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PARAPHRASE OF THE NINETEENTH PSALM.
The spacious firmament on high,
With all the blue ethereal sky, And spangled heavens, a shining frame, Their great Original proclaim ; The unwearied sun, from day to day,
Does his Creator's power display,
And publishes to every land The work of an Almighty Hand.
Soon as the evening shades prevail,
The moon takes up the wondrous tale,
And nightly, to the listening earth, Repeats the story of her birth ; Whilst all the stars that round her burn,
And all the planets, in their turn,
Confirm the tidings, as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
What though in solemn silence all Move round this dark terrestrial ball ! What though nor real voice nor sound Amid their radiant orbs be found ! In reason's ear they all rejoice, And utter forth a glorious voice, Forever singing, as they shine, " The hand that made us is divine."- Addison.
INDEX TO BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
PAGE
PAGE
Abel, Denison,
69
Bliss, Isaac G.,
43
Allen, Edmund,
75
Bliss, Luther, Jr.,
59
Allen, Frederick S.,
69
Bliss, Thomas W.,
77
Allen, James G.,
61
Bliss, William White,
63
Allen, Samuel S.,
75
Bond, Ephraim W.,
38
Allin, Delius,
55
Bond, Geo. T.,
49
Allis, William S.,
75
Bond, Thomas,
77
Appleton, Morgan,
78
Bond, William B,
37
Attleton, Rodolphus T.,
75
Bontecou, William E.,
47
Austin, Charles V. R.,
69
Booth, Alfred,
39
Bangs, Allen,
73
Bowles, Samuel,
45
Bangs, Benjamin,
78
Boylston, Jonathan C.,
51
Bangs, John,
73
Brewer, James D.,
40
Bannon, Oliver B.,
66
Briggs, Albert D.,
40
Bannon, Robert E.,
75
Brown, Joseph,
73
Barber, Joel D.,
51
Bryant, James S.,
61
Barber, William H.,
54
Buckland, Walter,
78
Bates, Dwight E.,
72
Bunker, Charles R.,
40
Bates, Edmund,
76
Bunker, Geo. R.,
73
Bates, Francis A.,
48
Burt, Richard,
76
Bates, James,
71
Butterfield, Henry,
67
Bates, Monroe,
74
Butterfield, James H.,
66
Bates, Walter,
75
Butterfield, Oliver,
67
Beebe, Eleazer S.,
79
Cadwell, George G,
40
Beebe, John S.,
65
Callender, William H. D.,
62
Benton, Joel C.,
37
Cate, George P.,
75
Benton, Justin B.,
75
Chapin, Abijah W.,
52
Bigelow, Artemas,
34
Chapin, Charles,
78
Blackman, Charles,
69
Chapin, Charles O.,
42
Blake, Hamblin,
77
Chapin, Charles W.,
39
Blake, Marshall B.,
36
Chapin, Harvey D.,
35
Blanchard, Geo. W.,
45
Chapin, Henry S.,
78
Bliss, Benjamin K.,
46
Chapin, Josiah B.,
5I
Bliss, Edwin E.,
47
Chapin, Luther,
79
Bliss, Elisha, Jr.,
41
Chapin, Roswell L.,
73
Bliss, Henry,
79
Chapin, Samuel L.,
37
93
PAGE
PAGE
Chapman, Henry W.,
65
Hatch, Arthur,
70
Chapman, William W.,
49
Hatch, J. Bryant,
77
Child, James K.,
71
Hatch, James B.,
37
Child, William C.,
71
Hatch, Willianı Stanley,
5I
Childs, Asaph K.,
78
Heath, Alfred,
77
Childs, Charles,
73
Heath, Emerson,
77
Childs, Thomas S.,
62
Heath, William,
77
Clark, George S.,
71
Hendrick, John M.,
77
Clark, J. Hubbard,
64
Hibbard, Enoch J.,
63
Clark, Joseph C.,
71
Hopkins, Caleb,
32
Clark, Silas D.,
70
Hubbard, Alvin A.,
75
Collier, Charles,
74
Hubbard, Charles W.,
53
Colton, George,
52
Hubbard, Chauncey H.,
48
Colton, John,
4I
Hubbard, George H.,
63
Comstock, Henry,
45
Hubbard, Samuel B.,
79
Cook, Philo H.,
75
Hubbard, William,
78
Cooley, George A.,
75
Jones, George A.,
70
Crosby, L. V. H.,
73
Jones, Justin,
71
Cutler, Horace,
67
Kendall, George S.,
72
Cutler, Lewis,
67
Kimberly, John,
65
Dale, Thomas N.,
35
Kimberly, William A.,
71
Dickinson, William,
46
Kingsbury, Abel C.,
42
Draper, Horace T.,
43
Kirkham, Albert H.,
68
Eastman, James P.,
49
Kirkham, James,
54
Emery, Charles,
32
Kirkham, Ralph W.,
44
Emery, John A.,
37
Lay, Henry D.,
67
Faulkner, Charles S.,
62
Lee, David K.,
73
Ferre, Daniel,
64
Lee, Horace C.,
50
Ferre, Henry P.,
69
Lee, Samuel P.,
73
Ferre, Horace R.,
60
Lepard, August,
72
Ferre, Lyman,
76
Lloyd, George,
78
Foot, John B.,
66
Lombard, Joseph B.,
72
Foster, William, Jr.,
42
Lombard, Roswell,
73
Foster, William H.,
71
Loring, Benjamin,
69
Frost, George L.,
41
Lyman, George
77
Frost, Joshua.,
63
Lyman, Samuel,
77
Fuller, Halsey.,
79
Marsh, Joseph,
75
Gay, N. Denslow,
55
May, Edward R.,
46
Gay, Samuel O.,
66
Miller, Joel,
42
Goodman, Haskell C.,
75
Miller, John S.,
79
Goodman, James,
60
Miller, Joseph,
53
Goodrich, Henry C.,
71
Mills, Isaac,
65
Grant, Luther,
74
Mills, John,
70
Hall, Charles S.,
78
Mills, Warren,
54
Hall, Henry M.,
63
Moore, S. Whitmarsh,
70
Hall, Linville J.,
58
Morris, George B.,
38
Harding, William H.,
78
Morris, Henry,
50
"OLD HIGH SCHOOL."
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HISTORY OF THE
PAGE
Moseley, Harvey E.,
67
Saunders, Esek,
79
Moseley, Seth H.,
48
Schipper, George,
75
Murphy, J. Spencer,
75
Schipper, Theodore,
69
Newell, Nelson C.,
55
Searle, Silas,
77
Newell, Samuel R.,
55
Searle, William,
77
Osborn, George E.,
64
Sexton, Horatio,
67
Osgood, Edward S.,
73
Sexton, John Q. A.,
69
Osgood, James H.,
41
Sexton, Joseph,
71
Osgood, Samuel M.,
53
Sexton, Oliver,
79
Otis, Samuel F.,
73
Shattuck, Calvin S.,
53
Parker, Frank J.,
65
Shepard, James T.,
76
Parker, R. S.,
72
Sikes, James,
77
Patch, Eli H.,
55
Sikes, Lester F., .
65
Pease, Giles,
76
Sikes, Lyman,
79
Perry, Erasmus D.,
76
Sizer, Daniel,
77
Pierce, Bradford K.,
32
Sizer, Samuel,
77
Pierce, Lucien,
71
Smith, George,
76
Pomeroy, Daniel,
74
Starkey, Henry F.,
76
Potter, Elam O.,
50
Stearns, Charles W.,
36
Potter, Francis T.,
59
Stebbins, Charles,
49
Potter, Otis R.,
53
Stebbins, Edward C.,
76
Potter, Peter R.,
51
Stebbins, George P.,
63
Pratt, George,
77
Stebbins, Horatio,
41
Pratt, John F.,
64
Stebbins, Jackson,
76
Pynchon, Daniel,
46
Stebbins, John B.,
38
Pynchon, John,
62
Stebbins, Lewis,
61
Pynchon, Joseph C.,
31
Stebbins, Randolph,
71
Pynchon, William,
74
Stebbins, Roderick,
76
Ranney, John,
77
Stebbins, William,
40
Rice, Charles W.,
74
Swan, James, Jr.,
64
Rice, David,
78
Sykes, M. L.,
56
Rice, Henry B.,
74
Tannatt, George F.,
41
Rice, William,
39
Taylor, Edwin,
76
Rice, William C.,
76
Taylor, Orrin L.,
77
Richardson, Benj. S.,
65
Thayer, Charles,
77
Richmond, Franklin,
78
Tobey, George,
74
Ring, Eleazer J.,
72
Tobey, Warren D.,
63
Ring, Ethan C.,
69
Trask, Edward,
78
Roberts, Franklin,
77
Trask, Israel,
61
Rogers, Edwin T.,
65
Trask, William E.,
49
Russell, Amos,
72
Tyler, George,
62
Russell, Benj. A.,
74
Wait, Calvin,
50
Russell, George B.,
71
Wait, John C.,
71
Russell, James E.,
64 Walker, Noah P.,
76
Russell, John W.,
61
Warner, Amaziah S.,
64
Russell, Joseph B,
74
Warner, Benjamin F.
61
Russell, William H.,
68 Warner, Samuel,
77
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PAGE
PAGE
Warriner, William D.,
77
Wilcox, William L.,
70
Wells, David A.,
43
Wood, Corbin O.,
78
Wells, Dexter W.,
45
Wood, Loren,
77
Wells, James,
51
Wood, Reuben,
74
White, Moses Hazen,
39
LIST OF PORTRAITS.
Bannon, Oliver B.,
opposite 66
Blake, Marshall B.,
36
Bliss, B. K.,
66
46
Brewer, James D.,
40
Calhoun, Simeon H.,
66
12
Chapin, Charles O.,
42
Chapin Charles W.,
Frontispiece.
Childs, A. K.,
opposite 78
Childs, Rev. Thos. S.,
16
32
Goodman, James,
60
Hall, Rev. Linville J.,
66
58
Hebard, Story,
66
IO
Kirkham, A. H.,
66
68
Kirkham, James,
54
Kirkham, Gen. R. W.,
66
44
Lee, Gen. H. C.,
66
50
Morley, Sardis B.,
66
14
Moseley, Seth H.,
66
48
Pynchon, Dr. Joseph C.,
66
30
Ring, E. J.,
66
72
Russell, James E,
66
64
Shepard, James T.,
66
76
Stebbins, John B.,
66
18
Sykes, M. L.,
66
56
Tobey, Geo.,
74
Vaille, Henry R.,
66
16
Wilcox, W. L.,
70
66
38
Sykes, James N.,
66
62
Emery, Capt. Chas.,
52
Chapin, Abijah W.,
RECENT DEATHS.
SINCE the commencement of the work of gathering up the reminiscences of the "Old High School," a period of nearly two years, the following members have died :-
Rev. Dr. ISAAC G. BLISS, Assiout, Egypt, Jan., 1889, aged 67 years.
JOSIAH B. CHAPIN, Albany, N. Y., Jan. 19, 1889, in his 7Ist year.
Dr. JOSEPH C. PYNCHON, Springfield, Mass., April 9, 1889, aged 74 years.
Rev. Dr. BRADFORD K. PIERCE, Newton, Mass., April 19, 1889, aged 77 years.
Dr. FRANCIS A. BATES, Marion, Ala., April 23, 1889, aged 70 years.
Capt. CHARLES EMERY, Dorchester, Mass., Jan. 3, 1890, aged 73 years.
The under-mentioned pupils have died since the preced- ing pages were printed :-
JAMES WELLS, Springfield, Mass., March 5, 1890, in the 70th year of his age.
GEORGE P. STEBBINS, Springfield, Mass., March 17, 1 890, aged 65 years.
THE SEMINARY, MAPLE STREET, 1832.
HISTORY
OF
THE SEMINARY
ON MAPLE STREET,
SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS,
ESTABLISHED IN 1832,
AS CONDUCTED BY GEORGE EATON, ESQ.,
WITH
THE NAMES OF 169 PUPILS,
INCLUDING SOME OF THOSE UNDER THE TEACHINGS OF
MISS CHARLOTTE A. CATLIN.
BY CHARLES WELLS CHAPIN.
" Alterum alterius auxilio eget."
Copyrighted, 1890.
GEORGE EATON.
THE OLD SEMINARY, ON MAPLE STREET.
IN 1831 the proprietors of the "female seminary in Springfield " bought of Charles Stearns a lot of land on Maple street, four rods by eight rods, for $300, on which the following year they erected the house, 77 Maple street, now occupied as a private dwelling. The house when originally built was three stories in height, and was heated during the winter by placing a cast-iron box-stove in the cellar and tin-pipes up through each floor to conduct the heat from pine wood used as fuel. On the opening of the seminary, about the year 1834, Miss Judith Hawks (who had established a private school in " Carew's hall," also called "Masonic hall," on the corner of Main and State streets, over the drug store of the late J. T. Webber) was engaged as its principal. After about two years of success- ful management she retired, and was succeeded by Misses Mary and Celia Campbell, former pupils of Miss Hawks.
George Eaton, a graduate of Harvard College in 1833, a gentleman of scholarly attainments, succeeded the Misses Campbell, and conducted the school with marked success until the year 1843. Although the school was intended for the education of girls, Mr. Eaton introduced a new departure by permitting boys to enter. A number of the stockholders sent their boys to the school. It was not agreeable to some of the boys to be obliged to attend school where girls were to be their schoolmates, but they soon became reconciled to the change, under the encour- aging sympathy manifested by the girls for their bash- fulness. Mr. Eaton had for assistant teachers his sisters, Misses Mary and Sarah Eaton. Children of parents living
IT seems eminently proper that, in addition to the mention of the young ladies in the following pages, brief allusion should be made to their husbands, solely for the purpose of giving to them the credit of their success in selecting partners for the journey of life. With barely an exception all have been fortunate, and their husbands have been successful in business and many have risen to posi- tions of honor and trust.
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on the public grounds at the United States Armory were not allowed to attend the schools of the town, and in consequence many of them became pupils of Mr. Eaton. Among these were the following :-
HELEN WOLCOTT, Agawam, Mass.
MARTHA WOLCOTT, Agawam, Mass .- Died Feb. 7, 1888, in the 70th year of her age.
ELIZABETH H. WOLCOTT, Agawam, Mass.
GEORGE WOLCOTT, Quincy, Ill .- Civil engineer. He was engaged in the survey of the Panama Railroad and of some of the most prominent railroads of the United States.
WILLIAM WOLCOTT, Agawam, Mass .- A farmer.
ELISHA GUNN, Springfield, Mass .- Was chief engineer of the fire department for eight years succeeding the year 1848. He was successfully engaged in business for many years with his brother (the late William Gunn), but is now retired. He is a trustee in the Springfield Institution for Savings.
SAMUEL DALE .- A civil engineer. Was employed on the survey and location of the Western (now the Boston & Albany) Railroad in 1836-37. From 1837 to 1845 was employed at the U. S. Armory. In 1847 was engaged on the survey of the Brookline Branch of the Boston & Wor- cester Railroad. From 1848 to 1849 was on the construction of the Northern New York Railroad, engineering. From 1849 to 1852, in charge of survey and construction of the Richmond & Danville Railroad, Virginia, and the North Carolina Railroad. From 1852 to 1854 he was in charge of the survey and construction of the Hampshire & Hamp- den Railroad from Westfield to Northampton, Mass. In 1854 was on the Sacketts Harbor & Saratoga Railroad ; from 1856 to 1859 on the Stonington & New London Railroad. He was on the survey of the Atlantic & Great Western Railroad, Pennsylvania, from 1861 to 1866; from 1869 to 1872 was in office at Chicago, Ill., engaged on the deepen-
ELISHA GUNN.
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ing of the Illinois & Michigan Canal. In 1872 he was on the Sny Island levee, Mississippi river; in 1873 on the Cairo & Vincennes Railroad; from 1874 to 1876 he was under Col. John W. Barlow of the U. S. Engineer Corps on government inspection of the harbor improvements at Norwalk and Milford, Conn. Since 1878 he has been engaged in the engineer's office of the Boston & Albany Railroad at Springfield, Mass. He was born Nov. 26, 1819. Mr. Dale is proficient, and well known for his thoroughness in the details of civil engineering.
GEORGE DALE, Stafford, Conn .- Farmer. He died Oct. 10, 1886, aged 62 years.
OWEN DORSEY ROBB, Annapolis, Md .- For many years connected with the naval academy. He died April 1, 1875, aged 50 years.
ADONIJAH FOOT .- Civil engineer. Died in Carrollville, Miss., April 12, 1860, aged 37 years.
EDWARD R. LEE, Springfield, Mass .- A printer in the Republican office. He died May 12, 1855, aged 30 years.
RALPH WARRINER.
LAURE PEASE.
Those that attended the school from the prominent families of the town were as follows :-
LUCINDA O. HOWARD, Springfield, Mass.
SARAH BLISS, now Mrs. George Walker, Washington, D. C .- Hon. Geo. Walker was a lawyer. A graduate of Dartmouth College in 1845. A member of the Massachu- setts Senate in 1858-59, and the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1868. He was elected president of the Third National Bank upon its organization in 1864. He was appointed Consul General at Paris, France, Feb. 12, 1880. His successor was appointed May 17, 1887. He died at Washington, D. C., Jan. 15, 1888, in the 64th year of his age.
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ELIZABETH BANGS, Springfield, Mass .- Died Feb. 14, 1856, aged 30.
SARAH BANGS, Springfield, Mass. - Died March 27, 1846, aged 23.
JULIA BOWLES .- Married Adonijah Foot. She died in Mississippi Aug. 29, 1851, aged 27.
MARY BANGS, Boston, Mass.
AMELIA P. BOWLES, now Mrs. Henry Alexander, Springfield, Mass .- Hon. Henry Alexander, Jr., was the cashier of the Pynchon Bank from its organization in 1853 until 1858. He was an alderman in 1857-58, and mayor of Springfield in 1863-64; a member of the Massachusetts Senate from 1865-68; U. S. deputy collector of internal revenue for the 10th District of Massachusetts in 1870-71 ; presidential elector in 1872. He was a director and the president of the old Springfield Bank, now the Second National, until his death, which occurred July 24, 1878, in the 60th year of his age.
LOUISA WEATHERHEAD .- Married Daniel D. Warren, Springfield, Mass. She died June 26, 1864, aged 41 years. Mr. Warren was a merchant previous to 1872. He and the late Willis Phelps were contractors in the building of the Council Bluff and the St. Joseph, the Missouri Valley, the Lake Ontario Shore, and the Connecticut Central railroads. He was the president of the Connecticut Central in 1876. Mr. Warren was associated with the late William Birnie as contractor in building the Springfield & New London Rail- road, and in the construction of the Troy & Greenfield Rail- road. He was the sole contractor for the Watertown (N. Y.) & Carthage Railroad. On the building of the New York, West Shore & Buffalo road, he was the contractor on the division from Little Falls to Schenectady, and was a director of the road. He was a stockholder and presi- dent of the Union Paper Company, a stockholder and director of the Worthy Paper Company, owning paper mills in Bondville, and Pepperell, Mass. He was treasurer of the
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Warren Woolen Company at Stafford, Conn., at the time of his death, which occurred on the 25th of January, 1888, at the age of 64 years.
MARIA LOUISA CROSBY.
MARGARETTE WILLARD, Springfield, Mass .- Died Oct. 14, 1841, aged 19.
SUSAN S. WILLARD, Springfield, Mass .- Died Sept. 27, 1885, aged 61.
SARAH B. WILLARD, Springfield, Mass.
CHARLOTTE WILLARD, Springfield, Mass.
EUNICE BREWER, now Mrs. Dr. David P. Smith, Spring- field, Mass .- Dr. Smith graduated at Yale College in 1851, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, in 1854; was pro- fessor of surgery, Yale College, 1877 to 1880. He was appointed surgeon U. S. Vols. with rank of major, Dec. 24, 1861 ; brevet lieutenant-colonel U. S. Vols. Aug. 15, 1865, for faithful and meritorious service during the late war. He was honorably mustered out of service Aug. 18, 1865. Dr. Smith was the medical examiner for the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company, Springfield, Mass. He died Dec. 26, 1880, aged 50 years.
ANN FOSTER, now Mrs. Alexander Stocking, Worces- ter, Mass.
ELIZABETH KINGSBURY, now Mrs. William W. Lee, Springfield, Mass .- Mr. Lee was a clerk in the paymaster's office at the U. S. Armory in 1845-46. He was engaged in the grocery business in 1848-49, with the late Cicero Simons, under the firm of Simons & Lee. He was one of the early and most active members of Christ Church (Episcopal), Springfield, Mass., and for many years one of its principal officers. He was an exemplary citizen, and was univer- sally esteemed. He died at Chatham Four Corners, N. Y., Feb. 23, 1854, at the age of 41 years.
ELIZABETH LATHROP, New York City, now Mrs. George B. Morris.
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HISTORY OF
THOMAS D. KINGSBURY, Arkadelphia, Ark .- Merchant. Died October 1, 1875, aged 54.
EDWARD W. KINSLEY, Boston, Mass .- Was a mer- chant for many years. Now railroad commissioner for the State of Massachusetts.
MASON WILLARD, Longmeadow, Mass .- A farmer.
ALFRED BOOTH, Springfield, Mass .- Journalist.
JOHN HUNT, Vernon, Vt. HORACE CUMMINGS ..
THOMAS CUMMINGS.
BAILEY LORING.
EDWARD FLINT .- Was superintendent of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, also engaged in the shipping business for several years in San Francisco, Cal. On the 2Ist of July, 1862, he started homeward for a visit via Pan- ama, being a passenger on the steamer "Golden Gate," which took fire on July 27, fifteen miles off Manzanilla, Mex., and was burnt to the water's edge, and sunk in deep water. About two hundred persons perished in this disas- ter, among those who were lost being the noble-hearted Flint, at the early age of 35. One of his old schoolmates, now an eminent physician in Nebraska, writes : " I can tes- tify that he was a boy of most generous impulses, full of genial life, a good student, and possessed most amiable and loving traits of character. Poor Ned ! I loved him, and have dropped many tears to his memory."
After the close of the seminary in 1843 Mr. Eaton trans- ferred the school to his own residence, 140 Maple street, which he had purchased for $5,200 in July, 1836, of the late Joseph C. Parsons. The house which he then occupied was moved several years ago to Central street, now 85 and 87. It was owned after Mr. Eaton left it by William Gunn, and was by him moved to Central street. Mr. Eaton con-
EDWARD W. KINSLEY.
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He was a railway engineer, and resided in Missouri at the outbreak of the Rebellion. He was appointed colonel of the 25th Missouri Vol. Infantry (Union army). He was killed at the battle of Shiloh on the 6th of April, 1862, in the 31st year of his age. Col. Peabody was a brave and gallant soldier. He was greatly beloved, and his loss was deeply felt, both by the officers and men under his command.
JONATHAN DWIGHT, New York City .- A prominent civil engineer.
GEORGE BLISS, New York City .- Graduated at Harvard College in 1851. The eminent lawyer, firm of Bliss & Schley, counselors.
FRANK H. PEABODY, Boston, Mass .- Firm of Kidder, Peabody & Co., bankers.
OLIVER W. PEABODY, Boston, Mass .- Firm of Kidder, Peabody & Co., bankers.
WILLIAM B. O. PEABODY, Boston, Mass .- Architect.
MITCHELL AMES .- Was a civil engineer. He went South. At the outbreak of the Rebellion it is said that he entered the Confederate service, and at the battle of Shiloh received a fatal wound. He came home to Springfield, Mass., dying Sept. 6, 1863, at the age of 34 years.
WILLIAM H. L. BARNES, San Francisco, Cal .- A prom- inent lawyer.
JAMES EATON.
CHARLES W. SWIFT, London, Eng.
WILLIAM BLISS, Boston, Mass .- Was general manager of the Boston & Albany Railroad previous to his election as a director in the corporation, July 15, 1880. He is now its president, having been elected July 22, 1880. President Bliss has managed this leading and wealthy corporation with devotion and signal ability.
ABEL D. CHAPIN, Springfield, Mass .- He was a director in the Massasoit Insurance Company in 1865, and president of the Hadley Falls Bank, Holyoke, Mass., from 1856 to
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1864, and president of the New Haven Steamboat Company. He went abroad, where he resided for several years. He died suddenly in Paris, France, Nov. 24, 1878, at the age of 49.
Miss Charlotte A. Catlin-a sister of the wife of Dr. M. B. Baker, and an aunt of Miss C. Alice Baker, the his- torical writer-had a flourishing school on the first floor of the building. Miss Catlin was a " lady of the old school," and paid great attention to the manners and morals of her pupils, besides teaching them reading, spelling, grammar, and plain sewing, as " fine arts."
The following were some of her pupils :-
CLARA DWIGHT, Springfield, Mass., now Mrs. Judge Wm. S. Shurtleff .- Judge Shurtleff was a member of the class of 1850 at Williston Seminary. He graduated at Yale College in 1854, and has been a prominent lawyer since 1856; was colonel of the 46th Regiment Massachusetts Vols. during the civil war ; is Secretary of the Springfield Institution for Savings, and since 1863 has been judge of probate for Hampden county. Judge Shurtleff is assiduous in his official duties and metes out justice to all who require his services.
JULIA EDWARDS, Charlestown, Mass .- Married Charles H. Hurd, Esq., Boston, Mass.
MARY EDWARDS .- Married a Mr. Childs, Cleveland, O.
LELIA CHILDE, Springfield, Mass .- Was lost on the steamer " Arctic," by a collision with the steamer " Vesta," off the coast of Newfoundland, Sept. 27, 1854, at the age of 19 years.
SOPHIA W. HOWARD and CATHARINE L. HOWARD, Springfield, Mass., of Misses Howard's widely known private school.
MARY AMES, Springfield, Mass.
ELIZABETH AMES, Springfield, Mass.
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CATHARINE B. LATHROP, New York City, now Mrs. Oliver E. Wood.
MARY SWIFT, now Mrs. Ironsides, New London, Conn. -Her husband was a merchant in New York city.
MARY D. FLINT, now Mrs. Daniel G. Bacon, New York City.
ELIZABETH H. FLINT .- Married Dr. Arthur W. Shiver- ick, New York city. She died at Washington, D. C., April 13, 1889, at the age of 65.
SOPHIA STEBBINS, Springfield, Mass .- She died Dec. 26, 1841, aged 19.
EMILY S. BLISS, Springfield, Mass .- Died June 13, 1880, aged 57.
ELIZABETH STERNS .- Died in Boston, Mass.
LUCY BREWER .- Married a Mr. Stockbridge of Hart- ord, Conn.
HANNAH W. HOWARD. - Married Capt. William H. Swift, New York. Capt. Swift was a cadet at West Point in 1813, and second-lieutenant First Regiment of Artillery in 1821; first lieutenant in 1824. Was appointed an assistant topographical engineer in 1832 with the rank of captain, and in 1833 an assistant in the coast survey, which position he held for ten years. Upon the organi- zation of the Western Railroad to be built from Wor- cester to Albany he was appointed resident engineer of the road Jan. 7, 1836. He resigned the office in the winter of 1839-40. He became president of the Philadelphia, Wil- mington & Baltimore Railroad in 1849, residing in Phila- delphia. In February, 1851, he returned to Springfield, Mass., and was chosen president of the Western Railroad, now the Boston & Albany, which position he held until 1854, when he resigned. He removed to New York, where he was much interested in railroads as the correspondent and confidential agent of Barings Bros. & Co., London, Eng. He died in New York several years ago.
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SARAH OSGOOD, Andover, Mass., now Mrs. Alexander H. Avery .- Mr. Avery was a prominent merchant in Springfield, Mass., firm of Huntington, Avery & Co. He died at Brookline, Mass., June 27, 1862, aged 48 years.
MARGARETTE HOWARD .- Married Charles W. Swift, London, England.
ELIZA W. HOWARD, Paris, France .- Married Baron de Stoeckl, the Russian Minister to the United States. He presented his credentials as Russian charge-d'affaires at Washington, March 24, 1854; as minister, February 21, 1857. He left on leave Oct. 13, 1868.
FANNY A. HOWARD, Paris, France.
CHARLOTTE B. CHAPIN, now Mrs. William B. Brinsmade, Washington, Conn. - Mr. Brinsmade graduated at Yale College in 1840. He was a prominent civil engineer. He first commenced engineering for the Housatonic Railroad. In 1844 he was engaged in the survey of the Connecticut River Railroad, also on the survey of the New York & New Haven Railroad from 1847 to 1849 ; from thence he went on to the survey of the Hartford, Providence & Fish- kill (from Newington to Bristol) until June, 1850. In May, 185I, he commenced the survey of the Troy & Boston road, where he remained until April, 1852. In the fall of that year he went to Ohio and was engaged in the survey of the Clinton Line Railroad, where he remained about three years. The late Professor Henry N. Day of New Haven, Conn., who died in January, 1890, was the president of the road. In 1856 Mr. Brinsmade was elected superintendent of the Connecticut River Railroad. In August, 1868, owing to ill health, he went to Europe. Returning in April, 1869, he again assumed the duties of superintendent, when in January, 1870, he resigned his office, and to benefit his health sailed from New York, October 21, 1870, for a voyage to California, via Cape Horn, arriving at San Francisco in March, 1871, returning home in May the same year. Mr. Brinsmade's death occurred at Washington, Conn., May 16,
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