells his diary: “Give me eyes that can pierce the very soul, & a countenance that bespeaks a mind within.”

Author: Cassie Pappathan

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