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District Number Two would no doubt have some interesting records, if the early ones could be found, as the first schoolhouse in town was erected in this district previous to 1772. A fire in 1848 resulted in a new schoolhouse in 1849, which, we presume, is the brick structure of to-day. This school has numbered over sixty pupils.
District Number Three had a schoolhouse previous to 1800, but.
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received a new deed of land in the present location in 1848, and the schoolhouse now in use was probably erected at that time.
District Number Four boasted the second schoolhouse built in town (1772). After long service in the cause of education, this ancient building, which stood on the west side of the river road at its junction with the back river road, near the residence of Alfred Porter, was transformed into a dwelling which was occupied by " Sally and Becky " Wallace for many years. Rodney M. Rollins took it down. The brick house now in use was erected previous to 1850.
Piscataquog in 1785 had but three houses and a mill. In 1800 her first schoolhouse was erected, and the village became District Number Five. The population rapidly increased, the school grew apace, and in 1847 all the village north of "Squog" river became District Number Fourteen. The latter school opened under diffi- culties, with forty-seven pupils. "It was commenced in a room fitted up for the purpose over a blacksmith shop and under a carpenter shop, in the rear of the store and tavern." No wonder the parents bestirred themselves, to avoid the noise and confusion, by erecting a new school building. When Piscataquog became a part of Man- chester (1853) Bedford lost an important part of her school wealth. The present District Number Five, previous to this, had been known as District Number Thirteen. It had been taken from District Number One, and a brick house erected for its use, previous to 1835, in its present location.
District Number Six was first provided with a schoolhouse in 1800. A new house was erected in 1852 and dedicated with appro- priate exercises, the Rev. Thomas Savage, with other clergymen, assisting the people of the district on this occasion. Among the pupils whose later career has reflected credit upon this school we might mention Hon. John Vose, Cornelius Walker, Esq., Horace Greeley, John Atwood, David Atwood, Rev. C. W. Wallace, and others.
District Number Seven has enjoyed school privileges for over one hundred years, and has been subject to many changes during this period. It has produced successful teachers and excellent scholars, among whom might be mentioned Annie Vose, a recent graduate of Wellesley college.
District Number Eight's first schoolhouse was built in 1800. A new house erected in 1852 was burned in 1857 and rebuilt in 1858.
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This school is said to have numbered seventy-five pupils in populous times.
District Number Nine has had a school for over a century. The first schooolhouse was located on the point near the junction of Joppa and North Amherst roads, west of Shepard's mills, but being destroyed by fire, a new house was erected (1816) just across the Joppa road, opposite the first location. Until Joppa erected a schoolhouse of her own, the pupils of that vicinity attended Num- ber Nine school, and fifty or sixty pupils were the result. But Joppa boasted her store, blacksmith shop, cooper shop, and a public- spirited people. Of course they desired a schoolhouse also, and took steps to secure one in 1833. Previous to this, even, they had sus- tained private schools, one in the hall over Joppa store, attended largely by advanced pupils ; also one taught by Ann Orr, in a small building, part cooper's shop, part dwelling, near the cemetery. Dis- trict Number Nine was still further reduced (1847) by the west part of the district forming a union district with Amherst. The remainder of the people now felt that the schoolhouse should occupy a more central spot, and moved it to the hill southwest of the place now occupied by F. E. Manning. This repeated division of the dis- trict resulted in small schools, and once more (1870) we find the schoolhouse on the wing. This time it alighted on its present loca- tion, east of Shepard's brook, for the union district with Amherst had been given up and Number Nine once more included this terri- tory.
District Number Ten, which occupied "the stone jug " at first, built a new house a few rods east of the dwelling now oocupied by Stephen C. Damon, in 1864. When Districts One and Ten were reunited (1870) the new house was moved to the present location of Number One schoolhouse.
District Number Eleven was the name given to a union district with Merrimack, in the southwest part of the town, for over fifty years. For want of a Bedford pupil, this school was given up in 1886. District Number Twelve, or Joppa, has since been Number Eleven, and now is known as Number Ten. It contains the birth- · place of Joseph E. Worcester, author of a valuable dictionary. In 1850 we had 15 schools containing 559 pupils. To-day we have 10 schools containing 172 pupils. Piscataquog took with her 125 pupils (or two schools) when she left us. While the union of Num- bers One and Ten and giving up of the union schools with Amherst
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and Merrimack account for the smaller number of schools, it does not explain the entire decrease of scholars.
As time passed on the need of a school for advanced pupils was realized. To supply this need a private school was conducted in Washington hall, over a store near the present residence of John Riddle, Esq. Dr. Leonard French taught here. Here Adeline Wil- ley also taught with success, then married Charles Aiken of this town and moved to Wisconsin. We have said that the first efforts of the early settlers after building their homes were directed toward build- ing a church, and the schoolhouse soon followed. What more natural, then, when the old church edifice was replaced by a new structure, than to remodel the old building into a schoolhouse. This was done in 1838, when the lower story was used for a town hall and the upper story for a school-room. Here we find advanced pupils gathered from the homes throughout the town in a high school, and an excel- lent " training ground " it proved. This school was sustained by pri- vate subscription and tuition charged the pupils. The latter also sustained the school by their presence in goodly numbers. Here we find teaching with success : Rev. J. C. Bryant, who had been pastor of a church in Littleton, Mass., and later became a missionary in South Africa; J. W. Pillsbury of Dartmouth college, who settled in Milford, N. H .; Rev. Mr. Turner of Andover seminary, who after- ward settled in Iowa; B. F. Wallace, Frank Moore, Jane Riddle, Linas Gould, Charles W. Johnson, who taught three successive autumns, 1855-'57, with his sister, Miss Augusta Johnson (now Mrs. Freeman R. French), as assistant to care for the younger pupils ; also Charles I. Parker (1858), who is now a prominent educator in Chicago, Ill., and a director of the National Educational Association of the United States, and lastly, F. J. Burnham, who taught a school of eighty-eight pupils in the fall of 1867, with Mrs. Eliza Ann Stev- ens as his assistant. In Joppa a school was conducted for advanced pupils (probably previous to 1833) in the hall over Joppa store, with the following as teachers : Rev. Mr. Wilder, who became missionary to India; Rev. Mr. Kendall, later a professor in Jackson college, Illinois, also Dodge and Rev. A. W. Burnham, mentioned as notable teachers in town.
Several prominent gentlemen in Piscataquog (1842) formed an association which purchased the meeting-house located there and remodeled the upper part into convenient rooms for an academy, while the lower part was still retained for public worship. This
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SCHOOLHOUSE, DISTRICT NO. 5.
SCHOOLHOUSE, DISTRICT NO. 6.
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academy was incorporated in 1847. By the liberality of ladies and gentlemen of that village a good apparatus was provided, and the academy ably sustained for several years without endowment funds. The gentlemen who successively took charge of this school were : Leonard French, M. D., of Dartmouth college; Hiram Wason, Esq., Dartmouth college; Charles Warren, Harvard university. Benja- min F. Wallace, Esq., of Dartmouth college, and resident of Bed- ford, taught here several years, also Rev. Amos Abbott, once mis- sionary to India. Among the founders of this academy were : Hon. Frederick G. Stark, Jonas B. Bowman, Esq., Gen. William P. Riddle, and James Walker, Esq., each of whom served on the board of directors. In recent years, our advanced pupils have found accommodation in the larger and better equipped academies of nearby towns, viz. : McGaw Normal institute, Reed's Ferry, McCol- lom institute, Mt. Vernon, Francestown academy, New Ipswich academy, Pinkerton academy, Derry, and Colby academy, New London. The high school of Manchester has also been liberally patronized by Bedford pupils, many of whom have entered it with noticeably high standing, and won the highest class honors at the end of their course.
During the 125 years of its existence our nation has produced but two great lexicographers, and the little town of Bedford, N. H., pro- duced one of these, viz., Joseph E. Worcester, LL. D. Webster's and Worcester's dictionaries rest side by side in the reference libra- ries of our higher institutions of learning, the one being considered authority for pronunciation and derivation of words, the other for definition. It would be interesting to notice many others who have won fame, influence, and power in the world, and yet would not be ashamed to say that their early education was secured in our Bed- ford schools. The ministers include : Joseph Goffe, John Walker, Isaac Orr, Silas Aiken, Daniel L. French, Adoniram Stevens, Cyrus W. Wallace, Lemuel Spofford, and Albert F. Newton. The physi- cians include : Calvin McQuesten, Adams Moor, Jesse Moor, Leon- ard French, William B. Stevens, Jesse P. Swett, Levi J. Woodbury, George E. Woodbury, John G. McAllister, Frank William Patten, Alfred G. French, Fred C. Newton, George W. Newton, and Alice French Mills. While the members of congress include Thomas Chandler, and his nephew, Zechariah Chandler, " the great war sena- tor," and David Atwood, publisher Daily State Journal, Madison, Wis. The members of the bar include: Benjamin Orr, Joseph Bell,
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William Gordon, Adam Gordon, Isaac McGaw, David Aiken, Peter Trask Woodbury, Josiah Gordon Woodbury, Charles H. Woodbury, Judge James W. Savage and his brother, Thomas Savage, John Foster, Gordon Woodbury, and Wallace B. Clement. Others who might be mentioned are : Hugh Riddle, a railway magnate in the West; Horace Greeley, editor and publisher of the New York Trib- une for many years ; Louis J. Rundlett, superintendent of schools, Concord, N. H .; the three brothers, Henry M., G. Byron, and John M. Chandler, bankers, and Joseph Manning, real estate and loan agent in the West. Other names which should not be omitted are : Ann Orr Worcester, who became missionary to the Cherokee In- dians ; Dolly Bryant, a missionary in South Africa; Lydia Flint Orr, a teacher in Talledega college, Alabama; Fanny A. Darrah, teacher of art in St. Margaret school, Buffalo, N. Y., and many others which lack of space compels us to omit.
During the past half century many teachers have exerted their influence for good or ill upon the rising generation. Standing out with especial prominence among them were five sisters, Nevins by name, a family of successful teachers. It has been said : "Let one of these enter the school-room, and order at once prevailed. If not, woe be to the offender !" Mary Jane Fisher, a niece of Ann Orr, followed in her footsteps. The home of Ann Orr later became the home of another teacher prominent in our schools during the last fifty years. In its descent the mantle of Ann Orr rested upon Miriam B. Gilmore; firm, prompt, energetic, persevering, she has proven a worthy successor. Having taught in nearly every school- room in town, often many successive terms in each (thirty-four in all) she has had a greater number of pupils under her care than any other town teacher during the past half century. Near the close of her work as a teacher she gave an entertainment in the town hall in which her former pupils were the actors. Great interest was taken in this entertainment throughout the town, and the hall was well filled. The pupils were assembled, and marched to their places to the beat of the drum, when it was discovered they formed a large portion of the audience. Mary A. Walker is also a teacher whose face has been familiar in nearly all our school-rooms ; kind-hearted, possessing ready tact and sympathy, her pupils soon discovered in her a friend as well as teacher. Though she has taught forty-two terms in town, the number of her pupils was somewhat less than those of the teacher previously mentioned, owing to having taught
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several successive years in the same school. She is a descendant of James Walker, one of the first settlers of Bedford, who came here in 1737, and later built the first framed house in town. Other teachers whose value has been unquestioned, and whose influence has always been a power for good in the school-room, deserve men- tion, but lack of space, and fear of doing injustice to others just as worthy, compel us to omit them.
In reviewing the progress of common-school education in our town we see a constant effort made to give greater and more equal advantages to each succeeding generation. Great interest in the cause has always been manifest. The school districts were long miniature republics, the men only holding the reins of government for many years. In 1878, however, the women also were given an opportunity to vote on school matters by a law of the state, a privi- lege of which they have since availed themselves to a limited extent. A few years later (1884) an effort was made to equalize as much as possible the length of school terms in each district, the town appro- priating $500 for this purpose, and choosing a committee to divide the money. In compliance with a state statute permitting the towns to adopt the town system, the districts were merged in one (1886), and all school matters placed in charge of a committee of three. The last effort made to give equality of advantages to all came in 1890, when the town began furnishing each pupil with the needed text-books and supplies, and thus secured uniformity. Previous to this the variety of text-books used had been "legion."
If we could imagine ourselves in the primitive school-rooms first used we should find a log schoolhouse, with small-paned windows; a huge fireplace in which a roaring fire must be maintained to keep out the cold winds ready to enter every crack and crevice; heavy plank seats and desks, made to be substantial, often without regard to comfort; while the aisles were an inclined plane, higher at the back of the room, so that the older pupils could readily see and be seen over the heads of the younger. Occasionally these aisles were snowed over by the big boys and used as a sliding ground. Some- times, instead of the inclined plane, steps were used to reach the back seats. Gradually the log house gave way to the more comfort- able framed house; the stone hearth fireplaces and big cracks dis- appeared, stoves came into use; blackboards began to adorn the walls, and maps and globes appeared. During this transition time the books and supplies were furnished by the parents, and were
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sometimes very noticeable because of their absence. Many a boy and girl had to earn their own book, slate, or pencil by working hard at some neighbor's home, sawing wood, washing, perhaps pick- ing berries or hops, or in whatever way a penny could be earned. Those books and slates were appreciated by their owners, and care- fully cared for by them. The wood was supplied one foot or more to each pupil, depending upon the number in school. The big boys were expected to cut and split their share of this wood, and take turns in building the fire. Meanwhile the older girls took turns in sweeping the school-room, using a bush broom, made from slender birch branches firmly fastened to a straight stick, for the purpose. The ashes were carefully saved and sold at auction, at the annual school meeting, sometimes selling for twenty-one cents per bushel, and the proceeds devoted to the necessary repairs. Methods of dis- cipline, once very severe, have gradually become milder in form, the rod, once in daily use, now being relied upon for desperate cases only. It was once the custom for young men to attend the winter schools until nineteen or twenty years of age. The master must be popular and the possessor of ready tact as a disciplinarian if he wished to retain his position. The steel pen has supplanted the goose quill, which the teachers were expected to cut and carefully prepare for the writing lesson, for which, also, they had written the copies. Pupils of five or six years now write lessons which it was once thought sufficient for pupils of twelve or more to master. When scholars could attend school but eight or ten weeks a year, we readily see why they went so many years, and why but few stud- ies could be mastered, reading, writing, and arithmetic, with spelling, being considered the most important. Their great aim was to be thorough in what they attempted, and they succeeded. Now, with thirty weeks' schooling per year, our pupils have time to take up more studies and gain a broader outlook upon the world's knowl- edge at an earlier age than their predecessors.
The committee of supervision has not been ascertained previous to 1843, when apparently the first report to the town was made. The following list presents date of first election and the number of years each individual has served upon the committee :
Peter P. Woodbury, M. D., 1843 (5 or more), Rev. Thomas Sav- age, 1844 (9 or more), Benj. F. Wallace, 1847 (3 or more), John French, 1851 (1), Elijah C. Stevens, 1854 (4), William B. Stevens, M. D., 1857 (3), Leonard J. Brown, 1862 (2), Silas Holbrook, 1864
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(1), George W. Riddle, 1865 (1), William W. Wilkins, M. D., 1866 (3), Isaac N. Riddle, 1869 (1), Rev. Ira C. Tyson, 1870 (4), William U. Gage, 1871 (2), William R. French, 1873 (1), David P. Campbell, M. D., 1879 (1), Anna H. Farley, 1880 (1), John Hodgman, 1881 (1), Charles B. Beal, 1882 (6), Rev. D. H. Colcord, 1883 (3), Nathaniel B. Hull, 1886 (3), Arthur W. Holbrook, 1886 (1), Frank H. Rowe, M. D., 1887 (6), E. Payson French, 1889 (6), William F. Connor, 1891 (2), William S. Manning, 1893 (1), Jasper P. George, 1893 (5), Mary E. Manning, 1894 (9), William W. Darrah, 1895 (3), Thomas J. Wiggin, 1898 (3), William M. Patten, 1898 (5), Arthur W. Hol- brook, 1901 (2).
A list of our teachers for the past fifty-two years follows, with the number of terms taught by them in town each year:
1850.
Mary S. Walker
1 Annis E. Gage
1
Dudley H. Manning
1 Miss Gregg
1
Eliza A. Morrison
2 Miss Damon 1
Fanny W. Wallace
3 Marion Whitney
1
Miss Parker
1 Miss Fisher
2
Mr. Dearborn
1 Asenath Kendrick
1
Ann Riddle
1
Susan A. Mullett
1
James P. Walker
1 Dolly J. Stevens
1
Nancy A. Vose
1 Helen Nevins
1
Mr. Stevens
1 Lucy S. Nevins
1
Miss Clapp
1 Ellen M. Thompson
1
George B. Chandler
1 J. B. Gage
1
Melissa Boynton
1 Mary Ann Shepard
1
Aden N. Stevens
1 Amy French
1
1851.
Miss Felt
1 Henry Chandler
1
J. F. Moore
1 Miss Boynton
1
Miss Putnum
1 Mr. Mason
1
A. J. Hoyt
2 Miss Duncklee
1
Persis A. Winn
2 Mr. Walker
1
Miss Wallace
2 Miss Shepard
1
Miss Butterfield
1 Miss Smith
1
G. Byron Chandler
1 Miss Raymond
2
Miss Richardson
1 Miss Hamblett
1
William Hoyt
1 Miss Riddle
1
Sarah J. Jones Miss Haines
1 Miss Staples
1
Miss Kimball
1 Amy French
1
1852.
Miss Briggs J. G. Woodbury
1 Miss George
1
1 Mr. Wells
1
29
1 Eliza M. Winn
1
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Miss Vose
1 Miss Adams
1
Mr. Moore
1
Mr. Vent
1
Miss Prince
1 Miss Richardson
1
Mr. Smyth
1 Mr. Marshall
1
Miss Kingsbury
1 Miss Lovejoy
1
Miss Abbott
1 Sarah J. Jones
1
Miss Riddle
2
Miss Chase
1
Mr. Chandler
1 Dolly J. Stevens
1
Mr. Gilbert
1 M. Adeline Nevins
2
Miss Savage
1 Mr. Campbell
1
Fanny W. Wallace
1 Miss Gardner
1
Miss Wadleigh
1
Miss Stevens
1
Miss Martin
1
1853.
Miss Darrah
1 Miss Wallace
1
Miss Briggs
1 Mr. Cooke
1
Miss Vose
1 Miss Wentworth
1
Mr. Fosdick
1 Mr. Gilbert
1
Miss Colby
1 Miss Sarah J. Jones
1
Miss Eastman
1 Miss Hannah M. Jones
1
Miss M. Dole
2 Miss Patch
2
Miss Hamblett
1 Miss Nevins
1
Mr. Marshall
1 Miss French
1
Miss Stevens
2 Miss Savage
1
Miss Ferguson
1 Miss Bangs
1
Miss Flanders
1 Miss Burbank
1
Annah J. Hilton
1 John W. Clark
1
Benjamin F. Wallace
2 Sarah E. Mullett
1
Helen M. Putnum
1 Charlas K. Gilchrist
1
Rev. Abel Fletcher
1 Marion Whitney
1
A. Jane Parker
2 Sarah H. Prince
2
Fanny W. Wallace Miss Ferguson
1 Kilburn H. Roby
1
1 Lucy A. Wilkins
2
M. Elizabeth Parker
2 Emma N. French
1
Gilman D. Moore
1 Lizzie A. Giles
1
Margaret A. Richardson
1 Leonard J. Brown
1
William B. Tebbetts
1 Martha J. Page
1
Sophia B. McPherson
1
1855.
Elmira J. Riddle
2 Moses W. Moulton
1
Mary E. Parker
2 Marie E. Merrill
1
Mr. Skinner
1 Sarah H. Prince
1
Susan J. Ferguson
1 Edward B. Knight
1
Lizzie S. Colby
1 Augusta A. Johnson
2
Frances A. McPherson
1 Helen M. Kinsley
1
1854.
SCHOOLHOUSE, DISTRICT NO. 7.
SCHOOLHOUSE, DISTRICT NO. 8.
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Nancie Mclaughlin
2 Sarah M. Longa 1
1 Hannah Nevins 1
1 Keziah J. McPherson . 1
1 Leonard J. Brown 1
Betsey J. Bills
1
Charles W. Johnson, High School.
1856.
Mary J. A. Stevens
1 G. W. Skinner 1
Griggs Holbrook
1 Clara Wilder
2
Nancie Mclaughlin 2 Mary A. Kendrick
1
Susan J. Ferguson 2 Sarah H. Prince 1
Emma J. Harvey
1
E. C. Stevens
1
Samuel J. Patten 1 Miss Shepard
1
Lattie E. Matthews
1 Miss Wilkins
1
George C. McPherson
1 Priscilla A. McKean
2
A. Jane Parker
1 Betsey J. Bills
1
Elmira Jones
2
Charles W. Johnson, High School.
1857.
Dolly F. Bryant
1 Mary J. A. Stevens 1
Annette J. Parker
1 George C. McPherson
1
Nancie Mclaughlin
1 Hannah T. Nevins
1
Ann A. Perkins
1 Edwin L. Cheney
1
Nathan C. Goffe
2
Mary Ann Walker
1
Clara Wilder 3 Sarah H. Prince
1
Frances Savage 1 Ann A. Perkins
1
Lizzie N. Bailey
1 Sarah M. Longa
1
Mary F. Cutler 2 Sophia E. Phelps
1
Lucy A. Bingham
1 W. H. D. Cochran
1
Samuel J. Patten
1 Mary F. Steele
1
Elizabeth G. Brown 1 Elizabeth S. Hartshorn
1
Charles W. Johnson, High School.
1858.
Dolly F. Bryant
1 Fannie M. McPherson 1
Augusta A. French
1 Clinton Barr
1
Sarah H. Prince
1 Fannie M. Moor
2
Hosea B. Spalding
1 Joseph V. Chase
1
Clara Wilder
1 Hannah T. W. Nevins
2
N. Annette McDole 1 Mary J. A. Stevens
1
Fannie E. Parker
1 Miriam B. Gilmore
2
Charles H. Woodbury
1 Sophia E. Phelps
1
Lydia A. Flint
1 Anstress P. Flint
2
Lizzie N. Bailey
1 Hugh R. Barnard
1
William C. French
1 Charlotte N. Nichols
1
Charles I. Parker, High School.
A. Jane Parker James W. Locke Sophia B. McPherson
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HISTORY OF BEDFORD.
1859.
Fannie A. McPherson
1 Keziah J. McPherson
1
Rodney S. Mclaughlin
1 Clinton Barr
1
Lydia A. Flint
1 Anstress P. Flint
2
Hugh R. Barnard
1 James D. Gilchrist
1
Hannah T. W. Nevins
1 Miss L. W. Pike
1
Maria A. Stevens
1 Electa D. Grow
1
Lizzie F. George
2 Martha E. Conant
1
Ellen B. French
1 Nathan C. Goffe
1
Leonard J. Brown
1 Annette J. Parker
1
Louise C. Rundlett
1
L. Anna Wilkins
1
Albert R. Holbrook
1 Abby A. Nichols
1
Augusta H. Mace
1 Silas Holbrook
1
Cyrus W. Sargent
1
1860.
Louise C. Rundlett
1 Hannah T. W. Nevins
1
Sarah H. Prince
1 Leonard J. Brown
1
Mary F. Darrah
1 Lucy A. Bowers
1
Mary N. Adams
1
H. F. Blaisdell
1
Ellen B. French
2 Eliza A. Foster
1
Asenath P. McQueston
1 George O. Lawrence
1
Fanny A. McPherson
1 Joseph L. Locke
1
Lucy A. Holbrook
1 Miss L. S. McNeil
1
Electa D. Grow
1 Carrie D. Pinkham
1
Julia A. Neville
2 Silas Holbrook
1
Annette J. Parker
2 Augusta H. Mace
1
1861.
Martha Woodbury
2 Lucy A. Holbrook
1
Sarah H. Prince
2 K. F. Blaisdell
1
Mary F. Darrah
3 G. A. Kittredge
1
Mary N. Adams
1 Ellen M. Spalding
1
J. P. Varnum
1 Hannah T. W. Nevins
2
Mrs. E. A. Stevens
1 Charles H. Young
1
Mary A. Doty
1 Jenny Channell
1
Mr. Heald
1 Abby A. Nichols
1
Fannie A. McPherson
2 John N. Mace
1
Addie A. Crosby
1 Asenath P. McQueston
1
1862.
Asenath H. Riddle
1 Fannie A. McPherson
1
Benj. R. Emerson
1 John G. McAllaster
1
Fannie L. Conant
1 Georgianna Steele 1
Edwin H. Wilson
1 Daniel Austin
1
Brina E. Crane
1 Miriam B. Gilmore
2
Rebecca Richardson
1 A. Jennie Parker
2
SCHOOLS.
437
Julia M. Pierce H. P. Potter Sarah H. Prince Laura J. Hamblett J. L. Boynton
1 Mrs. Eliza A. Stevens 1
1 Mary F. Darrah 1
2 Hannah T. W. Nevins 1
1 Leonard J. Brown 1
1 Adaline E. Adams
1
1863.
Fannie T. Rundlett
2 Ellen J. Kittredge 1
Mary E. Morrison
1 Lizzie S. Hartshorn
1
Julia M. Pierce
1 Sarah J. Farley 1
Mary N. Adams
2 Georgianna Patten
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