Our World and Country

1876 Battle at Little Big Horn. General Custer and men killed by Indians led by Chief Sitting Bull.
1877 First tennis tournament at Wimbledon.
1879 First Woolworth $.05 and $.10 Store opened.
1885-97 Grover Cleveland becomes only president to succeed his succesor.
1895 Wilhelm K. Roentgen, German Physicist, discovers the X-ray.

Our Community

1877 George E. Gordon and Co. established. George Gordon becomes certified pharmacist in ’84.
1879 Jewell Lodge #94 AF&AM formed in the Masonic Hall.
1885 Pembroke Grange #111 is organized
1896 Mary Gordon Bartlett Rebekah Lodge #69 I.O.O.F instituted.
1899 Suncook Village Improvement Society formed.
1900 Original wooden Pembroke Academy building burns. Rebuilt in brick.
1900 Fred W. Saltmarsh founds F.W. Saltmarsh Coal and Ice Company.

Our Church

1876 Wood burning stoves replaced with coal burning stoves.
1883 The Church has a new organ installed. (The same one presently in use).
1883 Professor Isaac Walker, Principal of Pembroke Academy for 27 years, is elected a Deacon of the church.
1900 Reverend Paul E. Bourne, Paster 1893-1904, is married to Eliza Downing. “With old and young alike he is a magnet that never fails to draw, in the pulpit and out of it.”