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Chandler Whitney was born in Royalston; he enlist- ed in Company E, Thirtieth Regiment, and died in camp at Pittsfield, Mass., Feb. 1, 1862, after an illness of three weeks.
Nelson G. Wood was born in Royalston ; he enlisted in Company B, Twenty-seventh Regiment, and was with his regiment in various engagements in North Carolina
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and Virginia, and was instantly killed in the conflict at Arrowfield Church, May 9, 1864. He was buried near the battlefield.
George B. Wood was born in Shutesbury ; he enlisted in Company E, Fifty-third Regiment ; was taken sick while his regiment was at New York, and was removed to Shutesbury, where he died Jan. 2, 1863, the day after his discharge from the service.
Asa Wyman was born in Winchendon; he enlisted in Company K, Thirty-sixth Regiment, and went with his regiment to Virginia, and along the Mississippi. Was sent in the sick boat up the river and removed to An- napolis, where he died of a fever and chronic diarrhea May 3, 1864.
CHAPTER IX
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"Yet. on her rocks. and on her sands. And wintry hills. the school-house stands,
And what her rugged soil denies, The harvest of the mind supplies.
The riches of the Commonwealth, Are free, strong minds, and hearts of health ;
And more to her than gold or grain.
The cunning hand and cultured brain."
EXT TO liberty and religion, educa- tion was the object nearest to the hearts of the fathers of New Eng- land, and consequently we find in the settlement of all these towns that the school house soon followed the church. Of the original grant of the township, one sixty-third part was reserved and forever set apart "for the support of a school." The Proprietors records give no information re- garding schools or teachers, but undoubtedly there were schools formed within six or seven years after the first set- tlement, and probably as in the early history of many other towns, schools were first held in private houses.
The first public provision made for schools after the incorporation of the town, was at a town meeting, March 7, 1763, when it was voted to raise thirteen pounds, six shillings, eight pence, "to provide a school," and "to di-
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vide the school money by the river, and those that live on the south side to have what they pay towards the sum raised; and those that live on the north side to have what they pay toward the said sum." Nathan Goddard, Jesse Kendall and John Oliver were chosen a committee to hire a school-master. The town voted March 3, 1766, "to build two school houses, one on the West Hill, between Deacon Aaron Smith's and Ichabod Dexter's, the other on the East Hill, [now known as the " Street,"] at the head of Capt. Field's lane, so-called ; and the above houses are to be built sixteen feet wide, and eighteen feet long, and six feet and a half stud." In May of the same year, it was " voted to raise twenty-six pounds, thirteen shillings, four pence, to build these school houses, and that men should be allowed to work out their raits on the school- houses at two shillings and four pence per day, under the direction of the committee chosen for that purpose, by the first day of November next." These were probably the first school houses of Athol, and were doubtless built of logs and furnished in the most primitive style. As other portions of the town became settled, new schools were opened, and in 1770, the town voted to have four addi- tional schools, "one at the north end of Meeting-house hill ; one in the east part of the town ; one at the south- west part, and one on Chestnut Hill, and each part to enjoy the benefit of the money they pay for schooling."
In 1774, the town was divided into school districts, or " squadarns," as they were termed, of which there were six, two on the north side of Millers river, Tully east branch being the dividing line of these two, while the south side
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of the river was divided into four. The work of providing school masters for these six schools, must have been one of great responsibility. For some years a committee of thirty was appointed for this purpose; this number by 1796, had become reduced to seven, which thenceforth was the usual number chosen until the State law of 1826 was passed, requiring towns to choose three, five or seven School Committeemen, since which time the town has chosen a School Committee of three, until 1893, when the number was increased to six. The first General School Committee was chosen in 1829, and consisted of Rev. Joseph Estabrook, Horatio Willard and Abel Sweetzer.
In 1772, it was voted to allow Jesse Kendall five shill- ings for going to Salem, to provide a school master. Among the early school masters and dames whose names appear on the town records are; Joshua Poor, who was paid one pound for keeping school in 1776; one pound thirteen shillings, four pence, was also paid to John Bal- lard for his sons keeping school. Among the bills paid in 1777, was one of fifteen shillings to Nathaniel Babbitt for keeping school; Nehemiah Ward received three pounds, twelve shillings, and Paul Church received five pounds, four shillings, for his wife keeping school, also the wife of Capt. John Oliver received five shillings, ten pence. All through the Revolution, liberal appropriations were made for the schools, and in 1793, the sum of seventy pounds was granted for schooling. In 1795, in addition to seventy pounds for schooling, twelve pounds was also granted for the use of a singing school, and an appropri- ation for this purpose was regularly made for some years,
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James Oliver being named quite frequently as the agent to lay out said money. From 1819, for a period of ten years, $550 a year was raised for schools, and in 1850, the sum of $1600 was raised. In 1860, there were 540 chi d- ren of school age, and the amount expended on the
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schools was $2,518.45. In 1870, the total expenditure for schools was $8,176.93, and in 1895, it was $19,894.78. In 1889, the town became awakened to the need of better school buildings, and under the lead of some of the pro-
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gressive citizens of both villages, a sentiment was aroused that has resulted in our present beautiful, and well furn- ished school houses. The first to be erected was the Main street building in 1889 ; this was followed the next year by the Highland school house; in 1892, the High school building, and in 1894, the one at Lake Park, making within five years' time, more than $75,000 expended in new school houses.
LAKE PARK SCHOOL.
The town first employed a Superintendent of Schools in 1870, when Dr. J. P. Lynde was engaged at a salary of $450. He held that position for three years. In 1874. the School Committee, in accordance with a vote of the town, procured the services of Virgil M. Howard of Deer- field, as Principal of the High school, and Superintendent of schools. He received for the former, a salary of $1000,
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and for the latter, $500. He held the position for two years, from which time, no Superintendent was employed until April 1, 1893, when Miss Flora E. Kendall was elected Superintendent of Schools, which position she holds at the present time.
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Miss Kendall is a native of Montague, and received her early education in the schools of that town, together with a course under private instruction ; this was sup- plemented by a course at Wellesley College, and at a
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school of oratory in Boston. She believes that however much one may have been in the schools, that education is never completed, and much of the time of her summer vacations is spent at summer schools. She began teach- ing in the district schools of Ashby, Mass., and worked her way up through the different grades to the High School. While a teacher in the schools of Leominster, she was elected in 1890. Superintendent of the schools of the Princeton district, which includes the towns of Princeton, Westminster and Sterling, with twenty-eight schools, and held the position for three years. Miss Kendall's work in the Athol schools has been highly commended by promi- nent educators, and she receives frequent calls to address Teachers' Institutes and various educational gatherings.
The following persons have served the town as mem- bers of the School Committee :
1829, Rev. Joseph Estabrook, Horatio Willard, Abel Sweetzer.
1830, Rev. Joseph Estabrook, Dea. Elijah Ballard, Emerson Fay.
1831, Rev. Josiah Moore, Wm. H. Williams, Capt. Adin Holbrook.
1832, Rev. Josiah Moore, Rev. B. B. Beckwith, Win. H. Williams. 1833, Dr. Geo. Hoyt, Rev. B. B. Beckwith, Rev. Lysander Fay.
1834, Rev. Linus H. Shaw, Rev. B. B. Beckwith, Rev. Ambrose Day.
1835, Rev. Wm. Warner, Dr. Geo. Hoyt, Col. Samuel Sweetzer. 1836, Rev. Linus 11. Shaw, Rev. Wm. Warner, Rev. J. Glazier.
1837, Dr. Geo. Hoyt. Col. Samuel Sweetzer, Rev. Wm. Warner, Lincoln B. Knowlton.
1838, Rev. Lysander Fay, Rev. Mr. Smith, Benj. Estabrook.
1840, Rev. R. M. Chipman, Rev. Stephen A. Barnard, Rev. Asaph Merriam.
1841, Rev. R. M. Chipman, Rev. Asaph Merriam, Dr. Geo. Hoyt.
1842, Benjamin Estabrook, Chas. Field, Samuel Sweetzer.
1843, Rev. R. M. Chipman, Rev. Crawford Nightingale, Rev. Asaph Merriam.
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1844, Rev. R. M. Chipman, Rev. Crawford Nightingale, Kev. Asaph Merriamn.
1845, Dr. Geo. Hoyt, Benjamin Estabrook, Daniel Heywood.
1846, Rev. Richard M. Chipman, Rev. Asaph Merriam, Isaac Stevens.
1847, Dr. Geo. Hoyt, Benjamin Estabrook, Elbridge G. Wood. 1848, Rev. R. M. Chipman, Rev. Samuel F. Clark, Dr. Geo. Hoyt. 1849, Rev. R. M. Chipman, Rev. Samuel F. Clark, Dr. Geo. Hoyt. 1850, Dr. Geo. D. Colony, Benjamin Estabrook, Rev. Oren Tracy. 1851, H. W. Carter, Dr. Geo. D. Colony, Lyman W. Hapgood. 1852, Dr. Geo. D. Colony, H. W. Carter, Lyman W. Hapgood.
1853, Rev. S. F. Clarke, Lyman W. Hapgood, Dr. Geo. D. Colony.
1854, Dr. Geo. D. Colony, Lyman W. Hapgood, Rev. Lysander Fay.
1855, Rev. Lysander Fay, Daniel Davis, G. Rice.
1856, Rev. John F. Norton, Rev. Nathaniel H. Martin, Dr. Geo. D. Colony.
1857, Rev. John F. Norton, Dr. Geo. D. Colony, C. B. Swan.
1858, Rev. John F. Norton, Dr. Geo. D. Colony, Rev. D. C. O'Daniels.
1859, Rev. John F. Norton, Dr. Geo. D. Colony, L. W. Hapgood. 1860, Rev. John F. Norton, L. W. Hapgood, F. F. Fay.
1861, L. W. Hapgood, Rev. I. B. Bigelow, J. B. Gould.
1862. Rev. John F. Norton. Rev. Ira Bailey, James Coolidge.
1863, Rev. John F. Norton, Rev. Ira Bailey, Rev. Charles Ayer.
1864, Dr. J. P. Lynde, S. E. Fay, Edwin Ellis.
1865, Dr. J. P. Lynde, S. E. Fay. Rev. Geo. L. Hunt.
1866, Dr. J. P Lynde, Rev. Geo. L. Hunt.
1867, Dr. J. P. Lynde, Edwin Ellis, S. E. Fay.
1868, T. II. Goodspeed, Rev. Temple Cutler, Rev. D. H. Stoddard.
1869, Rev. Ira Bailey, Benj. Estabrook, Jennie L. Case.
1870, W. H. Amsden, F. G. Lord.
1871. W. H. Amsden, F. G. Lord, S. M. Osgood. 1872, A G. Stratton, Edwin Ellis.
1873, Rev. W. S. Burton, Geo. W. Horr, H. A. Stearns.
1874, E. F. Brown, S. M. Osgood, Edwin Ellis.
1875, E. F. Brown, S. M. Osgood, Edwin Ellis. 1876, H. M. Humphrey, E. A. Thomas, S. M. Osgood.
1877, II. M. Humphrey, Rev. E. M. Bartlett, Fred Allen.
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1878. H. M. Humphrey, Rev. E. M. Bartlett, Fred Allen. 1879, H. M. Humphrey, Rev. E. M. Bartlett, Fred Allen.
1880. L. B. Caswell, Fred Allen, Rev. E. M. Bartlett.
1881, L. B. Caswell, Dr. James Oliver, E. V. Wilson.
1882, L. B. Caswell. Dr. James Oliver, Rev. J. H. Cox. 1883, L. B. Caswell, Dr. James Oliver, Rev. J. H. Cox. 1884, L. B. Caswell, Sidney P. Smith, Rev. J. H. Cox.
1885. L. B. Caswell, Sidney P. Smith, A. J. Nye.
1886. L. B. Caswell. Sidney P. Smith, A J. Nye.
1887, L. B. Caswell. A. J. Nye, E. V. Wilson.
1888, L. B. Caswell, E. V. Wilson, Rev. F. B. Knowlton. 1889, E. V. Wilson, Rev. F. B. Knowlton, Ellen M. Bigelow.
1890, Rev. F. B. Knowlton, Ellen M. Bigelow, E. V. Wilson.
1891, Ellen M. Bigelow, E. V. Wilson, Chas. A. Chapman.
1892, E. V. Wilson. Chas. A. Chapman, Ellen M. Bigelow.
1893. Chas. A. Chapman, Ellen M. Bigelow, Lucien Lord, Dr. James Oliver, Geo. D. Bates, W. D. Luey.
1894, Chas. A. Chapman. Ellen M. Bigelow, Lucien Lord, Dr. James Oliver. Geo. D. Bates, W. D. Luey.
1895. Chas. A. Chapman, Ellen M. Bigelow, Lucien Lord, Dr. -James Oliver, Geo. D. Bates, W. D. Luey.
Charles A. Chapman was born in Springfield, Mass., in 1848. where he attended the public schools until he was fifteen years of age. The last year of his school life he worked in a store, before and after school hours, on Satur- days and during vacations. and when eighteen years of age, received the position of confidential clerk and first book- keeper in the firm, which was doing the largest wholesale and retail grocery business in Springfield. After three years of this work. his health failed, and he was obliged to give up the position for one that would take him out of doors more. In 1868, he was elected teller of the Lee National and Savings Banks, where he remained until 1874, when he was chosen cashier of the Athol National Bank, then just organized, which position he still occupies.
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Mr. Chapman has been prominently identified with the Congregational church of Athol, of which he has been a member since his residence in this town. He has been treasurer of the church for ten years, of the parish four years, and has led the singing for eighteen years, and was Superintendent of the Sunday school for six years. In 1891, he was elected a member of the School Com- mittee, which offiee he now holds, and has also served the town on important committees. He was married October 13, 1875, to Miss Frances A. Rowland of Spring- field, the daughter of a prominent business man and eiti- zen of that city, who was one of the first members and or- ganizers of the Republican party, and was noted for his strong anti-slavery principles. They have one daughter.
Wm. D. Luey was born in Deerfield, Mass., April 6, 1855. He attended the lower grade schools of his native . town, and the Greenfield High school. After leaving school he worked in a store for a year, and then became clerk in the Franklin County National Bank of Green- field, and was with that institution and the Packard National Bank for six years, when he went to the Con- way National Bank, where he was eashier for a year and a half, and came to Athol in May, 1881, to take the position of eashier of the Millers River National Bank, which position he has held to the present time. He was elected a member of the School Committee in 1893, and is also one of the Sewer Commissioners. He is prom- inently identified with the Second Unitarian Society, and is the collector and a member of its' executive committee ; interested in the social life of the town, he was one of
CHARLES A. CHAPMAN.
F. C. AVERY.
ELLEN M. BIGELOW.
FLORA E. KENDELL.
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the organizers of the Poquaig Club, and is also a mem- ber of the Masonic fraternity. In September 1880, he married Emma C. Allen of Greenfield; they have four boys.
Among those who have been teachers in the schools of Athol are: Wm. La Roy Haven, now Superintendent of the schools of Morristown, N. J., Hon. Samuel C. Gale of Minneapolis, Minn., Col. Lyman A. White, of Chicago, Hon. Henry H. Sprague of Boston, Hon. Joel D. Miller, Leominster, Frederic E. Stratton, Ph. D., of Carleton Col- lege, Minnesota, Hon. Percival Blodgett of Templeton, the late Capt. Farwell F. Fay, Beriah W. Fay of New Salem, Geo. S. Cheney, Boston, Horace Mann, Petersham, Wilson Smith. Phillipston, Dr. James Oliver and Prof. Harlan P. Townsend.
In selecting a few teachers of whom to give brief sketches, we have taken those who have been connected with our schools for the longest time during the last twenty-five years. The teacher best known to the people of Athol, and who numbers among her former pupils members of almost every family who has resided in town any length of time, is Miss Ellen M. Bigelow, now teacher of the Grammar school. Miss Bigelow is a native of Phil- lipston ; she commenced her first school in the Fryville dis- trict in the summer term of 1856, and for forty years, with the exception of a few terms, has been a popular teacher in the Athol schools, having had charge of the Grammar school for more than twenty years. She has taken an ac- tive interest in the educational work of the town aside from her duties in the school room. and in 1889 was
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elected a member of the School Committee, which positoin she now holds ; she has also been a member of the Public Library committee for the last ten years.
Susie F. Drury was born in Royalston, and educated in the public schools of that town. She is a graduate of the Westfield Normal school, and was a teacher in the Athol schools for ten years, eight years of which time she was in the Advanced Primary and Intermediate grades, where she proved one of the most successful teachers of the town. After leaving the Athol schools in 1887, she was a teacher in the Gardner schools for two and a half years, when she took a position in the schools of Everett, Mass., and in the summer of 1893, was elected Principal of the Devens school building in that city, which position she now holds, having charge of more than four hundred pupils.
Ida E. Carruth is a native of Petersham. She attende d the public schools of that town and the Highland Institute, also Barre Academy in Barre, Mass., and commenced teaching in Dana, where she remained one year, when she came to Athol, and was a teacher for eleven years in the Advanced Intermediate school at the Lower Village. Af- ter leaving Athol in 1888, she was a teacher in the schools of Orange nearly three years, when she took a position in the Brockton schools, which she now holds,
Nettie A. Doane was born in Boston, and attended the schools of that city and the Templeton High school. She taught her first school in Phillipston, and commenced teaching in the Athol schools in 1869, where she remained continuously for twenty-six years as a teacher in the
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FREDERIC E. STRATTON.
HARLAN P. TOWNSEND.
SUSIE F. DRURY.
IDA E. CARRUTH.
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Primary grade, resigning in 1895, to accept a position in the schools of Melrose, Mass.
Miss Nellie E. Clark came from Winchendon, where she had already attained an excellent reputation as an instruc- tor and disciplinarian in 1872, and took charge of the Ad- vanced Intermediate school at the Upper Village, where she has remained to the present time, giving general sat- isfaction to the committee and parents for nearly a quar- ter of a century.
Clara Jackson commenced teaching in the Athol schools in 1883. and has taught continuously to the present time, now having charge of one of the Lake Park schools.
Minerva K. Pitts was a teacher from 1881 to 1891, most of the time in the Advanced Primary grade at the Highlands.
Harlan P. Townsend, who has been connected with the schools at different times, and has also attained distinction as a teacher of elocution in various institutions of the country, was born in Athol May 26, 1844. He attended the Athol schools, and graduated from the High school, of which for a short time he was assistant teacher. In Sep- tember. 1862, he enlisted in the 53d Mass. Regt. of Vol- unteers, and was with his regiment during its time of ser- vice. After returning from the war, he taught schools in ^ Phillipston, Warwick, Fitzwilliam, N. H., and Athol. In 1870 he resigned his position in the Athol schools to be- come first assistant in Trenton Academy, Trenton, N. J. In 1873 he went to the National school of Elocution and Oratory in Philadelphia, where he graduated in 1874, and soon accepted a position in Marietta College, Ohio. After
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a few months in that institution, he went to the Lane The- ological Seminary in Cincinnati, Ohio, as teacher of elocu- tion, and while there was also one of the teachers in the Conservatory of Music of the Western Female Seminary. Poor health compelled him to resign his position in those institutions. He studied for two or three years with Prof. James S. Murdock, the celebrated actor and Shakesperian reader, and in 1887 was called to the National School of Oratory at Philadelphia, to have charge of the department of voice culture and expression reading. He has also been a teacher of elocution in various other institutions, but for the last number of years his health has not per- mitted him to take any permanent position.
THE HIGH SCHOOL.
One of the most prolific sources of controversy between the citizens of many New England towns arises when the locations of public buildings are to be decided, and Athol passed through one of these experiences in 1856, when the town had attained the number of families which made it necessary to establish a High school. In the March meeting warrant of that year was an article relative to the establishment of a High school, and then occurred that memorable struggle between the two villages in regard to the site for the building ; meeting after meeting was held, and the excitement ran high, even to such an extent as to break up long and intimate friendships, and endanger the ties of church membership. Finally the present location was selected, and a High school building was erected that did service for thirty-five years. This gave place in 1892
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too the present fine building that was built at a cost of $25,000, and was dedicated on Labor Day, Sept. 5, of that year, when Rev. A. E. Winship delivered an eloquent ad- dress before a large audience upon "The Mission of the High school."
The first term of the High school was held in the spring of 1857, with Geo. A. Wheeler of Topsham, Me., a grad- uate of Bowdoin College, as the teacher. The salaries of the teachers of the school for the first year amounted to $543, and the largest number of scholars during any one term was ninety-three. During the first year of the school some of the older scholars assist- ed the Principal in hearing recitations, and among those whose names are mentioned in this connection, in the school reports, are OLD HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING. Henry H. Sprague, Henry M. Humphrey, Horace Mann and James Oliver, Jr .; also during the year 1858, each member of the school committee frequently instructed some of the classes in the recitation room. The first to be engaged as a regular as- sistant was H. H. Sprague, who in 1858 received a salary of $16 per month for his services. There was no regular course of study until 1873, when a graded system of schools for the town was completed, and a three years course of study established for the High school, the School
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Committee at that time being, Rev. W. S. Burton, Geo. W. Horr, Esq., and Henry A. Stearns. The first class to graduate from the school with this course of study was the class of 1876, consisting of nine members. This course was continued until 1882, when the School Committee, consisting of L. B. Caswell, Dr. James Oliver and Rev. J. H. Cox, with the Principal of the school, Mr. B. F.
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Brown, arranged a four years course of study, and in 1883, the first class to complete a four years course grad. uated with honor to themselves and the school. This course was continued for only a few years, as the people evidently were not ready for the change, and again the classes were graduated in three years time. In 1892 the
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present courses of study, consisting of classical, literary and general courses of four years, and an English course of three years were adopted.
During the forty years existence of the school there have been thirty-one Principals, those serving the longest being, Sidney P. Smith, who taught eleven terms, and L. McL. Jackson and W. H. Terrill, each of whom held the position nine terms.
The following list contains the names of those who have held the position of Principals of the High school, and the year in which they served :
Mr. Geo. A. Wheeler of Topsham, Me., 1857.
Mr. Farwell Fay of New Salem, 1857.
Mr. D. D. Leavitt of Grantham, N. H., 1857, 1859.
Mr. H. Toothaker of Holden, Me., 1858, 1859.
Mr. Geo. B. Towle of Saco, Me., 1860.
Mr. A. J. Lathrop of Watertown, 1861.
Mr. L. S. Burbank of Lancaster, 1862, 1863.
Mr. Francis E. Tower of Petersham, 1864.
Mr. H. E. Morse of Chelmsford, 1864.
Mr. H. F. Lane of Templeton, 1865.
Mr. Joel D. Miller of Athol, 1865, 1866.
Mr. Oscar H. Stearns, 1867.
Mr. H. Brown of Quincy, 1867.
Mr. A. L. Gleason of Amherst College, 1867.
Mr. Stephen A. Snow, 1868.
Mr. J. F. Fielden, 1868.
Mr. F. W. Bardwell, 1868.
Mr. Sanford B. Cook of Petersham, 1869.
Mr. Fred F. Foster of Weare, N. H., 1870, 1871.
Mr. A. W. Bacheler of Boston, 1872, 1873.
Mr. Geo. G. Pratt of Boston, 1873.
Mr. Virgil M. Howard of Deerfield, 1874, 1875.
Mr. E. A. Baldwin, 1876.
Mr. Sidney P'. Smith of Princeton, Ill., 1877 to 1880.
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