Andrew Jarvis

According to his daughter, Catherine, Jarvis would eat apple pie for lunch every day during this time because that was all he knew how to order in English.

During the height of the Great Depression, Jarvis and his business partner purchased the historic Rockingham Hotel.

He was encouraged by local Republicans to run for Governor but decided not to, citing his desire to remain in Portsmouth.

He met every Republican president from Calvin Coolidge to George H. W. Bush and actively campaigned for Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon in New England.

Every year in Portsmouth the Rotary Club holds the Andrew and Grace Jarvis Memorial Road Race in honor of him and his wife.