page_title: Charlestown, New Hampshire
section_title: Notable people
hierarchical_section_title: Charlestown, New Hampshire / Notable people
caption_attribution_description: English: Old stage coach, plying between Charlestown, New Hampshire and Springfield, Vermont
context_page_description: Charlestown is a town in Sullivan County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 5,114 at the 2010 census. The town is home to Hubbard State Forest and the headquarters of the Student Conservation Association.
  The primary settlement in town, where 1,152 people resided at the 2010 census, is defined as the Charlestown census-designated place and is located along New Hampshire Route 12. The town also includes the villages of North Charlestown, South Charlestown and Hemlock Center.
context_section_description: Helen Louisa Bostwick Bird (1826–1907), author, poet
  James Broderick (1927–1982), actor
  William E. Corbin, inventor of the paper towel
  Carlton "Pudge" Fisk (b. 1947), Hall of Fame catcher with the Boston Red Sox and Chicago White Sox
  Joseph Glidden (1813–1906), inventor of barbed wire
  Charles H. Hoyt (1859–1900), playwright and theatrical producer
  Henry Hubbard (1784–1857), 18th governor of New Hampshire
  Samuel Hunt (1765–1807), US congressman
  Susannah Willard Johnson (1729–1810), author of a notable captivity narrative
  Benjamin Labaree, minister, professor and college president
  Ralph Metcalf (1798–1858), 25th governor of New Hampshire
  Simeon Olcott (1735–1815), US senator
  DeForest Richards (1846–1903), fifth governor of Wyoming
  Richard H. Sylvester, journalist
  James Tufts (1829–1884), acting governor of Montana Territory
  Benjamin West (1746-1817), lawyer
  Francis H. West (1825–1896), Union brigadier general during the Civil War
  Alexander Hamilton Willard (1777–1865), member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
caption: Old stage coach in 1907, plying between Charlestown and Springfield, Vermont
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