New Hampshire Governor Joseph A. Gilmore 1853  business circular/ Turk Is salt

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New Hampshire Governor Joseph A. Gilmore 1853 business circular/ Turk Is salt and flour.
Respectable war time governor.  His political correspondence is not rare but his business circular concerning his grocery wholesale is.  Interesting Turk island salt history.  The following is excerpt from the web.
“Joseph A. Gilmore was born in
Weston, Vermont
on June 10, 1811.
[1]
He was educated in Vermont, and moved to
Boston
to learn the mercantile business. Gilmore then moved to
Concord, New Hampshire
, where he established a wholesale grocery business.
Gilmore became involved with the
Concord and Claremont Railroad
, serving first as a construction agent, and later as the railroad's general superintendent. He also served as superintendent of the
Manchester and Lawrence Railroad
and the
Portsmouth and Concord Railroad
.
Originally a
Whig
, Gilmore joined the
Republican
when it was founded in the mid-1850s. He served in the
New Hampshire State Senate
from 1858 to 1860, and was the Senate's President pro Tempore in 1859.
[2]
Gilmore was elected Governor in 1863 and reelected in 1864, and served from June 3, 1863 to June 8, 1865. Serving during the
American Civil War
. Gilmore's term was consumed by support for the
Union
, including a loan to provide bonuses and supplemental salary payments to soldiers, and arranging for the transport of soldiers traveling to New Hampshire on furlough and returning to the front lines.