Dedham Town (part 5 of 7)

After a course of study in the High School in which her work was thorough and such studies were chosen as would prepare her for teaching, Sarah Rebecca Bonney took charge of the Walpole Corner School in May, 1855. In March, 1856, she began to teach in the Centre School and was employed there till October, 1864. She then entered the Comins School in Roxbury, where she remained till 1871. Then she was transferred to the Sherwin School of Boston and taught there till 1885, when she entered the Hyde School, and with the exception of two years taught till February, 1899. She is the daughter of Daniel and Cordelia C. E. (Coney) Bonney of Dedham, where she was born and educated. In 1887 she was married to Dr. Horace Wentworth of Boston, but about two years later returned to teaching. Beginning her educational work at the age of eighteen, Mrs. Wentworth has devoted to it more than forty years of her life. She resides in Boston.

The Schools And Teachers

In the autumn of 1854 Helen Elvira Pullen began to teach in the South Dedham School, second department. She was only 18 years of age, the daughter of Sumner Born and Elvira (Whiting) Pullen, born in East Winthrop, Me., and had been carefully educated in the private schools of Waterville and Gardiner, Me., and by private tutors. She died at the age of twenty years, "the seventh week of the spring term," June 7, 1855. Says a correspondent, " She was very dear to her pupils, and to this day, after a lapse of 50 years, they recall her to mind with great love and respect."

Juliette Dickerman was mistress of the East Street School in 1855. By one of her pupils we are told that she was a good teacher, a resident of Stoughton, married and removed to some Western State.

Caroline K. Nickerson began to teach in Dedham as mistress of the Clapboard trees School in 1852 ; also had charge of it in 1855. In 1856 she was employed in the Mill School as teacher of the second class and continued there till October, 1857, when she went to Dorchester, teaching there about three years ; then to Roxbury, and has taught in the same school to the present time, 1904. She is the daughter of Luther and Esther Nickerson of Orleans, Mass.

About two years, 1853 to 1855, Adeline Stockbridge had efficient charge of the primary department of the South Dedham School. She was born in East Randolph, Dec. 28, 1823, the daughter of Nehemiah B. and Ruth (Porter) Stockbridge. After attending the Charlestown Female Seminary she graduated from the Bridgewater Normal School, August 4, 1852. She first taught a school in North Bridgewater. She left Dedham in 1855 to teach the primary school on East Street, Boston,

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In the winter of 1853-4 Eliza G. Loring had charge of the primary school in the Second Middle District. She is the daughter of Jonathan and Eliza Ann (Fales) Loring, born in Dorchester in 1834. She attended the West Newton Normal School one year. Nov. 6, 1854, she married Albion Benson of Sumner, Maine, and is now a resident of East Bridgewater.

Joseph Warren Pickering Carter from November, 1854, to March, 1855, had charge of the Second Middle School. He is the son of Benjamin and Hannah (Pickering) Carter of Portsmouth, N. H., born Sept. 27, 1828 ; graduated at Dartmouth College 1849 ; studied at Andover Theological Seminary two years; taught schools in Winchester, Mass., Portsmouth, N. H., and Portland, Me., five years in all; then went into mercantile business in Portsmouth. He married Mrs. Harriet Dwight (Edson) Simpson Jan. 21, 1864. His places of residence have been numerous ; he was at Los Angeles, California, in 1898, and is supposed lo be still resident there.

About two years, 1855-7, Abby F. Crocker had charge of the second department of the First Middle School. She was the daughter of Amos H. and Irene M. Crocker of West Dedham, born August 9, 1835. She was a student of the Dedham High School and the Ehode Island Normal. After leaving Dedham she was for many years master's assistant in the Bunker Hill School, Charlestown, so that she taught 25 years in the schools of Massachusetts. In 1871, Dec. 7, she was married to George S. Smith of Maiden, where she resided till her death in 1899.

Maria Fisher Phillips had charge of the Westfield School four summers, 1855-6-7, and 1861, and the town committee often commended her work. She is the daughter of Nathan and Hannah (Fisher) Phillips, born in Dedham, Feb. 6, 1835, and belonged to the class of 1852 of the High School. As a

In the autumn of 1855 Lucy Ann Brown had charge of the Second Division of the Mill School. The committee would have gladly returned her as a teacher, but her preference was for a different pursuit ; and the ladies of Dedham Avho were dependent upon her taste and skill for becoming attire would have objected seriously to the loss of her services. She is the daughter of Dr. John and Amelia (Bartholomew) Brown, born in Thetford, Vt., March, 1823. She came to Dedham in 1839, and still made it her home in 1904.

For the winter of 1855-6 the school at Walpole Corner was in charge of S. E. D. Currier. In December, 1851, he graduated as from Methuen at the Bridgewater Normal School, but is said to have taught only this one term. He studied law and in 1897 was in the practice of his profession at 23 Court Street, Boston.

William Wallace Colburn was master of the South District South Parish, during the winter of 1856-7. He was the son of Leonard and Mary Todd (Livingston) Colburn, born in New Boston, N. H., Oct. 1, 1832 ; fitted for college at Francestown and Mount Vernon Academies, N. H. ; graduated at Dartmouth College, 1861 ; taught in Lawrence Academy, Groton, 1861 ; in Belmont, 1862 ; was principal of the High School, Manchester, N. H., 1862-74; Springfield, Mass., 1874 to 1890; married Mary Elizabeth Parker of Manchester, N. H., July 13, 1865 ; died at Springfield, Oct. 17, 1899. He was an influential member of societies for mental and social improvement in Manchester and Springfield.

Elbridge Parker Boyden was master of the Clapboardtrees School in the winter of 1856-7. He has taught in Wrentham, Waltham, North Easton, Millbury, Bridgewater, South Walpole and Foxboro. Born in South Walpole Oct. 22, 1833, the son of James and Lucy (Clapp) Boyden, he was educated at Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, N. H., and at the Bridge- water Normal School, and married Mary Elizabeth Boyden of Walpole June 3, 1860. He was a member of Co. D, 43d Kegiment, Mass. Vol. M., going to the war from Dedham. Residing in S. Walpole, he has held various town oflices there, his business farming.

In the summer of 1856 Mary Elizabeth Boyden was mistress of the Clapboard trees School till the 18th of July, when failing health obliged her to resign ; and she never resumed teaching. Previously she had taught in South Walpole. She is the daughter of Harvey and Esther (Milliken) Boyden of Walpole, where she was educated and married to Elbridge Parker Boyden as stated above. She resided in South Walpole, November 21, 1904.

During 1855 Nancy Maria Chamberlain was a teacher in the South Dedham School where she had been educated, chiefly under Mr. J. Nelson Stevens ; and after teaching one term in 1856 she attended a private school in Lawrence. She is the daughter of Isaac Ellis and Nancy (Morse) Chamberlain, born in Hillsboro, N. H., July 5, 1838. After her school in Lawrence she made a home for her father and brother till she married John B. Page, Feb. 2, 1875, in Norwood, where she now resides at 397 Washington Street.

The East Street School was thoroughly instructed by Frank Howard Shorey two winters, 1855-6 and 1856-7. He was the son of John and Cornelia (Guild) Shorey, born in Boston Nov. 2, 1837. He prepared for college at the Dedham High School ; spent two years at Dartmouth, and then two at Harvard College, graduating in 1858 ; and was admitted to the Suffolk Co. Bar in 1859. His constitution was not able to bear the tax which his love of study laid upon it, and his health failed soon after he entered his profession. He died in Dedham, January 24, 1862.

In the spring of 1856 Frances Ellen Griggs took charge of the Readville School for a term of four months ; in October of the same year she began to teach the second class of the

South Dedham School, continuing there till July, 1859. She had previously taught the Walpole Plains School from the spring of 1855 till September; then the Strawberry Hill School in Dover a winter term of four months, November to March. She is the daughter of James and Abigail (Newell) Griggs, born in Dedham Dec. 8, 1836 ; attended the High School over three years, where her accurate scholarship was duly recognized ; and at a later date received the first prize in a public competition as the best speller in Dedham. March 7, 1860, she was married to David Neal in Dedham, and now, after spending many years in her native town, resides in Seattle, Washington.

Mrs. Harriet (Wales) Fletcher taught in the South Dedham School from 1856 to 1858. She is the daughter of Samuel and Hannah (Kemp) Wales of Orford, N. H., born Dec. 30, 1827, and educated in the public schools of Orford and at the Academy in Bradford, Vt. In 1858, July 4, she was married in West Dedham to Charles E. Morse. After his death in Dec, 1859, she "cared for his two sons until they completed their college course ; then in the Spring of 1874 opened a private school in Norwood and has taught continuously until the present time," 1902, her P. O. address being 880 Washington Street, Norwood.

Sarah Jane Alden began to teach in the Centre School in 1857, having charge of the fourth class for a year, then of the second class for a year or more. She was the youngest daughter of Francis and Sarah Stone (Crehore) Alden, born in Dedham March 17, 1833. Relinquishing her work on account of failing health, she was released from her sufferings, borne with lovely patience, December 31, 1861.

Beginning in June, 1857, Lauretta Wheaton Guild had charge of the fifth class of the Centre School nearly four years ; then for a year or two she was able to teach only a few days or weeks occasionally as a substitute. From 1862 to 1864 she was constantly employed. In 1868 she taught in the Avery and then returned to the Ames and taught till 1870, when she was obliged to relinquish school work altogether. She is the daughter of Dea. Calvin and Margaret (Taft) Guild, born in Hookset, N. H. ; attended the High School nearly four years, also a short term at Wheaton Ladies' Seminary, and still resides in Dedham.

The winter of 1857-8 Charles Whiting Carroll was master of the Westfield School ; the succeeding winter of a school in Lisbon, N. H. He was the son of Sanford and Harriet (Whiting) Carroll, born in Dedham, May 31, 1836. He attended the High School four years ; graduated at Dartmouth College 1859 ; was admitted to the bar, 1861 ; and married Lucy A. Farwell of Foxboro, July 30, 1861. He was commissioned First Lieutenant of Co. F, 18th Keg. Mass. Vols., July 26, 1861 ; promoted Captain Oct. 29, 1861 ; participated in the siege of Yorktown, the Peninsular Campaign, and the second battle of Bull Run. In this battle, Aug. 30, 1862, he was mortally wounded, and died on the field three days later. In honor of him the Army Post in Dedham bears his name. DuJce et decorum est pro patria mori.

The winter school at Walpole Corner, 1856-7, if we may credit the Town Committee, was «' thoroughly instructed" by John James Dana, the son of William De Wolfe and Mary (Green) Dana of Perry, Me. He graduated at the Bridgewater Normal School Dec. 3, 1851 ; taught in Weston, 1854 ; South Scituate, 1855; Robinson, Me., 1861 and 1862; and in Boone Co., Iowa, 1870-71. He married Sarah Elizabeth Warren of Weston April 11, 1858 ; Mary Sophronia Gates of South Robinson, Me., Jan. 29, 1891. He is a farmer in Union Township, Boone Co., Iowa, where he has served as Township Trustee, Assessor, School Director and District Treasurer. Post Office address, Perry, Iowa.

In the South Dedham School Harriet Allen was a teacher in 1856 and continued her work there till Feb. 9, 1857. She was the daughter of Louis and Achsa (Fisher) Allen, born in

Walpole July 25, 1838 ; was educated in her native town and in Springfield, and taught school for a season in Sharon. She died in Walpole, Oct. 19, 1859, in her twenty-second year.

In 1856-7 Hiram A. Oakman taught a year in the north district of the South Parish. He graduated from the Bridgewater Normal School in 1845 as from Marshfield ; is said to have taught six years and was a clerk in the Boston Custom House in 1876.

In 1856 Lucy Lee Fessenden began to teach in an ungraded school at Montague, Mass., hoping then to make teaching her life work ; but at the end of her first term she was called home by illness in her father's family and did not teach again till 1873 when she opened a private school in Dedham. She continued it twelve years, the patronage her school received being sufficient proof of its excellence. She is the daughter of the Eev. John and Nancy (Baker) Fessenden, born in Deerfield, and attended the Dedham High School four years, 1852-1856. She still occupies the family home on High Street, Dedham.

From 1856 to 1858 Lucy Ada Nye was in charge of the second class of the South Dedham School. She had previously taught in Keene, N. H. ; in North and South Abington, Mass ; and in 1853 and '54 in Virginia. She was the daughter of Apollos and Lucy (Kingsbury) Nye, born in Keene, N. H., Oct. 13, 1825 ; and was educated in the High School of her native town and Wheaton Ladies' Seminary, Norton, Mass. She died Sept. 14, 1858, at Walpole, Mass.

Harriet L. Fales had charge of the fourth class of the South Dedham School, 1856 to 1858. She is the daughter of David and Nancy L. Fales, born in Dorchester, Nov. 18, 1836, and married Charles E. Barrows, Oct. 5, 1862, in South Dedham. She resides in Dorchester, Mass.

The Clapboardtrees School enjoyed the instruction of Samuel Lanktor Gerould in the winter of 1857-8. While a member of Dartmouth College he had taught two winter terms,

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1854-6, in Marlboro; and from Sept. 1856 to March 1857, a high school in Stow. After graduation in 1858, and while a member of Union Theol. Sem., New York City, 1858 to 1860, he taught in a private French school. He is tlie son of the Rev. Moses and Cynthia (Locke) Gerould, born in New Alstead, N. H. July 11, 1834; married Lucy Abby Merriam of Mason Villiage, N. H., Sept. 20, 1860 ; became pastor of a Cong. Ch. in Stoddard, N. H., Oct. 2, 1861; obtained leave of absence for three years and became a sergeant in the 14th Reg. of N. H. Volunteers, Sept. 23, 1862 ; served as clerk in several courts martial, and left the service July 8, 1865. He is now a pastor in Hollis, N. H., having received the degTce of D. D. in 1897 from his ahna mater.

The primary class of the Centre School, 1857-8, was in the care of Caroline Augusta Howard. Later she taught private classes in drawing. She was the daughter of Sanford and Matilda W. Howard, born in Augusta, Maine, Jan. 12, 1837. Her education was chiefly in private schools of Albany, N. Y., and there she graduated from the State Normal School. During the Civil War she was connected with the Sanitary Commission in New York City, and while there often enjoyed the hospitality of the poet, William Cullen Bryant, who was a kinsman of both her father and mother. Her writings, both prose and poetry, received the poet's commendation and occasionally appeared in his paper, the " New York Evening Post." She was active in establishing the Lansing City Library, Mich, which was originally the property of the Ladies' Libraiy Association. Her residence from 1865 was in Lansing where she was devoted to literary work ; and at the time of her death, Jan. 12, 1873, she was a clerk in the office of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction. A poem by her entitled " A Cheer for the Brave" may be found in a collection called " Lyrics of Loyalty."

mouth College, where he graduated in 1859. He was a native of Meredith, N. H., the son of Noah and Betsey Ann (Prescott) Pease, born Nov. 4, 1833. He taught schools in Laconia, Wolf borough and Conway, N. H., and read law with the Hon, D. M. Cristie of Dover, N. H. He was a business man as well as lawyer and died at Oak Park, 111., April 9, 1890.

Sarah Maria Chapman was mistress of the Clapboard trees School in the summer term of 1857. She was the daughter of Benjamin and Theoda Chapman, born in Cornish, N. H., and educated in the public schools of her native town and at Mrs. Ely's Ladies' Seminary in Concord, N. H. July 20, 1872, she was married in Boston to J. Addison Marshall. Previous to her marriage for several years she held clerkships in Newburyport and Roxbury. Her literary taste found occasional expression in both prose and verse ; and the last twenty-eight years of her life she resided in Dorchester at 22 Alexander Street, where she died, March 2, 1904.

In the summer of 1857 the Walpole Corner School was, in the opinion of the committee of the town, well taught by Miss E. M. Nickerson, the daughter of Luther and Esther Nickerson of Orleans. She married and resided in Boston.

In the summer of 1857 the South District of S. Dedham had as its schoolmistress Mary Augusta Dean of Francestown, N. H., where she had been a teacher, and also in the neighboring towns. She was the daughter of Benjamin and Jane (Todd) Dean and was educated in the public schools and Academy of Francestown. She was married in that town July 29, 1858, to Lewis G. Billings of Sharon, Mass., who died July 16,1871. She resided in Sharon till 1890 ; then removed to Somerville, where she died Oct. 15, 1902.

In the winter of 1857-8 the South School of South Dedham was in charge of Henry D. Stevens till the 18th of January, when illness compelled him to resign and his decease is referred to in the report of the committee made at the close of the year.

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resignation of Mr. Stevens. A correspondent says, <*He taught country schools at intervals a good many years : the latter part of his life was mostly spent in Rhode Island and New Jersey; he died in Mansfield, May 31, 1893." At one time he was a market-man in Dedham and vicinity in partnership with the late J. Everett Smith.

Chester Holbrook Comey, after teaching schools in Kingston, Taunton, Provincetown and Foxboro, began the charge of the South Dedham School in April, 1857, and so continued till July, 1863. After this for several years he engaged in the Life Insurance business with encouraging success. He resumed teaching in Arlington in 1869, and was employed for a short time in the Dwight School, Boston. But an agency of the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. was his principal business. He was born in Foxboro, Feb. 22, 1832, the son of John and Hannah (Robinson) Comey and educated at Pierce Academy and Bridge water Normal School, graduating in 1852. He married Sarah Dyer Rich in Provincetown, Aug. 27, 1855. For five years he was a deacon of the First Baptist Church of Cambridge, where in 1881, March 31, "he died as he had lived, an earnest. Christian man."

Mary Frances Gragg commenced teaching as assistant in the Dedham High School, Sept., 1857, doing very acceptable work for five years. Then she held a similar position in the Roxbury High for six years. She was the daughter of Moses and Rebecca Newell (Alden) Gragg, born in Milton, June 30, 1839, and was educated in the Roxbury Grammar and High Schools. In 1868, Sept. 7, she was married to Henry White Richards. For a short term she was a member of the Dedham School Committee. She died Aug. 14, 1880.

Mary Jane Folsom taught in East Street District two summers, 1857 and 1858 ; in Readville three, 1859, 1860 and 1861; in Westfield three winters, 1859-60, 1860-61, 1861-2. Teaching was her life work for fifty years, chiefly in district schools of Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Rhode

Island. One of her Readville pupils testifies to her great thoroughness. She was the daughter of Josiah and Abigail (Ham) Folsom, born in Newmarket, N. H., Feb. 10, 1809; educated in its district schools, Lebanon (Me.) Academy, and the Smithfield Seminary, No. Scituate, R. I. The last years of her life she spent on the ' ' old homestead" in Newmarket, dying there May 24, 1894.

George Newcomb was master of the First Middle School from 1857 to 1859 and of the Mill School from 1859 to 1864, having previously taught in Quincy twelve years and in North Chelsea, now Revere, four years. He was born in Quincy, Nov. 8, 1814, the son of James and Lucy (Baxter) Newcomb, and prepared himself to enter college in Braintree and Derby Academies. Ill health preventing a college course, he devoted himself to teaching, at the same time doing much good work in behalf of temperance and other reforms, and was always active in the cause of religion. In 1864 he went to teach the Freedmen in Beaufort, N. C, and was appointed a superintendent of Freedmen's Schools in the South. In March, 1865, eight days after the surrender of Charleston, S. C, he opened the first negro school in that city. In 1867 he was ordained elder in the Methodist Episcopal Church South, Beaufort Circuit; and in 1870 was appointed Presiding Elder of the St. John's District, Florida. The same year President Grant, without solicitation, appointed him Collector of the Port of Beaufort; and while executing this office Elder Newcomb died of yellow fever, Oct. 12, 1871. He was united in marriage, Jan. 27, 1836, to Lucy Rand of Charlestown, Mass. ; she, two daughters and a son were left to mourn the loss of one whose worth was widely known because his life was truly a series of benevolent efforts.

For two years and a half out of more than forty which he devoted to instruction, Oliver Francis Bryant served the town of Dedham ; first a year in the Mill Village School from the spring of 1858 ; then in the First Middle a year and a half till

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November, 1860. Having studied at Warren Academy in Woburn in 1848-9 and 1849-50, he taught winter schools in Wilmington ; then studied a year in the Bridgewater Normal School ; next taught two winter terms in Rockport ; in March, 1852, began a year's work as principal of a boys' school in Wilmington, Delaware. In September, 1853, he entered Groton Academy for a year of study, and later spent two years in the " Teachers' Course" of Brown University. Being now suitably equipped, he gave the town of Canton two years of faithful service before coming to Dedham. In November, 1860, he joined the corps of Chauncy Hall teachers, and continued there till July, 1894, M^hen he gave in his resignation. He had taught long and well. He is the son of Oliver and Sarah (Walton) Bryant, born in Stoneham, June 9, 1827 ; married Minerva Richardson of Woburn, Aug. 19, 1856 ; and has made Woburn his home since 1866.

Maria Amelia Brooks, from 1858 to 1861, had charge of the second division of the Mill School ; from 1876 to 1890 she was a teacher in the Public School, No. 2, of Elizabeth, New Jersey, making in all seventeen years of approved teaching. She is the daughter of Lemuel Augustus and Eliza Brooks, born in Boston Feb. 19, 1838 ; was educated in Dedham, attending the High School two years. In 1861, May 20, she was married to John C. Baker, who died in 1874. Mrs. Baker now resides with two of her four sons in the city of Franklin, Pennsylvania.

During a part of the School year 1858-9 Abby Jane Ellis had charge of the fourth class of the South Dedham School. Later she taught in the Gridley School, South Canton, three years, 1862 to 1865 ; then again five years, 1872 to 1877 ; the Ponkapoag School two years, 1877-1879 ; and as assistant in the Canton High School one term, 1871. She was the daughter of William and Jane (Endicott) Ellis, born in Canton, April 1, 1841, and was educated at the Bridgewater Normal School. She was married to George H. Snow in Canton, Jan. 1, 1865 ;

Hannah M. Lealand was a teacher in the Centre School, 1858-9, of the primary division. She was the daughter of Charles and Caroline Lealand, born Dec. 10, 1838, in Dedham, where she died Oct. 26, 1861. She received a diploma at the High School for the three years' course, her scholarship being excellent.

From 1858 to 1863 Abbie Ellis Tisdale taught in the primary and intermediate grades of the South Dedham School. She is the daughter of Oileus Aurelius and Louisa (Harding) Tisdale, born in Walpole, April 1, 1840, and educated in the Walpole Corner and West Dedham Schools. Before teaching in this town she was employed one winter term, 1857-8, in the lower division of the North School of Medfield. She now resides in Worcester.

John Oliver Winslow Paine was master of the Readville School winter of 1858-9. He is the son of Abner and Comfort Paine, born in Charlestown, Maine, Jan. 16, 1838; educated in Corinth Academy, Me., Charlestown Academy and the Dedham High School, entering Dartmouth College in 1858. He studied law in Bangor, Me., where he taught school, 1860- 61 ; also in Oldtown, 1863-4. He entered the U. S. army as 2d Lieut., Co.D, 14th Reg. Maine Vols. ,1861, was promoted 1st. Lieut. 1862 ; resigned on account of disability, 1863 ; re-enlisted and was Capt. Co. E, 14th Reg. Maine Vols., 1865, and served till close of the war ; was Provost Judge of the South District of Georgia, 1865; settled in Ottawa, Kas., 1867, and was Dist. Att'y. of Franklin County, Kas., two terms. He is now practising his profession in San Diego, Cal. Captain Paine married in 1869 Jane Price McKinley in Ottawa, Kansas; in 1886, Anna B. Crofts in San Diego, California.

From 1858 to 1865 Mrs. Anna Maria (McNeil) Ingalls was a teacher in the Grove School at East Dedham ; later she taught in Germantown, Penn. She was of Scotch descent, the danghter of Amy and Jesse McNeil, born in Easton, Penn., where she was carefully educated. In 1852 she was married there to John Henry Ingalls who died before she began to teach in Dedham. For many years she resided with a sister in Philadelphia where she died March 16, 1900. Her character as a teacher was often commended by the school authorities.

In 1858 Matilda Barker Lund was mistress of the Walpole Corner School; in 1859 she was a teacher in that of South Dedham. She is the daughter of William and Mary Isabella (Reynolds) Lund, born in Charlestown, Feb. 12, 1832, and was educated "at home, and in Bradford Academy, graduating in 1853." Since teaching in South Dedham she has resided in Boxford where she has made herself useful as manager of a book club ; director and purchaser of books for the Public Library ; and since 1894 as secretary of the Essex Co. Pomona Grange. Her P. O. address is West Boxford, Mass.

From 1858 till March 1860 Lucy Tisdale was mistress of the Clapboard trees School, having previously taught in Mansfield and Attleboro ; after leaving Dedham she taught several months in Stoughton. She is the daughter of Israel, Jr. and Elvira A. (Cutting) Tisdale, born in Stoughton, educated in its schools, at Pierce Academy, Middleboro, and by private instruction. She was married Jan. 1861, in Attleboro, to Charles Henry Crummett. When her children were small, for their benefit she taught for four years a private school in her own home. She now resides in Hyde Park, Mass.

In the winter of 1858-9 the Walpole Corner School was in charge of Edward Cowles who the winter previous had taught in the South District of Medfield. He is the son of George and Mary (Bradley) Cowles, born in Ryegate, Vt., and educated in the Caledonia, Vt. , grammar school ; Dartmouth College, A. B. 1859 ; A. M. in Course ; M. D. 1863 ; L. L. D. 1890. He was assistant surgeon and captain in U. S. Army 1863 to 1872; Supt. and resident physician, Boston City Hospital, 1872-9 ; medical supt. of McLean Hospital 1879 to

January 1, 1904. He married Harriet M. Wainwright at Hanover, N. H., 1865 ; and on April 9, 1904, his address was Warren Chambers, Boston, Mass.

Sarah E. Fisher in the summer of 1858 had charge of the South School of South Dedham. In want of facts relating to Miss Fisher we quote from the report of the school committee as follows : " Under her kind, but firm, judicious and efficient management great advance has been made in point of order, studiousness and proficiency."

Lucy Anna Calder was a teacher in the Second Middle District many years ; in the primarj^ department from 1858 to 1872, in the grammar department, 1872 to 1878. She began teaching in Walpole at the age of 18 ; then taught several years in the Pierce School of Brookline. She was the daughter of James and Anna Holmes (Baker) Calder, born in Dedham, May 6, 1835, and was educated in the Second Middle School, and three years in the High School. After teaching faithfully and acceptably twenty-five years she bore patiently the years of weakness and decline, bidding a last adieu to the scenes of earth, Sept. 10, 1887.

From April 12, 1858, to January 1888, the fifth or sixth division of the First Middle and later Ames School, was in the care of Mary Farrington Hodges, the daughter of Charles and Mary Taylor (Farrington) Hodges. Born in Dedham and educated in the public schools of the town, no one could have been more devoted to the children of the village as they passed in thirty successive classes under her careful hand. As she always guarded her health by daily exercises in walking or rowing, her robust form and cheerful face during all these years were very familiar on the streets of Dedham and on the waters of Charles River. She died suddenly Jan. 7, 1888 ; and her friends and pupils claimed the privilege of erecting a stone to her memory in the old Village cemetery.

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District the winter of 1858-9 ; in the South District of South Parish, from the spring of 1859 to spring of 1860 ; then in the Centre School till the spring of 1867 ; then a term in the Everett School. In Sept. 1867, Miss Bonney entered the Mather School of Dorchester and taught there till March 1, 1869, after that was in the Comins School of Roxbury till Feb. 6, 1871 ; then was transferred to the New Sherwin and taught there till September, 1884, when she resigned her position and went to reside at a home she had purchased in North Duxbury a few years before. She was the daughter of Daniel and Cordelia Caroline (Coney) Bonney, born in Dedham, March 8, 1840, educated at the public schools, attending the High School five years. She married Samuel O. Whitraore of Plymouth, Sept. 12, 1885. He died January 1896 ; she died in Dedham, January 1905.

Harriet Everett Guild taught in the first Middle School 1859 to 1861 ; South Dedham, 1862 and 1863 ; Walpole Corner, 1863 ; and West Dedham, 1864 and 1865. She also taught a year in the Somerville High School. She is the daughter of Francis and Caroline Elizabeth (Covell) Guild, born in Dedham, Jan. 11, 1842, and received a diploma of three years at the High School. In 1883, July 12, she was united in marriage to William Kingsley Stockdale, and resided in Manchester, N. H. Mrs. Stockdale was Matron of the Massachusetts State Building at the Columbian Exposition at Chicago, 1893.

From 1859 to 1861 Nettie Fossett taught the fourth class in the South Dedham School. Her work was commended ; but we regret to say that all other facts concerning her have eluded our search.

From March, 1859, to March, 1868, Elizabeth Parkman Porter taught the second division of the First Middle, or Ames School. She was the daughter of George and Emeline (Bancroft) Porter of Reading, and was educated in the public schools of Reading and at Warren Academy, Woburn, Mass. On the twenty-siBCond of March 1869, she was married to John Laurie, and now resides in Jacksonville, Illinois. Were it possible to produce an instrument that grows more efficient the longer it is used, it would resemble Mrs. Laurie's ability to teach. A nine years' trial revealed no defects.

Henrietta Caroline Cox after some experience as a teacher in Sharon and Walpole taught in South Dedham from 1859 to 1861. The daughter of George and Hannah (Drinkwater) Cox, she was born in Walpole and educated in its schools. She -died there in May, 1861.

Albert H. Essex was master of the Readville School from the autumn of 1859 till he removed Avithhis family to Newport, R. I., in the summer of 1860. His later history has not been iearned.

John Eaton Whiting taught the East Street School one winter term, 1859-60, having in 1857-8 been master of the South School of Sharon. He is the son of Col. Eaton and Olive (Smith) Whiting of West Dedham, and was educated in the Clapboard trees District School, Dedham High, and Harvard College, A. B., 1862. In 1885, Jan. 12, he was married to Mrs. Elizabeth Carleton (Paige) Pease in Buffalo, N. Y. ; in 1873 he was president of the Dedham High School Association ; in 1877 he published a volume giving occupancy of the Mercantile buildings of the city of Boston. The business life of Mr. Whiting has been devoted almost entirely to insurance, as Secretary, Inspector, Rating Clerk, or Manager. From 1865 to 1904, he has been connected with Companies in Charlestown, Mass., Boston, New Orleans, Philadelphia, and New York. Since 1901 he has, to the present, March 20, 1904, been Rating Clerk at the New York Fire Insurance Exchange, residing in New York City; his P. O. address, Mutual Life Building, 32 Nassau Street, New York.

Juliet Frances Sumner was a teacher in the South Dedham School about two years, 1859 to 1861, having previously taught in Foxboro, her birthplace. She is the daughter of Henry Harvey and Experience (Robinson) Sumner, born March 7,

1837 ; studied at Hopkinton Academy, and graduated at Wheaton Seminary in 1855. After leaving Dedham to care for an invalid mother she opened a private school in Foxboro and later taught again in the public schools there. In 1871 she commenced teaching in the Felton School, Cambridgeport, but resigned in 1874, and on May 14 of that year was married to Thomas Lewis and went to reside in Cambridgeport, for a while carrying on a private school there. In 1882 they returned to Foxboro, where she was soon elected to the school committee and served as their secretary for nine years.

Henry Hastings Kimball was master of the East Street School the winter of 1860-61. He is the son of Isaac and Lucinda (Tenny) Kimball of Temple, N. H., born Sept. 1, 1835, and was educated at Ipswich Appelton Academy and Dartmouth College, graduating A. B. in 1860. The part of his life devoted to teaching was divided as follows : A year in South Canton ; a year and a half in Newton ; and from Sept., 1863, to Nov., 1892, submaster in the Boylston, and master of the Lincoln School, Boston. He is now engaged in business and resides in Boston.

The West Dedham Primary School from 1860 to 1865 was well instructed by Annis C. Guild. She is the youngest daughter of Dea. Keuben and Olive (Morse) Guild, born in West Dedham April 14, 1842, and was educated in the West Dedham and High Schools, receiving a diploma for three years. In 1869, Feb. 10, she was united in marriage to Francis D. Hay ward, and now resides in Worcester, Mass.

Sallie Bussey Cox in 1860 and 1861 taught in the South Dedham School. She was born in Walpole, the daughter of George and Hannah (Drinkwater) Cox, completed her educacation in the Walpole High School, and in 1866 died in Dorchester.

The West Dedham School was taught by Thatcher N. Snow from 1860 to 1862. He had been the principal of the High School at South Eeading. Some high school studies were taught by him, and his work was commended by the Examining Committee. In 1894 he was a resident of Santa Barbara, California.

The winter school of Readville, 1860-1, was in charge of Samuel Hopkins Nichols, who had previously taught in Westminster. In 1862 he taught a high school in East Lexington ; in 1863 was master of a school in South Canton. He was the son of Rev. Samuel and Mary (Burdett) Nichols, born in Wakefield, N. H., and educated in the public schools of his native town, the South Reading High, and the Westfield State Normal. In 1856 he married Elizabeth G. Stow of South Reading, who died in Dedham, 1858 ; in 1866 married Sarah, daughter of Rev. Dr. Brown Emerson of Salem, where he died July y, 1883. The last twenty years of his life Mr. Nichols spent chiefl}^ as an accountant in Boston.

In 1860, '61 and '62 the Clapboardtrees, and in 1863 the Walpole Corner School, was in charge of Nancy Caroline Baker. She is the daughter of Lusher Gay and Elizabeth Palmer (Sanford) Baker of West Dedham, and was educated in the schools of her native village and the city of Worcester. She resided in Westwood till her decease.

Elizabeth Norton Gardner in the summer of 1860 began to teach Dedham pupils in the Westfield School ; then for a. year ending in March 1863 she had charge of the South School of South Dedham ; and in the summer of 1864 of the Readville School. Sharon and Canton schools received the benefit of her instruction ; the Shurtleff School of Revere was two years under her care ; in 1866 the fourth grammar school of Weymouth ; and in 1870 a boys' division of the Bunker Hill School of Charlestown was taught by her. Sometimes instead of teaching in the public schools she has instructed private classes in the German language. She is the daughter of William Norton and Elizabeth French (Adams) Gardner and a native of East Milton. From the public schools of Milton she continued her education in the Milton Academy, Bridgewater Normal School, Meadville Theological and Cambridge Divinity Schools ; also taking private instruction in languages and vocal culture. Being interested in woman suffrage she was made vice-president of the Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association. By lectures and readings she has frequently aided charitable causes and literary enterprises. She resides in her native town, *' devoted to home cares and occupations."

From June 1860 Henry Dame was the master of the Centre School about one year. He is the son of Ivory and Lydia Dame, born in Biddeford, Maine, Dec. 7, 1836 ; removed early to Saco, Me., where he fitted for college in the high school. While a student he taught in high schools and academies in Maine, to defray his expenses at Bowdoin College from which he graduated in 1857 ; and before coming to Dedham had been two years principal of a high school in Southbridge. He married Ellen S. Bacon at Southbridge, December, 1859. After leaving Dedham he was two and a half years master of the Nantucket High School, resigning that position to accept the charge of the Peabody High School which continued five years. Other engagements were : Principal of Plymouth High, one year; of Bangor, Maine, High, seven years; submaster, Boston English High, one year ; master of a Boys' Preparatory, Boston, several years ; and of the Westfield High, one year. He then engaged in the insurance business about twelve years. For the last few years he has been a dealer in real estate and mining securities ; and now, 1904, resides as for the last eighteen years at 16 Mellen street, Cambridge.

Bedford, Wakefield and Canton, Mass., in Charleston and Mattoon, 111., and in the school for Freedmen, Vicksburg, Miss., 1865-66, where her work was highly commended. She was the daughter of the Kev. Samuel and Mary Burdett Nichols, born in Barrington, N. H., Sept. 1, 1840; and received a diploma for three years in the Dedham High School. She died in Dedham, Jan. 23, 1877.

Soon after the Civil War broke out the military spirit invaded the schools of Dedham. The male teachers generally belonged to drill clubs or companies, and the boys of the high school for a year or two spent most of their recesses in the company drill, the master acting as captain so far as he was capable. The lower hall of the school house and the ample playground served as training fields. Some hoys who afterwards did good service on real battlefields took their first lessons in this very elementary soldiering. But when the war ended military athletics in Dedham soon died out. Another result of the war was less invigorating to the teachers of Dedham. To enable the town to pay high bounties to volunteer soldiers, there was need of retrenchment somewhere. And though the ciu-rency was inflated, the prices of food and fuel nearly doubled, though cotton goods rose to a fourfold value, and all other laborers were receiving an increase of wages, the salaries of Dedham teachers were considerably reduced. We need not say that the return of peace was hailed by them with unfeigned delight. They had sacrificed enough for the public good to prove their patriotism ; with little complaining they had waged war with all sorts of increased bills and expenses. They fully realized the truth uttered by one of the opulent town fathers whose son was then fitting for college in the high school, and who said "the reduction of teachers' salaries will be a good lesson in economy." It was indeed so, but I am not aware that he was ever sincerely thanked for his suggestion.

Myra A. Beaumont was mistress of the East Street School in 1861, having previously taught in Canton, Foxboro and Walpole. She is the daughter of Alexander and May (Richer) Beaumont of Canton, and was educated in the public schools of her native town and the high school of Manchester, N. H. She was married to Thomas Jefferson Harris of Medford, in 1862: and in 1903 resided in the city of New York at 117 East 40th St., with her son Dr. Thomas J. Harris.

Frances Evelyn Cox taught in the South Dedham School from 1861 to 1868. She was born in Troy N. Y., the daughter of George and Hannah (Drinkwater) Cox ; was educated in the South Dedham public schools, and in the Holliston and Bridge water Adelphian Academies. She died in Dorchester, Mass., Sept. 21, 1891.

Abbie Talbot Crane taught very successfully in the Grove (now Avery) School from 1861 to 1864, and in the Ames from 1864 to 1882. She is the daughter of Ebenezer Paul and Sarah Stowe (Clarke) Crane, born in Dedham April 13, 1839 ; was educated in the Grove and Dedham High schools, attending the latter three years. She was married to George Francis Wight of Dedham, June 6, 1882. She resides in Dedham, at 213 Highland street, in the house built by her grandfather, Major Jacob Clarke, in 1798.

Susan Emeline Follansbee, in the summer of 1861, was mistress of the South District School of South Dedham. In 1862 she taught in Pittston, Me. ; in Ponkapoag, Mass., 1863 or 4, and for a short time in the First District, Dedham Village, in 1864. She was the daughter of Capt. Alonzo Walter and Nancy Sherman (Mackintosh) Follansbee, born in Pittston, Me., April 28, 1842 ; received a diploma from the Dedham high school for three years in 1859 ; married Joseph

Mrs. Clara Robie McCoy taught in the North District of South Dedham one term in 1861. She was the daughter of Col. Frederick W. A. and Lucinda (Goldthwait) Robie, born at Plymouth, N. H. : a graduate of Mt. Holyoke Seminary ; and taught one year at Waukegan, 111., and two years at the Delaware Institute, Franklin, N. Y. Her first husband was Prof. Henry McCoy of the Delaware Institute ; her second, William G. Scott of Richmond, Indiana. Mrs. Scott while on a journey abroad, died at Paris, April 1, 1902.

In 1861 a "high school grade" was established in the South Dedham School, and Martha Gilman Robie was the first teacher of the classical course, a position she held till 1866. She was a thorough teacher as proved by the pupils that came from her hands to continue their studies in the Dedham high school. She is the daughter of Col. Frederick TV". O. and Lucinda (Goldthwait) Robie, born in Plymouth, N. H., and educated at the academy of her native town and the Delaware Literary Institute of Franklin, N. Y. In 1866, June 5, she was married to Francis Olney Winslow of Norwood where she has since resided. Her interest in education has been recognized by the town in asking for her services on the school committee for six years, during one of which she was chairman of the board.

In 1862 and 1863 Helen May Beaumont had charge of the East Street School, having previously taught in Foxboro ; later she was a teacher in the Everett School of Boston. The daughter of Alexander and May (Richer) Beaumont, she was born at Great Falls, N. H., and educated in the Canton public schools. In 1867 she was married to Joseph Hubbard of Boston ; she died in Roxbury March 14, 1883. " She was a successful teacher, a brilliant personality, a woman admired and beloved by a large circle of friends."

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calf taught in the South Dedham School having previous experience in the schools of Wrentham, Franklin and Walpole, and for a short time in the Perkins Institute for the Blind in South Boston. She is the daughter of Joseph Addison and Chloe F. A. Metcalf of Winthrop, Me., where she began her education, continuing it in Franklin, Mass., at a private school in Lowell, and an English and classical school in Walpole, of which Andrew Washburn was principal. She was married in Franklin, Feb. 13, 1867, to Melzar W. Allen of Walpole, where she has been a member of the school committee, and for the last nineteen years a trustee of the Public Library, and at the present time is secretary of the Board.

The private school of Rev. Calvin Stoughton Locke from 1862 to 1892 added greatly to the educational facilities of Dedham. Some of our best teachers were taught there. Mr. Locke had previously taught in Boxford, 1848, Gill, '49, Essex, '50 and '51, again in Boxford '52 '53 '54. He is the son of Amos Jewett and Clementine (Stoughton) Locke, born in Acworth, N. H. ; educated in Kimball Union Academy, Plainfield, N. H., Williston Seminary, Amherst College and Harvard Divinity School. To these he humorously adds *' the school of life in Dedham and Westwood." He was married June 6, 1855, in Northboro to Anne Lincoln ; ordained in West Dedham Dec. 6, 1854; dismissed June 20, 1864; preached in Dover 1869 to 1880. Mr. Locke has visited Europe three times, once accompanied by his wife and daughter, and has travelled almost everywhere, avoiding only the snows of Scandinavia and Russia. He has also turned his steps southward, and has been usefully interested in the colored schools of Georgia and the improvement of their teachers. Between 1858 and 1884 Mr. Locke was a member of the Dedham School Committee twenty years; chairman, twelve years. In Westwood he has been chairman of the board since 1897 to the present, 1904.

the Fisher School, having previously taught in Raymond, N.H. She is the daughter of Bernard and Sally (Dudley) Tucker, born in Raymond, N. H., and educated in her native town, Brighton and Dedham, Mass. She was married in Worcester, Feb. 26,1872, to Tohn Eaton, Jr. of Dedham, and was aresiddnt of Raymond, March 25, 1904.

Martha Gay Baker taught the Westfield School from April 1862 to July 1864. She was born in West Dedham, Sept. 11, 1843, the daughter of Lusher Gay and Elizabeth Palmer (Sanford) Baker; received a three years diploma at the Dedham High School ; and was married to James Bradford Baker, Sept. 27, 1864. She died in Westwood, April 25, 1898.

Aspasia Priscilla Tubbs was a teacher in the Centre School in 1862, having previously, 1859-'60-'61, taught in Worcester. She was born in West Dedham, the daughter of Benjamin Holbrook and Aspasia Euphrosina Priscilla Tubbs, and educated in the West Dedham public schools and the Ladies' College at Worcester. She was married December 18, 1862, in West Dedham, to Charles Edward Draper, and in 1904 resided at 112 Bower Street, Roxbury.

John Folsom Patten, from April 1862, was master of the First Middle School two years. He has been a teacher of schools in Portsmouth and several other towns in New Hampshire ; also in the academy at South Berwick, Me. He has also been engaged in various lines of business and manufacturing, residing for some years in Duluth, Minn. At present he resides in Lynn, Mass., and is a teacher in the Business College of that city. He is the son of Jesse and Lucinda (Evans) Patten, and was born in Auburn, N. H., May 24, 1831. He was educated at academies in Manchester and Tilton, N. H., and was married" in Lynn, April 11, 1861, to Elizabeth Ellen Brimblecom. He is remembered in Dedham as a man of original ideas and a happy faculty in school discipline.

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School from 1863 to 1867. He had previously taught district schools in Rochester, W. Bridge water, Bridgewater and S. Abington, 1858 to 1860 ; high school, North Middleboro, 1860-62 ; Titicut Academy, a select school in Canton, 1862-3 ; after leaving Dedham was master of the Edward Everett School of Dorchester, 1867 to 1875. He is the son of Stillman and Elvira (Alger) Alger, born in West Bridgewater, and educated in the Pierce Academy of Middleboro, and Brown University. He was married May 30, 1861, at North Middleboro, to Katharine L. Dunbar; in 1869 and 1870 was president of the Norfolk County Teachers ' Association ; and since 1876 has been a Baptist minister in Massachusetts and Vermont, and resided in 1904 at 36 Northern Avenue, Dorchester, Mass.

Two years, 1863 and 1864, Adelaide Elizabeth Winship of Medfield was mistress of the South School, South Parish ; from 1866 to 1871 she taught in the north district of the same parish. She is the daughter of George Washington and Mary Elizabeth Winship of South Canton, and was educated at the Stoughtonham Institute of Sharon. She taught schools in North Sharon four or five terms and was the teacher of two schools in the town of Norfolk, remaining there about four years.

From Sept. 1863 till April, 1867 the first Middle or Ames School had for its master Horace Hamilton Currier. His parents were Thomas Sargent and Betsey (Emery) Currier of Amesbury where he was born in 1838. The Davis Academy of Amesbury and the Putnam Free School of Newburj'port educated him for teaching. In Amesbury and Brighton he had his first experience. He gave up teaching to study law ; began this work in the office of Judge Ely in Dedham and continued it in the Harvard Law School, graduating LL. B. in 1869. After this for several years he was associated with the firm of Hutchins and Wheeler of Boston. Later he practised his profession in Amesbury. In 1872 he married Anna Allen of

Chelsea, a niece of the late Charles Allen, Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Massachusetts. He died in Amesbury, October, 1879. Other interesting facts of his life I omit, to give room for what the Poet Whittier, his intimate friend and admirer, was pleased to say of him at his funeral.

' ' In attempting to put into words my sense of the loss we have sustained from the death of Horace Hamilton Currier, I am sure I do but echo the general feeling of the community. As he is laid to rest under the beautiful sunshine of the season he loved so well, some expression of that feeling seems due to him and a necessary relief to us.

'<He was born among us, and the story of his blameless boyhood, his eager thirst for knowledge, his industry, his studious habits, his loyalty to truth and duty, his honorable ambition overcoming great obstacles, his success and popularity as a teacher, are known to all and need not be dwelt upon. Here and everywhere he found friends, and he had no enemies. He entered upon his legal profession with a high ideal of Justice and Duty ; and, in a few years, acquired the reputation of a sound and faithful advocate, of unquestioned ability and integrity. The great affliction of the death of his estimable wife, coming upon him after a year of anxious watching at her bedside, together with onerous labors in his profession, broke down his health, and compelled him to seek relief in change of air and rest. How bravely he bore up against the disease that was sapping his strength, his patience, cheerfulness, and constant desire to promote the happiness of all about him, many summer sojourners at the Isles of Shoals and among the New Hampshire hills will now freshly remember. They will not forget how under ' God's shaping chisel of pain,' his moral and spiritual nature seemed to manifest a more perfect symmetry. His love of Nature was a marked characteristic ; and he had an artist's feeling for whatever was picturesque or beautiful, which seemed to increase with the decline of his bodily strength.

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not reach the ideals of his noble aims, if the physical man failed and faltered under the strain of effort, who shall say that his life was an unsuccessful one ? He had achieved character ; he had ripened for immortality. He has left to his children a legacy richer than gold ; to his friends a precious memory, and to all who knew him an example of the power of uprightness and the beauty of purity.

From 1863 to 1873 Ellen Bates was a faithful and effective teacher in the Ames School, having previously taught for a time in Hanson, Mass. She is the daughter of Eben and Betsey (Kenney) Bates of Yarmouth, Maine, in which town and in Bangor she was educated to be a teacher. Her residence is still in Dedham.

Charles Frederick Kimball began to teach in the West Dedham School April 1863, continuing there till April 1866 when he became master of the Mill Village School. In 1868 he was appointed an usher in the Rice School of Boston and became sub-master in 1877, and held this position till March, 1903. He is a native of Temple, N. H., son of Isaac and Lucinda (Tenney) Kimball, born Dec. 3, 1830. His preparation for teaching was chiefly in the Francestown, Peterborough and Ipswich Appleton Academies. His first school was in New Boston,N. H., 1849-50 ; then a winter each in Milford, New Ipswich and Rindge, N. H,, and in Townsend, Mass. Just previous to coming to Dedham, he taught in Mason, N. H., Fitchburg and Attleboro, Mass. August 5, 1859, he married at Temple, N. H., Juliet Augusta Stanley. He was school committee in Attleboro, 1863 ; in Dedham nine years from March, 1886. As a teacher Mr. Kimball was thorough, accurate and progressive, enjoying in a high degree the confidence of parents and affection of his pupils. He has resided in Dedham since 1863.

In the autumn of 1863, Sarah Annie Shorey was elected assistant teacher in the High School, having taught several months of the preceding year in the High School of Minneapolis, Minn. She continued her excellent work in Dedham till September, 1870, and since then has been constantly employed in the Girls ' High School of Boston. Her proficiency in Chemistry, which she had studied at the Institute of Technology while still teaching in Dedham, made her an acceptable teacher of that study for several years ; later she has been allowed to indulge her preference in teaching languages, history and English. She is the daughter of John and Cornelia (Guild) Shorey of Dedham ; was educated in her native town, completing with great thoroughness the four years course of the high school, and now resides at 194 Park street, West Roxbury.

Adelina May was mistress of the East Street School 1863, 4 and 5, having previously taught in Fitchburg. After leaving Dedham she was for about sixteen years an acceptable teacher in the Comins School, Roxbury, leaving her position there to care for her invalid mother. She is the daughter of Nathaniel and Mar}^ (Beaumont) May, born in Dedham and educated in the Grammar and High Schools of Fitchburg. For the last twenty-one years she has resided in Lynn, and at the present time lives at 37 Baltimore Street.

Almira Gardner Pierce was mistress of the Westfield School 1864-5 ; then for a few months of the Oak Hill School in Newton ; later two terms in Holbrook ; but since 1868 she has been the principal of the Wads worth School of Milton. She is the daughter of Oliver and Mary Gardner Pierce of Dedham, where she was educated and received a diploma for four years at the Dedham High School. Her adopted daughter, Marion Lewis, is an assistant in her school. Her residence is

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The Summer School of 1864 in Walpole Corner was taught by Miss S. P. Dillingham, whose friends, as they peruse this record, will have to be content with " the fascination of a name" merely.

For two years, 1864 and 1865, Willard Francis Estey was master of the Mill, now Avery, School, having previously taught in the schools of Easton, Sharon, Canton and Milton. He was the son of Willard and Ma,ry Randall Estey, born in North Easton, August 30, 1839. He was educated in the public schools of North Easton and Sharon, an academy in Walpole, and later at the Phillips Exeter Academy. At Stoughton, April 6, 1863, he married Jane E. Withington of Canton, and resided a short time in Canton and Milton, then in Dedham till the autumn of 1867, when he removed to Hyde Park. After teaching in Dedham he studied law in the offices of Ellis Ames of Canton and F. D. Ely of Dedham, and was admitted to practice in the courts of Mass. in 1866 ; and in 1870 in the U. S. Circuit Court at Boston. He was a member of the School Committee in Dedham and Hyde Park, and a trial justice for Norfolk County. In 1883 he removed to Lewiston, Maine, and died there May 18, 1903. " Circumstances forced Mr. Estey to earn his -education ; and, to the day of his death, he continued to be a diligent student."

Abby Louise Baker began her long and effective work as a teacher in West Dedham January, 1865, having charge of the primary department. Then she taught the Endicott School the summer of 1869. Afterwards she taught in Melrose two years ; and since then has continued her labors in Roxbury in the Dearborn and Hugh O'Brien Schools, twenty years or more. She is the daughter of Francis Whiting and Lucinda Stowe Baker, of West Dedham, and now resides in Roxbury.

Abbie Louisa Wight Everett in 1865 began to teach in the Westfield district and was soon transferred to the Readville School and remained there some years after it became the Damon School of Hjde Park. Later she was the Master's assistant in the Everett School of Boston, Dorchester District. She is the daughter of Aaron Emmelius and Abby Lovell (Wight) Everett, born in Boston and educated in the Dedham schools, receiving a diploma for three years at the High School. In 1883, March 3, she was married to Frank Forrester Jaques and went to live in Chicago ; later removed to Kansas City, Mo. ; but now resides in Chicago.

The school of the South District of South Dedham was well taught in the summer of 1865 by Lucy Rebecca Ellis. In the following autumn she went to Canton and taught there successfully four years. She is a native of South Dedham, the daughter of Rufus and Hannah (Guild) Ellis, born March 16, 1846. She received a three years' diploma from the Dedham High School ; was married to Montgomery Olmstead of Jamaica Plain, Jan. 12, 1870; and has since resided mostly at Savin Hill, Dorchester.

The South District School of S. Dedham was taught by Lewis Nason Sumner through the winter of 1865-6, his first and last school. He was the son of Lewis and Keziah (Dudley) Sumner, born in Dorchester, and educated in the public schools and Oakland Institute of Needham, and at Wilbraham Academy. He married in Needham, Nov. 7, 1867, Susan Davis of Stanstead, Canada. He resided in Charlestown and had business connections with the Byam and Dudley Match Manufactory; his only office "Superintendent of Sunday School." Died Jan. 13, 1875.

Mrs. Mary (Chisholm) Hutchins was a successful teacher in the Avery School from October 1865 to April 1870 ; began to teach in the Quincy School in 1874 where she remained until her resignation in June 1903. She is the daughter of "William and Isabel (Graham) Chisholm of Dedham, and was married to George Henry Hutchins of Dedham, Dec. 27, 1860 ; he died January 8, 1864. Mrs. Hutchins was educated in the public schools of Dedham and Lowell, and has paid her debt to this town by thirty-four years of devoted service. Evidently the town is greatly her debtor ; may Heaven audit the account and reward her fidelity.

Sarah Holland Fish began to teach in the Readville School in 1865, doing very acceptable work three years. In 1868 she taught two terms in the Avery School. She is the daughter of James Fabens and Frances Maria (Mackintosh) Fish, born in Dedham, June 12, 1848, and in 1864 received a well-earned diploma for four years at the High School. She was married at Hyde Park to J. Frank Hammer, Sept. 25, 1873 ; at the present time she resides in Nashua, N. H.

Edna Frances Calder began to teach in the Avery School in 1865 ; was transferred to the Ames in 1867 ; and became First Assistant in the High School in 1868, doing most acceptable work there till 1871, when she was elected to the same position in the Roxbury High School. In 1882 she was transferred to the West Roxbury High, and remained there till 1890. Then relinquishing her work to care for her aged parents, she has since resided in Dedham ; is at present Assistant Librarian of the Dedham Historical Society, and was one of the editors of the Historical Register. She is a native of Dedham, the daughter of James and Anna Holmes (Baker) Calder; received a four years diploma at the High School ; also studied chemistry in the Institute of Technology, 1868-9. In the preparation of this record her assistance has often been most acceptable and deserves grateful acknowledgment.

From 1865 to 1878 Abbie Aurelia White taught successfully in several different departments of the Everett School ; also in the Railroad Ave. School. She is the daughter of James Franklin and Lavina Eliza White, born in South Ded- ham and educated in South Dedham, Worcester, and Elizabeth, N. J., schools. She was married Dec. 20, 1878, to Edgar Laban Bigelow of Norwood, where she resided in March, 1904.

From 1865 to 1868 Mrs. Mary Urania (Pullen) Pond was an efficient teacher in the Everett School, having previously taught a short term in North Sharon. She is the daughter of Sumner Bond and Elvira (Whiting) Pullen, born in East Winthrop, Maine, and educated in the schools of South Dedham, where she was married Nov. 30, 1865, to Charles Edwin Pond. Her address March, 1904, was Nahatan Street, Norwood.

Julia A. Ellis taught the Union School, 1866 and 1867, when it received its new name. She is said to have married a Mr. Pike, and to live in Bath or Gardiner, Me., but inquiries sent to those places elicited no reply.

William H. Knight, a graduate of Middlebury College, was master of the Colburn School one year, 1866-7. Later he was principal of the Hyde Park High School.

Delia Clementina Paine, having previously taught from 1862 to 1865 in Dennis, took charge of the second class of the Everett School in 1866, and taught faithfully till the autumn of 1868. She is the daughter of Levi and Clementina Maria (Leonard) Paine of East Randolph ; was educated at Worcester Academy, and Oak Hill Seminary, West Haven, Conn. November 18, 1868 she was married at Lakeville to Edward Payson Stetson of Walpole where in 1904 she still resided.

Nancy C. M. Winship was mistress at the south district school, South Parish, two summers, 1866 and 1867. Afterwards she taught in Randolph, 1868 ; South Weymouth, 1869 ; and in Medfield, 1870 and 1871. She was born in Canton, Oct. 6, 1844, the daughter of Silas M. and Julia A. Winship, and was educated in the grammar schools of Maine, and later in North Bridgewater Academy, her special tastes being literary. She was married in Randolph August 6, 1871, to

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The Ames School named in honor of Fisher Ames at the dedication of a new schoolhouse in 1859, is the local successor of the school established in 1644. In the records it has been designated as " the school near the meeting-house," *' the Town School," "the Centre School," " First Middle" and " District No. One."

The Avery School, named in 1867 by the School Committee in honor of Dr. William Avery, who gave fifty pounds for the benefit of a " Latin School in Dedham," was previously known as "The Mill School," "The Grove School" and " District No. Three."

The Dexter School, also named in 1867, and in honor of Samuel Dexter, who was a leading citizen of Dedham from 1762 to 1775, was previously known as " District No. Two," or the " Second Middle School."

The Damon School, now in Hyde Park, received its name in 1867, to honor Deacon Samuel Damon who left the town of Dedham $1000, the income of which was to be distributed annually to the worthy poor of the town. It was first called " The Low Plain School," later " The Keadville," or "District No. Four."

The Colburn School, now in Westwood, was so named by the committee in March, 1867, in honor of Warren and Dana P. Colburn, both natives of that school district, and authors of works on Arithmetic. It had been previously known as " The West Dedham School," or " District No. Eight," and at a very early date as Clapboardtrees.

The Fisher School, now of Westwood, was named also in 1867 in memory of Capt. Daniel Fisher, who was prominent in Dedham from 1639 to 1683 ; and of Hon. Ebenezer Fisher, who gave for the benefit of the West Dedham Schools $1000.

Previously this was called "The Clapboardtrees School," or " District No. 9." *' The Clapboardtrees" was originally used as the local name of West Dedham, because the excellent pine timber abounding there supplied clapboards for most of the houses in the township.

The Endicott School was so named in 1867 out of respect for the Hon. John Endicott, a native of Canton, but a leading citizen of Dedham from 1787 to 1857, and for several years her representative in the legislature. Previously the school was known as "The East Street" or District No. Five," in which Mr. Endicott resided.

The Everett School, now of Norwood, was named in 1867 out of respect for the Hon. Edward Everett whose ancestors were residents of South Dedham. Formerly it had been designated as "South Dedham, North District," "North District of the Second Parish" or " District No. Six."

The Balch School, now of Norwood, was named in 1867 in memory of the Rev. Thomas Balch, the first minister of the Second Parish. Previously it had been known as the " South District of the South, or Second Parish" " The Old Brick" or "District No. Seven."

The Burgess School, now discontinued, was named in 1867, to commemorate the Rev. Dr. Ebenezer Burgess, a resident of the District at Broad Oak, and for many years a generous patron and supporter of the school, then called "The Westfield School," or "District No. Eleven."

The Union School, no longer existing, was so named in 1867 because it was composed of pupils from the three towns of Dedham, Medfield and Walpole ; having been previously known as the "Walpole Corner School," or "District No. Ten."

The Quincy School took its name from the Hon. Josiah Quincy of Boston, who liberally promoted the settlement of the locality known as German town.

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The Riverdale School was named by the town from the neighboring estate of Mr. Nickerson when the money was appropriated for its first schoolhouse.

Charlotte A. Titcomb began to teach in the Everett School in 1866 and resigned in April, 1867. Mary C. Everett was mistress of the Balch School from 1867 to 1869. In August, 1867, George L. Faxon was appointed master of the Everett School and retained the position till April, 1868.

William Henry Wescott entered on his duties as master of the Ames School in April, 1867, and with the exception of a part of 1870 continued in that position till 1873. He enjoyed his work, and the school was happy under his careful instruction. He is the son of Edward and Catherine Louisa Wescott, born in Boston, April 9, 1840, and was educated in Boston Schools and Phillips Exeter Academy. He received the degree of M. D. from the Harvard Medical School in 1874. He was an assistant surgeon in the U. S. Navy from 1862 to 1865. In 1883 he was married in Boston to Josephine Hildreth Waters and in 1902, practised his profession at 204 Adams street, Dorchester District, Boston.

The primary class of the Damon School in 1867 came into the care of Annie Janet Barton and so remained till 1869 when she became a teacher in the Avery. In 1879 she resigned to take an advanced course, including German and French, in the State Normal School at Bridge water and graduated in 1882. From Sept. 1882 to July 1884 she taught in the High School of Maywood, Illinois ; in Sept. 1885 she began to teach in the Ames, but in a few days was put in charge of one-half of the fourth class of the High School, continuing it till December, 1887, when she was elected principal of the Colburn. This position she filled most acceptably till November, 1901, when on account of failing health she was granted leave of absence for a year ; at the end of which, being no better, she sent in her resignation. She was the daughter of Anson F. and Janet (Chisholm) Barton, born in Med way, and a graduate of the four years course of the Dedham High School, which seldom has a more thorough scholar, or efficient teacher. Thousands would have rejoiced in her restoration to health, but she died May 16, 1904.

Abbie Frances Ellis taught in the Everett School from 1867 to 1871, having previously taught in Canton. She was the daughter of Alvin L. and Martha Bassett (Dean) Ellis of South Dedham, where she died January 4, 1872, aged 27 years.

Hattie Anna Dana taught the Burgess School from June to the last of November 1867, and from April 1868 to January 1869. She was born January 24, 1847, the daughter of William and Harriet (Burns) Dana of Dedham, and received a diploma of four years at the High School. November 19, 1873, she was married to William Huggett at East Canaan, N. H. At the present time she resides at West Canaan, and, though leading a busy life on a farm, still enjoys reading and tries " to keep on learning as the years go by."

From 1867 to 1872 Sarah Perrigo Fales was a teacher in the Everett School, having previously taught in Milford. She is the daughter of Silas and Roxie Fales, born in Walpole, and educated in the public schools of her native town to the end of the High School course. She was married to E. Monroe Boj'^den, April 2, 1872. After her marriage she taught in Norwood and Norfolk, and resided in Norwood, Mass., March, 1904.

In 1867-8 and 9 Martha Jane Hay ward was an approved teacher in the Everett School, having previously taught in North Middleborough, summer of 1863 ; in Bridge water winter of 1863-4, and the Gridley School of Canton, 1864, 1865 and 1866. She is the daughter of Daniel Leach and Hannah Fobes Hay ward, born in Bridge water, and educated in its public schools and the North Middleborough Academy, now endowed and named the Pratt Free School. May 4, 1870, she was married in Bridgewater to Sidney Edwards Morse of South Dedham; March 13, 1883, at Norwood, to Leonard Boyd of Norwood. Her address in 1904 was 61 Allerton Road, Newton Highlands.

Josephine Maria Prince taught continuously and very acceptably in the Ames School from 1867 till 1881. She is the daughter of James Harvey and Lucy Maria Prince, born in Dedham. She was educated in the Dedham schools, receiving a three years diploma at the High School. October 12, 1881, she was married to Edward Crane Paul of Dedham, where she still resides on Worthington Street.

George Marshall Fellows was master of the Avery School 1868-9. He had been a teacher in the following towns : Alexandria, Holderness, Bridgewater, Contoocook and Franklin, N. H. ; Corinth, Vt. ; Westport, Mass., and in Falley Seminary, N. Y. He left Dedham to teach in Hyde Park, and for the last twenty-eight years has taught in Boston. He is the son of Calvin Peterson and Mary elane (Worthen) Fellows ; born in Bristol, N. H. ; fitted for college at the New Hampton Literary and Biblical Institution ; was graduated A. B. at Dartmouth College, 1862 ; was married August 12, 1862, at Bristol, N. H., to Ellen Maria Emmons. He resides in Hyde Park where for six years he was a member of the School Committee and Secretary of the Board.

Peter Levi Woodbury was Master of the Everett School 1868-9. The son of Jesse and Hannah Wilson (Duncklee) Woodbury, he was born in Francestown, N. H., May 4, 1840 ; prepared at Francestown Academy for Dartmouth College, from which he graduated in 1865. Teaching has been his life work. In 1867 he was thus employed in the High School of Hanover, Mass. After leaving Dedham he taught in Braintree ; later he was connected with Nebraska College, Neb. , sixteen years ; with Bishop Whipple's School, Moorhead, Minn., four years ; the Holderness School, N. H., six years; and six years with the Howe School, Lima, Ind., of which he is now, 1904, the Head Master.

The Colburn School from 1868 to 1870 was well taught by Joseph Washington Armington, already a teacher of varied experience. He had enjoyed this work in Eutland and Holden, Mass. : Lunenburg, Vt. ; Lancaster and Warren, N. H. ; Hardwick, Ashburnham, Weymouth, Milford, Quincy, Holbrook, and Lexington, Mass. After leaving Dedham, he taught in Weymouth twenty-three years ; in Everett ten years, and is now enjoying the eleventh year, as I infer from a note of Jan. 20, 1904, in which he says, " I never felt better than now, and enjoy teaching as much as ever." He is the son of Nathaniel Kent and Betsey (Carr) Armington ; born in St. Johnsbury, Vt. ; educated in the schools of Holden, Worcester Academy, Wilbraham Academy, and the Albany Law School. He was married, April 23, 1863, to Clarinda Lincoln Fearing; and now, in the fifty-first year of his teaching resides at 15 Hampshire Street, Everett, Mass.

Maria Louisa Wheelock began to teach in North Walpole in 1867 and continued there about a year. In 1868 she took charge of a class in the Everett School and did very acceptable work till 1879. She is the daughter of Elijah and Mary (Colburn) Wheelock, born in West Dedham, Nov. 7, 1848 ; attended the schools in South Dedham ; then studied in the High School one 3^ear and received a four years diploma. Married Charles H. Souther, Dec. 23, 1879. She now, 1904, resides at Jamaica Plain. In 1902, her four children, three sons and a daughter, were all members of Harvard and Smith Colleges : a cause of my earnest congratulations to both parents and children.

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to the Avery and taught thirteen years. Later she taught in Norwood one year. She is the daughter of Samuel Fales and Sarah Whiting (Fales) Alden, born in Dedham and educated in the East Street and High Schools, receiving a diploma for three years. Her present residence, 1904, is at Endicott, Mass.

Sarah Elizabeth Cheney from the autumn of 1868 to the winter of 1869 taught the school at Walpole Corner ; then the Winter term of the Fisher School ; next the primary department of the Colburn School from May, 1871, to November, 1876. She had also taught in North Wrentham the summer and winter terms of 1867-8, and in South Walpole the winter of 1870-71. She is the daughter of Samuel and Mary Cheney, was born in West Dedham, and educated at Kev. Mr. Locke's private school. Oct. 23, 1878, she was married to Percy E. Tisdale, and in 1904 resided in Walpole.

The primary department of the Colburn School from 1868 to 1878 was well instructed by Sarah Arnold Ellis. She is the daughter of Caleb and Abigail (Harding) Ellis of Medfield, and received her thorough preparation for teaching in the Medfield High School. Oct. 23, 1878, she was united in marriage to George M. Mann, and resided in Fitchburg, Mass., Jan., 1904.

Harriette Elizabeth Whiting was a teacher in the Avery School in 1868, having previously taught in Wrentham a year and a half; in 1873-4 she was in charge of the Fisher School. She was the daughter of Otis B. and Lavinia (Wickes) Whiting, born in South Dedham, Aug. 13, 1849, and educated in the Dedham grammar and high schools. She left teaching on account of failing health, and died in Dedham, June 28, 1874.

Ellen Wickes Whiting commenced teaching in the Avery School in 1868 ; so continued till 1872, when she was transferred ,to the Ames and taught there most acceptably till 1879. She was the daughter of Otis B. and Lavinia (Wickes) Whiting, born in South Dedham, Sept. 3, 1852, and was educated in the Dedham grammar and hio^h schools ; married Frank

In 1869-70 Elsie H. Curtis was a teacher in the Avery School. She is the daughter of Edward Henry and Hannah C. (Noyes) Curtis, born in Dedham, Dec. 26, 1848. Receiving a four years diploma at the High School in 1866, she continued her education at the Salem State Normal School. She was married to Alfred Ewer in Dedham, Nov. 17, 1870, and now resides at 23 Schuyler Street, Dorchester, Mass.

In May, 1869, D. N. Lane, or D. A. Lane, Jr., was elected Master of the Everett School, but resigned the position about the first of December.

Dui'ing a part of the year 1869-70 Emma Tisdale was a teacher in the Everett School. She had previously taught in North Easton, Easton Furnace, and North Sharon. She left teaching in 1870 and learned typewriting. She was the daughter of Josiah and Susan P. Tisdale, born in Cochesset Village, N. Bridgewater, but received her education in the schools of South Dedham. She died in 1886.

About two years, 1869-70, the Burgess School was in charge of Helen Sophia Colburn, the daughter of Thomas and Sophia Gardner (Edwards) Colburn, born in Dedham, Nov. 4, 1846, and educated in her schools, receiving a four years diploma at the High School. Before teaching Miss Colburn learned telegraphy, and remembers that, while substituting in the private office of the B. & P. R. R., she took the telegram announcing the assassination of Abraham Lincoln ; also the one announcing the surrender of Lee and the close of the Civil War. She was assistant P. M. in Dedham, 1866-7. Married John B. Fisher Dec. 22, 1870, in Dedham, where she has since resided, and for years has made herself useful as Recording Secretary of the Dedham Women's Club.

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From 1869 to 1875 Josephine HeAvins taught a well patronized private school in Temperance Hall on Court Street. She had previously taught several years inthe public schools of West Eoxbury. After teaching in Dedham she was given a position in the Boston Public Library which she held for about six years, when she resigned because of failing health. She was the daughter of Amasa and Elizabeth (Alden) Hewins, born in Boston, and educated in the Jamaica Plain and Dedham high schools, graduating from the latter in 1858. She died January 5, 1881, a few months after leaving the Boston Library.

Adelaide Estelle Ingraham was mistress of the Balch School 1869 to 1872 ; taught in the Everett 1872-3 ; in the Avery, 1877 to 1883. She was a teacher in the Woodstock Academy, Conn., 1874 and 1875, and in Cambridge in higher grammar grades from January 1, 1883 till 1895. Since then and at present she is principal of the Sleeper School of eight rooms including primary and grammar grades. Before teaching in Dedham she taught one term in Foxboro and one in Walpole. She is the daughter of George Lewis and Nancy Angenette (Butterworth) Ingraham, born in Newton, educated in South Dedham and Boston Normal School. She resides in Norwood and Cambridge, in each one-half the year.

From Sept. 1869 to Sept. 1871 Barrett Beard Russell was master of the Avery School. He began teaching in Dartmouth, April, 1862 ; later taught in Westport and Randolph before coming to Dedham. He was teacher of mathematics and chemistry at the Bridge water Normal from Sept. 1871 to May 1879 ; was principal of the Oliver School, Lawrence, from May, 1879, to Jan. 1, 1885. From that date to the present, 1904, he has superintended the schools of Brockton. He is the son of Howland and Mary Beard Russell, born in Dartmouth, Nov. 24, 1844 ; educated in the public schools and academy of his native town, and at the Bridgewater Normal, and in special studies by private lessons ; married Fanny

Sumner Harden of Milford, Nov. 28, 1871 ; served as school committee in Bridge water ; was a trustee of the Public Library of Brockton, three years ; and for the last nine years to 1903, has been a director of the Plymouth Safe Deposit and Trust Company of Brockton.

The second class of the Everett School from 1869 to 1871 was in charge of Phebe Ann Holder who had been the assistant in Lee High School about six years from 1857. From the Everett she went to Hinsdale and was principal of the High School there three years ; then taught in Berlin schools till sixty years of age, after which she received private pupils at home until within a year of her death. She was the daughter of Daniel and Harriett (Hutchins) Holder, born in Berlin, Mass., Nov. 27, 1824, and educated in Berlin public schools. Academical Boarding School, and the State Normal School at Westfield. Her literary work deserves mention. She wrote both prose and verse religious in tone. Her poems for public occasions were often solicited and much admired. Some of her hymns were set to music, and much of her poetry appeared in periodicals and newspapers. One volume was published : * 'Voices from Lakeview." " She was a zealous Chautauquan and earnest church worker." She died in Berlin, Mass., Nov. 12, 1902.

From 1869 to 1875 Melissa Deborah Robinson was a teacher in the Avery School, then a year in the Quincy. She is the daughter of Samuel Baker and Deborah Cutting (Upton) Eobinson, born Oct. 27, 1850, in Dedham ; received a diploma for three years at the High School ; married Harvey M. Holt, Nov. 29, 1876; and in 1890 resided at 150 Vine Street, Everett.

From Jan. 1869, to Oct. 1870, Fanny Sumner Harden had charge of the second division of the Avery School. She is the daughter of Aaron and Mary Thayer (Cox) Harden, born in South Boston, June 29, 1844. Her education was received in the public schools of Dedham and Newton. She was married to Barrett Beard Russell in Milford, Nov. 28, 1871. As secretary and treasurer of the Associated Charities, and in connection with other societies, Mrs. Russell has made herself useful to the community in which she lives. Her present residence is Brockton.

The Endicott School in 1869, the Union in 1869-70, and the Fisher in 1870, were faithfully taught by Florence Hill. Since then she has been a teacher in the Norwood schools nearly twenty-five years, and is now, 1904, in charge of the Shattuck School of the same town. She is the daughter of Rev. George and Georgianna (Brown) Hill, born in West Cambridge (now Arlington), and educated in the grammar and high schools of Norwood and at the Dean Academy of Franklin . She resides in Norwood where her labors have been justly appreciated.

Emma Maria Savil, after completing her studies in the Quincy High and Girl's High and Normal School of Boston, began to teach the Endicott School in Dec, 1869, and continued her work there nearly five years. Then she went to the grammar department of the Bo wd itch School, Boston, and from there, a few years later, to a similar position in the Edward Everett School, Dorchester Dist., where she still teaches, no one more acceptably. She is a native of Quincy, the daughter of Charles Francis and Lydia (Turner) Savil, and resides in that city at 18 Saville Avenue.

From 1870 to 1875 Henrietta Adams taught in the Avery School ; then was transferred to the Ames School and taught there till 1894, thus giving the town of Dedham twenty-four years of faithful and efficient service. She is the daughter of Benjamin Henry and Elizabeth (Smith) Adams, born in Dedham. She attended the High School three j^ears, and still occupies the pleasant home of her childhood.

Mary Lee Adams taught a private school in Dedham Village on Court Street about three years, 1870-1872. She is the only daughter of William Joseph and Deborah Foster

(Chickering) Adams, and was bora in Boston ; coming to Dedham when a child, she attended the private schools of Miss Augusta Crehore and Miss Emily Hodges ; then the Dedham High School two years. She graduated from the Girls' High and Normal School of Boston. Her residence has been partly in Dedham, and more recently in Pittsfield, Mass.

In 1870 Sarah Louisa Ehodes was mistress of the Union School: from 1886 to 1894 she taught the second class of the Ames. She began to teach in 1867 in Franklin, remaining there a year; then taught two years in North Wrentham, 1868 to 1870; and, from 1871 to 1886, had charge of a class in the Everett School of Norwood. To this school she returned from the Ames in 1895 and at the present date, 1904, is still teaching there. She is the daughter of Aaron Willard and Kuth (Small) Rhodes, born in Walpole ; attended the Dedham High School one year, but received a well merited diploma for the four years course, having entered in advance from the high school class of the Everett, under Mr. Alger and Miss Eobie.

Beginning in the autumn of 1870, Clara Addie Curtis had charge of the Burgess School till 1872. She is the daughter of George Frederick and Mary (Woodbury) Curtis, born in Dedham and educated in its schools, receiving a four years diploma at the High School. She is still a resident of her native town, devoted to the care of her invalid and aged relatives.

In the Everett School, 1870-71, Mary Viola Woodman was the teacher of the second class, her previous experience being that of a substitute in the Boston Schools. Later she taught in both the primary and grammar departments of the

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Washington, now Dudley, School of Roxbury. She is the daughter of James Barnabas and Mary Cordelia Woodman, born in Hanover, Mass., and educated in the primary schools of her native town, the Everett Grammar and Girl's High and Nonnal of Boston, including a course in the training department. Nov. 20, 1873, she was married to Franklin Sprague Williams, and now, 1904, resides at 15 Schuyler street, Roxbury, varying her household cares with an interest in two Women's Clubs, and the chief management of one of them.

For one year, 1870-71, James Bartlett Hammond was master of the Ames School, and after leaving Dedham taught in New York City. He is the son of Thomas and Harriet W. (Trow) Hammond of South Boston. He was educated in the Mather School ; Boston High ; Boston Latin ; Phillips Academy, Andover ; University of Vermont ; Union Theological Seminary, New York ; and University of Halle, Germany. Mr. Hammond says, "I became interested in Type Writing in 1869-70 ; which interest increased and resulted in the invention of the Hammond Typewriter. The further perfection of the machine, and its adaptation to oriental as well as occidental languages and dialects, will occupy the residue of the inventor's lifetime." Mr. Hammond resided at the Osborne, 205 West 57th street. New York, January 5, 1904.

Jairus Lincoln, Jr., was master of the Colburn School one year, 1870-71. He was the son of Jairus and Mary Cotton (Ware) Lincoln of Northboro ; was educated in Northboro schools and the Normal at Bridgewater, graduating August 4, 1852. He was married in his native town, March 26, 1856, to Jane Taylor Fisher. He taught seven years ; and previous to 1876 became a farmer in Longmont, Colorado, where he died in November, 1893.

Maria Therese Delano was an assistant teacher in the High School from September, 1870, one year, then taught a year and two terms in Canton. Returning to the High School she taught from the spring term of 1873 to June, 1884. She had entire charge of the fourth class and taught the whole school in vocal music most of the time. She had previously taught a year and a half in Cliftondale ; in Bunker Hill School, Charlestown, three years; in West Side Ladies' Seminary, Chicago, 111., three years ; and in Lynnfield and Reading two years ; in all twenty-four years : and she says, " During that time I was not out of school a day for illness." She is the daughter of Thomas Ingalls and Maria Louisa (Grigg) Delano, born in New Boston, N. H., educated in the public schools of Somerville and the Salem Normal, graduating in 18 6 L She excelled in mathematics and was a very thorough teacher. She now, 1904, resides at 72 Florence St., Somerville, Massachusetts.

In 1870, Ella Eudora Ward was a teacher in the Ames School, and from 1872 till 1884 she was the approved mistress of the Burgess School. She is the daughter of Caleb Burbank and Abby Batelle (Mixer) Ward, born in Dedham, Dec. 13, 1849. She was the recipient of a diploma for three years in the High School ; married James E. Brown, Feb. 22, 1882, and in 1890 resided at Milton Mills, N. H.

Carrie M. Shapleigh was the teacher of the Union School the winter of 1870-71, being an acceptable substitute in place of Miss Rhodes who was granted leave of absence.

In the spring of 1871, because of the illness of the principal of the High School, William Davis Mackintosh was acting principal for the term. He had previously taught in Colchester Academy, Yt., and as master of a grammar school in Wenham, 1869-1871. From 1871 to 1874 he was in charge of a grammar school in Amesbury ; from 1877 to 1880, assistant in Worcester High; 1880 to 1884, prin. of Amesbury High; 1884 to 1889, assistant in Mr. Hale's School, Boston ; 1890 to 1896, in Chauncey Hall; 1897 to 1898, principal So. Weymouth High. Since that time to the present, Jan. 1904, he has conducted a private school. He is the son of Roger Sherman and Mary Jane (Lyon) Mackintosh; born in West Roxbury ; educated in the public schools of Dorchester and at

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From March, 1871, to Feb., 1872, Charles Francis Adams was master of the Colburn School. He had previously taught in Spencer, Sturbridge and Maiden. Afterward he was viceprincipal of the High School of Fitchburg ; assistant in the Worcester Normal School, 1874 to 1883. Was instructor in the National School of Methods, Saratoga, N. Y., about 1887 ; school committee of Worcester, 1888-1893. He has been supt. of schools in Spencer since 1903. He is the son of John and Marcia Amy (Bond) Adams, born in Brookfield, a graduate of Bridgewater and Westfield Normal Schools, Mass., Institute of Technology, and Agassiz Summer School at Penekese. He married Mary Lillian Kinney at Worcester, 1876, and was a resident of Spencer, Mass., Jan. 21, 1904.

From 1871 to 1873 the Fisher School was well taught by Charlotte Elizabeth Eaton ; also the Endicott School from 1878 to 1880. She was the daughter of John and Harriet Eaton, born in Dedham, and received a diploma of four years at the High School. She married Frank R. Bird, Sept. 22, 1880, and resided in Canton. The date of her death is not ascertained.