Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Ticknor, George

TICKNOR, George, journalist, b. in Boston, Mass., 14 April, 1822; d. in Keene, N. H., 25 Dec., 1866. He was graduated at Dartmouth in 1847, studied law in Franklin, N. H., was admitted to the bar in 1850, and began practice in Hanover, but in the following year removed to Claremont. He was solicitor for Sullivan county from 1855 till 1859, and about 1860 settled in Keene and purchased a large interest in the “New Hampshire Sentinel,” which he edited during the remainder of his days. He published “Gazetteer and Biographical Sketches of New Hampshire.”