Hon. William Spencer LADD

  General Notes:

Notes from Warren Ladd: of Lancaster, NH. He has lived in Dalton, Colebrook, and Lancaster, NH. He fitted for college at Tilton, NH at the NH Conference seminary, and graduated at Dartmouth College in the class of 1855; then taught school at South Danvers (now Peabody) then in Beverly; then studied law in the office of Alfred A Abbott, then district attorney of Essex County, until the Spring of 1858, when he retrned home on account of the illness of his mother, which continued for several months and terminated in her death. He then entered the law office of Burns & Fletcher, at Lancaster, NH, where he remained until the April term of court, 1859, when he was admitted to the bar of Coos County, NH and opend a law office, and remained there until Sept 1867, when he removed to lancaster, NH, and entered into partnership with Ossian Ray, under the name of Ray & Ladd, where they did a large business, as extensive, probably, as any lawyers in the State. After remaining with Mr Ray three years, he was appointed judge of the Supreme Judicial Court, Oct 1870. On reorganizing the courts in 1874, he was appointed to the bench upon the New Hampshire Supreme Court of Judicature, which was the law court, and consisted of three members. In 1876 the courts were again reorganized and then Mr Ladd's judical labor ended. Since 1876 he has been practicing law, mainly in the courts of New Hampshire. He was president of the Siwoogauoch Guarantee Savings Bank of Lancaster, director in the Lancaster National Bank; was a member of the legislature from Lancaster in 1883; trustee of the Holderness School for Boys; was vice-president of the Alumni of Dartmouth College. In June 1887, Dartmouth College, conferred upon him the degree of LL.D

William married Maria Barnes FLETCHER on 5 Jul 1860 in Lancaster, Coos Co, NH. (Maria Barnes FLETCHER was born on 29 Feb 1836 in Lancaster, Coos Co, NH and died on an unknown date.)