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FEES.
Tuition, military drill, board, fuel, lights and washing, (one dozen )
$350 00
per annum.
Payable September 14th. $200 00
Payable January 4tlı. 150 00
Entrance Fee (paid but once) . .. 25 00
German, except to those pursuing
the graduating course. 16 00
Lessons on piano. 60 00
Use of piano for practice. 15 00
Medical attendance 5 00
Day scholars, payable half-yearly
in advance. 50 00
A very liberal reduction is made to the sons of clergymen.
The school year consists of thirty-eight weeks.
SEABURY DIVINITY SCHOOL.
In the year 1858, Rev. Dr. J. L. Breck, Rev. S. W. Manney, and Rev. E. S. Peake organized an associate mission at Gull Lake, and Mr. Breck and
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Mr. Manney began mission work in Faribault. They acquired about forty acres of land, built a small wooden Chapel, two dwelling houses, and a Divinity School of the dimensions of 16x18 feet. By the next autumn-1859-when H. B. Whipple was elected as the first Bishop of Minnesota, they had a flourishing parish school, and had com- menced the Seabury Divinity School with eight or ten pupils.
On the 15th of May, 1858, the citizens of Fari- bault, who were adherents of this faith, met and formed an organization for the avowed purpose of creating an "Episcopal University." The Chair- man of this meeting was A. J. Turner, the Secre- tary was O. F. Perkius. A committee was ap- pointed to receive contributions as follows: G. E. Skinner, Levi Nutting, and J. B. Wheeler.
It seems that the Rev. T. Wilcoxson had prev- iously visited Faribault, and there was a mission at St. Columbia, one hundred and fifty miles north, . and on the 30th of July, 1869, there was an event of unusual interest in connection with this mission work. Three Chippewas bad come down from that distant mission; two, Ma-ne-ta-wah, a Chris- tian chief, and En-me-gah-bowh, had come to be ordained by the missionary Bishop Rt. Rev. J. Kemper. Here indeed was the fruit of missionary labor, the service was crowded with Indians and whites to witness a sight beheld for the first time in America, the ordination of a full-blooded Indian into the Priesthood or Deaconship of the church.
In 1859. a little missionary paper was printed which revealed the wants of the mission and the progress made.
The first anniversary exercises of the Seabury Mission were on the 17th of Angust, 1859, and according to the reports then made, the number of scholars during the first quarter was fifteen, the second sixty-seven; the third eighty-three; and the term just closed one hundred and two. It can thus be seen that the school at that time was needed and appreciated.
The clergy and teachers then were: Rev. J. Lloyd Breck, M. A .; Rev. Prof. Manney, M. A .; G. Clinton Tanner; S. Dutton Hinman; James Dobbin; Miss M. J. Mills; Miss M. J. Leigh.
The story of the conversion of the Chippewas and of the Dakotas, and particularly of the edu- cation of bright "Little Hattie" and "Clara Moko- manik," children of the forest, excited interest in this mission and helped to supply contributions
for its support, particularly as the name of J. J. En-me-gah-bowh was added to the clergy of the mission. The first two graduates of the school were Indian missionaries.
In 1860, in addition to the name of the Bishop, was added to the associate missionaries the names of Rev. G. C. Tanner and Rev. S. Dutton Hinman.
On the 22d of May, 1860, the Bishop Seabury mission was incorporated with the following Trus- tees: Rt. Rev. H. B. Whipple, D. D .; Rev. J. Lloyd Breck, D. D .; Rev. S. W. Manney; Rev. E. G. Gear; Rev. D. B. Knickerbacker; Rev. E. P. Gray; Hon. H. T. Welles; Hon. E. T. Wilder; Gen. N. J. T. Davy; Rev. E. R. Welles; and C. Woolley. The school was named in honor and re- memberance of Bishop Seabury, the first Bishop in America, who was consecrated to this work in Scotland.
These two men who thus came and entered upon this missionary work with such a comprehensive view of the requirements of the future, were the real founders of the Divinity school, and when Bishop Whipple came he at once took the enter- prise under his protection, and with an energy that never flags, has, with the assistance that has been secured, brought the school up to its present pros- perous condition. The construction of Seabury Hall was commenced in 1862. It is a noble stone structure, three stories with a basement, and cost about $16,000. It was completed in 1864. For a few years there was a boy's collegiate school in the same building and under the same teachers, and various instructors were employed. The necessity of the specific work of the Divinity School became so urgent that in 1865, the Shat- tuck School was organized, and since that time this school has been enabled to concentrate upon its special work. In 1864, Rev. E. S. Thomas joined the school, and Rev. Dr. S. Bnel in 1866. Rev. Dr. Breck removed to California in 1867, and in 1869, to Rev. Dr. Manney,
"The God of bounds who sets to seas a shore, Came to him in his fatal rounds, And said, no more!"
He had been a chaplain in the army with $1,800 a year, which he surrendered for $500 here with labor and discouragements, but he lived long enough to see that his planting would become a fruitful vineyard. The Rev. Dr. T. Richey was elected professor of Ecclesiastical History. In 1870, Mr. Thomas was called to the rectorship of St. Mark's Church in Minneapolis, and resigned
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his position here. In 1871, Mr. Buel became a pro- fessor in the General Theological Seminary, and he was succeeded by Rev. Dr. J. S. Kidney. In 1874, Rev. George L. Chase became warden and Professor.of Homiletics. The late Rev. Dr. S. Y. McMasters acted as Professor of Evidences for seven years. Rev. G. C. Tanner was acting Pro- fessor of Exegesis for two years, and he was suc- ceeded by Rev. W. J. Gold. Dr. Richey was suc- ceeded by Mr. Humphrey, Acting-Professor of Ecclesiastica] History, and Rev. E. S. Wilson was elected Professor of Exegesis.
In 1871, the Seabury Hall was burned. It was a heavy blow and a serious loss, but another was soon commenced and the present edifice went up, and now there is a noble hall, a beautiful chapel, a professor's residence, a library building, with several thousand choice volumes.
The students read service at various outlying stations.
The present staff is as follows, viz:
Bishop Whipple, Professor of Pastoral Work.
The Rev. George L. Chase, A. M., Warden and Professor of Homiletics and Liturgies.
The Rev. F. Humphry, Acting Professor of Ec- clesiastical History, and Rev. E. S. Wilson, Pro- fessor of Exegesis.
The Rev. J. 'Steinford Kidney, D. D., Professor of Divinity, and Acting Professor of Ethics and Apologetics.
The "Bishop Seabury Mission" has a board of trustees consisting of eight laymen and six clergy- men, the Bishop is the President.
As a divinity school it has a high rank and is the advocate of no party or faction, but "within the liberty which the church gives, yields to every man all the freedom of opinion, which the church tol- erates."
ST. MARY'S HALL.
This is a school for girls which has obtained a wide reputation for usefulness during the sixteen years of its existence. The several hundred who have received instruction here are scattered over a wide expanse of territory, and each one, as she has opportunity, is the center of usefulness. The school was instituted by Bishop Whipple, and opened in his residence in 1866, under the care of Rev. L. J. Mills and Miss S. P. Darlington. Mr. Mills had been associated with Bishop Kerfoot at James College, and he brought the knowledge ac- quired by that school. He only lived to work with
the school for four months, but during that time left an impression upon its character which has moulded and will continue to mould its forms of instruction while it shall exist. At the end of six years from the time of its institution the school wes placed in the care of a board of trustees. At present the buildings occupy a block of land one square from the Cathedral, diagonally across the street, they are spacious, comfortable, cheerful, and home-like, with shady walks and cheerful sur- roundings. The avowed object of the school is to train up Christian women, and the theory main- tained is that religion should be a wellspring of joy and pleasure, and not a source of sadness and melancholy, aud that girls will equal boys in every department of letters, with equal advantages. Rev. George B. Whipple, the brother of Bishop H. B. Whipple, is the assistant in the spiritual care of the school. It has accommodations for seventy boarders and forty day scholars. We pre- seut here as a fitting place, a brief sketch of the woman who for fourteen years had her life bound up in this school.
MISS S. P. DARLINGTON .- This estimable lady was the principal of St. Mary's Hall from 1862 up to the time when she was called to-
"A land unknown. That day of days drew nigh, Which shall unlock all hidden stores, And bid our dreading, longing spirits fly To thy mysterious shores."
Her passing away was on the 19th of February, 1881, after eight days of pain and suffering. From the time when she took charge of the insti- tution, except one year, she was the capable, cul- tivated, and careful counselor of those under her charge. Few women have better administrative ability than she developed in the reponsibile posi- tion that she occupied in such an efficient way. the monuments that she reared are living all over the country, as devoted wives, faithful and loving mothers, and beloved women. She came from Pennsylvania, a daughter of Dr. Darlington, a noted botanist.
The mantle of Miss Darlington has fallen upon
- Miss E. A. Rice, her former associate, who is in every way qualified to fill the responsible posi- tion to which she has been called.
The regular terms of the school begin on the third Thursday in September, and close on the third Tuesday in June, and has two weeks vaca- tion at Christmas, and ten days at Easter, when the pupils can, if they choose, visit home.
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The terms are $300 a year, with no extra charges for French or German. Music and paint- ing are an extra charge.
The following are the officers and teachers for 1881-82.
Rt. Rev. H. B. Whipple, D. D., Rector.
Rev. Geo. B. Whipple, Chaplain and Treasurer. Miss E. A. Rice, Principal.
Prof. John Foster, A. B., Latin and Mathemat- ics.
Miss E. Whitney, History, English Language, and Literature.
Miss F. S. Beane, Natural Sciences and Mathe- matics.
Miss M. Finch, English Branches.
Miss M. W. Greene, Preparatory Department.
Miss Mary A. Smith, Elocution.
Mlle. M. P. Landerer, French and German. Miss Grace D. Sherwood, Music.
Miss C. M. Hakes, Vocal Music.
Miss M. P. Harbaugh, Drawing and Painting. Miss M. A. Williams, Matron.
Miss Susan Phelps, Assistant Matron.
Hon. Gordon E. Cole, Secretary.
Eight acres of land on the bluff opposite the city and overlooking it, just south of the State Institution for the Deaf Mutes, have been secured, aud a building is now going up which will be in every way adapted to the requirements of the school and an ornament to the city. The cost will he $75,000.
An account of the exercises attending the lay- ing of the corner-stone is printed here from the local press, and seems to be a fitting conclusion to this summary account of St. Mary's Hall.
ST. MARY'S HALL .- THE CEREMONY OF LAYING THE CORNER-STONE.
" The laying of the corner-stone of St. Mary's Hall marks another era in the progress of educa- tional work in the city. The school has outgrown the primitive foundations upon which it was first reared, and the new and noble edifice which is de- 'manded by its necessities will soon become one of the chief ornaments of our attractive city.
The ceremonies of Monday, June 19th, were witnessed by a large concourse of people, among whom were numerous visitors who were in attend- ance upon the commencement proceedings.
About the stone ware grouped the bishop and resident clergy, the pupils of St. Mary's and Shattuck Halls, the architect, Mr. William Wil-
cox, the contractor, Mr. William McNeil, of Chi- cago, and others.
The services were in accordance with the usual church formulæ.
The following articles were deposited in the box which was placed under the stone :
English Bible, Prayer Book and Hymnal, Dako- tah Prayer Book and Hymnal, Chippewa Prayer Book and Hymnal, Catalogues of St. Mary's Hall, Catalogues of Shattuck School, Catalogues Seabury Divinity School, History of the Church Schools in Faribault, Journal of Diocese of Minne- sota, Conventional address of the Bishop, copies of the St. Paul Pioneer Press, of June 18th and 19th, 1881, Minnesota Missionary for 1882, the Church- man, the Episcopal Register, Guardian, Standard of the Cross, Living Church, St. Paul Globe, St. Paul Dispatch, Minneapolis Journal, Minneapolis Tribune, Faribault Democrat, Faribault Republi- can, names of the President of the United States and Cabinet, names of the Governor and State Officers, Principal, Teachers and Pupils of St. Mary's Hall, Officers and Teachers of Shattuck School, and names of Superintendents of State In- stitutions at Faribault.
The stone bears the symbol of the cross and the insciiption "St. Mary's Hall, 1882."
The Bishop, after laying the stone, delivered an address of which the following is an extract:
BISHOP WHIPPLE'S ADDRESS.
BELOVED FRIENDS: I bid you all a hearty wel- come to share my joy to-day. It is a day for which I have waited long. Twenty-three years ago I came to Faribault a stranger. Every busi- ness man in the border village came to ask me to make Faribault my home. They were men of different creeds, mostly strangers to the church. They had come here from far-off Eastern homes to the distant West to found a State. They be- lieved that Christian education must be its corner- stone. They were, like myself, poor men. They had an abiding faith in the coming future. They gave me their pledge to be my helpers. Some of those who welcomed me are scattered far, others are sleeping with the dead, but the pledge they made has been fulfilled.
I cannot tell you to-day the history of these halls which have made the name of Faribault a household word; nor can I tell you of a fairer temple, not made with hands, builded in living souls. That rude cottage on yonder hill was our
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University. On the fair grounds of Shattuck School, where stands that noble church, a loving woman's gift to God, was a tangled forest. Where now you hear the organ peal I heard the wierd, wild dance of the Dakotah. Sixteen years ago there came to me, as the voice of God, the thought that our schools would lose their rarest beauty un- less we had a hall to train and mould into perfect- ness Christian womanhood. Our other work was in its infancy; halls to be built, library to be gathered, professorships to found, an hundred ways for every dollar given. I did not ask coun- sel, save of the best of all counselors, a Christian wife. We settled it that our home should be the new St. Mary's Hall. God sent me a woman of the rarest culture, the deepest faith, and the strong- est will. She heard the plan; she believed in it, and Miss Sarah P. Darlington became the princi- pal of our school. It was God's will that when her work was done, she should be called home, but the mantle fell on shoulders every way wor- thy the trust. It seems as yesterday when we be- gan this work. The school has to-day many hun- dred daughters; I hear of them everywhere-lov- ing children in happy homes, Christian wives and mothers, gentle women ministering to sorrow- and they have overpaid me an hundred-fold for every care. To-day we reach another way-mark of our history. The school has outgrown its present home; we need a fairer, nobler building adapted to its work. Three-fourths of the cost to enclose this noble building has been the gift of women, and I should wrong my brothers' hearts if I doubted that they would complete a work so well begun.
PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
Attention was early called to educational mat- ters. No sooner were the people located here with the children than they provided for a school. The first school must have been the one started by E. J. Crump, who had for pupils the children of Mr. Faribault and Mr. Hulett. Mr. Mott, at an early day, taught a select school. Other schools were opened at various times which are mentioned in another place. Ultimately the common school system was adopted in the State, and full advan- tage of its provisions was taken here.
By an act of the Legislature in 1864, school district No. 1 was made a corporate body by the name of "Faribault School District," and it is under the control of a Board of Education con-
sisting of five members, who are elected by the legal voters of the district. The Faribault Cen- tral School is located near the center of the district and is of blue limestone, 82x52 feet on the ground and four stories in height, including the basement. From basement to eaves is 57 feet, and the roof is surmounted by a cupola which, including the spire, reaches 45 feet above the roof. A hall 19 feet 5 inches wide, in which are the staircases, divides the building on the three principal floors. The basement has the heating apparatus, and a tenement for the janitor. On the first floor above the basement are three schoolrooms with accom- modations for 208 pupils. On the next story are two rooms with an equal seating capacity, while the upper one is finished in a single room as a hall for the use of the schools.
The city of Faribault constitutes a special school district. The school department consists of a Board of Education of five members, as follows: L. W. Denison, President; S. B. Wilson, Clerk; A. D. Keyes, Treasurer; and George W. Batch- elder. These members of the board are elected by the people on the first Saturday in October. The above were the members for 1881-82.
The corps of instruction consists of one super- intendent and nineteen teachers. The corps for the year, ending June 16, 1882, was as follows: B. M. Reynolds, Superintendent. Ashworth Heys, High School; George R. Simpson, Miss Abbie L. Nutting, Miss Chessie Gowdy,and Miss MaryGrant, Grammar Department; Miss S. H. Hussey, Miss R. C. Adams, and Miss Mary Howe, Intermediate De- partment; Miss Fanny O. Anderson, Miss Gertie Denison, Miss Josephine H. Hegmon, Miss Mary Howard, Miss Carrie Wood, Miss Hattie Evans, Miss Anna Mahoney, Miss Mary Hughes, Miss Mary Alden, Miss Nellie Robertson, and Mr. A. J. Wolfe, Primary Department.
The schools are divided into High School, Gram- mar, Indermediate, and Primary Grades. During the school year, ending June 16, 1882, one thous- and one hundred and ninety-eight different pupils were enrolled in all the departments. The current expenses for the same year were a little over ten thousand dollars.
The High School is under the supervision of the State High School Board, and receives aid from the State in accordance with an act of the Legis- lature, approved March 3, 1881. The High School course is sufficient to fit pupils for the different colleges of the University.
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The public schoolhouse in Faribault was built in 1868, and completed ready for occupancy in September of that year. Dr. L. W. Denison was President of the Board. The teachers were: G. H. Warren, Lavinia Philbrick, Ella Winter, Laura Van Horn, and Ellen Newcomb. The school had 300 pupils to start off with.
There are four other school buildings on the west side, each capable of seating about fifty pupils. Two of these houses are of brick and two of stone. There is one on the east side that will accommodate one hundred; it has two rooms and two teachers.
The main school building has chemical, astro- nomical, aud other apparatus now found in the best schools in the country, with school furniture in striking contrast with the rude benches of a quarter of a century ago.
Notwithstanding the denominational schools, which stand out so prominently in Faribault, and which have been the objects of so much care and tender solicitude, the common schools have not been neglected, but are in all respects up to the moderu standard.
CHURCHES.
There are ten regular churches in town, in addi- tion to the school chapels, where services are more or less frequently held. An account of their loca- tion and service is here printed, and it makes a pleasing contrast with thirty years ago, when, near where they stand,
"The rank thistle nodded in the wind,
And the fox dug his hole unscared."
Whatever it may be in contrast with thirty years hence.
CATHEDRAL OF OUR MERCIFUL SAVIOUR .- Cor- ner of Sixth and Chestnut streets. Services at 10:30 A. M. and 7:30 P. M. Seats free. Rt. Rev. H. B. Whipple, D. D., Rector; Rev. George B. Whipple, Assistant.
MEMORIAL CHAPEL .- Services at 3:00 P. M. James Dobbin, Rector.
CONGREGATIONAL .- Corner of Third and Maple streets. Services at 10:30 A. M. and 7:30 P. M. Rev. E. Gale, Pastof.
BAPTIST-Corner of Fifth and Maple streets. Services at 10:30 A. M. and 7:30 P. M. Rev. E. C. Sanders, Pastor.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL .- Corner of Third and Cherry streets. Services at the usual hours Sun- day morning and evening; also Tuesday and
Thursday evenings of each week. Sunday school at 12 M. J. T. Squiers, S. S. Supt., R. Forbes, Pastor.
CHURCH OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION .- Cor- ner of Front and Maple streets. High Mass at 10:30 A. M. Vespers at 7:30 P. M. C. Genis, Pastor.
GERMAN CATHOLIC-Corner Eighth and Chest- nut streets. High Mass every Sunday at 10:30 A. M. Vespers at 3:00 P. M. Father Lette, Pastor. GERMAN METHODIST. -- Third street, between Maple and Cherry. Services at 10:30 A. M.
FRENCH CATHOLIC .- Corner Sixth and Cherry streets. High Mass every Sunday at 10:30 A. M. Vespers at 3:00 P. M. J. H. Leonard, Pastor.
NORWEGIAN LUTHERAN. - On Third between Chestnut and Elm streets. Services at the usual hours.
ZIONS CHURCH .- Corner of Sixth and Cedar streets. Regular services.
THE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF FARIBAULT .- This denomination was early in the field. About the commencement of regular religious services was in the summer of 1855. They were conducted by various ministers who happened to be present, and in the absence of a clergyman, Dr. Charles Jewett, who had settled about two and a half miles from town, and who is well remembered as an apostle of temperance, conducted the exercises. On the third Sunday in May, 1856, a society hav- ing been organized, a church was instituted by a council which had been regularly called for the purpose, and nearly thirty members were gathered. The next Sabbath a Sunday school was organized, and the services were regularly held in Crump's Hall. A call was soon given to Rev. Lauren Armsby, of New Hampshire, who accepted and continued to preach until elected as a Chaplain of the Eighth Minnesota Regiment in the war of 1861. Early in 1856, plans were laid to build a church. Dr. Jewett wrote to a friend of bis in Massachu- setts, a Reverend Doctor of Divinity, asking for a little help to erect a church, from friends in that locality. This appeal was published in the Con- gregationalist in Boston with favorable comments, and the result was that there were some contribu- tions from the East, a Sunday school library, means to procure the communion service, the bible, etc. The bell, which weighs 1,000 pounds, and was hung on the last Saturday in August, 1857, was presented by a cousin of Mr. Armsby, of
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Whitinsville, Massachusetts. The church, which was located on Third street between Chestnut and Elm, was completed and dedicated on the 7th of January, 1857. The Pastor, Rev. Mr. Armsby, was installed in the morning and the church was dedicated in the afternoon. It was a great occa- sion for these people and for this town. Among those present were Rev. Mr. Cressey, of Cannon City, Rev. Mr. Barnes, of Cannon Falls, and the Rev. Mr. Secombe. In July, 1857, the church hav- ing been found to be too small, an addition was made, This building cost about $3,000, and was used until 1874, when it was sold to the Norwegian Lutherans.
In 1864, another Congregational church was provisionally organized and meetings commenced, and in the course of time a fine stone church was built, and its history might as well be introduced here.
PLYMOUTH CHURCH was regularly organized on the 25th of January, 1866, and the following Rev- erend gentlemen were present: Mr. Dudley and Mr. Hall, of St. Paul; Charles Secombe, of St. Anthony; C. C. Salter, of Minneapolis; E, S. Wil- liams and Mr. Goodsell, of Northfield; Dr. Aiken and Deacon Williamson, of Medford; and E. L. Tappan, of Owatonna, Rev. J. W. Strong was in- stalled as pastor.
About this time an important meeting was held here to see what could be done toward securing Faribault as the location of the Congregational College which was in contemplation. Little in- terest was manifested and no special efforts made, and so Northfield secured the prize.
The corner stone of Plymouth church was laid on the corner of Maple and Third streets on the 11th of September, 1867, with suitable ceremonies; a large number of clergymen were present with a great concourse of people. The size of the edifice is 40x75 feet, with a spire 114 feet high. Tlie building is of stone with a basement, built in a modern style of architecture; it was completed and dedicated to the service of Almighty God on Thursday, October 12th, 1869. The Rev. J. W. Strong, now president of Carleton College, was the pastor. Among the clergymen of this denom- nation who were present may be named: Rev. E. M. Williams, of Austin; Rev. E. S. Williams, of Northfield; Rev. Mr. Packard, of Anoka; Rev. Mr. Whiting, of Janesville, Wisconsin; and Rev. Dr. Secombe. Services were regularly held under sev- eral pastors and a good membership resulted.
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