Omer Thomas Lassonde (1903–1980), a New Hampshire-born painter celebrated for his versatility across realism, cubism, expressionism, and abstraction, spent much of his adult life rooted in the small town of Boscawen, New Hampshire.
Adolf Augustus Berle Jr. (1895 - 1971), a New Deal lawyer and economist best remembered for his landmark study The Modern Corporation and Private Property, is usually associated with the corridors of power in New York, Washington, and Rio de Janeiro. Yet long before he became a member of Franklin Roosevelt's "Brain Trust," Berle's family put down roots in the small town of Boscawen, New Hampshire — a connection that shaped his early identity and gave him a lifelong touchstone away from the ambitions of city life.
Charles Pearson Shepard (1842 - 1922), among the thousands of New Hampshire men who answered the call to arms in 1861 was Charles Pearson Shepard of Boscawen, a small town along the Merrimack River. Shepard's path into the Civil War led him into one of the conflict's most demanding and specialized branches of service: the United States Sharpshooters, the elite marksman corps organized by Hiram Berdan.
