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This old Concord family went back to Nathaniel Healey (1774) and his wife, Sally Towle (1769). Their son Nathan (1810) married Parthenia Savage January 4, 1837. Their children, other than the two teachers named were: Jacob S. (1838), Cal- vin S. (1839), Cyrus G. (1845), Albion L. (1848), Eunice L. (1851), Milford R. (1854) and Julia A. (1858).
The Churchills were a great teaching family in eastern Emb- den, although they were originally out of Moscow and Caratunk and resided considerably in New Portland. Notable among them was Rev. Hartwell Churchill, master of five big winter terms in Embden, beginning with the Moulton school in 1863. The other
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four were at No. 3 in '65, at No. 4 in '66 and two at the Hol- brook school. During much of this period he was a resident of the town on Lot 83 near the middle road and near his cousin, Albert Churchill. He identified himself with town affairs and held several town offices, including that of "Superintending School Committee" in 1871. His romantic career began in a log house on Long Pond, where he was born. Samuel Holden, a first settler in the Moose River valley, was his grandfather. Samuel's daughter, Mary, married Asa Churchill, who died before his son was three years old. Hartwell at nine left his step-father, John Doyle, to live with John Pierce of Embden. After seven years there he went to Daniel B. Ross, in Skowhe- gan, attending school at Dudleys Corner and Malbon's Mills. Then he worked for Lot Gould in Anson Valley.
After his teaching service in Embden while he was still a resident there, Hartwell married Lydia E. Pratt of Skowhegan, in 1870. Two years later he moved with his family and his mother to Michigan to teach and in 1878 became a Baptist min- ister. One of his pastorates was at Fairfield, Lenawee County, not far from the Indiana line. His wife, having shared her husband's labors as a minister for 37 years, died in 1915 at Parshallville, Mich. They had five daughters.
Albert Churchill's four daughters- Rena (Mrs. John H. Dane of Madison and Skowhegan) ; Carolyn (Mrs. Elmore Carl of Madison) ; Lulu (Mrs. Milton Phillips of Madison) ; and Allie of Madison - were all teachers in the schools of Embden, Madison and other towns, as was Rena's daughter, Mrs. C. T. Huff of Skowhegan, and Carolyn's daughter, Mrs. Walon Mantor of Madison. Rena Churchill, of an older generation than Albert's daughters, was teaching school at Embden in 1848. Mrs. Carl's daughter, Vestie, widow of Carroll L. Caswell had a creditable teaching career both before her marriage and after her husband's death. In later years she has been a teacher in Anson.
Amos Heald (1834-1905), master of the No. 3 school in 1863 after two terms on the other side of the town, was an old fash- ioned character. Although born in New Portland, where his
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parents, Thomas and Mahala (Hutchins) Heald long resided, his background was more in Concord and Moscow, for his grand- father, Amos, was a nephew of Maj. Ephraim Heald, and his grandmother, Sally, the first white child born in Somerset County, was a daughter of William Fletcher. Amos, the grand- father, came to Maine about 1785, married at Bingham a year later and was drowned at Caratunk Falls in December, 1800, with one of his Fletcher brothers-in-law. Amos, the school teacher, married Margaret Bailey, a very attractive woman, at North Anson in 1860. Their only child, Matie (1861-1892) was born at Embden and attended Anson Academy. After living several years at Madison, Amos Heald died at Harmony. He was a dignified man and of very pleasant manner. By his marriage he was related to the Gahans of North Anson:
Down the middle road, or Canada Trail, in the Dunbar neigh- borhood were families of notable teachers. The Atkinson family was one of them. William Atkinson taught the Dunbar school as early as 1839. His sister, Elizabeth, twenty years his junior, was teaching there in 1852 - her third school in Embden - and the two ensuing years was mistress of the Berry school. She returned to the Dunbar school for one term in 1856. Her niece, Flora (Atkinson) Hilton, daughter of Joseph Atkinson and wife of Cephas Hilton, taught at district No. 2 in 1868 - which was shortly before her marriage - and died at Guilford. Ellen Caswell (Mrs. Stickney Gray 1844-1913), daughter of the senior John Caswell followed her father as a teacher. She kept the Dunbar school, her home district, in 1860, as he had done in 1845, had one term the same year in No. 6 down toward Anson and then one term in Anson before she married at 18 years of age. Her daughter, Mrs. Evie Gray Robinson, years later taught in Embden.
There were also the Salley girls still farther down the road - who made exceptional records. Sarah J. (1845-1910), daughter of Isaac Salley, Jr., first had the Berry school in the summer of '64 and then kept the Cragin school the following winter. She boarded with the family of John Pierce, whose brother, Merari Spaulding Pierce (1826-1869) she married as soon as the school
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term had closed. Her second husband was George Mantor (1835-1883) of Madison, who, in '63, had taught the Moulton school in Embden. He was a son of Luke Mantor. The Mantors, too, were good teachers. Ella Mantor (Mrs. George E. Hapgood of North Anson) kept the summer term of the Moulton school in '63 and Ellen Mantor kept the Dunbar school in '66. Sarah Salley bore her second husband six children, one of whom is Walon Mantor at Madison.
Her cousin, Clymena, daughter of Cyrus Salley, had a larger teaching experience, most of it in eastward schools. She was mistress of the Stevens school, No. 2, in '62; the Berry school in '64 ; the Dunbar school in '64 and '65; the Wilson school, No. 6, in '66 and the Gray school, No. 1, in '68, in August of the latter year marrying John O. Hilton of Anson.
Tilson D. Salley, of Madison - his father, Joseph, having been a cousin of Isaac, Jr., and of Cyrus - taught the Dunbar school in 1866 when it was largest in Embden. It was his first experience at teaching, in recalling which he said; "I agreed with Issac Salley, then agent of the district, at the rate of $20 a month. I had some doubt about my success as there was a num- ber of large scholars and the house was packed full, from little tots to full grown boys. But things moved along smoothly through the entire term. I boarded at the agent's house where the surroundings were homelike with plenty of jollity and amuse- ment during those winter evenings." Tilson was doubly related in Embden, for his grandmother was Polly (Wilson) Thompson, wife of Joseph Thompson of Anson, and daughter of Veteran John Wilson by Fahi Pond.
The Williams family, with relatives in Anson, produced teach- ers for Embden schools, chiefly on the Kennebec River side. Laura (1830) daughter of Chandler Williams, kept the Berry school in 1847 after her father had moved to Moscow. Harriet T. Williams (1847-1877) had a long teaching career in the town before she became Mrs. Henry B. Merry of North Anson. When hardly well into her teens, she kept the Moulton school and then, in 1861, the Barron school. She had the Berry school in '65 and '68, went soon to No. 3 and No. 6 districts and in 1869 was
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teaching in No. 2 and No. 5 districts. Her Embden parents were Zachariah (1808-1898) and Nancy (Berry) Williams. Zachariah, a son of Caleb, was agent of the No. 3 district in 1847, prior to his removal to Anson. Hattie Williams' sister-in-law Emeline B. Merry, taught the Dunbar school in 1863, taught also in An- son Academy afterward and married David B. Norton, active in G. A. R. circles. They lived first at Industry, where their seven children were born. Estelle Merry (1851-1886) of the same family was mistress of No. 3 in '70. She married Calvin W. Savage, as his second wife. They lived at Poway, near San Diego, California. Sarah at the Berry school in '62 and the Dunbar school in '63; Augusta at the Dunbar and Wilson districts in '67, '69 and '70; Delora at the John Gray school in '63; and Frances at the Dunbar school in '70 were other Wil- liams teachers of that period.
The earlier Savage families of Embden also included several teachers. Sarah Otis Savage, daughter of Reuben, Jr., taught the John Gray school in '66 and, a few months previously, a term in No. 3. She married Ai Williams of Solon, a returned Californian. They settled at Somerville, Mass., and after his death she resided at Waltham. Sarah's sister, Martha, was teacher of No. 8 school in '63, and following the Civil War mar- ried Joseph Chase. They made their home at Skowhegan. After his death she married Daniel Crossman of South Athol, Mass., and soon moved to Framingham.
Thomas J. Savage's son, Edward (1846-1907) taught at No. 3, his home district in the late 60's and then resided at San Fran- cisco many years. He returned to Skowhegan when his health failed and died at the house of his brother, Jefferson. He never married. Their cousin, Mrs. Dollie Savage Jagger of Sterling, Mass. - daughter of Elbridge G. Savage (1812-1887) - taught the John Gray school in '62 and boarded with Elam Stevens. "My term there" Mrs. Jagger wrote years latter," was very agreeable. The pupils were bright and eager to learn and I derived real pleasure in trying to help them." One of her girl pupils of that term in '62 declared her to have been "a good teacher and a darling."
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The many Thompson families of Embden furnished quite a quota of men and women teachers beyond the ones already mentioned. Celia and Flavilla Thompson were Embden teach- ers in 1840. Ella M. Thompson, (1856-1884) youngest daughter of Fletcher and Martha (Gray) Thompson, had a pathetic career of earnest service. Among her many Embden schools were two at the Berry district in the early 70's and a term at No. 3 in '75. Her sister, Emma, (Mrs. John C. Gray of Boston) taught the Berry school in 1879 but died in 1886 at 33 years of age. Another sister, Sarepta (1850-1893), Mrs. Frank Moulton, was a teacher in No. 8 district and their daughter, Josephine, was an Embden teacher at No. 3 and elsewhere of later years. Older teachers of these Thompson families were Susannah, who taught in 1848 and became Wesley Gray's second wife; Adeline, daughter of Reuben, who became Mrs. Richard Hilton, 2nd., of Starks in 1850, after a term as mistress of No. 5 in '48, and Frances Ann, Adeline's sister, who taught No. 5 in 1849. Lt. Isaac H. Thompson of Anson, was master of the Holbrook school in '60.
A notable school "marm" in districts eastward was Harriet K. Chaney of Embden. She had the No. 3 terms in '45 and '47 ; No. 4 in '45 and Nos. 1 and 2 in '46 before her marriage to David Patterson of Solon. She was the mother of Mahlon Patterson, the Solon trader, and of Horace Patterson of Athens. Of her three daughters Ellen became Mrs. Ernest Whipple; Sarah, Mrs. Philander Baker of Caratunk ; and Mildred, Mrs. Frank G. Man- son of Limington. Manson (1862-1898) was. a well known ed- ucator. Graduating from Dartmouth College in 1887, he be- came principal of Anson Academy from 1889 to 1893. He then studied medicine at Dartmouth and practiced for two years at Billerica, Mass., where he died. His grave is at Solon Village. His widow, graduate of the Academy in '91, taught for 13 years in Solon, and in more recent times was a popular assistant to the principal of the academy.
The Moores of Anson and Madison sent acceptable teachers to Embden schools. Nira C. a sister of Samantha (Mrs. Moses M. Thompson) of Madison kept the No. 2 school in '49, afterward
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marrying William Holbrook of Madison. She died in 1902. Her certificate, written March 17, 1849 by Superintendent T. F. Boothby, is held by her daughter, Emma, (Mrs. Edgar C. Dun- ton) of Skowhegan.
Charles S. Moore - son of Asa of Anson and master of the Berry school in '68 - made his fortune in California as a news- dealer and died in 1921. About the time of his teaching he also was a cheese maker for T. Gray & Son at their North Anson factory. George H. Moore, a lawyer at Hollister, Calif., is his nephew. His cousin, Alice Moore, had one term at the Barron school in '64 and another cousin, Olive M. Snell, daughter of Joshua Snell of Anson and descended through her mother from Maj, John Moore, taught No. 5 in '65. Olive married Ansel Tobey. Her sister, Augusta, was Mrs. Frederic Dunbar of Embden. Other Snell sisters were Emily (Mrs. Ben Mantor of North Anson) and Susan (Mrs. Frank Jones, of Oshkosh, Wis.) Lora Moore from Anson, but of a later generation, kept many schools in the town, including No. 3 and had great prestige.
But big Embden schools, paying relatively good wages, at- tracted many other good teachers from adjacent towns and even more distant points. Elizabeth Pease Norton (1835-1904) of New Portland and belonging to the same family as the famous Farmington singer, was one of them. She was of small stature and had curly hair, worn in ringlets down to her shoulders, Georgianna O. Hutchins was a teaching contemporary in Embden schools and was also very proficient on the piano, filling the school girls of the day with wonderment at her rendering of 'The Battle of Waterloo."
Elizabeth Norton had seven terms in Embden, most of them in the northwest section where her uncle, Samuel Norton, lived on the slopes of Black Hill, but two of the terms were in '55 and 56 at the John Gray school. She began teaching at 17, never married and devoted her life to educational work. After numerous terms in Maine, including one in the district "under he hill" at North Anson, she taught in Ohio, as did Georgie Hutchins, and in the 70's went to California. The law there ecognized only normal graduates for first-class schools, so she
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came back to the Gorham Normal and graduated, being the poet of her class. Then again she traveled to California and taught there as long as her health permitted. She was the author of numerous verses and, at San Juan, Calif., was active as a mem- ber of the Order of Eastern Star. She died at Hollister where a sister, Mrs. S. F. Hight, and a brother, R. G. Norton resided. She taught 76 schools in a service of over 30 years. One of her nieces is Mrs. Carrie Norton Gilbert of Farmington.
Her parents - John Wesley and Lydia (Flint) Norton - resided in New Portland. They had two other daughters - Clarissa Flint, who taught northwest Embden schools in '45 and '55, and Sarah Flint Norton who had one term in '50 in the same part of town. These were household terms at which the children of their uncle, Samuel Norton, and of his neighbors at- tended. Samuel's son, Charles C. Norton, now at Williamantic, Me., was master of this school in '70. Samuel's wife was Charlotte Waugh of Starks. Mary S. Norton, teacher of that school in '63 and '64, was their daughter.
Mellen C. Hight, of Athens and Boston, presided in '61 at the head desk of the Berry school with 35 scholars and Michael F. Berry, agent. Sadie L. French, whom Stillman H. Atwood. agent, engaged for the No. 3 term in '76, was from Mount Vernon. Another Kennebec county teacher in that school was Hon. L. T. Carleton, leading attorney of Winthrop, former chairman of the Maine Fish and Game Commission and head of a G. A. R. committee that went to Washington in 1928 to deliver captured stands of Confederate battle flags to Virginia and other Southern states. Mr. Carleton taught No. 3 in '67 with 45 scholars for $54, Joshua G. Boyington agent.
"People there were very kind that winter" wrote he by way of reminiscence. "They overlooked my youth and inexperience The thing I remember most clearly about that school was a boy some 10 years old. He appeared mentally and physically al right and active but during the whole term I could not teacl him a single letter of the alphabet. He would learn a few let ters during the day but the next morning it was all off. devoted a lot of time to him but really failed."
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While it was not long a large or difficult district, the John Gray school (No. 1) had a succession of interesting teachers. James Justin Parlin (1837-1896), native of Freeman, well known attorney at North Anson and member of the Legislature in 1878, taught school there in '63 and '64. Joshua Gray hired him for the first term. at $53.80 and Ozias McFad- den for the second at $50. Francis Wilder was there in 49 with 22 scholars; Sarah Burns, daughter of Isaac, in '50; Cordelia Wilson in '51. Cordelia (1832) was the old- est daughter of Elijah Wil- son, granddaughter of Vet- eran John and in 1854 be- came the wife of Enoch Young. Her sister, Flavilla, (1836) taught three Embden terms, two in No. 6 in '54 JAMES JUSTIN PARLIN and '56 and in 1860 married James Beal. There were several teachers in the families of both Elijah and of his brother, Rev. Jesse Lee Wilson. Everett Wilson, the latter's son, now resident of Portland, taught No. 6 in 1882 with 23 scholars. Cora A. Wilson, who was educated at Kent's Hill, taught the Holbrook district in '84. To No. 1 school came also Sabrina E. Knowles in '60, Eva A. Cummings in '61; Georgie Hutchins for two or three terms and Ella M. Boyington (1845- 1912) in '65, daughter of Bartlett Boyington of Lexington. Flora E. Butts of New Portland who belonged to a family of eachers of whom also was Laura Butts, had the No. 1 Embden chool in '68 and '69.
The dwindling census of scholars by the early '70's made this chool an attractive threshold for young teachers at the begin- ter's stage. Not a few of these progressed to larger experiences.
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Most of them were Embden girls. The names of teachers there through quite 20 years were Carrie E. McFadden, Naomi Stevens, both of the immediate neighborhood; Rena Churchill, Emma B. Hodgdon, Carrie L. and Angie Boothby, Edith Pierce, Nellie Eames, now living in Massachusetts; Ada A. Scott of North Anson; Susie Spaulding, now Mrs. Neville at Salem, Mass .; Angie Thompson, Lilla B. Smith, wife of Dr. Isaac Lee Salley at Skowhegan; Alice E. Dunbar, now residing in Cali- fornia; Lucy Hobart, Abbie E. Andrews and Almeda Andrews wife of Dr. Frank Paul of Rock Island, Ill .; Emogene E. Frederick of Starks now Mrs. Varney of Peaks Island; Addie L. Walker, Vinie Bunker, Nellie Irvine, Jennie Hilton, Susie Paine, Lena Atkinson and Carrie Cutts (Mrs. W. E. McLean) of Anson.
The No. 2 district was at its heyday in 1833 with 69 scholars. At that time it was the largest school in Embden. In 1852 with 35 scholars Owen A. Hutchins, son of Amos, came to the school- house near the ferry on an engagement with Jonathan Stevens, agent, for the winter term and William I. Dakin from a family seat in the lower district was hired by Joseph Durrell the fol- lowing winter. These teachers probably used the chair. that Luther Cleveland furnished in 1841 and for which he was given a town order for 67 cents. Calvin B. Goodrich taught No. 2 in that year of 1841 for $26.94. Elizabeth Atkinson (1833) sister of Wil- liam, got $44 for the winter term of '55, a good sum for a woman teacher in those days, but Paulina Cragin was paid $42 for the winter term of '57. Mary A. Thwing, Hannah F. Sylvester, Ellen M. Phibrook and Sarah J. Hilton were other teachers of No. 2 into the early 1860's. Sarah Hilton (Mrs. Fayette M. Paine) was a kinswoman of old families in that district. She taught there three years running - in '63, '64, and '65. She lived the first and last terms with the family of Nicholas Durrell and the other term at the house of Nathan Thompson, Jr., but Sundays visited with the Ozias McFaddens, near by, and as she recalled in recent years, walked often to the grave of her great- grandfather, the centennarian pioneer, Thomas McFadden. She
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kept one school in No. 3 but after her marriage went to Illinois and has resided at Chicago into a remarkable old age.
This school, like the John Gray district southward, lost the prestige that attaches to large attendance but was taught during the twenty years prior to 1890 by a succession of capable women. Charles H. T. Atwood of Embden, a prominent young man in his day, was the only schoolmaster there during that period. The array of young school "marms" included Margaret McKen- ney. Delora Goodrich, Lula S. Boothby, Carrie E. McFadden, Rena Churchill, Clara and Lottie Walker, Ella and Emma Thompson, Louisa Suckling, Adella Veasie, now Mrs. Moore of Madison ; Mary Spaulding, now Mrs. Egan of Solon, Emma F. Durrell, Augusta Benjamin, Georgia M. Atwood, Maud Alice Parkman, Bell Whipple, Etta L. McIntyre, Etta Gould, Annie Fairbrother, now Mrs. Horace Smith of Anson; and Lenora Thompson of Embden, who married Charles L. Williams, her classmate at Anson Academy, himself an Embden teacher.
Parmela Kinsley and Parmelia Paine kept the No. 6 school in '49 and '50. Eleanor Burns (1830-1909) was its mistress in '53. Sarah Burns (1831-1913), her sister, taught the John Gray school in '50.
Ortinsa and Artvisor Patterson, Frances B. Kimball, Mary Bennett, Sarah Randolph and Fidelia Wilson are also among the well known mistresses on No. 6 roster of long ago. The schoolhouse, whose predecessor with two chimneys and the dis- tinction of having been roof tree two decades to annual town meetings, was tagged by village folks as "The Box Trap." a bit of facetious nomenclature that persisted even against re- moval of the building to be a schoolhouse a mile northward. For 20 years, however, after the 1870's this school had a con- iderable attendance under the instruction of attractive young eachers from Embden and Anson. The list includes Lottie Valker (Mrs. Fred B. Young of Portland) her sister-in-law, Daisy Young (Mrs. Wallace Barron) ; Cora Walker, daughter of 'li; Ruth Barron, Nellie Morin, Lena F. Donley, now a teacher t Portland, Etta Hilton (1868-1899), sister of Carrie (Mrs. 'dwin Hodgdon), Hattie (Mrs. Chester E. Allen) and Jennie
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(Mrs. Chester V. Bailey) all Embden teachers - Angie Booth- by, Flora Eames and Louisa Williams. These were girls of Embden, who shared teaching experiences in No. 6 during this 20-year period also with Mary and Ida Gilman, Mae W. and Susie Spaulding, Allie Hutchins, Achsa Randall (Mrs. Perkins of Madison), Lena A. Gray, Addie and Gertrude Smith, Nellie M. Wilbur (Mrs. E. E. Atwood of New Portland) Minnie E. Russell (Mrs. Wheeler of Skowhegan) and Elizabeth Simmons. Most of these young teachers were from North Anson. The Box Trap gradually declined to a school population that meant summer terms only. The immigration westward, starting strong there in the 1840's, spelled after 50 years a landscape of abandoned acres.
But other interesting names stand out as one pores the ancient records. Henrietta W. Daniels of Pleasant Ridge, is an example, She concluded teaching in March, 1864, to become the second wife of Paul B. Rowe of Concord, Rev. Samuel Savage officiat- ing. Seven of her school terms were taught in Embden - at the Berry school in '46, '51, '53, '57, and '63 and at No. 3 school in '51 and '62. Adeline Gray of Anson, sister of Niron and daughter of Robert and Nancy (Bunker) Gray, had a like record in Embden, beginning at No. 1 in '54 and then with three terms at the Dunbar school in '58, '59 and '61. She passed on while a young woman, widely recognized for her brilliant mind. There were also the Stickney girls, daughters of Dr. George W. Stickney (1799-1887) of North Anson, who lived in a house on the site of the village library. He was a man of exceptional intellect and character, which these young women inherited. There were Sarah, who taught the Moulton school in '47, a household school near the Wilson district in '46 and married a Putman; Lucy, who kept the Dunbar school in '50; and Emma Stickney who was mistress of No. 3 in 1853. The last two did not marry. Of schoolmasters in eastward schools were Simeon Cragin, Jr., from Seven Mile Brook, who tried his hand at teach- ing No. 3 in '59, and Jerome Spaulding (1836) of Anson who kept No. 3 in '60.
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Closely associated with early Embden schools likewise was the family of Daniel Bunker of North Anson. A son, Daniel Bunker, Jr., (1830-1865) taught at Nos. 1 and 3 districts in '45 and died at Chicago. His sisters Martha (1836-1920) and Naomi (1833-1888) and Judith, or Juda, a cousin, were all Embden teachers. Martha, who kept the Dunbar school in '51 married John H. Gilbreth and the late Frank B. Gilbreth (1868- 1925) a successful consulting engineer was their son. Graduat- ing at the English High School in Boston, Frank Gilbreth practised his profession in Boston and in New York, was a major of engineers in the World War, lectured at several American universities, invented processes for industrial education and be- came a scientific management leader. Naomi Bunker, who presided over the Moulton school in 1845 before it had a school- house and over the Dunbar school a few years later died in California. She was a remarkable teacher. Judith Bunker was teacher at the Dunbar school in '68, the third one of the family to teach there, and had another Embden school in 1870. Samuel Bunker (1824-1902) at North Anson was a half-brother of Daniel, Jr., Martha and Naomi. Miss Minnie Bunker, Anson Academy '84 and University of California '90, a widely traveled woman of lovable personality and many happy friendships, teacher of Greek art and worker for civic betterment, now at Oakland, Calif., and her brother, the late Fred W. Bunker of North Anson, twice elected a member of the governor's council, were niece and nephew of three of these Embden teachers.
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