List of people from Exeter, New Hampshire

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The following list includes notable people who were born or have lived in Exeter, New Hampshire.

Academics and writing[edit]

John Irving

Arts[edit]

Elizabeth Jane Gardner

Business[edit]

  • Enoch Poor (1736–1780), ship builder, merchant; Continental Army brigadier general
  • Ambrose Swasey (1846–1937), mechanical engineer, inventor, entrepreneur, manager, astronomer, philanthropist
  • Edward Tuck (1842–1938), banker, diplomat, philanthropist

Music[edit]

Politics and law[edit]

Religion[edit]

  • Tristram Gilman (1735–1809), minister, descendant of the sixth generation of the town's early settler, Edward Gilman[3]
  • Thomas Paul (1773-1831), minister and abolitionist; founder of the First African Baptist Church in Boston, currently known as the African Meeting House

Sports[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "The Academy Center is renamed to honor Elizabeth Phillips".
  2. ^ Bigelow, Walter J. (1919). Vermont, Its Government 1919-1920. Montpelier, VT: Historical Publishing Company. p. 23.
  3. ^ Collections of the Maine Historical Society, Maine Historical Society (1896), p. 45
  4. ^ "Chris Carpenter Stats". Baseball Almanac. Retrieved November 26, 2012.
  5. ^ "Kevin Romine Stats". Baseball Almanac. Retrieved November 26, 2012.