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Teachers "boarded 'round" among the families in the dis- trict, dividing the time equitably. Male teachers often built the winter fires and cared for the schoolroom; in other cases there was a "fire list" and a "sweeping list," the large boys composing the former and the older girls the latter. Each list took their turns in rotation. Cedar brooms were generally used, although birch twigs sometimes were substituted. Pre-
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vious to about the year 1800 female wages for teaching through- out Maine were seventy-five cents per week and male teachers earned from ten to fifteen dollars a month. Not much advance was made until later than 1820. The author has record of a female teacher in Maine, as late as 1827, who taught for one and one-half bushels of wheat weekly, which was contributed by the neighborhood.
Previous to 1788-89 there were but few instances where the branches taught extended farther than the three R's : read- in', 'ritin' and 'rithmetic. Spelling constituted the only general exception. Grammar and geography had not then been intro- duced, and were not generally taught until some time between 1800 and 1820, when, it is found, at the latter date they were both almost universally taught. The schoolbooks used for a few years following the Revolutionary War were Dilworth and Perry's Spelling Book, Perry's Dictionary and Pike's Arith- metic. In the early years of the last century these books were superseded by Webster's Spelling Book, Kinne and Robinson's Arithmetic, while the reading books were the American Pre- ceptor, American First Class Book and the Columbian Orator. While these reading books were in use Alexander's Grammar was more used than any other, but about 1820 Lindley Murray with his English Reader and Grammar swept the field. Early in the same century Jedediah Morse issued a Geography which went into nearly universal use. This book had an appendix with " an improved chronological table of Remarkable Events, from the creation to the present time." It was first published in 1784 and in 1819 reached its twentieth edition. It may be of interest to state that geography was not made a required study in Massachusetts until 1827. Maps were put into the Boothbay schools in 1802 and John Leishman was employed to frame and care for them in vacation season. Mr. Leish- man brought with him from Scotland a book entitled : "The Instructor or Young Men's Best Companion, containing Spell- ing, Reading, Writing and Arithmetic, Edinburgh, 1762." From this book he taught his children.
The early seventies saw the first encouraging signs of real advancement in the school system of Boothbay. Those who have carefully followed the preceding chapters will have noted
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that just at that particular time the oil factories over town were in a very prosperous condition and had for some years been affording lucrative employment to the people already here and attracting many new ones to locate. School accommodations were outgrown and more room with a graded system was demanded at the Harbor, East Boothbay and the Center.
By a union of two districts at the Harbor in 1874 a grade was arranged and the next year the high school building on School Street was erected. There were three rooms and the grades were primary, intermediate and grammar. The building was first used for the winter terms after being dedicated with appropriate ceremonies. The Grammar School was taught by L. F. Coburn, Brunswick, the Intermediate by Miss P. H. Burr, Mercer, and the Primary by Miss Georgia E. Hodgdon, Boothbay, now Mrs. W. R. Holton.
In 1875 East Boothbay formed a union of two districts and established a grade. In 1876 the present school building was erected and the classification there was primary and grammar. The winter terms were the first taught in the building, M. L. Marr, Alna, teaching the Grammar School, and Miss Hattie B. Hodgdon, Boothbay, now Mrs. Edward P. Corey, the Primary.
The graded school building at Boothbay Center was built in 1877, the grades being grammar and primary. As in the other cases the first schools were taught in the winter following erection. The Grammar School was taught by Miss Annie Adams, Boothbay, now Mrs. Woodbridge Reed, and the Pri- mary by Miss M. Ella Baker, Boothbay, now Mrs. Charles E. Sherman.
Up to 1880 Boothbay had furnished but few of its own teachers. The superintendent that year drew attention to the fact in his report that of forty-nine terms of school taught in town that year twenty-seven had been by teachers from other towns, and that nearly $1,500 annually was paid to outside teachers. There were in 1880 pupils in town distributed as follows :
District 1. Boothbay Harbor,
295
2. Back River, 49
66
3. East Boothbay, 156
4. Pleasant Cove, 40
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District 5. Back Narrows, 51
6. Linekin, 80
7. Merged with Harbor, 1874
8. West Boothbay, known by number,
68
66 9. Boothbay Center, 83
10. North Boothbay,
9
11. Barter's Island, north, 61
12. Between Harbor and East Boothbay, 48
66 13. Barter's Island, south 106
15. Dover, 51
16. Sawyer's Island, 48
66
17. West Harbor, 35
Total number scholars in town, 1180
Total number attending school, 672
Two terms of school with an average length of ten weeks were taught. Average wages per week in summer, $4.70; average wages per month in winter, $36.70. Total town school fund, 1880, $4,959.73.
The foregoing exhibit is made at the end of the last decade before the division of Boothbay occurred.
Free high schools were commenced in Boothbay in 1875, but the work they did, while an assistance, was far from satis- factory. The town was large in area and each part naturally, on the basis of taxation, desired its proportionate number of weeks of high school. Had the money been concentrated at one point the pupils thus favored would have largely profited by it; divided as it was, but slight results were shown. In 1875 but two terms were had in the year, one at East Boothbay and the other at the Center. In 1876 four terms were taught : at the Harbor and Sawyer's Island in the spring and at East Boothbay and the Center in the fall. This arrangement was carried on until 1880, when the spring term was held at the Harbor and fall terms at East Boothbay and the Center. The latter arrangement, so far as to the distribution of the high school appropriation, continued while the town remained united, but District No. 1, at the Harbor, practically turned the fall and winter terms of the grammar grade into a district high school, so that pupils located there were able to do most of the
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work in preparing for college at home. After the division of the town the High School at the Harbor at once established a school year of three terms, aggregating thirty-three weeks per year, which has since continued, and college preparatory work has been regularly carried on. In Boothbay the High School fund has been expended, since division, between East Booth- bay, the Center and Barter's Island, but, as in the case at the Harbor a few years preceding division, the same work is car- ried along at other seasons in the Grammar rooms.
The free text-book act took effect in 1891. The town sys- tem, which at the first was optional, was adopted in 1890 by Boothbay Harbor, but not by Boothbay or Southport until it became generally compulsory, which was in 1895.
The town of Southport has labored under disadvantages in the matter of ability to support a high-school system, largely on account of its three principal settlements being located at considerable distance from each other, neither being large enough to maintain the entire support, or convenient for attendance at the other parts. A very progressive movement was taken, however, in 1904, as noticed in Chapter XVII, in the erection of new buildings and making preparations to establish a grade.
Some of Boothbay's teachers in the past may well be men- tioned. Hon. Evans S. Pillsbury, a Bowdoin student, taught in No. 8 in the sixties. He is now counsel for the Southern Pacific Railroad, at San Francisco, with an annual salary of $25,000. William G. Waitt, a prominent lawyer now in Bos- ton, taught at Boothbay Center in 1876-77 ; he then lived in Gardiner. William S. Thompson, M. D., Augusta, taught at the Harbor at the same time, also the following year. Hon. John F. Hill, Governor of Maine, 1901-05, taught at the Harbor in 1878. William J. Long, the author of a series of " Nature Books," consisting at present of eight or nine volumes, and which have acquired a reputation throughout the country, taught at the Harbor in 1886.
The first public graduating exercises held in either town were in 1893, by the graduating class from the Boothbay Har- bor High School. They were arranged by F. B. Greene, in the first year of his term as superintendent, and Edgar L.
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Simpson, then principal of the school. That year the grade in the village schools was systematically established, allotting to each room the work for two years in schools below the High, and in that introducing a regular college preparatory course. The course of study was printed, framed and hung in each room throughout the grade. Since that date (1893) public graduations have regularly occurred and the course, from pri- mary up, has been maintained with but few variations from the form then established. East Boothbay and Boothbay Cen- ter soon after the above date commenced and have maintained public graduations. The courses of study pursued in those schools thus far have been of the nature of higher English, col- lege preparatory work not yet having been established. The list of High School graduates, as far as possible to obtain, in both towns, follow.
LIST OF HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES.
1891 .- Frank Weeks Blair took the Bowdoin examination and entered college from Boothbay Harbor.
1892. - Fred Carlisle took examinations and received diploma at Boothbay Harbor.
1893 .- Boothbay Harbor, Mary E. Carlisle, C. Dora Nick- erson, Anna B. Kendrick, Annie Albee, George K. Blair.
1894 .- Boothbay Harbor, Gertrude A. Carlisle, Edith C. Kenniston, Grace R. Mckown, Frank Wells Blair, Wendell P. Mckown.
1895 .- Boothbay Harbor, Carrie Carlisle ; East Boothbay, Frank G. Linekin, George W. Linekin, Annie A. Hagan, Mary A. Rice, Mary R. Hodgdon, Nellie F. Adams, Annie W. Hodgdon, Emily G. McDougall, Bessie C. Seavey, Nellie K. Murray ; Boothbay Center, Grace E. Emerson, Orissa B. Kim- ball, Actor T. Abbott.
1896 .- Boothbay Harbor, Gertrude Dodge, Mertie E. Dol- loff, Maude Spurling, Grace Thorpe, Annie Reed, Hattie Reed, Ethel Pinkbam, Hattie Dellimere, Rose Sherman, Islay F. McCormick, Mary S. Mckown ; East Boothbay, Lottie Chap- man, Bertha Chapman, Mary B. Hardinger, Lizzie E. Rice ; Boothbay Center, Lillian B. Emerson.
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1897. - Boothbay Harbor, Josie Carlisle, Ida Clisby, Ella Farmer, Gussie Farmer, Edith Harris, Winifred Hussey, Vin- nie Kenniston, Mabel Mullins, Cora Orne, Grace Tibbetts, Everett Winslow ; Boothbay Center, Grace Corey, Bessie Chamberlain, Alfred Lynch.
1898 .- Boothbay Harbor, Justin Brewer, Millard Fickett, Marcia Hodgdon, Fannie Latter, Millicent Maddocks, Ada N. Marr, Fannie Orne, Bertha Reed ; East Boothbay, Clarence Rice, Mamie Murray, Hattie Hodgdon, Lillian Gilbert, Bertha Murray.
1899. - Boothbay Harbor, Donald McCormick, Mabel Weston; East Boothbay, George I. Hodgdon, Lawrence L. Baker, George M. Adams, Isabel M. Seavey, Carolyn L. Mur- ray, Gertrude E. Smithwick, Bessie E. Blake, Mahala S. Hodgdon, Jennie M. Hagan, Laura C. Adams.
1900 .- Boothbay Harbor, Stella Hodgdon, Winifred Lewis, Maude Marson, Marion Pinkham, Florence Spofford, Roland L. Turner ; Boothbay Center, Jennie Emerson, Frank Tib- betts, Gladys Tibbetts.
1901. - Boothbay Harbor, Waldo S. Boyd, J. Pierce Mckown, Arthur L. McCobb; East Boothbay, Mabel E. Reed, Florence H. Seavey.
1902. - Boothbay Harbor, Mary A. Larrabee, Ethelyn Trask, Bessie C. Reed, Nellie W. Reed, Carlton B. Nicker- son, Margie Turner, Ella Spofford.
1903 .- Boothbay Harbor, Harold Bishop, Dora Greenlaw, Vesta Hodgdon, Florence McCobb, Sidney Orne, Addie Poole, Frances Spurling ; Boothbay Center, Walter O. Dunton, John F. Corey, Effie B. Tibbetts, Emily M. Sidelinger.
1904. - Boothbay Harbor, Carl R. Holton, Louis Carlisle, Leon Marson, Della Dodge, Mildrith Mckown, Leone Reed, Elmira Powers, Florence Wheeler, Kate Reed ; East Boothbay, Dorothy B. Murray, Bernice Race, Ruth Blake, Richard Mur- ray ; Boothbay Center, Alma L. Pinkham, William H. Nelson, Helen L. Pinkham, Joseph B. Giles, Nellie L. Giles, George F. Boston, Millard S. Giles, Maude J. Giles.
1905. - Boothbay Harbor, Chesley W. Nelson, Carrie J. Reed, Carrie N. Holton, A. Grace Carlisle, Clara J. Pierce ;
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East Boothbay, Florence Burnham, Eliphalet Martin, Lillian Farnham, Mattie Tibbetts, Everett Vannah ; Boothbay Center, Beatrice A. Welsh, Thurman H. Sidelinger, Vinettie L. Side- linger, Mary E. Orchard, James G. Sherman, Ethel L. Sher- man, Doris E. Knight.
SKETCHES OF COLLEGE GRADUATES. Arranged Chronologically.
REV. JONATHAN ADAMS, son of Samuel and Sarah (Reed) Adams, born in North Boothbay, July 5, 1782 ; graduated from Middlebury College, 1812. He married Hannah Antoinette Clough, Westport, June, 1821. Graduating from Andover Theological Seminary, 1815, he commenced his first pastorate at Woolwich in 1817, where he remained until 1832. From 1832 to 1855 he was at Deer Isle; then for three years in Boothbay and from 1858 until his death, in 1861, at New Sharon. He was of the Congregational faith and influential in his denomination. His son, the Rev. Jonathan E. Adams, though not born in town, was in the ancestral town of his family, as pastor and visitor, well known to all and a son who followed in his father's footsteps. He also graduated from Bowdoin, 1853 ; Bangor Theological Seminary, 1858. Took a church for some years, but became Secretary of the Maine Missionary Society, which position he held for many years. For family, see Adams genealogy.
EDWARD PAYSON WESTON was born at Boothbay Center, January 19, 1819, son of Rev. Isaac and Mary Weston (see Chapter XII) ; graduaded from Bowdoin College, 1839. He was principal of the Maine Female College, Gorham ; editor of the Portland Eclectic; associate editor of the Portland Transcript; State Superintendent of Public Schools in Maine, 1860-65 ; author of the "Bowdoin Poets" and several other volumes. He established a female seminary at Highland Park, Ill., where he died, in 1879.
CHARLES SULLIVAN McCOBB, born in Boothbay, February" 20, 1837, the son of Arthur and Elizabeth A. (Fisher) McCobb ; graduated at Bowdoin College, 1860. He took a medical course, but enlisted into the service at the breaking out of the Rebellion. He was killed at the battle of Gettysburg, July 4, 1863, while acting as hospital steward.
JOHN WARREN THORPE, born April 20, 1839, son of Will- ard and Mary (Kenniston) Thorpe ; graduated from Bowdoin College, 1861. He studied medicine and settled in practice at Oxford, N. Y., where he is now located. He married Char-
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lotte Brown, of Oxford. They have three children, Willard B., Charles N. and Mary Kenniston.
GEORGE BEAMAN KENNISTON, born at Boothbay Center, December 17, 1836, son of William and Mary (Huff) Kennis- ton ; graduated from Bowdoin College, 1861. He enlisted in the Fifth Maine Regiment, May, 1861; mustered into service June 24 as first lieutenant ; was taken prisoner at Bull Run, Sunday, July 21; taken to Libby Prison and held until November 22; then, in charge of Captain Wirz, who was exe- cuted after the close of the war for his inhumanity to prison- ers, taken to Tuscaloosa, Ala. On February 27, 1862, he was paroled for exchange and started for Norfolk. At Weldon, N. C., news of the battle between the Monitor and the Merri- mac was received. The paroles were canceled and the prison- ers returned to Salisbury, N. C., where they were detained until August 10, when they were again paroled and on August 20 exchanged. He rejoined his regiment in September, was at the battle of Fredericksburg, and on May 25, 1863, honorably discharged. In 1864 he was lieutenant colonel of a District of Columbia regiment. After this he was for two years a clerk in the Treasury Department. Chapter XVI contains town, legislative and customs services. He was admitted to the bar in 1875 ; was Judge of Probate for Lincoln County, 1892 to 1900 ; has always acted with the Republican party and has been an active member of the Congregational society. His principal business for several years has been in handling real estate. For family, see Kenniston genealogy.
JOHN EDGAR HOLTON, born at Boothbay Center, May 8, 1855, the son of John and Mary (Foy) Holton ; graduated from Bates College, 1881. He was principal of the normal department in Maine Central Institute, Pittsfield, 1891 to 1894 ; taught Latin and German at Burton Seminary, Vt., and in Essex, Mass. ; was principal for a time of the High School at Eastport. He was a natural linguist. Aside from his favorite languages, which he taught, he had an excellent knowledge of Swedish, Spanish, Italian and Welsh. Never enjoying good health, his work overcame him while yet in early life and he died June 6, 1896.
EMERSON RICE, born in Bath, December 3, 1862, the son of Dr. Otis P. and Sarah A. (Emerson) Rice ; graduated from Dartmouth College, 1887, with degree of A. B. ; in 1892 A. M. was conferred. He married Mabel, daughter of George B. and Antoinette E. (Adams) Kenniston, December 25, 1889. They have one son, Roger Courtland, born January 22, 1891. From 1887 to the present Mr. Rice has been instructor in science in
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the High School, Hyde Park, Mass. He was president of the Boothbay Society in Massachusetts in 1903 and 1904. In his labors among the Massachusetts Archives, while assisting in the preparation of the Emerson genealogy, he obtained many references to Boothbay's early history, which were magnani- mously furnished the author of this volume at its inception. With his family he regularly spends each vacation season at the Emerson homestead.
WILLIAM BEAMAN KENNISTON, born in Boothbay, Novem- ber 20, 1870, son of George Beaman and Antoinette E. (Adams) Kenniston. He prepared for college at the Phillips Exeter Academy ; graduated from Bowdoin College, with A. B., 1892 ; from Bowdoin Medical School, with M. D., 1895. He served as house doctor at the Maine General Hospital, 1895-96 ; set- tled in the practice of medicine in Yarmouth in 1897, where he remained until 1901. He then took a post graduate course at Harvard and later that year located in Exeter, N. H., where he is now engaged in the practice of medicine. He married Inez M., daughter of Benjamin F. and Sarah L. Whitcomb, Yar- mouth, April 2, 1902. They have one daughter, Faith Eliza- beth, born July 5, 1905.
CLARENCE ROBERT HODGDON, son of Gilman P. and Caro- line M. (Spinney) Hodgdon, born March 18, 1868, at Booth- bay Center; graduated from Amherst College, 1893. After graduation he engaged in teaching at Black Hall, Conn., for four years ; Brookline, Mass., one year ; principal of the Gard- ner, Mass., High School for three years and of Spencer, Mass., High School for two years. He then engaged with the Amer- ican Real Estate Company, New York, selling their gold bonds, which he is at present doing. He married Cynthia Dora, daughter of Capt. Stephen E. and Imogene (Smalley) Nicker- son, August 17, 1898.
FRANK WEEKS BLAIR, son of Capt. Benjamin F. and Mary L. (Dickinson) Blair, born at Boothbay Harbor, February 13, 1874 ; fitted in the Boothbay Harbor High School ; graduated from Bowdoin College, 1895, with degree of A. B .; from Bowdoin Medical School, M. D., 1899. He was principal of Blue Hill Academy in 1895-96 ; of the Boothbay Harbor High School in 1897. He commenced the practice of his profession in Farmington, N. H., in 1900. In June, 1905, he was mar- ried to Mary Eveleth Weeks, of Bath. After a brief illness he died November 19, 1905. Doctor Blair had at the time of his death reached a large and lucrative practice and was fast rising in his profession. Interment at Bath.
GEORGE K. BLAIR, son of Capt. Benjamin F. and Mary
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L. (Dickinson) Blair, born at Boothbay Harbor, April 20, 1875 ; fitted for college in the Boothbay Harbor High School ; took a special course at Bowdoin College in 1895-96 ; gradu- ated from Bowdoin Medical School in 1900, with degree of M. D. ; was house doctor in Salem, Mass., Hospital, 1900-01; commenced practice of medicine in Salem, Mass., 1901, where he is now located.
WENDELL PHILLIPS MCKOWN, son of Flarence M. and Sarah F. (Kimball) Mckown, born May 4, 1877, on Barter's Island ; fitted in the Boothbay Harbor High School ; graduated from Bowdoin College, 1898, winning the Smyth mathematical prize in 1896 ; from Harvard Law School, 1903; was princi- pal of the Boothbay Harbor High School, 1899-1900; was engaged with Anderson & Anderson, attorneys, 35 Wall Street, New York, from July, 1903, to May, 1905, when he opened an office for himself in that city at 43 Cedar Street. He mar- ried Alice, daughter of George B. and Antoinette E. (Adams) Kenniston, April 5, 1904. They have one daughter, Mabel Kenniston, born May 12, 1905.
JOHN ARTHUR MADDOCKS, son of Sewall T. and Nettie E. (Blake) Maddocks, born October 7, 1877. He fitted for col- lege at Dean Academy and graduated from Tufts College in 1898 ; became cashier of the First National Bank, Boothbay Harbor, at its organization, November, 1900, which position he retains. He married Edith Chase, daughter of Albert H. and Ida A. (Chase) Kenniston, February 24, 1904. They have one daughter, Dolores.
ROYDEN MADDOCKS, son of Joseph and Emma (French) Maddocks, born at Boothbay Harbor, August 20, 1878. He nearly completed his fitting course in the Boothbay Harbor High School when his father's family moved to Carrollton, Ky., 1894. The next year he entered the State College at Lexing- ton, where he graduated in 1899, with the degree of Bachelor of Civil Engineering. He soon after engaged with the Lack- awanna Coal Company, and was holding a position with them when stricken down, July 27, 1904, at Boulder, Colo. Inter- ment was in the Wylie Cemetery, Boothbay. In his death a useful and particularly promising life was cut short.
PERCY CLIFFORD GILES, son of Byron and Clara (Adams) Giles, born June 21, 1875 ; fitted in the Boothbay schools and at Lincoln Academy ; graduated from Bowdoin College, 1900. He was principal of the Denmark High School in 1901, when, in July of that year, he was appointed Government teacher in the Philippine Islands and postmaster at Piat during 1901-02. Returning on a leave of absence to the United States, he mar-
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ried Ruby Louise Metcalf, of Damariscotta, June 30, 1903. With his bride he at once returned to his work at the Philip- pines, and was then stationed at Ilagan, Luzon. In 1904 he took charge of the Provincial Normal School, 370 pupils, Tuguegarav. On May 22, 1904, a son, Cedric Byron, was born at Bagino, Benquit Province.
ISLAY FRANCIS MCCORMICK, son of Rev. Donald and Jane (Green) McCormick, born December 21, 1879, at Castleford, Yorkshire, England. He came to Boothbay Harbor with his father's family in 1895 ; completed his preparatory course in the Boothbay Harbor High School; graduated A. B. from Bowdoin, 1900; A. B., Harvard, 1902, where he did one year's work in mathematics. He was principal of the Boothbay Har- bor High School, 1900-01; assistant at Bridgton Academy, 1902-03 ; principal Bridgton Academy, 1903-05 ; took charge of the mathematical department in the Roxbury (Mass. ) Latin School, 1905.
BENJAMIN EDWARD KELLEY, son of John Edward and Cor- delia (McDougall) Kelley, born at North Boothbay, June 20, 1879 ; fitted for college in the Boothbay schools and Lincoln Academy ; graduated from Bowdoin College, 1902. He was sub-master of the Brunswick School, Greenwich, Conn., fol- lowing graduation, in addition to which he reported for the Greenwich Graphic. At commencement, 1905, he became principal of the Boothbay Center High School.
DONALD EDWARD MCCORMICK, son of Rev. Donald and Jane (Green) McCormick, born December 28, 1882, at Castle- ford, Yorkshire, England; came with his father's family to Boothbay Harbor in 1895 ; fitted for college in the Boothbay Harbor High School ; graduated from Bowdoin College, A. B., 1903. He was sub-master of the Warren (Mass. ) High School, 1903-04 ; became head of the mathematical department of the Framingham (Mass.) High School, 1904, where he is now engaged.
JOHN PIERCE MCKOWN, son of Alvah C. and Olevia McKown, born December 10, 1883, at Boothbay Harbor ; fitted for college in the Boothbay Harbor High School ; graduated from the New York College of Pharmacy, branch of Columbia College, with degree of Ph. G., 1903 ; in the employ of Clar- ence O. Bigelow, wholesale manufacturing chemist, New York City.
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