Moody Currier (1806 - 1898)
Currier (1806 - 1898) was born at Boscawen (NH) but worked on a farm at Bow (NH) as a young man.

He was largely self-educated, and graduated from Dartmouth College at twenty-eight years of age (Class of 1834). After graduation Currier taught school at Conocrd (NH), and he briefly helped edit (with Asa Fowler) the New Hampshire Literary Gazette. Then he moved to Hopkinton (NH) to read law.

He was asked to be principal of the Lowell (MA) high school, and he interrupted his law studies to accept that position (served 1836 - 1840). But he returned to Hopkinton to complete his law studies, and he was admitted to the New Hampshire Bar in 1841.

Currier set up a law practice at Manchester (NH), and he became one of the owner-editors of the Manchester Democrat newspaper. He was elected to the State Senate (1856, 1857; President of the Senate, 1857).

This portrait is by U.D. Tenney and was painted in 1876. When Currier became governor (served 1885 - 1886), his portrait was "taken" again, by Robert Vonnoh in 1887.
That portrait is on the State House second floor, together with portraits of other New Hampshire governors. Currier's widow established the Currier Galley of Art (Manchester, NH) in his memory.