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Davis, Moses B., L. from First Cong'1. Church, Woburn, Mass., Jan. 6. '95; d. Mar. 25, 1909, a. 68 y. I m.
Davis, Albert Eugene, L. from North Cong'1. Church, Woburn, Mass., Jan. 6, '95; dis. to St. Luke's M. E. Church, Derry, Jan. 29, 1922. Coombs, Ella M., (Mrs. West), L. from Baptist Church., Jan. 6, '95; d. in Beverly, Mass., Jan. 9, 1923.
Pingree, Etta A., (Mrs. Kohl), c. Jan. 6, '95; dis. to Presbt. Churchı, Athens, Penn., Jan. 1, 1915.
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Pingree, Ella M., (Mrs. Geo. G. Davis), c. Jan. 6, '95; dis. to Central Cong'l. Church, Derry, Feb. 25, 1917.
Davis, George G., c. Jan. 6, '95; dis. to Central Cong'l. Church, Derry, Feb. 25, 1917.
Grant, Dea. George Edgar, c. Jan. 6, '95; dis. to Pilgrim Cong'l Church, Worcester, Mass., Mar. I, 1903.
Grant, Mary B., (Mrs. A. E. Davis), c. Jan. 6, '95; dis. to St. Luke's M. E. Church, Derry, Jan. 29, 1922.
Grant, Hattie F., (Mrs. Chaplin), c. Jan. 6, '95; dis. to Presbt. Church, Manchester, Easter, 1920.
Abbott, Eliza A., (Tolman), (Mrs. Daniel C.), c. Jan. 6, '95.
Abbott, Carrie E., c. Jan. 6, '95; dis. to Christian Church, Manchester, Jan. 10, '98.
Spofford, Mary Elizabeth, (Mrs. Charles), c. Jan. 6, '95.
Clark, Sarah Frances, (Mrs. Richard S.), c. May 5, '95; d. Aug. 15, 1905.
Haselton, Alice J., (Mrs. Lewis G. Shattuck), c. May 5, '95; dis. to the North Cong'1. Church, Portsmouth, May 6, 1923.
Haselton, Reuben, c. July 7, '95; d. Oct. 9, 1904.
McDuffee, Leroy, c. July 7, '95; d. Sept. 1I, 1913.
McDuffee, Isabella G., (Mrs. Leroy), L. from Church of Christ, Montague, Mass., July 7, '95; d. Jan. 1, 1913.
Carr, Clara B., (Mrs. Nelson Dickey), c. July 7, '95.
Griffin, Edward C., L. from M. E. Church, Auburn, July 7, '95.
Fisher, Rev. Albert V., L. July 10, '98; dis. to Central Cong'l. Church, Derry, July 6, '99.
Fisher, Carrie C., (Mrs. Albert V.), L. July 10, '98; dis. to Central Cong'l. Church, Derry, July 6, '99.
Fisher, Annie W., c. July 10, '98; dis. to Central Cong'l Church, Derry, July 6, '99.
Shaw, Johnson L., c. July 22, 1900; d. Oct. 8, 1900.
Hall, Rev. Albert E., L. from Conway Cong'l. Church, Aug. 30, 1900; dis. to Cong'1. Church, Chester, May 5, 1916.
Hall, Harriet E., (Mrs. Albert E.), L. from Cong'1. Church, Conway, Aug. 30, 1900; dis. to Cong'1. Church, Chester, May 5, 1916. Grant, Edith B., (Mrs. George E.), c. May 21, 1905; dis. to St. Luke's M. E. Church, Derry, Mar. 5, 1916; d. in Derry, Dec. 15, 1918. Davis, Minnie F., (Mrs. Newton West), c. May 21, 1905; dis. to Cong'1. Church, Chester, Dec. 20, 1907; d. in Chester, Feb., 1920. Davis, George Everett, c. May 21, 1905.
Sanborn, Margaret A., (Mrs. George P. Griffin), c. Nov. 4, 1906.
McAlman, Samuel E., c. Nov. 3, '07; d. in Chester, Jan. 3, '13. Glidden, Laura C., (Mrs. Waldo B. Coleman), c. Nov. 3, '07; dis. to the M. E. Church, Auburn, Nov., 1917.
Tilton, Helen F., (Mrs. Philip Batchelder), c. Nov. 3, 1907.
Cutting, Helen J., (Mrs. - - Warren), c. Nov. 3, 1907; dis. to the
Christian Church, Haverhill, Mass., Dec. 1, 1918.
Cutting, Henry N., c. Jan. 5, '08; d. Mar. 31, '25.
Cutting, Carrie Lillian, (Mrs. Henry N.), c. Jan. 5, 1908.
Cutting, Emma Lulu, (Mrs. Armstrong), c. Jan. 5, 1908.
McAlman, Charles E., L. from Baptist Church, Derry, Jan. 5, 1908; dis. to Baptist Church, Derry, Apr. 25, 1915.
McAlman, Jennie S., (Mrs. Charles E.), L. from Baptist Church,
Derry, Jan. 5, 1908; dis. to same, Apr. 25, 1915. James, Alfred Walter, c.
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CHAPTER XXVIII
THE METHODIST CHURCH
It is stated that the first Methodist sermon was preached at Long Meadows in the house of John Clark about 1809, by Rev. George Pickering. Mr. Pickering afterwards preached in the old Long Meadows meeting-house.
In 1836 a meeting house was built. Mr. Clark took the contract to furnish a site and build a house for two thousand dollars and whatever it cost more than was subscribed he paid, in addition to his subscription of four hundred dollars.
This house was dedicated July 20, 1837 and is shown on page 350 of Benjamin Chase's History of Old Chester.
The pulpit was filled by Mr. Fales in 1838, and later by preachers named Quimby, Stearns and Smith. In 1858 and 1859 Rev. Joseph Scott was the pastor. He had high ideals relating to temperance and anti-salvery and organized the "Band of Hope." In 1859 there were twenty-seven church members. In 1861 there were eighty-four mem- bers of the Sabbath school, and in 1865 the church enrolled forty-one members.
The pastors were Rev. John Marsh, 1860; Rev. H. F. Spencer, 1861; Rev. J. A. DeForest, 1862; Rev. Henry Copp, 1883; Rev. R. J. Donalson, 1864; Rev. Abraham Folsom 1866.
The church records do not show who were pastors from 1867 to 1870.
The church was painted in 1880 and in 1883 an organ was in- stalled. In 1884 Rev. William McNally received twelve members to communion and ten on probation and in 1885 the parish included 141 families in Auburn and Chester then under the care of one pastor. In 1886 extensive repairs were made on the church and thirty mem- bers were added to its membership.
The Fiftieth Anniversary of the church was observed. At that time Sebastian Griffin prepared an historical sketch of the church and a clock was given by Page S. Griffin. In 1889 Rev. Henry Brown Copp was again pastor and made in one month ninety calls upon the people.
The society also received a gift of $3000 from Miss Elizabeth Anderson, the interest to be applied to the support of preaching.
In 1890 the Sunday School had an average attendance of 55. In 1896 there were thirty-nine members. Rev. John Bradford was the pastor. In 1900 the church was again repaired. In 1905 Rev. Eugene Thrasher was pastor.
In 1906 and 1908 the interior furnishings were improved through the Ladies Literary Club and Aid Society. In 1913, Simon G. Pres- cott gave a bell and Benjamin Chase of Derry, a former resident of Auburn, gave $800, the interest of which was to be used for the sup- port of the minister. In 1915, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Abbott presented the church with a new organ, and in 1917 Simon G. Prescott gave the society $1000, the income to be used for the support of preaching. In 1918, a class of ten young people was received by Rev. Paul E. Lewis pastor. In 1920 the society completed its quota of the centen- ary funds and Rev. Carroll Carter was pastor. A piano was given
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to the Sunday School in 1921 by Frank H. Prescott and in 1922 the Auburn Methodist Episcopal Church enrolled a membership of twenty- three.
PASTORS
1860 John Marsh.
1891-2 Harvey G. Clark
1861 H. F. Spencer.
1893 W. A. Prosser.
I862 J. A. DeForest.
1894-5 Albert G. Smith.
I863 Henry B. Copp.
1896-7 John N. Bradford.
1864 R. J. Donaldson.
1898-01 Frank Hooper.
1865
S. j. Robinson.
1902-3
Frederick Corson.
I866
Abraham Folsom.
1904-6 Eugene Thrasher.
1870 N. L. Colby.
1907-8 Noble Fiske.
1871-2 James Adams.
1909-10 Frank P. Sawyer.
1874 Joseph W. Presby.
1911-13 Edred May.
1875-6
Simeon P. Heath.
1914
Joseph W. Presby.
1877-79
Fred E. White.
1915-16 Walter H. Upham.
1880 Henry B. Copp.
1917 William Gunter.
188I N. M. Bailey
1917-18 Paul E. Lewis.
1882-83 A. R. Lunt.
1919 Carroll Carter.
1884-7 William McNally
1920-21 Theodore C. Radoslovoff.
1887-8 Henry E. Allen
1922-23 Frederick W. Smith.
1889 Henry B. Copp.
1890
A. L. Smith.
CHAPTER XXIX
SCHOOL TEACHERS AND SCHOOLS
BRICKETT
SALLY BRICKETT, daughter of Moses and Sally (Pillsbury) Brickett was a teacher in Auburn in the forties.
CHASE
JOHN and BENJAMIN CHASE, sons of Benjamin Pike and Anna (Blaisdell) Chase were born in Chester (now Auburn) and taught school several terms in their youth.
ANNA CHASE (m. Coult), daughter of Benjamin Pike and Mary (Chase) Chase was also a teacher.
LOUISE CHASE (m. Emery), daughter of Benjamin and Hannah (Hall) Chase attended the Friends school of Moses A. Cartland in Weare and then taught several terms.
MARY C. CHASE, daughter of Pike and Hannah S. (Lufkin) Chase was born in Auburn. She was educated at Pinkerton Academy and taught several terms in Auburn. She married Frank D. Emery.
STEPHEN CHASE, son of Benjamin Pike and Mary (Chase) Chase was born in Chester (now Auburn), 30 Aug. 1813. He graduated at Dartmouth College in 1832. He was a preceptor at Gorham one vear ; teacher in Virginia and Maryland two years; tutor at Dartmouth in 1838; then professor of mathematics, 1838 to 1851. He published a treatise on Algebra. He died at Hanover, 7 Jan., 1851.
CLARK
CYNTHIA L. CLARK of Auburn, dau. of Richard and Abra (Wood) Clark, attended a select school under the instruction of Col. Francis W.
1924-25 L. W. Mooney.
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Parker. For several years she was a successful teacher. She married Charles Osgood.
CLARKE
KATE TENNEY CLARKE, second daughter of George P. and Susan C. Clarke, was born in Auburn, Mar. 9, 1851, and received her early education in the Village school, the first term that she attempted being taught by Francis W. Parker. She entered New London academy, now called Colby, at the age of 14 and was graduated in the class of '71. Miss Clarke studied Greek after graduation and took a Chautauqua course in literature. She taught in country schools a few terms and then went to Quincy, Mass., to teach in the large West Quincy Grammar school. The illness of her mother necessitated her resigna- tion and she returned home where she tutored many sttudents con- templating entering college and was superintendant of Auborn schools for several years. Resuming teaching again, she had charge of an out- lying school in Manchester for several terms and then taught in the Main Street school for thirty years and until failing health compelled her to give up teaching.
Many of her pupils in West Manchester, were of German descent and she studied their language for several years with a native teacher. Miss Clarke was a great reader and well informed in current literature.
Her last days were spent with her sister, Mrs. Carroll C. Knapp, Gloucester, Mass., where she died June 19, 1918.
JENNIE GRAHAM CLARKE, eldest child of George P. and Susan C. Clarke, was born in Auburn, Feb. 25, 1848, and attended the Village school which she afterward taught. Miss Clarke was at Northfield, attending what has since been called the Tilton Seminary, when the school buildings were burned. She then attended Colby Academy, New London, but was unable to complete her course on account of the illness of her mother. After graduation at the Plymouth Normal school, she taught in Lisbon and several terms at Pittsfield, where she was married to George R. Drake and resided until 1891 when the family removed to Manchester, where she died Dec. 2, 1895.
JESSIE BRYSON CLARKE, fourth daughter of George P. and Susan C. Clarke, was born in Auburn Aug. 28, 1865, and received her early education in the Village school. She attended the Manchester schools and was graduated at Tilton Seminary.
After teaching several terms in Auburn and Chester, she went to Quincy, Mass., to take a course in the famous Quincy Training school for teachers. After completing the course, she was selected to teach in the Coddington school and filled that position for five years and then resigned to accept a more lucrative position in Waltham, Mass., where she taught in a grammar school until she was married to Walter N. Fuller, Waltham, Mass.
After going to Massachusetts, she devoted several years to voice culture and music teaching in public schools and took a year's course in science and technology.
COLBY
JUDITH COLBY, daughter of Rev. Zaccheus and Mary (Calef) Colby of Auburn was an exceptional teacher. She went as a mis- sionary to the Osage Indians and was stationed at Harmony, N. Y.
ZACCHEUS COLBY, son of Rev. Zaccheus and Mary (Calef) Colby was a teacher.
CROMBIE
NANCY M. CROMBIE, daughter of Hugh and Mary Crombie was
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born in Auburn. She attended a select school in Auburn, taught by Col. Francis W. Parker, and later attended Colby Academy in New London. She was a successful teacher in Auburn and elsewhere for several years. She married (1) Lewis Rowell and (2) Hubbard Thompson.
CROSBY
CORA CROSBY (m. Emery), graduate at Pinkerton Academy, Derry, and was a teacher in Auburn, Windham and Derry for about ten years. She is a member of the School Board in Auburn.
COULT
STEPHEN C., MARY C., and FRANK B. COULT, children of Amherst and Mary (Chase) Coult attended Pembroke Academy and taught school several terms.
ANNIE MAY COULT, daughter of Frank B. and Mary (Buswell) Coult was born in Auburn 4 Nov., 1886, and educated in the public schools of the town and Pembroke Academy. She taught school in Chester for three years and after a year in Brentwood taught three years each in New Ipswich and Derry. She made her school work of greater value by establishing libraries in several schools. For several years she has been employed in the Treasury Department, Office of the Register, Washington, D. C.
DEARBORN
MARY E. DEARBORN, daughter of Hendrick and Sylvania (Fletcher) Dearborn, was born in Chester (now Auburn), 5 Apr., 1844, on the homestead where her great grandfather Col. Stephen Dearborn settled in colonial times. She was educated in a select school taught by Col. Francis W. Parker and at Colby and Kimball Union Academies. She was a teacher several years in Auburn and Brent- wood and later graduated from the State Normal School in Lebanon, Ohio. She taught a select school in Auburn in 1875 and 1876, and in the Coddington School in Quincy, Mass., from 1876 to 1904 being the principal from 1880 to 1904, when she retired. She died 17 Oct., 1920.
MAHALA DEARBORN. BELINDA DEARBORN and FRANKLIN FLETCHER DEARBORN sisters and brother of the above, attended Chester, Pem- broke and Colby Academies and were successful teachers for many terms. Mahala married Henry Plummer.
DOCKHAM
ANN MARY DOCKHAM, dau. Henry and Lydia (Witherspoon) Dockham, attended Pinkerton Academy and was a successful teacher in Auburn. Derry and Londonderry. She married Edward M. Leavitt and resided in Manchester.
EATON
SELINDA L. EATON (m. Ai Willoughby), daughter of George K. and Hannah C. (Chase) Eaton was born in Auburn, graduated from the Plymouth Normal School, taught seeral terms.
EMERY
ELVIRA ROBINSON EMERY, daughter of Alfred and Caroline F. (Wood) Emery, born in Auburn, 13 Aug., 1874, taught several terms. MARY CAROLINE EMERY, daughter of Alfred D. and Caroline F. (Wood) Emery, was born in Auburn, 14 Mar., 1867. She attended Pinkerton Academy and graduated from the Plymouth Normal School.
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She has been a teacher in Auburn, Candia, Derry and other towns for thirty-one years.
SADIE FRANCES EMERY (m. French), daughter of Alfred D. and Caroline F. (Wood) Emery, born in Auburn, 9 March, 1865, graduated at the Melrose, Mass., High School and taught two years.
FOX
SARAH E. Fox, daughter of Andrew F. and Margaret A. (Heath) Fox was born in Auburn, Sept. 11, 1848. She attended Pinkerton Academy and became a teacher. She married James Benson and died in 1908.
MARY G. Fox, a sister, was a teacher several years. She married Samuel Richardson of Auburn.
HANSON
ELLA F. HANSON (m. Brown), attended the Manchester High School and became a teacher. She taught fifty terms in Auburn and vicinity. She was a member of the school board of Auburn for several years.
HARRIS
WILLIAM SAMUEL HARRIS, son of William C. and Philena H. (Dinsmore) Harris, was born in Windham, 29 Mar., 1861. He was educated in the public schools of Windham and at Pinkerton Academy. He was a teacher in Windham, Hudson, Derry and Auburn and at Coe's Academy in Northwood. He died 15 Dec., 1917.
HESELTON
ALICE J. HESELTON, daughter of William A. and Julia K. (Har- wood) Heselton of Auburn graduated from Coe's Academy, North- wood, and was a teacher for a few years. She married Lewis G. Shattuck.
HIGGINS
M. ADELAIDE HIGGINS, a graduate of the Lancaster High School and of the Lowell Normal School taught sixty-three terms, seventeen of which were in Auburn. She married Edward C. Griffin.
HOYT
HANNAH P. HOYT, daughter of James and Pamelia (Brown) Hoyt, was born in Chester (now Auburn), 9 Sept., 1824. She attended a select school in Manchester kept by a man named Carpenter about 1842. She afterwards attended the New Hampton Institution from which she graduated about 1845. She taught a select school in Auburn. She also taught in Newport, R. I. and was assistant in the High School in Woonsocket, R. I. about 1852. She marrried 23 Nov., 1853, Isaac Huse.
Their children were:
I. Isaac Huse, b. 5 Jan., 1858; graduate of the Manchester High School ; teacher in Utah, under New West Education Commission ; principal of Franklin Street School, Manchester ; d. 19 Feb., 1922.
II. William Hoyt Huse, b. 5 Mar., 1862; graduate of Manchester High School; teacher, principal of Hallsville School, 1892-1917; principal of Junior High School 1917-1921; died 2 Dec., 1921.
HUNT
Simeon Hunt, M. D., a medical student and graduate of Dart- mouth College, taught a select school in the Congregational vestry in the fall of 1863. He was an experienced teacher who aroused en-
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thusiasm in those who were fortunate enough to be his pupils. He practiced medicine in East Providence, R. I. for many years and died there several years ago.
Following are the names of his pupils, only a half-dozen being alive at the present time.
Martha Brown, Frank Hall,
Regina L. Brown,
Edward Leavitt,
Franklin P. Buswell,
Charles O. Leighton,
Mary E. Buswell,
Celena M. Mead,
George Center,
Hattie M. Miles,
John C. Chase,
Albert A. Osgood,
Mary C. Chase,
Fannie F. Osgood,
Jennie G. Clarke,
Fred F. Osgood,
John Clough,
George W. Pingree,
Frank B. Coult,
Mary F. Pingree,
Abby Cross,
Nathan Plummer,
Frank F. Dearborn,
Amos H. Sanborn,
Eugene Dinsmore,
Ellen Sanderson,
Ann Mary Dockham,
Emma Sanderson,
Henry C. Emery,
Flora I. Sanderson,
Charles A. Goldsmith,
James F. Savage,
Charles Hall,
Alden C. Watson,
George A. Wood.
HUNTON
LOUISA JANE HUNTON, daughter of Oraman and Louisa (Latimer) Hunton, was born 10 Dec., 1841. She did good work as a teacher for several years in Auburn.
LUFKIN
ANNA MAY and ROSE C. LUFKIN, daughters of Jacob and Mary (Plummer) Lufkin, were teachers.
McDUFFEE
CARRIE L. McDUFFE, daughter of Stephen M. and Hepsibeth D. (Pingree) McDuffee graduated from a High School.
LOIS E. McDUFFEE, a sister, attended Colby Academy, New Lon- don. They were successful teachers in Auburn.
MURRY
ELIZABETH MURRY, daughter of William and Mary (Carr) Murry, locally called "Big Lizzie" and ELIZABETH MURRY, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Pillsbury) Murry, called "Little Lizzie" were teachers in the forties.
Lucinda Murry (m. Cass), and Mary C. Murry (m. Everett), daughters of Samuel and Emeline (French) Murry, attended Chester Academy and taught several terms.
OSGOOD
ALBERT AUGUSTUS OSGOOD, son of Cady and Mary (Kelly) Os- good, was born in Chester (now Auburn), 9 Feb., 1844; graduate at Dartmouth College 1871; teacher four years in Massachusetts; and later in Parsons, Kan.
PARKER
FRANCIS WAYLAND PARKER, who became a noted educator, was prominently identified with teaching in Auburn in the fifties. He was born in Bedford, now a part of Manchester, Oct. 9, 1837, and was a descendant of John Goffe, the first settler in the section that is now
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, AUBURN
METHODIST CHURCH, AUBURN
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Manchester. He worked on the farm summers and attended the local school winters, and later was a student at the academies in Mont Vernon and Hopkinton. His first school was in Boscawen in 1855, where he had 75 pupils and received $15 per month, and probably "boarded 'round."
The following year he came to Auburn and taught several terms. Later he taught in Manchester and entering the service in the Civil War was retired with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.
He resumed teaching in Manchester and after three years became the head of the Dayton, Ohio, Normal Training School, which position he gave up in order to visit Europe, where he spent three years in study in Berlin.
On his return to this country he was elected superintendent of schools at Quincy, Mass., where he won a world-wide reputation as an educator. In 1880 he was made one of the supervisors of the Boston schools and in Jan., 1883 he assumed charge of the Cook County, Normal School at Chicago, Ill., which was merged later into the Chicago Institute. He was the author of several books on teaching, his ideas being far in advance of his time and he has been credited with being America's greatest school reformer since Horace Mann. The Parker School in the community where he was born was named in his honor. He died at Pass Christian, Mo., and was buried at his birth- place.
In the fall of 1867 he had a "select school" in the vestry of the Congregational church in Auburn with the following-named pupils :
Almira A. Clark,
* Mary A. Neal,
*Cynthia L. Clark,
*Albert A. Osgood, Henry H. Osgood,
Lizzie Clark,
Charles H. Patten,
Sylvina T. Clark,
William H. Perry,
Harriet Coffin,
*Mary F. Pingree,
George Coult,
*Annie E. Crombie,
*Nancy M. Crombie,
*Belinda Dearborn,
Nathan Plummer,
*Mary E. Dearborn, John Y. Demeritt,
Evander G. Preston,
H. Fannie Eaton, Henry E. Emery,
James M. Preston,
Charles Hall,
Lucretia E. Preston, Mary O. Preston,
Frank Hall,
Martha Hall,
Benjamin A. Haselton,
Jonathan H. Haselton,
Stephen E. Haselton,
William A. Haselton,
*Edward A. Savage,
*Emily A. Kimball,
*Abbie C. Southard,
George C. Kimball, Mary L. McDuffee,
*Lucy J. Watson, Caroline F. Wood,
John Wood.
*Became teachers.
A dramatic entertainment given at the close of the term. Nov. 5, 1857, was noteworthy for its length and excellence.
Warren E. Clark,
Charles W. Pingree,
William P. Clark,
*Ellen M. Pingree,
* Albert Plummer, Edwin Plummer,
Sarah Plummer,
Addie M. Preston,
Henry M. Preston,
*Sarah A. Preston, William C. Preston, James Ray, Alfred J. Sanborn,
Orpah L. Clark,
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PINGREE
ELLEN M. and MARY F. PINGREE, daughters of Jacob and Emeline (Weeks) Pingree of Auburn attended Pinkerton Academy and were teachers for several years.
PLUMMER
ALBERT PLUMMER, M. D., son of Dr. Nathan and Mehitable (Dinsmore) Plummer, was born in Chester (now Auburn), 7 Sept., 1840. He graduated from the Bowdoin Medical School, 1867. Taught school on Bunker Hill and in Auburn village and later was superin- tendent of Auburn schools. Assistant surgeon in 10th N. H. Vols. 1865; physician Hamilton, Minn., 1867-95; Racine, Minn., 1895-1910; member Minn. legislature 1882-3; died in Rochester, Minn., 20 Mar., 1912.
FRANCES AUGUSTA PLUMMER, daughter of Charles N. and Louisa (Simonds) Plummer, was born in Alexandria, 17 Sept., 1847. She graduated at the Bristol High School and was a teacher in Alexandria, Hill, Hebron, Auburn and Manchester. She married 6 Feb., 1877, Willard H. Griffin, principal of the Bakersville School. She has served on the school board of Auburn twelve years.
LULU G. PLUMMER, daughter of Edwin and Frances (Webster) Plummer was a teacher for a few years.
PRATT
MARY EMMA PRATT (m. Barker),, daughter of Albert and Mary D. (Merrill) Pratt was a teacher.
PRESCOTT
BLANCHE PRESCOTT, daughter of Frank H. and Isabelle S. Pres- cott was born in Auburn. She was educated at Pinkerton Academy and was a teacher in Auburn. She married Charles W. Hunkins.
RAY
REV. JOHN WASON RAY was a noted teacher who has extended mention under "Native Ministers of Chester."
RICHARDSON
PERSIS A. RICHARDSON, daughter of Samuel and Mary G. (Fox) Richardson, was born in Auburn, 29 Aug., 1888. She graduated from the Manchester High School and the Plymouth Normal School and was a teacher in Wakefield, Somerville and Hingham, Mass., the Ply- mouth Normal School and in the Normal School in Oshkosh, Wis. She married Harlan P. Peabody of Providence, R. I.
UNDERHILL
AMANDA UNDERHILL, daughter of John and Molly (Chase) Un- derhill attended school under her uncle, Prof. Stephen Chase and was herself a successful teacher for several years. She married Charles Chase of Chester.
COLLEGE GRADUATES AND PROFESSIONAL NOT PREVIOUSLY MENTIONED
FRANK EATON, M. D., son of Lyman and Lucy R. (Brown) Eaton was born in Auburn, 8 Mar., 1851. He was educated in the public schools of Auburn, at Barnard Academy and graduated from Dartmouth Medical School, 1877. He settled in East Weare where he has practiced medicine for about forty-eight years.
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LONGEVITY
WALTER PALMER EMERY, youngest son of Alfred D. and Caroline F. (Wood) Emery was born in Auburn, 19 Dec., 1879; graduated at Pinkerton Academy and at Dartmouth College in 1905. He is General Traffic Manager of the Bell Telephone Co. in New Jersey.
WILLIAM FRANCIS FORSAITH, son of Frank and Rosa (Pingree) Forsaith, born in Auburn, 1880, graduated at Dartmouth College in 1908 and died in 1910 while attending a Medical School.
CHARLES ALMOND GOLDSMITH, son of Thomas and Esther (Mc- Duffee) Goldsmith, born in Auburn, 29 June, 1846, graduated at Har- vard University Medical School in 1869 and practiced medicine in Me- thuen, Mass., for several years.
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