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UNION STREET SUB-PRIMARY.
Age.
Age.
Willie Studley .
7
Edwin S. Jacobs
6
Everett Studley
5
Hermon Studley
5
Willie Fenno .
6
Daniel Corkery
6
Alfred E. Knox
6 Dennis Lee . 8
Edwin E. Bass
7 Handel Poole
6
Amos W. Baldwin
8
. Dennis Mahoney 11
Henry W. Corbett
10
Henry M. Pratt
8
9 Eliza Holbrook
9
Emery Jenkins
8 Hannah Carey .
10
Irving Estes
SCHOOLS.
Age.
Age.
James Burke
7 Katie Shea
. 11
Silas D. Chase .
7
Fannie Downy
6
Walter Underwood
5 Mary Shea
6
Earnest Damon
4 Mary Tracy .
6
Michael Williams .
9 Maggie Sullivan
6
James Crawley
6
Mary Ann Downy
9
Daniel Burke
5 Mary A. Caplice
9
Jerry Shannon .
4 Effiie J. Grover
6
Michael Shannon
6 Annie Cobbett
6
Willie Tracy
5 Lydia M. Bass .
5
James Williams
6 Julia Hayes .
6
Patsy Carcy
7 Mary E. Hayes
4
Thomas Green .
5 Ellen S. Hunt .
7
Thomas Carey .
9 Julia Barry .
6
Richard Hart
6 Ione Chase
4
Clarence Arnold
5 Mary F. Green
6
Henry Payne
5 Mary A. Lewellyn
G
Willie Readon .
6 Lizzie Lewellyn
5
John O'Hearn .
5 Maggie Readon
6
Jerome Donovon
6 Lizzie McCarthy
5
Meljar H. Bass
3 Mary A. Russel
5
Daniel M. Haney
5
Katie Caplice
5
Maurice Caplice
7
Nellie Carey
7
James Caplice .
5
Lydia M. Hatch
6
John Parker
6 Ellen M. Kennedy
C
Oscena Tribou .
5 Jane Mellreen .
4
Arthur Higgins
7 Ellaretta Tribou
6
John Crawley
4 Sarah J. Tribou
8
Michael Gilbon
5 Ann M. Barry .
5
James Ford .
4 Julia M. Ilaley
7
Caleb Holbrook
5 Ellen Laden
5
Elisha N. Holbrook
5
Katie Laden
7
Thomas Caplice
4
Mary Dorregan
8
David Conry
6 Mary A. Readon
5
Richard Barry
6 Mary Higgins
5
Jolm O'Connell
8 Maggie O'Hearn
6
George O'Connell .
6 Mary McKenny
8
John Corkery
4
Lizzie Lyons
6
Patrick Carey
5 Bridget Downey
7
Willie Shaler
4 Bridget Ryan
6
James Downey
4 Maggie O'Brien
7
Herbert L. Stoddard .
4 Emily Purcell
10
Maurice Murphy
7 Mary Kelly .
6
William Murphy
6
Katy Conry .
6
James Hunt
5 Margaret Lyons
8
John Barker
7 Julia Hatch .
4
Daniel Collins
6
Maria Hatch
G
Henry Purcell
7 Lottie Duell
5
John O'Brien
4 Ann Maria Carney
7
John Murphy
6 Maria Lowell
8
Fannie Collins
6
Nellie Clark
7
Genie Curtis
4 Annie Page .
5
Ellen Barry .
7 Mary Barker
5
Mary E. Fleming
8 Whole number
. 119
LUCY E. HUNT, Teacher.
59
Edward Fleming
6 Hattie B. Duell
60
SCHOOLS.
UNION STREET NORTH PRIMARY.
Age.
Age.
Charles W. Holbrook
7 Lillian A. Mann
9
W. Irving Curtis
7
Sarah J. Dunham
9
Charles F. Forbes
7 Mary E. Quinn
11
William Foley .
10
Adelia Quinn
9
George Clark
10
Hannah O'Connell
7
John E. Roache
8
Katie E. Foley
10
Thomas Flynn .
Freddie Curtis .
6
Hannah Flinn
6
Walter H. Clark
8
Mary Ann Hacket
7
Prescott Arnold
6
Almira J. Furnald
7
Everett Hebberd
5
Ellen Hacket
8
Wilbur Damon
6
Mary Hoor .
6
James Hacket .
5
Naomi M. Fernald
5
David N. Foley
7
Ida Damon
5
J. Henry Hacket
6
Nellie Hacket
5
Michael Foley .
6
Lillie Arnold
5
Arthur W. Tower
G
Lizzie Flynn
4
John Hacket
5
Maggie Wall
11
Howard Clark .
5
Mary Ella Mackin
6
James O'Brine .
4
Catherine F. Quinn
7
Frank McMorrow .
Whole number
. 43
HATTIE B. SMITH, Toacher.
NORTH UNION STREET PRIMARY.
Age.
Age.
John Sullivan
9 Willie Conners
6
Thomas Stoddard .
10
Spencer Jolinson .
7
Thomas MeCrate
9
James H. Morrison
8
Frank Shaw
7
Edward E. Dyke
6
Bennie Stoddard
8
Roger McCrate
4
Eben Whitman 7 Frank Clark
Mary Etta Blanchard
7 9
Steplien Heran
8 Arabelle Manser
7
John Brooks
9 Mary Ann Ford
9
Henry Stoddard Alton Curtis
8 Mary Ann Downey
11
Thomas Burke .
8 Julia Cullinan .
7
David Stoddard
10
Mary McCrate .
6
Charlie Phillips
6 Mary Ellen Cullinan
6
Henry Hacket .
7 Corina Brooks .
8
Amos Clark
G Julia Maria Dunn
6
Billy Stoddard .
5 Mary J. Thompson
7
Walter Blanchard
6 Bridget Ford
7
Bennie Thompson
5 Sarah M. Develin .
8
Charlie A. Brown .
4 Mary Ann Sullivan
5
Frank O'Marra
7 Ann Maria Morrison .
6
9
Mary Hacket
7
8 Celia A. Flinn .
7
John J. McMorrow
4
John Callahan .
9
7 Maggie Cullinan
8
SCHOOLS.
61
Ida Phillips .
4
Laura Bailey
6
Katie Ford .
5
Alice J. Dyke
8
Honora Burke .
6
Nettie Vinton
8
Sarah J. Dunn .
4
Lucy M. Brooks
Whole number . . 52
MARIA L. HOWLAND, Teacher.
WEBSTER STREET INTERMEDIATE
Age.
Lawrence Donovan
. 12
John Mangan
12
Benjamin Irish
15
Frank Littlefield
12
Angelia W. Collins 11
Mina Turner
12
Wallace Burrell
11
Georgiana Pool
12
Nelson Burrell .
9
Bessie Dunn
14
James Mangan .
11
Anabel Hobart .
13
James Gunny
12
Clara Burrell
11
George Mangan
10
Alice C. Pool
11
Henry D. Smith
9
Mary A. Coffee
12
Howard M. Pool
9
Maria S. Curtis
14
Everett Wheeler
9
Alice Foster
13
Orlando Pool
11
Margaret Mangan
12
David Welsh
13
Georgietta Lane
13
Rufus Hobart
14
Lucetta Wheeler
11
George Burrell
14
Abbie Gilman
12
Joseph Murray . Arthur Pool .
10
Ada Beal
10
Austin Wheeler
10
May Sullivan
9
Ferdinand Thompson
13
Anne Stoddard
10
Eddy McGrath .
9
Mary G. Stoddard
12
Elliott Beal .
8 Whole number
44
ELIZABETH W. POOLE, Teacher.
EAST MARKET STREET PRIMARY.
Age.
John Ford
11
Charlie Studley
9
John Quin
11
Cushing Mitchell
9
Henry W. Keene
10
Tommie Burke
8
Eddie Doane
10 Walter Cushing
8
George Baker
9 Dennis Ford
8
James McGrath
9 Daniel Murrill .
8
John Coffie
9
Henry Casey
8
Thorne Hallett .
12
Howard Davis . 12
Henry Hobart .
10
Susie Keran
5
Alma Vinton
7
5
Age.
Age.
Age.
10
Ellen Gilman
9
6
Age.
62
SCHOOLS.
Age.
Age.
James Condon .
7 Sarah Sullivan .
6
Daniel Callahan
7
Ellen Sullivan .
6
Jolın Studley
7 Emma Quince . 5
Joseph Campbell
7 Mary Quince
6
Lewis Doane
7
Mary Burke
5
John McGrath .
6
Mary Hocyse
5
Jerry Ford
6 Mary Lizzie Torrey
4
Maurice Ford
6 Sarahı Mongon .
4
Eddie Perry
6
Mary L. Lime
5
John Burke .
6
Nellie Faunce
4
Fred Torrey
6
Nellie Callaghan
4
Harvey Torrey
6
Maria Lime .
4
Dennis Shea
6
Ettie Ellis
6
Leslie Estes .
5
Sarah Penny
10
Ruric V. Thompson
5
Lizzie Hayse
10
Charlie Brown .
5
Hannah Ford
9
Eddie R. Hopkins .
5
Ellin Murrill
9
Jamie Ford .
5
Mary Sullivan
9
Maurice Condon
5
Ellen Chaplais
9
John Campbell
5
Katie Moane
9
Tommie Murrill
5
Teresa Locke
8
Tommie Chaplais
5 Mary O'Hearn
8
Freddie Cushing
4
Annie Penny
8
Tommie Love
4
Annie Torrey
8
Johnnie Shea
4
Mary Chaplais
8
Allie Josselyn
4 Mary McGratlı .
8
Katy McCarthy
7
Mary Callaghan
8
Eva Foster .
5
Nellie Clark
7
Ella Josselyn
5
Clara Hopkins .
8
Delia Mangan
5
Lizzie Cushing
6
Lizzie Perry
4
Sarah Develin
7
Emma Keene
5
Whole number.
81
M. A. HOPKINS, Teacher.
WEBSTER STREET PRIMARY.
Age.
Age.
John Condor
8
Wilfred Pool
7
Timothy Harrington
5
Arthur Higgins
7
Cornelius Crowly
5
Charlie Pool
8
John Roache
10
James Thomas .
5
John Lewellyn .
5
Eddie Hobart
7
Wilson Whiting
7
Willie Burrell .
8
Lemuel Dill .
9 Elliott Pool .
5
Charlie Beal
7 Richard Mongon
9
Frank Dill
8 Arthur Lane
7
Burleigh Collins
6 Charlie Wheeler
6
Katie Chaplais
5
Maggie Love
8
Eliza Perry .
4
Fannie Bailey .
63
SCHOOLS.
Age.
Age.
Wesley Everson
7 Mary Driscol
9
Leander Hallett
6
Kate Driscol
7
Clarence Ripley
7
Affa Gilman
6
Ernest Burrell .
7 Abbie Connel
John Phillips
6
Maggie Connel
4
Arthur Davis
5
Mary Iris
8
Walter Pool
7 Josephine Iris
7
Walter Stoddard
G
Jane Welch
11
Ernest Collins .
8 Lizzie Mongon .
7
James Donavon
5 Bridget Chene
9
Sumner Turner
7 Mary Sullivan .
6
William Welch
8
Margaret Murray
7
Jolın Macalvene
5 Mary Murray
10
Joseph Wheeler
6
Kate Goy
C
Albert Donavon
7
Florence Pool
7
Charlie Stoddard
5 Mary Lewellyn
4
Morris Chene
6 Mary Lewellyn
5
Fred Lane
4
Mary Grady
5
Henry Lewellyn
6 Bridget Grady .
9
Joseph Murray
5
Mary Pool
5
Cornelius Murray .
G
Frances Donavon .
8
Emma Dill
11
Margaret Jones
9
Enna Crocker
8
Ellen Condor
6
Mary Hallett
8
Ellen Jones .
7
Jennie Wheeler
4
Alice Jones .
5
Nettie Pool .
7 Carrie Hughes .
G
Celia Pool
8
Margaret Magnor
12
Arabella Monsur
6
Julia Murray
5
Effie Wheeler
6 Kate Harrington
10
Caroline Donavon
8
Eliza Lewellyn .
13
Effiie Beal
5
Margaret Macalvene
8
Nettie Beal .
6
Whole number
84
GERTRUDE POOLE, Teacher.
MARKET STREET INTERMEDIATE.
Age.
Age.
Joseph Jenkins
13
Frank Sampson
10
Marshal Lane .
14
George Hunt
9
Josiah Burgess
13
Charles Elmes
10
Herbert Sampson
13
Chester Perry
10
Austin Mitchell 12
George Evans
13
James Roarty 10
Alfred Reed .
9
Everett Perry
11
Elliot Wade
13
Samuel D. Lewis
12
David Tobin
11
Charles E. Studley
12
Herbert Baker
12
Edward Lane
12 John Jones
13
Nellie Rynhart .
4
64
SCHOOLS.
Age.
Agc.
Annie Hobson
15 Mary Foster
11
Ida Joyce
12
Ella Torrey .
12
Katie Butterfield
12 Jennie Locke
10
Josie Wigginton
15
Emma Studley .
13
Annie Torrey
11 Eva Delano
12
Ruth Tirrell
9
Martha Simes
13
Lizzie Beverly .
10
Emma Lewis
11
Addie Thompson
13
Julia Kennedy
14
Abbie Lovell
13
Ruth Torrey
8
Lizzie Lane .
10
Mary E. Lewis .
9
Helen Briggs
10
Lizzie Penney Alma Lane .
9
Marion Loud
14
Henrietta Willis
12
Hannah Murrill
11
Mary Mccarthy
10
Mary McCraith
13
Lilla Fletcher
9
Hannah MeCraith
11
Lucia Taylor
11
Mary Burgess .
15
Eva Monroe
. 11
Jessie Totman .
9
Whole number
55
FANNIE REED, Teacher.
MARKET STREET PRIMARY.
Age.
Agc.
Arthur Baker.
8
Ezra Delano
4
Frank Wade
8
Charlie Sanborn
10
Charlie Jenkins
6 Jolin McCarty .
9
Charlie Huchins
8
Maurice Murphy
10
Aroscoe Briggs
6
John Murphy
G
Charlie Lewis
7
Michael Sullivan
G
Frank Butterfield .
13
James Gun
5
Alonzo Wade
10
Willie Toben
9
Horatio Burgess
9 Willie Sullivan
8
Willie Warren .
9 Thomas Griffin .
10
Walter Perry
7
John O'Connell
9
Austin Everson
7 Eddie Tobin
7
Charlie Winslow
8
David MeCraite
G
Francis Wade .
9
Patrick McCraite
5
Everett Lane
6 George O'Connell .
7
Fletcher Jenkins
5
Willie Barry
7
Walter Lane
5
John Hoy
7
Chester Studley
6 Michael McEnroe .
G
Horace Totman
7
James McEnroe
9
Whitie Everson
4 James McGovern .
5
Elliot Willis
9 Gerald Fitzgerald .
7 5
Roland Delano .
9 Patrick Connors
7
Frank Kennedy
9 Patrick Considine .
7
Walter Kennedy
10 Andrew Considine
8
Willie Cook
10 Mattie Jones
8
Henry Whitcomb .
G Charlie McGovern
11
Altie Elmes .
7
Henry Purcell .
12
Arabella Young
9
Genella Delano
7 John Fitzgerald
SCHOOLS.
65
Age.
Age.
James Tobin
5 Ellen Murphy
5
Maurice Tangley
8
Mary Murphy
8
Mary A. Sullivan
7
Nettie Keene
6 Lizzie O'Hayre
7
Lizzie Wade
6
Emily Purcell
9
Ruth Wade .
5
Abbie Kelly .
5
Jessie Loud .
8
Mary Connors
6
Clara Gurney
7
Julia McEnroe .
11
Mary Tower
6 Nancy Conners
5
Edith Delano
6 Bridget Jones
10
Emma Hunt
6
Mary Soughroe
9
Estelle Perry
4 Margaret Soughroe
7
Clara Cook .
7 Mary E. Purcell
5
Etta Joyce
6 Mary McCarty .
5
Mara Gurney
4 Maggie MeCraite
4
Annie Lapham .
4
Mary Hoy
4
Mary McEnroe.
12
Mary Connors .
6
Ellen McEnroe
5
Mary O'Hayre .
6
Sarah Barry
9
Whole number
93
GEORGIA LANE, Teacher.
SOUTH HIGH AND GRAMMAR SCHOOL.
Age.
Age.
Charles D. Fullerton
13
Mary W. Noyes
14
George E. Hersey
14
Helen G. Leach
15
Albert H. Harlow .
14
Augusta J. Reed
15
J. Roland Corthell
14
Clara A. Nash .
14
I. Carey Alden
13
Enima J. Earle
13
George Gurney
16
Georgianna E. Soule
13
David A. Gurney
13
Joanna Fullerton
14
Ira A. Leach
14
L. Addie Beale
15
WV. Bradford Wade
12
Laura F. White
13
Noah A. Poole . 13
Annie F. Ransom
13
Elmer W. Noyes
14
Julia O. Donovan .
13
Charles A. IIutchin
14
Martha I. Sharpe
14
Horace R. Reed
12
Clara J. Reed .
14
Z. Elbridge Peterson 14
Mary R. Jenkins
15
Bennie H. Blake
13
13
George F. Keene
11
14
Edward C. Perry
14
Ella S. Bates
12
J. Edward Morse
11
Lucy J. Gurney
13
Frank E. Shaw
14
Annie Jones
14
Huldah J. Leach
13
Helen L. Fullerton
17
Whole number
41
Lizzie A. Peterson
17
Maggie O'Donald
7
Lodora B. Fielding Ellen M. Gurney
HENRY B. BROWN, A. M., Principal.
6*
66
SCHOOLS.
SOUTH AVENUE INTERMEDIATE.
Age.
Age.
William W. Blanchard . . 12
Rosina Ann Cook .
14
Davis M. Gurney .
14
Mary Frances Thompson 10
Frank A. Reed .
12
Lucy R. Sproul 12
Elmer Fullerton
11
Mary E. French
13
Edwin Poole
10
Emma R. Malroy
10
Edward O. Dyer 11
F. R. Sproul
10
Charles H. Fairbanks
11
Susan M. Reed
13
Henry Webster Clift .
11
Mary A. Peterson .
10
James Robinson
12
Emily A. Alden
10
George Q. Churchill
12
Maria L. Alden
11
Frank Conroy
10 Julia M. Darrow
9
Willie Merritt Corthell
11 Addie R. Gurney
10
Andrew Gloyd .
14
Ida B. Harding
12
Charles Henry Blanchard
14
Anna M. Beal
12
Abner C. Coombs
12
Margaret Lynn
14
Samuel J. Blois
11
Agnes Barnes Sproul
14
John Burke
11 14
Mary Frances Donovan
10
Willie T. Sherman
11
Julia A. Blake
8
Franklin W. Reed
11
Anna Eliza Reed
11
Samuel O. Gurney
11
Effie Ransom
10
Walter C. Packard
10
Ada F. Gurney
11
George Franklin Harlow
10 10
Mary E. Churchill
11
Frederick L. Soule
10
Isabel W. Leach
12
Herbert F. Hutchinson
13
Sarah E. Ripley
13
George B. Phinney 10
Susan E. Hersey
9
Albert H. Blois
12
Joannah Meany
10
Michael O'Brien
10 Alice M. Reed .
10
William W. Vining
9
Ellen Meany
9
Sarah P. Vining
11
Whole number
. 63
MARY E. REED, Teacher.
PLEASANT STREET MIXED.
Age.
Age.
Matthew Sullivan . . 15
Myron A. Jenkins
. 13
Edwin F. Leonard
15
lloratio N. Winslow .
12
William C. Hendley .
14
George E. Leavitt .
14
A. Welcome Gurney
14
J. Manly Gurney
10
Wilson M. Bourne
13
Oscar H. Paere
10
John Pronty
12
Charles Townsend
13
Charles W. Harding
16 Eddie C. Cooke 12
Walter S. Leach
10
Illenry White
. 10
Ida W. Josselyn
12
Sarah M. Lewis
13
Mary Alice Bates
10
William D. Cook .
Mary Ella Chamberlain .
13
Edney Franeis Bowles
67
SCHOOLS.
Age.
Age.
Charles M. Gurney
9
Emily E. Dunbar .
8
George F. Bourne
5
Anna E. Packard .
11
Willie H. Winslow
8 II. Lizzie Pickernell .
11
Charles E. Sullivan
10
Mary L. Pickernell
9
Eddie White
7
Mary L. Hendley
10
S
Anna G. Reed
9
7 Sarah C. Reed .
7
Josiah M. Bourne . Joseph Ilill .
9
Jennie M. Alden
11
Nelson Churchill
8 Julia F. Bates
9
George Tuttle
10 Loretta Bourne
10
Asa L. Gurney .
7
Carrie I. Cooke
7
C. Franklin Reene
7
B. Florence Cooke
5
D. Webster Townsend
7 Addie M. Tuttle
9
Otis H. Alden
6
Jennie E. Hendley
5
J. Marshall Bourne
15
Lilian E. Reed .
8
George F. Reene
6
J. Maria Sullivan
7
Albert Bates 7
Ilattie J. Packard .
8
Walter L. Reed
5
Ida Winslow
6 6
John H. Pickernell
14
Ella Reene
6 Nellie J. Hersey
6 9
Everett Caswell
6
Rosabel S. Gurney
7
Emily M. Gannett
. 11
Whole number
69
HELEN A. REED, Teacher.
PLYMOUTH STREET INTERMEDIATE.
Age.
Age.
Herbert Arnold
12
Frank Keon .
9
Henry Cox
9
Frederic Lane
9
John Caughlan .
10
Albion Leavitt .
11
Edward Coin
15
William Millett
11
Wilmot Everson
15
James Moran
12
William Faulkner
13
Alphonso Munroe 13
James Flaven
10
Lucien Nelson .
9
John Flaven
11
Charles Powers
12
George Fairbanks .
10
Freddie Reed
10
Edgar Fuller
12
Charles Rand
12
Bernard Fitzgerald
12
Everett Wilkes
9
Bernard Gilbride 11
John Gilbride
11
Abbie Bennett . 9
Albion Gloyd
13
Jennie Beal . 11
Edwin Hutchinson
10
Emma Davy 11
Charles Hutchinson
12
Maggie Donaghuc .
11
8
Ella J. Thomas' 12
Alice M. Caswell
8
Alice F. Cooke .
9
Charles E. Hendley J. Quincy Dunbar Wallace C. Alden .
9 Carrie L. Winslow
10
8 Chestina Churebill
14
Charles D. Dyer
Albion Thomas 6
Lottie C. Gannett .
Abbie L. Reene
68
SCHOOLS.
Age.
Age.
Hannah Donaghue
9
Hattie Richmond
11
Lnella Ewell
10
Emma Reed
13
Eliza Fairbanks
12 Ellen Smith .
11
Mary Keon .
9
Emmeline Smith
9
Eva Munroe
11
Georgianna Whiting
12
Mary Pratt
11
Whole number
45
LIZZIE A. FORD, Teacher.
PLYMOUTH STREET PRIMARY.
Age.
Age.
Ralph Whiting
6
Allie Noyes .
5
Georgie L. Ewell
4
Willie H. Beal .
6
Arthur Powers .
5
Willie D. Reed
5
Willie Fitzgerald
8
Hansard Bessee
4
Maurice Condley
9
B. Ernest Wilkes
4
Daniel Driscoll
5
Patrick Considine .
11
Frankie Donoghue
10
Andrew Considine
9
George M. Gloyd .
10
Ida Ewell 13
Emma F. Wilkes
10
Horace G. Beal
9
Erie Davy
7
Barney G. Baldwin
5 Anna W. Faunce
6
Henry Quigley .
9
Nellie F. Gilbride . Mabel Bessee
7
Willie Quigley .
7
Albert Quigley .
13 Emma A. Nash
10
Frankie A. Millett
9
Katie Jackson
10
Lemuel W. Whiting
11
Anna L. Powers
9
Eugene Whiting
7 Anna M. Lane .
7
George H. Gould
6
Editlı B. Lane .
5
Chester E. Cook
8 Mary A. Nash .
8
Johnnie MeHugh
8 Sarah Patterson
7
S Mary A. Patterson
6
10 Nellie F. Lincoln
6
7 Mary A. Driscoll
10
Augustus L. Freeman
9 Sarah Russell
5
Jolinnie B. Coombs
11 Emma B. Wood
S
Josie A. Coombs
9
Augusta M. Everson .
8
Sammie Coombs
6
Lizzette Ewell
8
Willie A. Cane
4 Hannah Donoghue
9
Eddie Cane
5 Jennie Parmenter .
7
Ashton H. Pratt
7 Leonis Thompson .
6
Andrew Jackson
5 Georgianna Fitzgerald
7
Richard Lyons .
9 Mary McCullough
9
Henry Lyons
5 Whole number
70
9
Francis Wade
11
Henry A. Ballou
9
Willie L. Fairbanks
7
C. VALESTA WORMELLE, Teacher.
12
Anna Powers
10
Marietta Millett
14
M. Alice Wilkes
7 Hannah Driscoll
7
George O. Young Thomas Russell James Russell . Edgar W. Beal
6
Lucian P. Nelson .
69
SCHOOLS.
SOUTH ABINGTON SCHOOL STREET FIRST PRIMARY.
Age.
Age.
J. Lewis Reed 12
Jeddie A. Vining .
6
William D. Cook .
11 Joseph H. Haskell 6
N. Franklin Caswell .
11
William H. Lincoln 9
WV. Franklin Chamberlain William F. S. Reed
13
Mandana M. Teague . 11
I. Morey Lewis
10
Lucinda M. Taggard 11
Gilbert L. Sproul .
10
Julia S. Howe 10
Charles W. Bressingham 10 Malansa W. Gurney
10
William H. Sharpe 10
R. Alice Gloyd .
10
E. Warren Clift
10 Lucy A. Reed .
10
William C. Porter
9
Carrie A. Jenkins .
9
Abraham Bloise
9
Isabel J. B. Teague
9
Henry L. Holbrook
9
Hattie A. Leach
9
Marcus W. Reed
8
Ida F. Cole .
9
Daniel A. Wade
8 Ida H. Thorpe .
9
Oscar L. Gurney
S Emma J. Sharpe
8
Lewis B. Howe
8 Ella C. Porter
8
Warren Corthell
8 Lucy J. Sherman
8
Edward C. Osborne
8 Addie H. Huntington
8
Thomas Lewis . Oliver H. Reed
8
Alice M. Caswell .
8
Abbott Thompson .
8
Mary A. Nevans
8
Henry L. Peterson
7
Eveline W. Phinney
7
John E. Bosworth
7
Whole number ·
53
S. LILLIE GURNEY, Teacher.
SOUTH ABINGTON SCHOOL STREET SUB-PRIMARY.
Age.
Age.
Edward Luddy .
9
George Lewis
6
Frank R. Norton
8
H. Clayton Harden
6
James L. Sproul
8
Clifford French
6
Herbert O. Matthews
8
Philip Robertson
8
Charles Leach 8
Charles Sherman
6
Michael Barry
7
George E. Alden
6
Sumner Poole
Seth E. Alden
5
Jerry O'Brien
Charles Taggard
5
George A. Clift
G John Luddy .
5
William Spelman
6 Austin Foster
5
Herbert Norton
6 Clarence C. Corthell .
5
Freddie W. Churchill
6 John Leach .
4
S Alice M. Soule .
8
Elnathan W. Haskell
8 Mary A. Spelman .
8
George F. Bates
7
Rubena N. Hutchinson
7
Michael O'Brien
11
John Robinson .
9 Addie F. Dyer .
70
SCHOOLS.
Age.
Wałdo Packard
4
Mary Kinsley
7
Henry J. Sherman
4
Ella M. Reed
6
Albert W. West
4
Mary E. Beals
6
Catherine A. Nevan 10
Sarah F. Nevan
6
Jane Gloyd .
12
Julia A. Meaney
6
Margaret Conry
8
Hattie A. Ransom
5
Alice M. Taggard .
8
Annie Lincoln
5
Ida M. Bloise
7
Mary A. Matthews
5
Mary A. Meaney
8
Bethia A. Porter
6
Lizzie J. West .
8
Lucy W. Phinney
4
Sarah E. Lincoln
Whole number
51
Hattie A. Reed
Bethia A. Hutchinson
4
L. CLARA HOLBROOK, Teacher.
Whole number embraced in the above schools
2,111.
REV. HORACE D. WALKER, SAMUEL DYER, LEWIS E. NOYES, School Committee of Abington.
Laura E. Fairbanks
6
Mary Bourke
8
Annie M. Sproul
5
Mary E. Luddy
Age.
CHAPTER VII.
Agriculture and Horticulture .- Their State and Condition in Past Times and at the Present Time.
IN the commencements of new settlements, the first object is to supply the necessaries of life,-food and raiment,-and this is principally done by agriculture, or tilling the ground. In mineral districts, it is otherwise ; for minerals can be ex- changed for products to supply the wants of the body. There was nothing of this latter kind in this town to reward industry or supply the wants of living. The soil was naturally hard and rocky ; the older towns in the vicinity had a better choice of lands ; they were selected for agricultural purposes, and at a much earlier date. This town was made up of gores of land, shares, and cheap purchases. At its incorporation in 1710, the population might have been three hundred. (In 1726, it was three hundred and seventy-one.) From that time (1710) to the period to which my recollection extends, (1790,) it had increased to fourteen hundred and fifty-three,- twelve hundred in eighty years,-averaging fifteen yearly. This long period was marked with great toil and many hardships ; for a great part of it, agriculture was the main support of the inhabitants. For this purpose the lands had to be cleared up, roads to be made, and buildings to be erected. Towards the close of it, however, and up to 1800, things began to be much improved ; the sale of lumber for ship-building had become quite extensive ; box-making, also, was extensively carried on ; the making of tacks and brads, by hand, employed many persons ; weaving for factories had commenced ; boots and shoes began to be manufactured in considerable quantities, as also many other manufactures, which will be noted herc- after.
These improvements gave quite an impetus to agricultural pursuits ; for they furnished means to extend them, so that the
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products of the farming interest were greatly increased ; they became sufficient for the support of the inhabitants, and left a surplus for market, particularly of butter and cheese, young animals, as calves and lambs, poultry, mutton, beef, and pork.
During this period many articles of produce were raised, which are not now ; flax and wool were among them. Almost every farmer had a field of flax and a flock of sheep. Flax and wool were made by hand into linen and woollen cloth ; and all wool cloths, and also cotton and wool cloth were made in the same way. These articles were so extensively made as to supply a great proportion of the inhabitants, male and female, with clothing ; and households, with linen and bed- clothes, and some with floor-carpets.
Geese were kept in great numbers: scarcely a farmer was without his flock ; and many, who had no farms, kept them. They were raised for two purposes ; their bodies for the market, and their feathers for bedding. Besides what feathers they afforded when killed, they were picked when alive for that purpose, generally twice in a year-the old ones sometimes three times ; the young ones always once, and fre- quently twice. Geese picking was quite a merry scene with children ; the pickers were all covered with down and feathers. The geese, especially the old ones, were very spiteful : they would bite and strike with their wings. To prevent their biting, a stocking was pulled over their heads ; and to prevent their striking with their wings, the wings were locked over their backs. From such picking arose the name, " live geese feathers." This was done just as they began to shed their feathers, and the down had got to a considerable growth ; so they were not left naked. Much care was taken not to pluck off the large feathers under the wings, called "wing sup- porters," otherwise the wings would trail upon the ground.
The wool, the flax and the cotton were all spun, wove, and made into cloth by female hands. Towards the close of this period, (from 1790 to 1800,) these operations were greatly facilitated by machines to card the wool into rolls ; and after- wards, cotton yarn, or factory yarn, as it was called, came
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into use for warps for cotton and wool cloth, and for all cotton cloth. This was a great improvement, as the carding and spinning of cotton by hand was a laborious process. Before these improvements, the process of making cloth was alto- gether by hand ; and a long time after, as respects woollen cloth. All those cloths, where wool was used, were dressed in fulling-mills, as they were called, and there were many in the State. At one time there were two in this town, and two sets of carding-machines for carding wool into rolls.
To carry on these operations, hundreds of spinning-wheels and looms were constantly employed in town, operated by females-farmers' wives, daughters, and hired help. There was also a system regulating these operations : so many skeins of linen, seven knots to a skein, was a day's work ; four skeins of linen on the little spinning-wheel, done sitting, and the same number of skeins of wool, tow, and cotton, on the great wheel, done standing.
These spinners and weavers were a merry set ; they gained much time in doing their day's work, and had frequent social meetings. When at work, which was a mechanical operation, they were full of song and glee. Their minds were free for this, as their labor required but little exercise of the under- standing and thought. There were no foreign females em- ployed in those days, nor for forty years after. The work was done altogether by American females.
But in a few years after these dates, (about 1810,) all these manufactures were superseded by cotton and woollen factories on a larger and a different scale, operated by water and steam- power. The products of the earth, previous to these changes, however, were much greater, according to the ratio of popula- tion, than after. Industry began to find employment in manu- factures, at greater remunerating prices than could be obtained in agricultural pursuits. On this account, and the consequent high price of labor, farming operations have been greatly depressed. Yet it must be conceded that agricultural and hor- ticultural products have greatly increased in the town by other means than profitable returns. The increase of population and 7
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wealth has done much in these respects, without calculating returns. The division of land, very extensively, into small farms and gardens, has multiplied products greatly, not for market, but for home consumption.
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