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HADDOCK, Charles Brickett, author, born in Franklin. N. H., 20 June, 1796; died in West Lebanon, New Hampshire, 15 January, 1861. His mother was a sister of Daniel Webster. He was graduated at Dartmouth in 1816 and at Andover seminary in 1819, when he returned to Dartmouth. He occupied the chair of rhetoric and belles-lettres there from 1819 till 1838, and that of intellectual philosophy and political economy from 1838 till 1854. He was United States charge d'affaires in Portugal from 1850 till 1854. He was four years in the New Hampshire legislature, where he introduced and carried the present common school system of the state, and was the first school commissioner under that system. He was the originator of the railroad system in New Hampshire, wrote with ability on many subjects, and was thoroughly versed in public law. His anniversary orations, lectures, reports for fifteen years on education, sermons, writings on agriculture, and rhetoric, are numerous. He published a volume of addresses and other writings, including occasional sermons (1846), and was a contributor to the "Bibliotheca Sacra," "Biblical Repertory," and other periodicals.
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