When you enter the main parking area at the Manchester, New Hampshire Veterans Administration Hospital, this ominous building sticks out like a sore "tower." At my first appointment last week, I asked Ralph, who was assisting my records transfer, if he knew anything about it. He apologized and said he had been meaning to get the information. Now curious, I went home and began the Bob version of CSI. Spending nearly an hour on the web, it amazed me how limited the information on the man who was Manchester's mayor several times, governor of New Hampshire twice and good friend of Abraham Lincoln. However, here we go: Fredrick Smyth, 1819-1899; Governor 1865 and 1866, (apparently the term was but 1 year); Smyth Tower built in 1888 as his personal retreat/hideaway; It resembles a Scotch Border Watchtower.
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