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HISTORY OF ANDOVER.
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At a meeting of the trustees on October 26, 1855, John M. Shirley was chosen secretary and Samuel Butterfield remained president of the board.
John Fellows suggested a plan for re-opening the academy un- der the anspices of the Christian conferences; and it was voted - to "offer the corporate property of the Andover Academy to the Christian Conferences in New England for the purpose of open- ing a school there."
At a meeting held February 1, 1856, Rev. John Burden, Rev. Timothy Cole, Rev. Daniel P. Pike and Rev. William H. Nason,. were chosen trustees. On July 27, 1856, by a vote of the trus- tees, the property and appurtenances of the Andover Academy were transferred to the members of the New England Christian. Conferences. Hon. Samuel Butterfield continued as president and John M. Shirley as secretary of the board of trustees. Rev .. Timothy Cole, Rev. John Burden and Rev. William II. Nason were chosen an executive committee.
In December, 1856, the trustees voted to repair the academy building, build two wings, giving four recitation rooms and open the school on the third Wednesday in February, 1857.
On the day appointed the school was opened, under the name of the "New England Christian Literary and Biblical Institute." O. D. Barrett, A. B., John Wesley Simonds. A. B., and Miss Delia E. Payne were the teachers. At the elose of the first term Mr. Barrett and Miss Payne resigned and Mr. Simonds became the principal, with Dr. George O. Dalton. A. M., and Miss Mary J. Ambrose as assistants for one year.
Rev. A. H. Martin, Nathan S. Morrison and Rev. Seth Hinek-
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ley constituted the executive committee for the second year. A catalogue issued in October, 1857, contained the names of 196 students.
Mr. Simonds remained as principal until the end of the sum- mer term of 1858. At this time the school was well organized, the instruction was thorough and four graduates entered college.
In September, 1858, John Proctor was chosen one of the ex- ecutive committee. At this time the school had no fund, and a debt of $600 had been incurred for meeting current expenses. In consequence of this financial condition the school was sus- pended for about two terms, and an effort was made to raise a permanent fund.
For the three terms ending in November, 1859, Rev. S. W. Whitney was in charge of the school.
In August, 1860, Rev. John W. Haley was chosen principal and remained one year.
In October, 1860, the management of the school was restricted to the New Hampshire Christian Conference and its name was changed to "Andover Christian Institute." Rev. John Burden was chosen president of the trustees, John M. Shirley, secretary, Albert G. Morrison, treasurer, and John Proctor, Rev. John Bur- den and Joseph Smith, executive committee.
In 1861 John M. Shirley resigned the position of secretary and was succeeded by Joseph W. Fellows.
A bequest of $1,000 from Mrs. Susan Noyes of Franklin, with gifts from other friends of the school amounting to $500, was received about this time.
The act incorporating the Andover Academy was amended by an act of the Legislature, approved June 27, 1861, limiting the permanent fund to $50,000 and providing for the election of. trustees and for the management of the funds.
In 1861, Rev. Thomas Bartlett was chosen principal and re- mained until November, 1865, when the school was closed.
At the annual meeting of the trustees, in 1865, it was decided to discontinue the school at Andover. At this time the corpora- tion had a fund of about $2,500.
In June, 1866, the institute was transferred to Wolfeborough, and the name changed to the "Wolfeborough Christian Insti- tute." The school opened in September, 1866, and, with vary-
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ing success, continued till December, 1873, when it was formally discontinued by an almost unanimous vote of the trustees.
A committee consisting of John W. Simonds of Franklin, Per- son C. Shaw of Hill and O. J. Wait of Franklin, were appointed to receive proposals for locating the school. At that time the en- dowment fund amounted to $9,259.12, and the debt was $2,656.
On the 26th of June. 1874, the governor approved an aet of the Legislature reviving the original charter of June 23, 1848. and authorizing John Proctor, John M. Shirley and Nathan Wood- bury, Jr., or any two of them, to call a meeting of the corporation for the transaction of any business.
About that time a proposition was received from the citizens of Andover Centre for the location of the school onee more in that village.
The proposal was accompanied by the offer of the academy building and other property, and the sum of $4,000 for enlarging and repairing the building. This offer was accepted and the school was re-located at Andover Centre in July, 1874, under the name of Proetor Academy, in honor of John Proctor, its most liberal benefactor. The school began, under the new manage- ment, in August, 1874, and during the fall term occupied the hall in the "Moulton" Hotel. The repairs were so far com- pleted that the examinations at the end of the term were held in the academy building.
During the first year the school was under the supervision of John W. Simonds, who was the secretary of the board of trustees and one of the executive committee. The endowment fund then amounted to $8,000 above all indebtedness, exelusive of the be- quest of $1,000 from Col. Joseph Sweatt of Franklin, formerly a citizen of Andover, and the sum of $500 from Watson Diek- erson, late of East Andover.
Notwithstanding the favorable outlook. the school did not realize the hopes of its friends. Grave differences arose in the board of trustees and the vitality of the school steadily declined. after the first year, until the spring of 1879, when it was plain that it could not continue under the existing management. Nine thousand dollars of the fund had been lost by the failure of the treasurer.
In 1879 all interests in the academy property were transferred
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to an association representing the educational interests of the Unitarian denomination in New Hampshire, and still remains under the supervision of that denomination, retaining the name of Proctor Academy. With this change ended the efforts of the Christian denomination, for twenty-two years, to maintain an academic institution in New England.
For twenty-three years an academy had existed in Andover, under three different names, and while the citizens had contrib- uted liberally, according to their means, to its support. they, with the people of the neighboring towns, had reaped a rich reward for their wise beneficence. A long and notable list of the sons and daughters of Andover and vicinity had there received, not only the training and culture that fitted them for teachers and the duties of good citizenship, but that stimulus which led then further into the wider fields of professional and active investiga- tion.
During the fall term of 1874, Miss Annie P. Little of Concord was the teacher, with eighteen pupils.
In the following year Frank E. Adams of Hill and Miss Annie P. Little were the teachers, with about fifty pupils.
In 1876, Alvah H. Morrill and Miss Lney A. Rowell were the teachers. Henry Melville taught for a part of 1878.
In 1878, Mr. B. A. Field became principal, with Mabel S. Emery as assistant, and remained until the school passed into the hands of the Unitarian Educational Society and became known as Proctor Academy.
In the fall term of 1878 there were twenty-two pupils. George W. Stone, assisted by Mary A. Putney, had charge of the acad- emy in a part of 1879-'80.
In 1880, the school opened under the management of the Uni- tarian Educational Society, with Herbert B. Dow, a graduate of Harvard College, as principal, assisted by Miss Ednah D., Emer- son. He was suceceded, in 1881, by W. J. Lloyd, with Mrs. Lloyd as assistant.
In 1883, Mr. Dow returned and remained in charge until the end of the spring term in 1887. Mr. Dow's assistants in 1883 were Andrew Nichols, Jr., Emily W. Tapley and Helen M. Per- kins. In 1884, he was assisted by Misses Tapley and Perkins, and in 1884-'85 by the same ladies and Charles S. Paige. From
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the fall term in 1885 to the elose of his work, he was assisted by Misses Lillie M. Packard, Luella H. Scales and Helen M. Per- kins. Albert A. Beal was an assistant in 1886.
At the beginning of the fall term in 1887, Frank K. Gifford, A. B., became principal, with Misses E. Mabelle Farman, Edith S. Cushing. Luella H. Scales and Helen M. Perkins as assistants. From 1883 to 1888, the average number of pupils at each term was forty-six.
In 1888 the teachers were: Mr. Archie S. Hodges, Misses Florence Sampson, Luella H. Scales and Helen M. Perkins.
In 1889, Mr. and Mrs. True W. White, Misses Seales and Perkins.
In 1890, Mr. and Mrs. True W. White, Misses Scales and Perkins.
In 1891, Mr. J. F. Morton, Miss Luella H. Seales. Miss Mary W. Morton and Andrew J. Buswell.
In 1892, Mr. J. F. Morton, Miss Luella H. Seales, Miss Mary W. Morton and Andrew J. Buswell.
In 1893, Mr. J. F. Morton, Miss Luella HI. Seales, Miss Flor- ence I. Clark and Andrew J. Buswell.
In 1894, Mr. J. F. Morton, Misses Luella H. Scales, Mary Ellen Smith and Addie J. Emerson.
In 1895, Mr. J. F. Morton, Misses Luella H. Seales, Mary Ellen Smith, Addie J. Emerson and Mary W. Morton.
In 1896, Mr. J. F. Morton, Misses Luella II. Seales, Mary Ellen Smith, Addie J. Emerson and Mary W. Morton.
In 1897, Mr. J. F. Morton, Misses Luella H. Seales and Ophelia S. Brown.
In 1898, Miss Luella II. Scales, Mr. J. F. Morton and Misses Addie J. Emerson, Mary W. Morton and Alma L. Walker.
In 1899, Miss Luella II. Seales, Mr. J. F. Morton, Miss Mary N. Chase.
In 1900. Mr. Josiah S. MeCann, Mr. J. F. Morton, Miss Mary N. Chase.
In 1901, Mr. Josiah S. MeCann, Mr. J. F. Morton. Mr. Angelo Hall.
In 1902, Mr. J. F. Morton, Mrs. Clara M. Currier, Miss Luella H. Scales.
In 1903, Mr. J. F. Morton, Mrs. Clara M. Currier, Miss Luella II. Seales.
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In 1904, Mr. J. F. Morton, Mrs. Clara M. Currier, Miss Luella H. Scales.
In 1905, Mr. Theodore Farr, Mrs. Clara M. Currier, Miss Lul- ella H. Scales.
In 1906, Mr. Theodore Farr, Mrs. Clara M. Currier, Miss Lu- ella H. Scales.
THE HIGHLAND LAKE INSTITUTE.
Early in the year 1850, citizens of the East village and vicinity interested in education, and anxious to secure its benefits in their part of the town, raised by subscription a fund sufficient to erect a building to be used as an academy. The following subscrip- tion paper, dated March 23, 1850, received the signatures of about fifty people :
We, the subscribers, will pay the several sums set against our names respectively for the erection of a building at East Andover of suitable size, furnished for an Academy and other purposes, to be divided into shares of five dollars each, each shareholder to be entitled to vote, according to number of shares, in all matters in relation to the building and locating said house and all other matters touching the interest of the same. No subscription to be paid unless a sufficient amount be subscribed.
The land for the site was given by Joseph Osgood. The amounts subscribed were paid either in money, labor or material, for which certificates of stock were issued; 100 shares of $5 each. A deed of the land on which the building now stands was ob- tained May 28 and an organization was soon formed, known as the East Andover High School Association, with the following officers : President, Rev. D. Sydney Frost ; secretary, George E. Emery; treasurer, Joseph Osgood; executive committee, Jeremy Y. Bryant, Joseph A. Rowe, Caleb Cross, Thomas Haley, Will- iam A. Bachelder, Joseph Osgood and George E. Emery.
The building was immediately erected and the first term of the Highland Lake Institute was held in the autumn of 1850, with the following instructors: Lyman Marshall. A. B., principal ; Miss Eliza Wingate, preceptress; Rev. D. Sydney Frost, teacher of chirography. The examining committee consisted of: N. B. Bryant, Bristol; Rev. D. Sydney Frost, Rev. Renben Dearborn, Andover; David Cross. Manchester : and George E. Emery, Dan-
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vers, Mass. Eighty-six pupils had been enrolled at the close of the first term, November 5, 1850.
At the next election, Willard Emery was chosen president and Rev. Reuben Dearborn and Watson Dickerson were chosen vice- presidents.
At the next terni Thomas Marshall and Milon Graves were em- ployed as assistants. George W. Murray was the teacher of music. D. P. Putnam lectured on anatomy and physiology. William P. Hammond was the teacher of penmanship. A normal class was formed for instruction in the science of teaching.
In 1851, the institute had 143 students, representing thirty- towns in New Hampshire and four New England states.
In 1852, Rev. C. M. Dinsmore became principal ; Miss Letitia J. Shaw, preceptress: George S. Rawson, M. D., lecturer on anatomy and physiology; Samnel G. Haley, teacher of penman- ship. In November, W. A. Bachelder succeeded George E .. Emery as secretary.
In 1853, Rev. Nathan F. Carter beeame principal; Miss Shaw- remained as preceptress ; Miss Mary J. Cross was assistant in fall term; Miss Marilla J. Butler was teacher of music.
Soon after 1853 the interest of many of the former friends of the institute began to abate, financial support by the citizens in the immediate vicinity failed in a marked manner and, after languishing for several months, the school was abandoned in 1855.
HIGHLAND LAKE AND EAST ANDOVER VILLAGE, FROM BACHELDER FARM
STOREKEEPERS.
According to the custom of this section of the country, one hundred years ago, the merchants of this town were generally known as "storekeepers," and the name, in spite of the great changes in the management of such business, has continued to this day.
In the early history of the town, and down to the advent of the railroad, the business of the storekeeper combined that of the dry goods merchant, the grocer and the dealer in "country produce." Sugar, molasses, West India and New England rum and spices were the principal groceries. The beef, pork, lard, butter and cheese from the farms, and the products from the many linen and woolen spinning wheels, and from the domestic looms in the skillful hands of the housewives or their daughters amply supplied the full stream of commerce that flowed into the markets of Boston, Salem, Newburyport and Portsmouth.
In the first half of the nineteenth century the country store- keeper enjoyed some advantages which, in these days of the commercial traveller, the modern merchant does not improve. The country trader usually made two journeys annually to the wholesale markets to make his purchases for the next six months. The leisurely trip to the city afforded ample opportunity for secing the country, meeting his fellow-travellers, studying the people and the towns along the route and finally meeting the wholesale merchant with whom he had already established busi- ness relations on the broad plane of mutual interest and respect. Such meetings were beneficial to both parties. The merchant studied the temper and quality of his country purchasers and learned of new sources of trade that might strengthen the pros- perity of his own business, while the country storekeeper of intelligence and probity got his news and impressions at first hand from the man whose business put him in touch with the commercial world. By that much was the country dealer and the country community the gainer.
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HISTORY OF ANDOVER.
It is not easy at the present day to give the names of the own- ers or the agents of all, or even a large part, of the stores in the early years of the town's history. The first stores were in or about the locality now known as the village of East Andover and were generally on or near the road which now runs from the railroad station towards "Barnard's" corner. Peletiah Corliss had a store near the site of the Pevear block. Theophilus Blake and Jedediah Judkins, and Harvey and Stickney were among the early storekeepers, but the dates of their activities are not known. The David Chase store was about where the house of Mrs. James E. Kilburn now stands. The store occupied by Theophilus Blake and Jedediah Judkins was near the Caleb Cross place. Harvey and Stickney were near Charles Yeaton's place. Many of the carly stores were doubtless primitive af- fairs, but they fairly satisfied the needs of their patrons and did not attempt to cater to the tastes of the twentieth century. It is not possible now to give the names of all the storekeepers in the early days, but the following lists probably give the more important names in the different localities, though there are prob- ably some errors in all of the lists. It is intended to give the names of the owners or agents, sometimes both, with the years of active business and the section of the town where the store was located.
EAST ANDOVER.
David Chase, 1813, 1814. Stephen Cass, 1815.
Anthony Emery had a store where Rosto R. Emery now lives. Daniel Wadleigh, 1815.
Joseph Noyes, 1816, on the "River Road."
Thomas R. White, 1824 to 1841.
.John S. Pillsbury, -
John W. West, 1838 to 1840, 1842, 1843.
Clark Durgin & Co., 1841.
West & Plummer. -.
True Brown, 1844. John White, -. Scribner & White, 1851. Dane & Hutchinson, 1851. Caleb T. Marston & Co., 1852.
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Morrill, White & Co., 1853. Cyrus W. Cole, 1853 to 1886. Cilley & Leavitt, 1855. Cilley & Parker, 1856. W. S. Marston, 1860 to 1865. Marston, Tuttle & Co., 1866.
Tuttle & Pevear, 1867. Pevear & Putney, C. R. Pevear, 1868 to 1894. Clark Durgin, 1870 to 1880. John Wadleigh, 1872. Elmer E. Cole, 1887 to 1897. William H. Hunt, 1899. L. M. Jackson, Colby & Durgin, 1899 to 1906. George A. Hewitt, 1900, 1901. W. Cole, -.
In 1840, Joseph Fellows, Capt. Willard Emery, John Fellows, Charles Hilton. Clark Durgin, Enoch Osgood and Gershom Durgin were joint owners of a store at the east village.
TAUNTON HILL.
Josiah Badcock, Jr., 1816 to 1829. Tyler & Merrill. 1816 to 1821. Joseph Philbrick, Jr., 1817 to 1822.
Albert and Alexander Gilchrist, 1842, 1843; at the corner cast of Nathan Woodbury's.
CENTRE VILLAGE.
Peter Fifield, 1816. Herod Thompson, 1819. Daniel W. & Amasa Shepard, 1822. Enoch E. Tirrill, 1822. Herbert Vose, 1825. Butterfield & Vose, 1826. Samuel Butterfield, 1828 to 1844. David Cooper, 1845 to 1847. Orrin B. Davis, 1846.
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Walcott Hamlin, 1849 to 1853, 1855. Hamlin & Cooper, 1854.
John B. Kendrick, 1861 to 1863.
John W. Keniston, 1863 to 1871.
Bailey & Burleigh. 1864 to 1865.
Rufus G. Burleigh, 1866. Burleigh & Co., 1867. John W. Keniston, 1867.
Sleeper (G. F.) & Bridgman, 1868, 1869.
A. W. Bridgman, 1870, 1871. Quimby (W. S.) & Keniston, 1872 to 1878. Quimby & Weymouth (D. B.). 1879 to 1888.
Warren S. Quimby, 1889 to 1900.
Fred E. Emerson, 1890 to 1906.
Quimby (V. S.) & Rollins (A. H.). 1901 to 1904. Arthur H. Rollins, 1905, 1906.
POTTER PLACE.
N. B. & T. Rix, 1820. John H. Pearson for N. A. Davis. 1838.
Otis J. Story for N. A. Davis, 1839.
Moses Frazier for N. A. Davis. 1840 to 1843. Enoch and John Merrill, 1841 to 1852.
Moses Frazier, 1843.
William Keniston for J. S. Davis. 1844. Benjamin F. Scribner, 1845, 1846.
Pecker & Scribner, 1848 to 1850. Isaac White, -. White & Knowlton, 1852, 1853. Stephen Pillsbury, 1853 to 1859. George W. Thompson, 1853. B. F. and Frank B. Scribner. 1857.
Frank B. Scribner & E. G. Kilburn, 1858. B. F. Scribner & E. G. Kilburn, 1859. C. W. Cole, -. Joseph C. Kilburn & Co., 1866. Kendrick & Thompson, 1867. Thompson & Carroll ( Alonzo) George W. Thompson, 1868, 1869. Howe & Kendrick, 1870.
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J. Fred Fellows, 1879, 1880. John F. Emery, 1883, 1886 to 1889. Emery & Emerson, 1884, 1885. Fellows & Downes, 1889, 1890. Bert F. Thompson, 1892 to 1895.
Fred E. Emerson, 1896 to 1902. Frank E. Wright, 1902, 1903. R. F. & F. E. Wright, 1904 to 1906.
CILLEYVILLE.
Jacob F. White, 1861, 1862.
Proctor (John) & Emery (J. F.), 1872, 1873. James M. Seavey, 1889, 1890. Fellows (J. F.) & Davis (D. Ned), Eddie Loverin,
WEST ANDOVER.
Thomas Clark, 1820 to 1839.
Carlos G. Pressey, 1840 to 1843.
George D. Edson, 1844 to 1846. Timothy K. Dudley, 1845, 1846.
John Edson, 1847. Pascal P. Edson, 1848. Charles M. Fellows for Greenleaf & Clement, 1848 to 1850.
Fred W. Greenough, 1848, 1849. Aaron Waitt, 1848. George S. Clement & Co., 1852 to 1860.
Cornelius Russell, 1852.
Osgood & Stewart, 1862, 1863.
Daniel Osgood, 1864, 1865.
William E. Melendy, 1865. Buswell & Sawyer, 1866. Alvin A. Buswell, 1867.
Melendy & Babbitt, 1867 to 1871.
Richards & Melendy, 1869. James Fellows, 1871, 1872. Prescott & Stearns, 1871. John E. Babbitt, 1873 to 1877. Charles N. Emerson, 1879 to 1883 and 1894. William E. Melendy, 1879 to 1888.
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HISTORY OF ANDOVER.
Taylor & Babbitt, 1880, 1881. W. M. Powers, 1889 to 1902. Abram Powers & Son, 1903 to 1906. C. H. Woodward, 1904 to 1906.
BLACKSMITHS.
The first blacksmith in town is supposed to have been Josiah Haines, a soldier of the Revolutionary Army. His shop was on the road from the Jonathan Cilley place to Otis R. Connor's, and about fifty rods south of the Cilley house. It is believed that Elijah Hilton learned his trade in the shop of Mr. Haines. About 1780 Mr. Hilton moved to the place now owned by Henry W. Kilburn and built his shop on the west side of the road lead- ing towards Salisbury, and nearly opposite his house. He owned the first machine in town for making nails for the carpenters and probably made the most of those used in town about 1800.
Col. Jonathan Weare had a shop on Taunton Hill, on the oppo- site side of the road from his house which is now known as the W. H. Edmund's place. At his shop were made, by hand, great quantities of farming tools, plows, shovels, forks, hoes as well as many edged tools, like chopping and broad axes, "shaves" or drawknives, seythes, etc. He had five forges and employed from eight to twelve journeymen and apprentices most of the time. Many of the best smiths of that and a later period in this vicin- ity learned their trade at the shop of Colonel Weare.
William Proctor was one of the noted blacksmiths in town. He worked at his trade first at East Andover and afterward at the Centre. He was an industrious, skillful mechanic and much of his aptitude has been seen in most of his descendants. Mr. Proetor's shop was near the site of the house now occupied by George H. Scribner.
It is praetically impossible now to give the names of all the men who worked at the forge in this town before the middle of the last century, and it is also impossible to give the dates of their active service. In the following lists appear such names of the sons of Vulcan as have been gathered from records. from memory and from tradition ; arranged, as far as possible, accord ing to the sections of the town in which they lived. The lists are necessarily incomplete.
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