They are nice stamps. In fact, the next to the last one on the first row has a near SON cancel from E. H. Rollins & Sons, a New England Banking firm in its day. In fact, here's a biography on its namesake:
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Edward Henry Rollins (October 3, 1824 - July 31, 1889) was a United States Representative and Senator from New Hampshire. Born in Somersworth, New Hampshire (now Rollinsford), he attended the common schools and academies in Dover, New Hampshire and South Berwick, Maine. He engaged in mercantile pursuits at Concord, New Hampshire and was a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives from 1855 to 1857, and served as speaker.
Rollins was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-seventh, Thirty-eighth, and Thirty-ninth Congresses, serving from March 4, 1861 to March 3, 1867; he was not a candidate for renomination in 1866. While in the House of Representatives, he was chairman of the Committee on Accounts (Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth Congresses). He was secretary and treasurer of the Union Pacific Railroad Co., and in 1876 was elected to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1877, to March 3, 1883; he was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection. While in the Senate, he was chairman of the Committee on Manufactures (Forty-fifth Congress) and a member of the Committee on Enrolled Bills (Forty-seventh Congress) and the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds (Forty-seventh Congress).
From 1886 to 1889, Rollins was president of the Boston, Concord & Montreal Railroad Co., and was founder of the First National Bank of Concord, N.H., and of the banking house of E. H. Rollins & Sons, Boston. He died on Isle of Shoals, New Hampshire in 1889; interment was in Blossom Hill Cemetery, Concord.
Posted 08/20/2011 6:19 pm
