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Hugh H. Smith.
Mary E. Kingman.
1870.
Henry M. Dunham.
Hervey Dunham.
Frank A. Dunham.
Henry E. Goddard.
Edwin D. Hathaway.
Eliza S. Eaton.
Hattie Sawyer.
1871.
William F. Field.
Forrest F. French.
Emery Gill.
Rufus Henry Kimball. Patrick Gilmore.
Helen A. Cary.
Clara B. Cobb.
1872.
Ida E. Andrews.
Laura D. Pierce.
Asa E. Goddard.
Helen Cushman. Josephine M. Hall.
Rosaletta M. Hall.
Lizzie J. Jones.
Marian H. Packard.
1873.
Walter S. Hayward. Edwin W. Reynolds. Fred. P. Richmond. Alice M. Field. Louisa Cary. Mary A. Cole. Abbie A. Dunham.
Louise J. Crocker. E. Jennie Goldthwait.
Addie B. Leavitt.
Grace A. Murray.
Franklin S. Reynolds.
Florus C. Reynolds.
Elmer C. Packard.
Jennie Hollywood. Ella Holmes.
Lyman Shaw.
Marcia L. Alden.
Fannie S. Kimball.
Ida F. Kingman.
Anna L. Barry. Addie L. Crocker. Louisa F. Howard. Isabel Keith. Georgianna F. Peterson.
Mary A. Sawyer. Henry F. Burrill. Charles Eaton. Lucius M. Leach. L. Eliot Packard. Mary E. Hayward.
Mary C. Copeland. Abbie M. Holmes. Minnie C. Johnson. Ella M. Kimball. Lillian F. Packard. Idella M. Stevens. Lizzie F. Trow.
Fannie B. Bradford.
Abbie Leach.
Lizzie M. Clapp.
Annie Leaclı
Mattie A. Copeland.
Ella D. Packard.
Florence L. B. Peterson.
Addie F. Field.
S. Nellie Foss.
Emily C. Wood.
Alice Cary.
E. Bradford Southworth. · Lyman C. Tilden. Louisa R. Bailey.
Hattie P. Beal.
Inez M. Rogers. Annie P. White. J. William Baxendale. William H. Bryant. D. Frank Cooley. Austin M. White. Gardner F. Packard.
David W. Battles. Ellis F. Copeland. Henry L. French. Charles A. Leach.
395
SCHOOLS.
1874.
Louise G. Allen. Annie M. Howard. Edith M. Howard.
Fred. R. French.
Frank E. Packard. Annie L. Kendall.
Fannie E. Howard.
Jessie B. F. Little. Hattie E. McLautlilin.
Eliza T. Wilder.
Clara E. Gill. Charles O. Emerson. Elmer R. Gorham.
1875.
Arthur E. Kendrick. Mary E. Pinkham.
Edgar B. Stevens. Anna W. Howard.
1876.
J. Emil C. Lagergreen. Frank A. McLauthlin.
Lizzie F. Cushman. Ellen Manley. Mary C. Puffer.
1877.
Laura D. Gill.
L. Etta Prescott.
Elber C. Bryant.
Oliver L. Congdon. James Dorgan. Edwin L. Emerson. D. Everett Hall.
1878.
Edward T. Ford.
Charles F. Jenny. Charles W. Packard.
Fannie E. Abbott.
Terrie L. Brownell.
Walter H. Cleveland.
Joseph M. Hollywood. C. Wesley McCoy. William S. Packard. Jolın G. Parrott. Joseph H. Perkins. Loyed E. Chamberlain.
Helen M. Packard. Seth E. Foss. William H. Porter. James E. Pointz.
Henry L. Emerson. John Gilmore. Austin Keith. Albert Manley. Harry C. Severance.
Nathan Hayward. C. Herbert Kingman. J. Robert McCarty. Harry L. Marston. Dennis Murphy.
John Kent. John J. Saxton.
Carrie E. Perkins.
Emma F. Straffin. Mary A. Tighe. Walter J. Keith.
Bernard Saxton.
1879.
Sophia G. Thomas. George H. Bryant. L. Jennie Clark. M. Etta Eliot. Herbert L. Hayden.
Julia W. Peckham. Nellie M. Poole. Hattie E. Porter. William H. Sanford. Annie K. Severance.
E. Mabel Morey. Anna M. Trow. Benjamin W. Cobb. Wallace C. Keithı.
Lizzie F. Estes. Minnie Ida Estes. Mary A. Hall. Nellie Packard. Henry C. Gurney.
Annie I. Churchill. H. Maria Holmberg. Edith Leach. Anna M. Ponitz.
Nellie D. Sewall. Louise Carr. Lillie E. Blanchard.
Mattie M. Allen. L. Ella Holmes. Jennie H. Packard. Mattie H. Studley. Winifred S. Bennett.
Mary L. Bullard. Susan E. Manley. Lucy H. Fuller. Ellen M. Kingman. Nellie W. Packard.
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HISTORY OF BROCKTON.
Belle Rankin. Horace Richmond. Minetta E. Snow. Annie N. Thompson.
John Kelliher. Ada F. Lawson.
Herbert I. Mitchell.
Jennie A. Packard.
Lizzie J. Packard.
John E. Tighe. Artimir E. Southworth. Sarah R. Thompson.
Ida B. Wheeler.
1880.
Kitty P. Jones.
Julia A. Mann.
M. Francis Buckley.
Maggie E. Hannigan.
Norman B. Shaw,
1881.
Cora F. Battles.
Robert E. Brayton.
Charles A. Briggs.
Annie B. Clark.
Mary A. Kent.
Annie L. Burke.
Emily B. Crowell.
Florence W. Lambert.
Fannie B. Clark.
Nellie D. Hayward.
Merton F. Copeland.
Helen M. Deane.
Ida E. Frazer.
1882.
Susie L. Bowen. Emma W. Hall.
Carrie L. Hawkins. Lucy C. Holbrook. Jennie H. Richmond. S. Emma Thompson. Florence E. Jones. Edward F. Barry. Lucy E. Benson.
Maria C. Coots.
George W. Emerson.
Charles C. Fitzgerald.
Patrick H. Gegan.
Emma E. Hall.
Mary E. Sullivan.
Evan W. Thomas.
Bernard B. Winslow.
J. Alice Wiswell.
1883.
Allen F. Brett. Arthur L. Copeland. Hattie M. Dunbar. Lottie R. Keith. Francis C. Kingman. S. Franklin Beals. Frank B. Buck. Hattie E. Holmes.
Lena S. Howes. Albert K. Joslyn. Lillie M. Keith. Minnie E. Lewis. Ella F. Osborne. Alice M. Packard. Alice G. Pettee. Ella D. Youngquist.
Elisha W. Morse.
Eda R. Packard.
Nora F. Russell.
R. Minnebel Southworth.
Laura P. Hall.
Mary F. Hayward.
George E. Horton. Harry E. Howland.
William F. Brooks.
Eunice C. Blanchard. M. Agnes Brigham. Adam Capen Gill. Lillian M. Gurney. Marion H. Harris.
Berthia Manley.
Kattie F. Parker.
Jennie M. Sewall.
Louis H. Ridgway.
William Gilmore.
Marian F. Smith.
Arthur E. Keith.
L. Maude Studley. Effie A. Tinkham.
Mary S. Howard. Ellen M. Kendall.
Fred M. Bixby.
Frances E. Sproul.
Mary E. Brooks. Nellie M. Lewis. Thomas B. Riley. Alice M. Snow. Wesley S. Snow. Lottie F. Swain. Hattie White.
397
SCHOOLS.
1884.
David Brayton, jr.
Eve E. Prescott.
Edward Gilmore.
Lillian M. Estes. Chester G. Hill.
Lena M. Baker.
Ella L. Jolinson.
Lucia E. Cole.
Nellie M. Howes.
Hannah J. Leonard.
Ada Baxter.
J. Arthur Jenkins. Clarence L. Packard. Louis E. Rich.
1885.
Florence J. Capen.
Lois A. Dunbar.
Alice K. Tribou.
Frank E. Gurney.
Nellie M. Fobes.
Jesse A. Wheldon.
Bertha E. Jones.
John T. Hannigan.
Sarah E. Wright.
Steve R. Jones.
Harry E. Jones.
Oscar C. Davis.
Michael J. Owens.
Kattie M. Kelleher.
Henry F. Parker. James P. Stift.
Frank A. Laws. Mabel Lovell.
Florence A. Drake. Edmund G. Fanning. Annie F. Fitzgerald.
Susie K. Wales.
Grace E. Mitchell.
Herman S. Hewett,
Hattie E. Beals.
Hattie A. Packard.
Lizzie L. Jackson.
Edward S. Bryant.
C. Ernest Perkins.
Maggie L. Saxton.
Carrie E. Churchill.
Anna G. Smith.
Stanford W. Vincent.
Of the above number, Bertha E. Jones, entered Wellesley College, Henry F. Parker, Brown University, Frank E. Gurney and Steve R. Jones, Amherst college.
Fred Warren Gurney.
1886. Sadie S. Palmer.
Frank E. Cobb.
Francelia Mason.
Abbie K. Reynolds.
Alma J. Cook.
Agnes Richmond.
Maria E. Smith.
Mary G. Fuller.
Abbie Louise Holmes. S. Josie Norris. Abbie Louise Sylvester. Marion Everett Dean.
Rufus H. Carr.
Bertha C. Leonard.
Everett G. Duncklee.
Hattie C. Monroe.
Annie L. Gardner.
Fred A. Packard.
Carrie Dudley Hanson. Mary Mabel Holbrook. Hattie A. Ames. Alice M. Brownell. Josie W. Casey. C. Lottie French. Alice P. Manley.
Mattie A. Peck.
Susie R. Simmons.
Joseph D. Tripp.
Everett E. Wilbar. Everett M. Willis.
Chester H. Wilbar.
Ella Barter.
Maud E. Mowry.
Dennis Buckley. 1887.
Jennie Hilton Ford. Agnes Alcott Howard.
Harry Clinton Crocker.
Ernest Ezekiel Leonard.
Charles Henry Fanning. Edward Howe Lambert.
Wilfred B. Littlefield.
Lizzie C. Brett.
Minnie E. Moors.
Arthur E. Clark.
Adelbert M. Fullerton.
Hattie A. Hayward. George A. Holmes.
Minnie E. Wentworth.
Minnie Stewart.
Millie J. Anglem.
May A. Hartwell.
Jennie F. llowland.
John T. Reilly. Nettie D. Reynolds.
Lillie W. Tripp.
398
HISTORY OF BROCKTON.
Mary Zilpha Kingman. Mary Emily Snell. Artlınr Loring Beals. Merton Studley Gurney. Colin Scott Pitblado. Kate Weston Hayes. Lizzie Lee Jones. Annie Gertrude Packard. Winnifred Faxon White.
Thomas Joseph Barry. Estell Blanche Carleton. Mabel Ruth Holmes. ' Warren Prince Landers. Emeline Leonard Reed. Thomas Mathew Reilly. Dessie Maud Simonds. Fanny Church Stetson. Eva Louise Warfield. Frank Sawin Bailey. Mertie May Baxter. Charles Angier Brigham. Charles Pray Holland. Ralph Russell Littlefield. Nellie Abbott Swain. Charles Huston Barden.
Edson Linwood Ford. Bertha Frances Howard. Etta Luella Jacobs. William Francis Kane. Lettie Mabel Kingsley. Edward Lyman Perkins. Carl Parkhurst Wilbar. Lena Jane Hall. Edith Agnes Snell. Helen Everett Wade. Jennie Parker Ames. Mabel Hannah Capen Stephen Bartlett Collins. Edgar Byram Davis. Albert Frank Doyle.
Robert Spurr Weston. Evelyn Josephine Foley. Edith Frances White. Ella Crocker.
Lucy Gertrude Murphy. Carrie Agnes Wade. Frank Sayward Farnum. Gertrude Marion Loring. Josie Clara Saxton.
Ephraim Herbert Ripley.
Herbert Thurston Lovell. Orrie Aslıley. Mary Augusta Brown. Clara Isabel Dunbar. Edgar Winthrop Farwell. Lucy Olive Pratt. Nellia Augusta Churchill.
Lizzie Wallace Spcar. Charles Shepard Cooper.
1888.
Elizabeth May Chevigny. Alice Ethel Cole. Jerry Finbar Collins.
Alma Elizabeth Connor. Anna Maria Creeden.
Emily Louise Eaton. Lizzie Alice Emerson. Bertha Frances Field. Emeline Josephine Hair. Mabel Helena Herrod. Edgar Whitfield Jenney. John Emil Johnson. Sarah Louise Lincoln. Edith Claramond Monroe. Clarance Leslie Randall. Sabin Mann Rankin.
1889.
Edna Roberts Frazier. Ellen Carey Howard. Herbert Stone James. Grace Russell Kingman. Bertha Mabel Macker. Adele Millard. Walter Tyler Packard. Mary Abbie Scott. Bertha Louise Shaw. George Herbert Snow. Daniel Clifford Stone. Eugene Albert Tebbetts. Patrick Francis Walsh. Minnie Earle Wade. John Bernard Casey.
Etta May Reynolds. Frank Joseph Sexton. Alice Gertrude Simmons.
Mary Anna Simmons. Mary Jane Crimmin. Helena Lamson Gurney. Clinton Minot Snow. Nellie Sargent Soule. Clara May Lincoln. George Leonard Reed. Alice Mary Smith. Adelaide Louisa Stevens. George Earle Taber. Ella Augusta Thompson. Edward Alton Willis.
Emma Peabody Choate. Emma Louise Fish. Alice Leonard Gibbs. Chester Harlow Gould. Mary Ann Hickey. Fred Merton Holmes. Arthur Leslie Keene. John Charles Kelly. Nellie Isabella McElaney. Arthur Bradford Murdock. Lena Mary Powell. Clarence Carter Puffer. Herman Warren Tower. Annie Eloise Wade. Adenia Elliott White.
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399
SCHOOLS.
1890.
Susie Cary Beals. Lucy Adaline Burke. Jessie May Colby. Owen Francis Davis. Effie May Eldridge.
Harry Browning Russell. Stephen Albro Sherman. Albert Ellsworth Thomas. Edith Adams Hall. Katie Frances Johnson.
Ellinor Louise Barret. Abbie Otis Delano. Nellie Matilda Nelson. James Edward O'Reilly. Helen Augusta Dunham. Mattie Snyder Fanning. Sumner Tingley Packard. Harry Thomas Stiff. Frank Wallace Clapp. Chandos Burton Connor. Walter Theodore Crosby. Myron Leslie Fuller. Walter Wilson Fullerton. Eva Blanche Holbrook. Lester Sumner Howard.
Inez Estelle Draper. Grace Marion Jordan. Lillie Dolbeare Leach. Hattie Sroczynska Novina. Saddie Maude Perkins. Jennie Kendall Rogers. Annie Mildred Washburn. Lizzie Agnes Woodman. James Ellis Ames. Frederic Joseph Anglim. Harvey Studley Gurney. Joseph Hewett.
William Henry Barden. Otis Henry Bates. George Herman Cary Hattie Howard Cooper. Laura Jane Field.
Bertram Carver Richardson. Lettie White Foye. Lillian Adelaide Gaynor. John Edwin Gifford.
Katie Louise Kent.
Arthur Merton Hazard.
Daniel Francis McNamara.
Lowell Manley. Bessie Cary Packard. Emily Foster Packard. Granville Lyon Packard. Millie Seabury Powers. Nellie Frances Thresher. Embert Lawrence Tribou. Bessie Lee Valler. Annie Edith Murphy. Ralph Motley Leach.
1891.
Ruth Carr Lothrop. Ina Louise Rice. Alida Culver Shaw. Clara Frances Smith.
Charles Luther Clifford. Annie Thayer Damon. Grace Leeta Frame. Sarah Louise Hervey. Jesse Lillian Holmes. Joseph Briggs Howland.
William Edward Mcclintock. Cora Adelle Morse. Charles Milton Park. Mattie Copeland Pierce.
Lawrence Greenman Weston. Gerry Adams Pratt. Annie Belle Bradford. Paulina Parker Brown. Lydia Emma Carr. Frank Warren Clark.
Charles Francis Reed. Mary Louise Reynolds. Evelyn Adelia Ripley. Mary Farris Ripley.
Maria Simmons. Francis Edward Smith. Martha Lillian Smith. Kittie Wright Stetson. Alice Atherton Thatcher. Arthur Agassiz Wilbur.
1892.
Edna Georgina Littlefield. Carrie Low Sweetser. Willliam Albert Bullivant. Frederic Keith Ellsworth. Herbert Arnold Faulkner. Lizzie Horton Bradford.
Katherine Frances Sweeney. Edith Lillian Colburn. Florence Ella Doane. Mary Elizabeth Dudley. Helen May Field. Nannie Leland Pierce. Nellie Frances Sullivan. Lucia Woodman Sylvester.
Jennie Gertrude Holt. Susie Frances Howes. Annie Augusta Keith. Maude Whittier Murdock. Florence Gertrude Nye. Alice Lily Oldham. Hattie Lewis Peterson. Robert Albin Anderson. Charles William Appleton. Casper Briggs Carpenter. Sidney Arthur Davidson. Elmer Herbert Fletcher. John Edward Gilgan.
400
HISTORY OF BROCKTON.
Lester Carl Holmnberg.
Sarah Elizabeth Wright.
Charles MeCarthy.
Norman Shaw MeKendrick.
Frederic Albert Parmenter.
John Grant Powers.
William Edmund Price.
Fanny Andrews Hall.
Edward Sheehy.
Nellie Agnes Clarety.
Effie Mildred Hayward.
Robert Jones Stedman.
1893.
William Grover Allen, Ellen Louise Browne, Nellie Josephine Brown, Hattie Ruth Byram,
Harry Richmond Allen, Horace Clinton Baker, George Everett Bolling,
Everett Wilbur Luther,
Mary Agnes McCarthy,
James Edward McLeod,
George Franklin Neal,
Alice Samantha Chamberlain, Hugh Orr,
Nellie Crowley,
Annie Edith Parker,
Edna Isabelle Parmenter,
Alice Lillian Pierce,
Alice Ethel Douglas,
Catherine Sophia Pratt,
Edith Francilla Fullerton,
Charles Chapman Packard,
Fannie Barrett Fulton,
William Henry Powers,
Edward Dennis Powers,
Hellen Morton Ransden,
Alma Genevia Hallamore,
Katie Rourke,
Martin Elbert Reynolds,
Theresa Louisa Shepard, Agnes Elizabeth Stevens,
Ida St. George,
Stephen Lovell Hall, Harry Nickerson Holbrook, William Groton Smith,
Alice Catherine Smithick,
Emma Talbot Walker,
Frederick Leroy Howard,
Bertha Coombs Taber,
Jennie Davis Thayer,
Annie Amelia Thibadeau,
Byron Tibbetts,
Annie Reynolds Douglas,
Leon Linden Nelson, Thomas O'Donnell, Ralph Sumner Vinal,
Lyman. Sanford Tribou,
May Evelyn Dunham,
Arthur Harold Washburn,
Herman Weston Marshall,
Shepard Everett Wilbar, Nellie Maria Young,
Warren Ambrose Weeks.
HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE HIGH SCHOOL .- The constitution of Massachusetts contains the declaration " that wisdom and knowledge as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people, being necessary for the preservation of their rights and liberties, and as these depend on spreading the opportunities and advantages of education in the various parts of the country and among the different orders of the people, it shall be the duty of legislatures and magistrates in all future periods of this Commonwealth, to cherish the interest of literature and
Frank Allen Howard.
Henry Irving Allen. Alice Howard Filoon.
Wesley Elias Monk.
William Melcher Prescott.
Inez Mabel Gill.
Isaac Henry Bullard,
Evelyn Augusta Cross, Sanford Keith Gurney, Alice Mellen Keith, Cora Belle Leach, Gerda Nelson,
Laura Louise Porter, Sydna Ellen Pritchard,
Harry Souther Caldwell, John Francis Cody,
Gertrude Elizabeth Gardner, Mary Ellen Ripley,
Mabel Brownell Reynolds, Charles Franklin Richmond, Cora Agnes Howard,
Evelyn Lewis Hibbard,
Russell Morton Keith,
Jennie Elizabeth Warfield,
Minnie Gertrude Bachelder. Henry Francis Lewis,
Anna Louise Beal,
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SCHOOLS.
the sciences, and all seminaries of them, especially at the University at Cambridge, public schools, and grammar schools of the towns."
In Brockton opportunities had been afforded for obtaining at private expense some knowledge of the more advanced branches of study by the Adelphian Academy of the brothers Silas L. and L. F. C. Loomis, but in March, 1864, the first steps were taken towards the free instruction of the children of the town in a high school supported by the people. The warrant for the annual meeting of that year contained an article, " To see what measures the town will take to establish a high school." This article was referred to a committee consisting of Jonathan White, Charles W. Wood, Chandler Sprague, Augustus T. Jones, and Henry A. Ford.
On the 28th day of April, 1864, the committee reported at the town meeting; of which the following is an extract.
With reference to the inquiry, Is it expedient to establish a high school at the present time ? Your committee early came to a unanimous conviction that, aside from the re quirements of the Statutes of the Commonwealth, the highest material, social and moral interests of the town, based, as they are so universally recognized to be, on the educa- tion of the people, imperatively demand a more advanced and comprehensive course of instruction than can be obtained in our common grammar schools. A large majority of the towns of the size of North Bridgewater, have established such schools, and are already reaping the benefits of them in the higher tone of morals, culture, and social in- fluence which pervade their communities. The fruits of the public policy which this town has so persistently prosecuted in the past are too apparent and well known to need further elucidation, and your committee would not only recommend, but urge upon the town the adoption of immediate measures by which the youth of this town shall enjoy as good advantages as are afforded by other towns of even less importance in the Commonwealth.
The report of the committee was accepted, and the town " Voted to instruct the School Committee to establish a high school," and passed the necessary appropriations for carrying the same into effect. This action occurred at the time when President Lincoln was calling for more troops, needed for General Grant's advance through the Wilderness, which resulted in the capture of Richmond.
This school was opened September 5, 1864, under the principalship of J. G. Leavitt, a graduate of Waterville College, Maine, who success- fully administered its affairs for two years, when he was succeeded by Alfred Laws, a graduate of Dartmouth College, who remained in charge
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HISTORY OF BROCKTON.
until July, 1868. From September, 1868, to March, 1869, Edward W. Rice, a graduate of Williams College, was principal ; succeeded by Alonzo Meserve, a graduate of the Bridgewater Normal School, wlio continued in charge until December, 1870, when he accepted a position in Waltham, and was followed in February, 1871, by Edward Parker, jr., the present incumbent. Mr. Parker is a graduate of Bowdoin Col- lege, and for a time principal of the High School in Biddeford, Me.
There have been several lady assistants connected with the school, viz. : Lizzie P. Pease, winter term 1864-5; Cornelia Eddy, August, 1865, to April, 1866; Louisa M. Thurston, January, 1866, to close of fall term ; Clara W. Wood, September, 1871, to December ; Ida M. Blake, December, 1871, to March, 1872 ; Eliza P. Hood, September, 1873, to July, 1874; Abbie Leach, March, 1872, to July, 1873 ; Lilla Barnard, September, 1874, to March, 1875 ; beside the present assist- ants, Sarah J. Pettee, who began service in January, 1867, and Mary E. Poore, whose service began in September, 1874. In September, 1883, W. Edgar Perry, a graduate of Colby University, was engaged as a teacher, and was sub-master. Mr. Perry was elected principal of the Winthrop Grammar School in May, 1889, and the present sub-master, Mr. Harold C. Childs, a graduate of Brown University, became his suc- cessor. Mr. Eleazer Cate, a graduate of Dartmouth College, and of the Bridgewater Normal School, was elected a teacher of science in June, 1889, and entered upon his work in September of that year, and re- signed to accept a similar position in the High School at Fall River. Preston Smith, of Leominster, Mass., succeeded Mr. Cate in 1892. Miss Isabella S. Horne was elected teacher in 1890, and resigned in 1892. Miss Margaret W. Lovejoy was elected in 1890, and resigned to accept a position in the High School in Haverhill, Mass.
The apartments used by the school were the same that had been oc- cupied by the North Bridgewater Academy on North Main street, which had been enlarged at the end of the second year to accommodate the increased number of pupils. In December, 1871, after the comple- tion of the Whitman School house the Centre School building was re- fitted for the use of the High School. The accommodations of this building soon proved inadequate for the needs of the school, and an ad- dition was made to the east side of the building, increasing the seating
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capacity from eighty to one hundred and twenty-six pupils. In Sep- tember, 1883, an additional school-room was provided in the court- house building, then situated on East Elm street. This room, called the " Annex," seated sixty pupils, under the care of the sub master.
In the school report of 1884 we find that up to that date one thou- sand and fourteen pupils had attended the High School, while the grad- uating classes numbered four hundred and fifty. The relative pro- portion of graduates to the number entering the school has been larger than in most other high schools. >
LIST OF TEACIIERS IN 1892.
HIGH SCHOOL.
Date of Election.
Date of Election.
Edward Parker
1871
Helen L. Thomas 1890
Harold C. Childs
1889
Lehella M. Snow 1891
Preston Smith
1892
Mabel M. Taylor 1892
Sarah J. Pettee
1866
Mabel L. Baker (substitute) . 1892
Mary E. Poore
1874
Josephine Howard (substitute) 1892
Alma F. Silsby
1887
Daniel W. Packard. 1892
HUNTINGTON SCHOOL.
John I. Rackliffe. . 1884
Abbie S. Beals 1889
Elizabeth M. Stebbins
1891
Esther Beaman. 1873
Helen M Packard. .
1880
Emma W. Hall 1884
Lena A. Wakefield
1884
Lillian M. Swift 1885
Alice A. Averill. .
1883
L. Jennie Clark 1886
Jennie M. Rackliffe
1886
SPRAGUE SCHOOL.
Arthur N. Whitney
1892
Bertha C. Leonard 1889
Cora E. Grover.
1892
Hattie F. Paul. . 1889
Annie L. Burke.
1882
Alice K. Tribou. 1889
Ida E. Carruth.
1890
Mary Z. Kingman
1890
A. Frances Merrianı
1891
WINTHROP SCHOOL.
William T. Carter. 1890
Harriet D. Gordon . 1890
Cora E. Grover
1892
Amy H. Stockbridge 1890
E. Francis Gove
1882
Lizzie A. Davies. 1890
Clara A. Emerton
1891
A. Maud Woodward 1889
Addie E. Wentworth. 1886
HISTORY OF BROCKTON.
UNION SCHOOL.
Date of Election.
Date of Election.
M. Sylvia Donaldson
1873
Lizzie P. Brown
1885
H. Anna Triggs
1887
Mabel F. Grover. 1892
Mary A. Browne.
1889
Minnie M. Pierce. 1892
PERKINS SCHOOL.
William H. Hobbs. 1885
Annie C. Atwood 1892
Elizabeth A. Kingman
. 1863
Angie M. Fearing 1890
Lennie W. Bartlett.
1884
Florence E. Abbe 1891
WHITMAN SCHOOL.
Frank W. Jones
1884
Clara E. Loker 1886
Georgia A. Calef.
1874
Mary L. Hunt.
1886
HANCOCK SCHOOL.
William D. Davis. 1892
Susan M. Snow
. . 1890
PROSPECT SCHOOL.
Loyal Barton
1891
M. Ellen Hannegan .1880
MARSHALL SCHOOL.
Isabelle F. Newell. 1889
Ellen Manley
1890
SHAW . SCHOOL.
Mary A. Chadbourne ...
1884
Lillie B. Andrews. 1891
CARY SCHOOL.
Angie B. Ellis.
.1891
WARREN AVENUE SCHOOL.
Lucy A. Upham
1881
Marion F. Smith. 1883
Myra D. Copeland 1885
Carrie G. De Bacon 1892
Susan B. Holmes 1892
Emma M. Maguire 1891
HOWARD SCHOOL.
Ella M. Willis.
1892
Susan M. Turner
1890
Myra Cushing 1891
SYLVESTER SCHOOL.
Hattie M. Jennings
1884
Mattie A. Peck.
1889
Geneva Nelson 1892
Lucy G. Murphy 1891
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SCHOOLS.
PACKARD SCHOOL.
Date of Election.
Date of Election.
Ellen Wood 1870
Harriet M. Brettun. 1891
Susie P. Cobb 1892
Lizzie H. Drew 1892
BELMONT SCHOOL.
Cora H. Alger 1886
Anna G. Smith 1888
Cordelia W. Tilton 1887
Lena I. Farnham. 1888
COPELAND SCHOOL.
Effie L. Washburn 1890
Fanny H. Burgess. 1892
Edith F. White. 1891
GROVE SCHOOL.
Anna E. Gove 1890
Annie H. Weston 1892
FOREST AVENUE SCHOOL.
Sadie S. Palmer 1889
WALNUT STREET SCHOOL.
Annie L. Kendall
1882
Emily J. Hare. 1890
Gertrude Barton 1885
Amy W. Watkins. . 1891
KEITH SCHOOL.
Lucie A. Stetson .
1889
H. Maria Anthony
1884
Annie G. Packard . .. 1889
Myra A. Safford . 1885
ASHLAND STREET SCHOOL.
M. Jean Rollins 1891 Ella Crocker 1891
PARK STREET SCHOOL.
Myra E. Brown .1889
Hattie A. Ames 1889
KINGMAN SCHOOL.
Lillian W. Hammond 1892
Lizzie F. Trow, substitute. J. F. Shepardson, teacher of music. Mary .B. Titcomb, teacher of drawing.
406
HISTORY OF BROCKTON.
TABLE OF ATTENDANCE.
FOR THE FOUR WEEKS ENDING DECEMBER 23, 1892.
SCHOOL.
Number Enrolled.
Average No. Belonging.
Average Daily Attendance.
Per cent. of Attendance.
High. ..
314
309
300
97.13
Huntington
515
503
469
93.2
Sprague.
369
355
325
91.8
Winthrop.
394
378
345
91.7
Union .
287
283
264
91.7
Perkins
307
293
272
92.62
Whitman
196
193
182
94.04
Hancock
81
77
70
90.9
Prospect*
63
45
36
84.
Marshall
59
59
56
94.5
Shaw
71
67
61
90,89
Cary .
54
50
42
78.
Warren Avenue
266
25
237
91.9
Howard
129
125
114
91.5
Sylvester
160
154
140
90,93
Packard
175
171
159
92.89
Belmont
192
185
170
92.03
Copeland
113
104
96
62.6
Grove .
48
47
45
92.
Forest Avenue
43
38
34
88.3
Walnut Street
180
170
157
92.39
Keith.
188
176
165
93.08
Ashland Street.
93
84
75
89.
Park Street.
99
95
88
92.35
Kingman
48
45
41
93.
Total
4,444
4,206
3,950
93.91
PAROCHIAL SCHOOL AND CONVENT .- In 1886 orders were sent out by the archbishop of Boston that parochial schools should be erected in certain towns and cities. Brockton was one of the places, and Rev. Father Doherty, then pastor of St. Patrick's parish, began to look about to find suitable ground. The place on Lawrence street, east of the rail- road, seemed to please most, and negotiations were closed and work was soon commenced.
The building progressed finely, but in July of the year the school was first occupied Father Doherty died, and the supervision of the work fell to Father Glynn, pastor pro tem. Under him everything went smoothly and rapidly toward completion, until in August, 1887, the school was finished and ready for occupancy. The school as it now stands is a
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