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130. Mary-Elizabeth6, b. July 18, 1827; res. Lawrence, Mass.
131. Dennison-Wallis6, b. March 8, 1830; in early life was employed in the office of the Bay State, now Washington Mills, Lawrence, Mass. In 1854 went to Cincinnati, Ohio, and was employed in the Gazette office, and in Groesbeck & Co.'s bank till 1863; in 1863 he rem. to New York City, and became connected with the Warren Chemical Manufacturing Co., of which (1883) he is the treasurer. He m. Nov. 4, 1857, Mary-Jane, dan. of Luke Whitney, of Ashland, Mass .; res. Brooklyn, N. Y.
132. Sarah-Marcia6, b. March 26, 1834; was a teacher in the public schools of Lawrence. She m. May 21, 1857, Dr. A .- D. Blanchard, who was b. in Medford, Mass., March 4, 1823 ; grad- nated at Harvard University in 1842, and at Harvard Medical School in 1845; rem. to Lawrence in 1847, where he is now in business ; res. North Andover, Mass.
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GENEALOGIES : CHRISTOPHER MORRISONS.
CHILDREN, HORN IN LAWRENCE.
1. Lucy-Stanwood, b. March 4, 1858; artist.
2. Andrew-D.7, b. June 17, 1860;'clerk Essex Savings Bank, Lawrence.
3. Mary-Anna3, b. Ang. 21, 1864.
4. Anna-Rea?, b. July 29, 1869.
133. Anna-Wallis6, b. March 8, 1837; teacher in the public schools of Lawrence, Mass.
134. Susan-Coffran6, b. Nov. 8, 1839; teacher in the public schools of Lawrence, Mass.
135. John-Henry", b. June 6, 1844; d. July 14, 1845.
136. Christopher5 [68] (Samuel4, Lieut. Samuel3, James", John1). Lived several years in Plymouth, N. H. He then went into trade at Salem, N. H., and prospered till the financial crash of 1837, when his property was swept away. He was possessed of good abilities and was a natural orator. When roused, his words were keen as a rapier's point. Nature intended him for a lawyer. His vigor of intellect, quickness in retort, readiness to see the weak point of an opponent, combined with his natural ability as a speaker, would, with proper training, have enabled him to cope successfully in courts of justice. He arrived at con- clusions rapidly, and was not always a safe counsellor. He repre- sented the town of Salem in the legislature. Then removed to Windham, and was often connected with town affairs. Was moderator six years, treasurer two years, selectman four years, and was justice of the peace many years. His health was not firm, owing to a severe fever when young, by which his constitu- tion was shattered. He lived on the old homestead in Wind- ham with his brother, where he died of pneumonia, Jan. 17, 1859. He was a good citizen and an upright man.
13. Asa5 [76] (Robert4, Lieut. Samuel3, James2, John1). lle m. Lydia Allen, of Salem, N. II., Feb. 18, 1820, who was b. in 1800. Lived in Hopkinton, and was a shoe manufacturer. He made considerable property, but lost heavily by a financial crash, and only saved his farm from the ruins. Removed to Pokagon, Mich. He never sought and never would accept any public posi- tion. While in the West he was a member of a Democratic county convention. A Mr. Jones had received the nomination for some county position, when he arose and thanked the conven- tion for the honor conferred upon him. Mr. Morrison was then nominted for State senator, when he arose and said, "Mr. Jones has thanked you for the honor; but I do not. I want the con- vention to nominate some man for senator who has either brains or gab. As for me, I will not have it anyhow." He was a gen- erous, large-hearted man, and respected by his acquaintances. His wife d. Jan. 28, 1828. He m. 2d, Nancy Scully, in 1838, and d. June 3, 1871. Children : -
138. Martha-Ann6, b. Aug. 12, 1821; m. B .- F. Silver, Nov. 7, 1838; b. Hopkinton, N. H., Nov. 8, 1808; went West 1832; farmer; res. Pokagon, Mich.
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. CHILD.
1. Helen-Adelaide, b. Sept. 3, 1845, at Cassopolis, Mich .; m. A .- J. am- mon, and resided in Pokagon; she d. May 27, 1874.
139. Nancy6, b. Aug. 22, 1823 ; m. 1842, James Sullivan, grandson of General Sullivan, of Revolutionary fame. He was b. in Exeter, Dee. 6, 1811 ; lawyer of eminence ; d. at Dowagiae, Cass Co., Mich. She d. May 5, 1848.
CHILD.
1. Clara7, b. April, 1843; d. Sept. 22, 1862.
140. Lydia-A.", b. Jan. 29, 1828; m. Nov. 13, 1847, Henry- Lindsey Rudd ; res. 1892, Peoria, Oregon.
CHILDREN.
1. Ellen-N.7, b. June 17. 1855; d. Oct. 21, 1857.
2. Lura-Allen, b. May 9, 1860.
3. Harry-7.7, b. Aug. 27, 1862.
141. Ira5 [78] (Robert+, Lieut. Samuel3, James2, John1). Set- tled in Hopkinton, N. H. ; soon after was swept along with the tide of emigration east, and settled in Ripley, Me., where he lived till 1845, when he moved to Braintree, Mass. Subsequently bought a farm in Salem, N. H., where he resided till a year or two before his death. Said one in writing of him, "His life was his best memorial. It was marked by uprightness, strong love for his family and friends, warm hospitality for those who visited his home, deep interest in the cause of religion, an humble hope in our divine Lord, and a death whose sorrows never checked his faith, and whose happy submission left to all who loved him the confidence that when he was absent from the body, he was present with the Lord." He died in Braintree, Mass., March 10, 1870. His wife was Sophia Colby, of Hopkinton, N H., b. March 3, 1801 ; res. (1883) Braintree, Mass. Children : -
142. Catherine-Colby6, b. Hopkinton, N. H., Jan. 10, 1825 ; m. April 25, 1850, John-S. Whittaker. (See Whittaker family.)
143. Benjamin-Lyman6, b. Ripley, Me., March 28, 1828; m. Nov. 22, 1855, Lydia Penniman ; is a woolen manufacturer ; res. Braintree, Mass.
CHILDREN.
1. Lyman-Willard?, b. Nov. 2, 1858.
2. Ilelen-Mariaī, b. Sept. 7, 1867.
144. Nancie-Todd", b. Ripley, Me., Dec. 26, 1836 ; teacher and artist ; res. Rowley, Mass.
145. Ira-Plummer6, b. Ripley, Me., April 22, 1842 : m. May 16, 1871, Mary Smith, of Weymouth, Mass. ; res. Braintree, Mass.
CHILDREN.
1. Franklin7, b. May 17, 1872; d. May 16, 1877.
Grace7. b. Jan. 20. 1875.
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146. Leonard5 [81] (Robert+, Lieut. Samuel8, James2, John1). He was b. in Windham, N. H., May 5, 1804; m. April 8, 1827, Elizabeth, dau. of Arthur Bennett, of South Middleborough, Mass. He d. in Byfield, Mass., April 26, 1875, a. 72 yrs. Mrs. Morrison d. in Braintree, Mass., 1882. The following extraets are from an account of his life, from the pen of the late Rev. Lorenzo- D. Barrows, D. D., of Plymouth, N. H. :-
" Mr. Morrison, when about thirty years of age, at Braintree, Mass,, became a Christian, and a member of the Methodist Epis- copal church : and to the close of his useful life, nobly maintained that character. He resided and did a large business in Salem, N. H., some ten or eleven years, when he removed to the city of Lawrence, Mass. From here, after several years, he removed to Byfield, Mass.
" His business talents were first-class, and his habits prompt, energetic, and honest. Great modesty and courtesy marked his bearing towards all, with much tenderness and sympathy for his intimate friends. His hand was stretched out in aid of every good cause and worthy sufferer, for which thousands now bless his memory. In nothing, however, was he so noticeable as in his deep and abiding love of the Church of Christ, and his uniform devotion to all its interests. His sympathies, prayers, and money were ever like a gushing fountain. In Salem, the church will long remember his labors and numerous benefactions. No one did so much as he in laying the early foundations of Methodism in the young and vigorous city of Lawrence. Later in life, re- moving to Byfield, he answered again to urgent calls of the church for love, prayers, and money, where, though dead, he yet speaketh, and the people deeply feel the loss his death occasioned." Chil- dren : -
147. Maria-Elizabeth", b. Johnston, R. I., Nov. 16, 1828 ; m. April 26, 1849, Amos Dow. (See Dow family.)
148. Leonard-Almy6, b. Braintree, Mass., Oct. 29, 1835; m. April 5, 1857, Amanda-Regina Huse, of Manchester, N. H. He d. July 2, 1872, from the effects of an accidental discharge of a gın.
CHILDREN.
1. Almy-Edson, b. Salem, N. H., June 11, 1858.
2. William-Huset, h. Newbury, Mass., May 5, 1861.
Ina-Blanche ?. b. Newbury, Mass., May 8, 1871.
149. Alva5 [82] (Robert4, Lieut. Samuel3, James2, John1). Hon. Alva Morrison was born at Windham, N. H., May 13, 1806. His father died when he was nearly two years old. From that time until he was twenty years of age, his life was spent quietly at home with his mother. He received what education the dis- triet school was able to give, and worked at farming. In the spring of 1826, he went to Stoughton, Mass., to work in a woolen factory. He commenced work, but the proprietor soon becoming
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insolvent, he went to Canton and obtained a situation in a woolen factory there There he remained until the factory at Stoughton started under a new owner, when he returned to his former situ- ation. It was while in Stoughton that he married, July 11, 1830, Myra Southworth, only daughter of Col. Consider Southworth of that town. She was born Nov. 3, 1810. He remained in the same factory until the spring of 1831, when he removed to Brain- tree, which was ever after his home. He in company with his brother Leonard commenced the manufacture of woolen goods. They soon attained a high reputation, as the goods manufactured were the best in the market. They remained in company five years. He continued the business at Braintree, and Leonard started anew at Salem, N. H. By close attention to business and strict integrity, he accumulated wealth. Hle remained in busi- ness until 1871, when he was succeeded by his sons, who still main- tain the high reputation which he established in 1831. He was several times chosen to the Massachusetts legislature as senator and representative, and was the recipient of other important trusts from his fellow-townsmen. He was a large-hearted, whole- souled man. In his private as well as public life, he was highly esteemed for great energy of character and strength of purpose. The wealth which he accumulated he made generous use of, in public and private benevolence. He was greatly interested in the honor and success of his country, and viewed with distrust many of the popular movements of the present time. He was a man of much reading; he loved and appreciated the best works of English literature. In the intervals of business, he was given to study books of science and geology, and upon these subjects formed independent and progressive, though thoroughly reverent opinions. Religion was with him a practical thing for every-day use, and his sense of duty towards his fellow-man and God was the highest.
He was very domestic in his tastes, and found his greatest enjoyment in his home. In return for his great love of his family, he found them ever ready to bestow on him the warmest affection and sympathy. He died May 28, 1879. Children : -
150. M .- Lurette6, b. Dec. 4, 1833; m. April 15, 1853, Horace Abercrombie, of Quincy, Mass. He was a woolen manufacturer for twelve years, and retired; member of Massachusetts legis- lature in 1859; res. Braintree, Mass.
CHILDREN. 2. Elmer-E.7, b. April 27, 1861.
1. Helen-M.7, b. June 13, 1855.
151. Alva-S.6, b. Nov. 9, 1835; m. Nov. 9, 1857, Lizzie-A. Curtis, of Weymouth, Mass., who d. Jan. 7, 1874. He m. 2d, Rebecca Holyoke, of Marlborough, Mass., June 13, 1875. He is the senior member of the firm of A .- S. Morrison & Bros., and largely engaged with his brothers in the manufacture of woolen goods; member of the legislature in 1883,
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GENEALOGIES : NATHANIEL MORISON6.
CHILDREN, BORN IN BRAINTREE, MASS.
1. Frank-Russell, b. April 6, 1860; d. Aug. 10, 1800.
Anna-Gertrude7, b. Sept. 23, 1862.
3. Walter-Ellis?, b. May 16, 1864.
Fred-Gilbert, b. April 20, 1866.
5. Mira-Isabel, b. Nov. 14, 1867.
6. Grace-Curtis?, b. Dec. 30, 1870; d. Sept. 27, 1872.
7. Alice-Southworth?, b. May 20, 1878.
152. Mary-C.6, b. March 10, 1838 ; d. Dec. 29, 1839.
153. E .- Adalaides, b. Dec. 29, 1839; m. Lewis Bass, Jr., of Quincy, Mass., Jan. 15, 1862; res. in Quiney, Mass.
CHILDREN.
1. Louis-Morrison?, b. May 4, 1863; d. Aug. 26, 1863.
2. Lewis, b. May 27. 1871.
3. Alva-ME, b. July 12, 1874.
1544. Robert-Elmer6; resides in Braintree, Mass .; is of the firm of A .- S. Morrison & Bros., manufacturers. He m. Sarah-R. Gregg, of Quincy, Mass., Jan. 5, 1870.
CHILDREN, BORN IN BRAINTREE, MASS.
1. Mabel-S. 7, b. Sept. 3, 1871.
2. Lizzie-Curtis7, b. JJan. 14, 1875.
155. Augustus-M.6, b. Dec. 7, 1846 ; d. Nov. 14, 1875.
156. Ibrahim"; resides in Braintree, Mass .; belongs to the firm of A .- S. Morrison & Bros Ile m. Mary-L. Rodgers, of East Marshfield, Mass., Jan. 20, 1870.
157. Nathaniel [87] (Robert+, Thomas8, John2, John1). Nathaniel Morison was born in Peterborough, N. H., Oct. 9, 1779. His history is briefly touched upon in the sketch of his wife, whose maiden name was Mary-Ann Hopkins,* She was dau. of John Hopkins, and was born at the Hopkins place in Windham, southeast of James-P. Hughes', and now owned by Michael Goodwin.
Mary-Ann (Hopkins) Morison, daughter of John Hopkins and Isabella Reid; was born in Windham, Sept. 8, 1779. She was the twin sister of Betsey-Ann Hopkins, born two days later, who married Dea. JJames Gregg. Her youth was passed at home in the household occupations of a farmer's daughter, cooking, spin- ning, weaving, and the care of the dairy, in all of which she excelled. She was said to be the most skilled and rapid spinner of flax in the town. The large willow tree, still standing near the site of the old homestead, was the scene of many a contest in spinning between the twin sisters and the young maidens of the neighborhood. A platform had been constructed among its
* This sketch might have appropriately been placed in the history of the Hopkins family ; but for convenience. it is inserted with the record of her husband and family.
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branches, and the wheels were often taken there for these trials of skill. Ann, as she was called by the family, was also a bold and skilful rider, and, mounted on her horse, with wheel and flax, she often visited the neighboring farms on summer afternoons for a social chat, or a spinning match with the young girls of her own age. She often said that she had only three weeks of regn- lar schooling; but her own efforts and those of her parents made up for this deficiency, and her education was quite up to the stan- dard of her day. She was never a great reader like her husband, but she was always fond of listening to reading, whether from the Bible, history, or the lighter literature of the time, and she always had the highest respect for learning.
As a young girl and woman, she was considered very beautiful, being tall, with rather small features and a fine figure. She was said to be the belle of the dancing school, and her fame for grace and beauty spread far beyond the limits of her native town. She also had a fine ear for music, and a good voice. Her father was the best song-singer of his day, and his daughter inherited his taste and his talent. She became the life of social gatherings, singing with great spirit and with touching sympathy the old Scotch ballads and songs of her race, and at a later day, the patriotic songs of the new country, especially those written on the naval battles in the war of 1812-15. After leading the life of a country belle through all her early womanhood, she married, Sept. 13, 1804, at the age of twenty-five, Nathaniel Morison, of Peter- borough, who was just a month and a day younger than herself.
Her husband had established himself two years before at Fay- etteville, N. C., as a successful manufacturer of carriages, and had returned from that distant city to claim his promised bride. Im- mediately after the marriage, they set out on horseback for Salem, Mass., where they embarked on a small sailing vessel for their new home. They remained in Fayetteville, where their oldest child was born, for three years, till 1807, when they returned to the North, with what was regarded in those days as a competent fortune, and settled in Peterborough, on the homestead of the family. A few years later her husband purchased the South Fac- tory, with its boarding-houses and store, still retaining his farm and living upon it. This purchase proved disastrous financially. To collect some old debts and to retrieve his fortune, he went to Mississippi in 1817, where he made a contract with some leading capitalists of Natchez, to introduce water into that city. On returning to the South in 1818, with men and materials for the work, he was astonished to find that his principals, without the slightest notice to him, had changed their mind, and now repudi- ated the contract they had solemnly made the year before. Confounded, disheartened, and financially ruined by this breach of faith, he became an easy prey to the yellow fever, then preva- lent in that region, and died at Natchez, Sept. 11, 1819, in the fortieth year of his age.
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The family estate had been heavily mortgaged, to raise funds for this great undertaking in Mississippi, and factory, store, houses, lands, stock, and machinery were all seized to satisfy the demands of creditors. Mrs. Morison, reduced at once from atlluence to poverty, bore her misfortunes with wonderful courage and fortitude. Left with seven children, five sons and two daughters, the oldest a daughter of fourteen, and the youngest twins of a year, she had no property but her widow's dower, with which to support and educate this large and helpless family. In the settlement of the estate, a shell of a house was assigned to her in the Southern Village, with two cows, a few acres for grass, a few more for wood, and $800 in money, a considerable part of which had to be spent in converting the house into a comfortable dwelling. "I remember well," says her eldest son, "the earnest gaze and the deep sigh, with which, on leaving our early home, where all her children but one had been born, she looked back upon it, with a baby on each arm, and then turned slowly away towards her new home. She had a most delicate, sensitive nature, but a force of will and an amount of executive energy such as I have never seen surpassed. In my remembrance of her, as she was during the early period of her widowhood, I always think of her sitting at her loom, working and weeping. She did not stop to indulge in discouraging apprehensions, but emphasized her grief by driving her shuttle with increased promptness and vehe- mence. With a resolution that almost broke her heart, she put her two oldest boys, one eleven, the other nine years old, into farmers' families to work for their living." She pursued the same course with her three younger boys, as soon as they were old enough to be useful on a farm, and the help of her two daugh- ters was utilized in the most effective manner. The whole house- hold was busy in useful industry, to earn their daily bread, and make their home comfortable and pleasant. Her brother, James Hopkins, Esq., of Antrim, had looked after her interests during the trying scenes that followed the death of her husband, and he took charge of her little fund of money, which was carefully hus- banded; and its expenditure was sparingly spread over all the years of her children's dependence upon her.
She was an expert weaver, and her chief income was derived from weaving for the neighboring farmers, the usual price being six cents a yard. She employed the girls and younger children in winding the spools and quills, while the shuttle flew with a rapidity seldom equalled on a hand-loom. She would sometimes weave as many as thirty yards in a day, besides attending to all her household duties. She also wove quilts and the most beauti- ful figured linens, such as table-cloths of complicated patterns, sometimes using as many as twelve treadles. Towards the close of her life, when entirely easy in her circumstances, she spun and wove a heavy counterpane of a beautiful variegated pattern, and with a heavy fringe, for each of her seven children, doing the entire work herself.
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Her great desire for her sons was to give them the best educa- tion that the country schools could afford, and a good trade ; but the love of knowledge inherited from their father, and the energy derived from both parents, carried four of them through Harvard College, and raised them to positions of honor, responsibility, and usefulness that she had never dreamed possible. She at one time used snuff, but she gave up the habit, and so impressed the minds of her sons with its evil effects on purse and health, that not one of them ever used an ounce of tobacco. She lived to see all of her children happily married, and the last years of her life were as beautiful, serene, and happy as its middle course had been hard and trying. Her younger daughter, a delicate, refined, and culti- vated woman, with much of her mother's energy of character, had married and moved to a log cabin in the wilds of Michigan. The severe trials of frontier life had broken her health and threat- ened her life. In the fall of 1846, her mother went out to see and to help her, with no knowledge of the fevers of that new country, almost sure to be fatal to a person of her age. She brought to the heart of her invalid daughter all the comfort she expected to give ; but, in the summer of 1848, she took the ma- larial fever so fatal to elderly persons, and, after a few days' sick- ness, died at Medina, Mich., August 27, at the age of sixty-nine. She was a woman of uncommon energy, decision, and persever- ance, with a large fund of common-sense to guide and control her, with broad views, high aims, and a loving heart ; and " her children arise up and call her blessed."
The lack of space prevents only a brief mention of the useful and honored lives of her children and their descendants. Chil- dren, born in Peterborough, N. H., except the eldest : -
157. Eliza-Holmes6, b. Fayetteville, N. C., July 10, 1805 ; m. Sept. 18, 1845, Stephen Felt, b. Temple, N. II., Sept. 15, 1793. She d. Aug. 14, 1867, æ. 62 yrs. He d. May 3, 1879.
CHILD.
1. Edward-M.7, b. Nov. 27, 1847 ; res. Peterborough.
158. John-Hopkins“, b. July 25, 1808. Rev. John-Hopkins Morison, D. D., grad. at Harvard Coll. in 1831. In May, 1838, he was settled as associate pastor with Rev. Ephraim Peabody, over the First Congregational Society in New Bedford, and resigned in 1845. In 1846 he became pastor of the First Congregational Society in Milton, Mass. In 1879 he was still the senior pastor of that society, though he had in 1877 moved into Boston, Mass., where he now resides. He has been at different times editor of the Christian Register and the Religious Magazine, or Unitarian Review. He is the author of the "Life of Judge Jeremiah Smith." Hle m. Oct. 1841, Emily-H. Rogers, of Salem, Mass.
CHILDREN.
1. George-Shattuck?, b. New Bedford, Mass., Dec. 19, 1842; a civil engineer of much prominence in New York City.
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GENEALOGIES : NATHANIEL-HOLMES MORISONG, LL. D.
2. Robert-Swain', b. Milton. Mass . Oct. 13, 1847; is a clergyman; m. Feb. 21, 1877, Annie- Theresa, dan. of George-Jacob Abbot, for- merly of Windham; two children, Ruth" and George-A."
3 Mary, b. Milton, Mass., April 30, 1851 ; res. Boston, Mass.
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159. Horace", b. Sept. 13, 1810. Horace Morison graduated at Harvard College in 1837. He went directly to Baltimore, Md., where he was appointed an instructor in mathematics in the Uni- versity of Maryland. In 1838 he was appointed professor of mathematics. In 1841 he was chosen president of the academical department, which he resigned on account of ill health in 1854. After a two years' rest, in 1856 he opened a girls' school in Bal- timore. He continued as a teacher in Baltimore till 1869; with greatly impaired health, he returned to his farm in Peterborough, where he d. Aug. 5, 1870. He mn. 1841, Mary-Elizabeth, dau. of Samuel Lord, of Portsmouth, N. H. She with her daughters res. in Portsmouth, N. H.
CHILDREN.
1. Elizabeth-Whitridge?, b. Baltimore, Dec. 8, 1842.
22. Mary-An3, h. Oct. 24, 1844.
3. Caroline-Augusta ?. b. Sept. 20, 1847.
4. Samuel-Lordi, b. Oct. 28, 1851 ; is in business in New York City.
160. Caroline5, b. June 20, 1813 ; m. Aug. 29, 1837, George- W. Moore, of Medina, Mich. She was educated at Adams Acad- emy at Derry, and was a woman of marked ability, of a refined and sensitive nature, a superior scholar, and a very successful teacher. She d. at the early age of 35 yrs., " beloved, honored, and lamented by all who knew her."
CHILD.
1. William-C.7, b. Nov. 1, 1841 ; was a gallant soldier in the late war; was drowned May 7, 1866, while fording a stream in the Indian Territory.
161. Nathaniel-Hohes6, b. Dec. 14, 1815. Nathaniel-Holmes Morison, LL. D. While attending Phillips Academy at Exeter, be once walked the whole distance, from Peterborough to Exeter, 60 miles, over the frozen ground, and his whole expense was an outlay of two cents, paid for crossing the Merrimack at Thorn- ton's Ferry. He carried a lunch in his pocket, and spent the night at Rev. Jacob Abbot's, in Windham. He graduated at Harvard College in 1839; was licensed to preach in 1843; in May, 1841, he opened a school in Baltimore, and nearly a thousand young ladies, from the most intelligent families of that city, have received their education from him. In 1867 he accepted the position of provost of the Peabody Institute in Baltimore, founded by George Peabody, of London, in 1857. This position, with its great responsibilities and trusts, he has since acceptably filled. In 1843 he published " Three Thousand Questions in Geog- raphy," which passed through three editions, and is still used by some of the best schools in Baltimore. He also published a small
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