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HISTORY 
 
 OF 
 
 Hanover Academy 
 
 BY 
 
 REV. D. B. FORD 
 
 Author of " New England's Struggles for Religious Liberty," etc. 
 
 BOSTON 
 
 H. M. HIGHT, PRINTER 
 
 319 Washington Street 
 
 1899 
 
 Price, fifty cents : sixty cents by mail 
 
With great pleasure 
 
 do I dedicate this volume 
 
 to my friend 
 
 eihn ^mib (Salmonb) Sulbcster 
 
 by whose munificence 
 
 I am enabled to publish this work 
 
 at a price which is less than cost 
 
Hanover Academy, as compared with many of our 
 higher seminaries and colleges, presents some advan- 
 tages to the writer of its biography. In the first place, 
 while much of its history may have been lost, yet its 
 record has not in general been so darkened bv the obscu- 
 rity of a far distant past as to furnish any insuperable 
 difficulty to its historian. Its existence does not ante- 
 date the century in which we live, and a venerable neigh- 
 bor friend of mine, a stockholder in our Academic prop- 
 erty, was born (1805) before Hanover Academy was built 
 or thought of. Then, again, the Academy has had com- 
 paratively but a limited number of pupils. If it had 
 numbered yearly its four or five hundred students, as 
 Phillips Andover Academy now does, any minute histo- 
 ry of it would be huge and unwieldly, and any condensed 
 account of it would be meagre and uninteresting. Han- 
 over Academy has lived long enough and has had num- 
 bers enough, both of teachers and scholars, to furnish 
 an interesting variety of historic description. I have 
 sought, so far as I was able, to make an interesting work, 
 but never at the expense of decency or of truth. I have 
 endeavored to write history, and even Don Quixote, of 
 whom some remarkable vagaries are related, says that 
 "History is a kind of sacred writing, because truth is 
 
O PREFACE. 
 
 essential to it, and where truth is, there God himself 
 is ;" but he goes on to say that "there are men who com- 
 pose books and toss them out into the world like frit- 
 ters." Again he says : " Let every man take care how 
 he talks, or how he writes of other men, and not set 
 down at random, higgedlv-piggedly, whatever comes into 
 his noddle." I think the following pages will give evi- 
 dence that I have sought after facts, and that, as a 
 result, the reader will have before him, in general, a veri- 
 table history of Hanover Academy. For the merits of 
 this work, whatever they may be, I am indebted to a 
 very large number of correspondents and friends, to all of 
 whom I return my hearty thanks. Of those who have 
 been especially helpful to me in certain ways, I may 
 mention the names of Sara T. Chaddock of Portland, 
 Me., Mrs. Abby L. Tyler of Boston, Mrs. Annie Rich- 
 ards Prime of Yonkers, N. Y., Hon. Charles A. Reed of 
 Taunton, Mr. George Conant of Pasadena, Gal., William 
 P. Duncan of Boston, Mrs. Royal Cheney of Worcester, 
 Mrs. Luther Briggs, of Neponset, Dr. Henry L. Sweeny 
 of Kingston, N. H., and L. Vernon Briggs of this place. 
 Mr. Briggs has kindly loaned me many papers relating 
 to our Academy students, which he doubtless will de- 
 posit in some of our public institutions. The many full 
 and interestinor letters relatinc: to teachers and scholars 
 which I have received but which could not be copied in 
 full, I shall probably place in the archives of the New 
 F^ngland Historic, Genealogical Society, i8 Somerset 
 street, Boston. 
 
PREFACE. 7 
 
 Some of our Academy pupils, I fear, will be disap- 
 pointed in not finding their names recorded in this work. 
 I can only say that no one would have been more glad 
 than myself to have given the names and biographical 
 sketches of all the Academy students, but the doing 
 of this, owing to the absence of catalogues and lists, 
 were an utter impossibility. The difficult matter of 
 ascertaining, giving, withholding and omitting names 
 has been my most serious trouble, as perchance the 
 reader w^i]l discern before reaching the close of the 
 book. 
 
 A word in regard to the portraits of the teachers.* 
 Several of them have been recently taken, and I fear 
 some of our older scholars will fail to recognize in them 
 the teachers of their youth. The truth is, w^e all greatly 
 change by advancing years, and had we not seen our 
 faces in a mirror since we were young, we should, as 
 strangers, have to be introduced to ourselves. 
 
 And now it only remains for me to say to my readers 
 good-bye and farewell. This will doubtless be vay finis 
 effort in historic writing, and it is not without feeling 
 that I send this, probably my last, work to the press. If 
 my friends shall receive this work kindly I shall be 
 thankful to have left with them this Souvenir (imper- 
 fect though it be) of a greatly cherished past. 
 
 David B. Ford. 
 
 Hanover, Mass., Nov. lo, l 
 
 *A11 the portraits in this work, with one exception, are from the Suffolk Engraving 
 Company of Boston. 
 
PART I. 
 HANOVER ACADEMY, 1808-18. 
 
 Its First Buildincr and Teacher. 
 
 It is a matter of deep regret that, owing to the absence 
 of records and the passing away of men, much of the 
 history of Hanover Academy must forever remain un- 
 written and unknown. The fathers, and the mothers, 
 too, where are they? and to whom or to what can we go 
 for full information in regard to its early teachers? 
 Some of them taught but for a brief period, and we 
 scarcely know more than their names, and the probable 
 time of their teaching. To this statement there is, how- 
 ever, one noted exception. 
 
 Of the Rev. Calvin Chaddock we have considera- 
 ble information. Not only was he the founder and first 
 teacher of the Academy, not only was his term of ser- 
 vice a comparatively long one, from 1808 to 1818, but he 
 was at the same time the pastor of a church, and he was, 
 moreover, noted in an eminent degree, both as a teacher 
 and preacher. His fame as an elocutionist has survived 
 to the present hour. Scarcely could his hearers believe 
 that any one else 'could read the Scriptures and Watts' 
 Psalms and Hymns with such thrilling power and pathos 
 as he. One can easily imagine how he, as a high-toned 
 Calvinist, would sound out such lines as these : 
 
 "Life, death and hell, and worlds unknown 
 
 Hang on his firm decree: 
 He sits on no precarious throne, 
 
 Nor borrows leave to be." 
 
lO HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 Some one said of George Whitefield that he could pro- 
 nounce the word'' Mesopotamia" so as to make his 
 hearers weep or tremble. Mr. Chaddock had similar 
 elocutionary power, and few are the men who ever had 
 his ability to stir the deep emotions of the human heart. 
 
 From a letter recently received from his daughter, 
 Sara Thatcher Chaddock, now living in Portland, Me., 
 from Chapman's Sketches of the Alumni of Dartmouth 
 College, and from other sources, I learn that Mr. Chad- 
 dock (son of Capt. Joseph Chaddock who married Sara 
 Bruce, and who died and was buried in Hanover, 1812, 
 aged 88,) was born in Ikookfield, Mass., in 1765, gradu- 
 ated at Dartmouth in 1791, received the honorary de- 
 gree of A. M. from Brown University in 1801, studied 
 divinity with the Rev. Dr. Nathaniel Emmons of Frank- 
 lin, was ordained over the third Congregational church 
 in Rochester, Mass., Oct. 10, 1793, in which place he 
 also founded and taught an academy, was installed 
 pastor at Hanover, July 23, 1806, was a representative 
 to General Court in 181 1, and was dismissed from his 
 pastorate July 2^, 18 18. He was also a representative 
 from Rochester in 1806. 
 
 Mr. Chaddock was a man of active and versatile pow- 
 ers, and, while a resident in Hanover, he was not only a 
 preacher and teacher but, to some extent, a business man. 
 In the Rev. Cyrus W. Allen's manuscript Historic Re- 
 cords, we read that he "entered somewhat into the busi- 
 ness of weaving, taking materials in from places twenty 
 or thirty miles distant and less, and letting out the work to 
 others whom he employed to do it, a business which, if 
 not so successful and profitable as hoped for, showed at 
 least the peculiarities and capabilities of the man." 
 
 Owing, perhaps, to limited means and a large family. 
 
HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. II 
 
 he sought to better his circumstances by going where 
 ministers were more needed. He first went to Marietta, 
 O., suffering much through the exposures of a long and 
 hard journey, from which he never recovered. After- 
 wards he was invited to Charleston, W. Va., where. he 
 was settled, and where on June 8, 1823, he died of con- 
 sumption, and was buried by the side of two of his 
 daughters. As stated in Rev. Mr. Barry's "History of 
 Hanover," three of his daughters w^ere married in that 
 place. Some time after his death, the widow and a son, 
 John, who was never married, and who was lost in a ves- 
 sel sailing from San Francisco to Oregon, and the 
 youngest daughter, Sara, returned to New England. 
 
 While in Virginia he was, of course, brought into 
 contact with slavery. The following incident relating 
 thereto is worthy of record. A slave who w^as spading 
 his garden, having souglit in vain permission of his mas- 
 ter to buy himself, besought Mr. C. to intercede for 
 him, w^hich he did so effectually as to gain the master's 
 consent. Shadrac, the slave, in about two years, by 
 selling eggs, working nights and doing all sorts of labor, 
 won his freedom, and then went to Ohio, where he 
 bought an acre of ground, built a little hut, and in a 
 few years bought his wnfe and children, and, to quote 
 the language of the letter, "the poor fellow said that he 
 owed it all to my father." 
 
 Mrs. Chaddock, whose maiden name was Melatiah 
 Nye, and who was married to Mr. C. in 1792, was the 
 daughter of Ebenezer Nye, of Oakham, Mass. He was 
 captain of a company at the battle of Bunker Hill, and 
 when a neighbor of his was shot down by his side on a 
 retreat, he took the man on his back, carrying him thus 
 till he was obliged to lay him down, and then took the 
 
12 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 buckles out of his shoes and carried them home as a 
 memento to the poor soldier's wife. Mrs. Chaddock 
 retained her church membership in Hanover until 1829, 
 when she was dismissed to a church in New Bedford, 
 in which place her son, Ebenezer Nye Chaddock, was 
 living, and where she herself died, and was placed in a 
 tomb with a sister, Mrs. Eli Haskell. 
 
 Mr. Barrv gives the names of eight of their children, 
 as if this were the full number. In Mr. L. Vernon 
 Briggs' " Church and Cemetery Records " it is stated, 
 probably on the authority of Rev. Samuel E. Evans, 
 that there were twelve children as the result of their 
 marriage. Miss Chaddock's letter substantiates the 
 smaller number. 
 
 In the town library and in my own possession is a 
 book entitled, " True Christianity, or the Whole Econ- 
 omy of God Towards Man, and the Whole Duty of Man 
 Towards God, by Rev. John Arndt, translated into 
 English and printed in London in 1712. First Ameri- 
 can edition revised and corrected by Rev. Calvin Chad- 
 dock of Hanover, Mass., 1809," with a preface by the 
 editor. 
 
 Much that is interesting in regard to Mr. Chaddock 
 both as a teacher and preacher, may be found in Mr. 
 Barry's *' History of Hanover," which we need not here 
 repeat. I think it well, however, to print the following 
 letter which was written the year our present Academy 
 Building was dedicated, by *'one of the earlier members 
 of the Academy." 
 
 New Castle, N. H., Feb. 27, LS52. 
 Mr. M. Parris McLauthlin, — 
 
 Dear Sir : It would afford me much pleasure to attend the dedi- 
 catory services at the opening of jour new Academy, agreeably to 
 your polite invitation. But as this may not be, I will endeavor at 
 
HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 1 3 
 
 your suggestion, to sketch a few reminiscences relative to its early 
 history. 
 
 Though not of the first, yet I was among the earlier members of 
 the Academy, having entered it on the 9th of June, 1<S12, about 
 forty years ago. 
 
 The building, which was owned by subscribers and proprietors, 
 was located near the centre of the town, a little west of the ancient 
 parish church [where, according to our local historian, Mr. John 
 Tower, " C- L. Tower's house now stands"]. It was tasteful, and 
 even quite elegant, two stories high, of fair proportions, its walls 
 neatly painted, furnished with Venetian blinds, and crowned with 
 a cupola and bell. Within, at the end opposite the entrance, sat the 
 Preceptor in an elevated desk, and on his right hand, in the ex- 
 treme distance, was seated the Preceptress, Avith a group of young 
 ladies, her pupils, before her. A respectable number of pupils, of 
 both sexes, were in attendance from towns both of Plymouth and 
 Norfolk counties. 
 
 Besides the common English branches, instruction was given in 
 the Latin and Greek languages, in the higher mathematics, navi- 
 gation, surveying, etc., and in the female department considerable 
 attention was given to embroidery and painting in water colors. 
 
 These exercises were diversified by weekly declamations of a 
 Wednesday afternoon, in the hall above, in the presence of the 
 Preceptor, Preceptress, the pupils and visitors, who mingled in 
 the group. The young ladies, with those of the other sex, took 
 part in these exercises. 
 
 At the close of the term there was no public examination, but 
 frequently an exhibition, as it was called. On those occasions, be- 
 sides the declamation of individuals, there was usually a kind of 
 theatrical performance, sometimes the acting of a drama. The 
 attendance of spectators was large and from various towns.* 
 
 *Mrs. Abby L. (Hitchcock) Tyler of Boston writes me that her 
 mother, while residing in her youth at North Pembroke, attended 
 Mr. Chaddock's school, and that she and other schoolmates gave 
 the play, " She Stoops to Conquer," herself being the Mrs. Hard- 
 castle of the occasion. 
 
 From the same authority I learn that Mr. Chaddock's Latin class 
 were required to address him in Latin, e. g., when one wished to 
 leave he would have to say, ^'•Licetne mihi, extre, O domine?'' 
 
 The young lady pupil above referred to. Miss Abigail L. Hall, 
 in after years became the mother of one of our Academy teachers, 
 Mr. Charles Hitchcock. 
 
14 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 Of the former members of the Academy, mj youthful associates, 
 many have been useful citizens, and several somewhat distin- 
 guished in their professions. 
 
 I may thus mention Noah Torrey, Esq , long a highly respect- 
 able magistrate in Norfolk county ; Rev. Reuben Torrey, a gradu- 
 ate at Providence of the class of 1810, and for many years a worthy 
 pastor of a church in Connecticut; Dr. S. T. Angier, a graduate 
 of the same University of the class of 1818; also my room-mate, 
 Rev. Ira H. T. Blanchard, a graduate at Cambridge of the class of 
 1817, for some time a tutor in that University, and afterwards pas- 
 tor of a church in Harvard. 
 
 "Of the honorable women, not a few," I may specially notice 
 Mrs. Almira Little Torrey, whose amiable disposition, high intel- 
 ligence, and devoted piety have embalmed her memory in the 
 hearts of a numerous circle of friends, and who, by means of her 
 interesting and published memoirs, "being dead, yet speaketh." 
 
 The venerable founder of Hanover Academy will not be forgot- 
 ten either by those " who sat at his feet" as pupils, or were his 
 hearers as a preacher of the Gospel. 
 
 His skill in sustaining the government and discipline of the 
 school was admirable. To the minds of the youth in his charge he 
 imparted the ardor of his own spirt in the pursuit of secular and 
 sacred learning. With a mind richly gifted by the Father of 
 Spirits, he possessed a native, simple, and truly genuine eloquence. 
 His bosom, a fountain of the tenderest sympathies spontaneously 
 gushing forth, moved him often and copiously to "weep with them 
 that weep." To the atflicted — to the mourner in Zion — his words of 
 consolation were the breathings of angelic sweetness : while the 
 truth of God, heard from his lips in tones of deepest solemnity, 
 thrilled the hearts of assembled multitudes. "Of like passions with 
 others" — by no means faultless — yea, even specially "compassed 
 with infirmity," yet in conflict with his spiritual foes " he was more 
 than conqueror." 
 
 The peaceful close of his useful life was passed on the sunny plains 
 of West Virginia. While passing up the beautiful Ohio, of a pleas- 
 ant summer's morning, many years since, I was providentially 
 thrown in company with some of those who enjoyed his last min- 
 istrations ; and thus from the lips of his personal friends I received 
 the animating account of his final exit from earth, in the triumph 
 
 of Christian faith. 
 
 Most respectfully, 
 
 Lucius Alden. 
 
HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 1 5 
 
 Mr. Alden, one of the many boys fitted for college 
 under Mr. Chaddock's tuition, was born in East Bridge- 
 water, June 1 8th, 1796, graduated at Brown University 
 1 82 1, and at Andover Theological Seminary in 1825; 
 Home Missionary, Dearborn Co., Ind., 1825-30; pastor, 
 East Abington, 1830-43, East Bridgewater, 1843-44, 
 Lancaster, 1845, Newcastle, N. H., 1845-73 ; died at 
 Brockton, April 24, 1884. 
 
 Mr. Reuben Torrey, mentioned in* the letter, was born 
 in Weymouth, April 3, 1789, was pastor in Eastford, Ct., 
 in 1820-41, and subsequently in other towns of the same 
 State. He died in Providence, R. I., Sept. 22, 1870. 
 Samuel Tubbs Angier, M. D., was from Pembroke. Rev. 
 Mr- Blanchard in 1842 preached for several months in 
 East Bridgewater, but failing health forbade him to 
 settle there. He died in 1845 in South Weymouth, his 
 native town. 
 
 Almira Little, who married Rev. Joseph Torrey, of 
 South Hanson, was one of a distinguished family of 
 sisters, of whom some account is given in the Centen- 
 nial History (1888) of the first Baptist church of Marsh- 
 field. I have seen and read her interesting Memoir. 
 One of her sisters married Col. John Collamore, Esq., 
 well known in this vicinity years ago, as county com- 
 missioner, and a deacon of the Baptist church in 
 Hanover. 
 
 Another of Mr. Chaddock's pupils, Miss P^liza Hall, 
 sister of Abigail above named, taught school for a long 
 time. She was assistant for many years to a blind 
 person, a Miss Baker, in a private school in New Bed- 
 ford. One winter she studied Latin in the district 
 school of North Pembroke, having a Mr. Deane, a Har- 
 vard student, as a teacher. She died at the age of 85, 
 
l6 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 and during the last four years of her life she read Cicero 
 and Virgil and many works in French. 
 
 What would we not give for a Historical Catalogue 
 of all the pupils taught by Mr. Chaddock in Hanover ? 
 But, alas, we have not even a list of their names. 
 
 Probably it is not now generally known that Mr. 
 Chaddock was at one time engaged in a very unpleas- 
 ant law suit. The case of *' Chaddock versus Briggs," 
 was tried at Taunton in the July term of 1816, before 
 the Supreme Judicial Court. It seems that Mr. Alden 
 Briggs, Jr., of Pembroke, had more than once asserted 
 in public that Mr. Chaddock (we omit the scurrilous 
 terms employed) had been on a drunken frolic, that on 
 one occasion while working in the meadow he was so 
 drunk that he could not get home. Mr. C. sued him 
 for slander, placing the damage at $2000, and procured 
 Aaron Hobart, Esq., for his lawyer. In the complaint 
 the plaintiff avers that he w^as always of good reputa- 
 tion and character for temperance and sobriety, and is 
 and ever has been free from the odious and criminal 
 offence of drunkenness, that he was in danger of being 
 deprived of his ministerial office and losing the profits 
 accruing to him from the same, and likewise that he 
 has undergone great distress in body and mind, and has 
 been greatlv injured and prejudiced in his good name 
 and in his religious character and usefulness. A ver- 
 dict favorable to the plaintiff was rendered by the jury. 
 Mr. Briggs' counsel, Benjamin Whitman, Esq., moved 
 an arrest of judgment. He contended that the words 
 spoken were not actionable,/^?- se, especially when 
 spoken of a Congregational minister, who cannot be 
 said to have any tenure of office. Besides, the words 
 did not indicate a habit but only a single act of frailty 
 
HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 1/ 
 
 not inconsistent with the general character, and vir- 
 tuous habits of a minister. Judge Isaac Parker main- 
 tained on the contrary that the office of a minister re- 
 quired a pure moral character, that even when not in 
 the discharge of his ministerial functions he is to be 
 under the control and obligations of the religion he pro- 
 fesses to teach, and that a charge of this kind would 
 certainly expose a minister to dismission from his peo- 
 ple. He says that "by the verdict of the jury it is es- 
 tablished that the defendant spoke the words alleged in 
 reference to the plaintiff, and that they were falsely and 
 maliciously spoken, and it is understood that an attempt 
 which was made at the trial to justify the publishing 
 by proving the truth of the words wholly failed." He 
 further says that " the verdict in this case has estab- 
 lished the malice ; and, indeed, from the opprobrious 
 terms used in promulgating the fact, as well as the repe- 
 tition of It in a form of words equally offensive, there was 
 no room to suppose the defendant innocent of an evil 
 intent in speaking them. Upon these grounds we are 
 satisfied that the delaration is sufficient, and the motion 
 in arrest of judgment must be overruled." Thankful 
 may we be for such a triumphant defence of the accused! 
 Yet it is perhaps but fair to say that some even now be- 
 lieve, on what they regard as adequate testimony, that 
 there was some truth in the above charge. For a re- 
 port of this trial, see 13 Mass. p. 248 of the Social Law 
 Library in the Court House, Boston. 
 
 I have met with some aged persons who were enthu- 
 siastic in their admiration for Mr. Chaddock as a 
 preacher. Surely as a teacher, also, he deserves the 
 high admiration and regard of all our people. 
 
 ''The town," says Mr. Barry, "has reason to remem- 
 
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 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY 
 
 ber him with gratitude for his patient and earnest efforts 
 for the improvement of the young." EspeciaHymay we 
 be thankful that as a pioneer he started an influence in 
 favor of higher education which has spread far and 
 wide, and which has already lasted nearly a hundred 
 years. Had it not been for him, Hanover might have 
 had a far different educational histor3\ 
 
 I am sorry to learn that no likeness of Mr. Chaddock 
 is now in existence — "the large-sized painting" spoken 
 
 of in Mr. Barry's his- 
 tory having gone to ut- 
 ter decay and ruin. He 
 is described as being 
 rather short and thick- 
 set, but as having a very 
 fine figure. The best 
 thing I can do to repre- 
 sent, perchance, some- 
 thing of his looks is to 
 insert here his youngest 
 daughter's picture, tak- 
 en, as she says, when 
 "in my prime." She 
 writes that she was 
 christened SallyThatch- 
 Miss CHADDOCK. ' cr Chaddock, but, as shc 
 
 thinks Sara the prettier name, she is now so called by 
 her friends. She says that she has no talent for writ- 
 ing (.''), and that all the talent she basis dramatic, which 
 she inherited from her father. Her friends speak of her 
 as being an excellent reader. 
 
 I sometimes fancy that the existence and influence of 
 Hanover Academy, as conducted by Mr. Chaddock and 
 
HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. I9 
 
 his successors, bad something to do with the holding of 
 an all-day educational meeting, September, 1838, in the 
 Episcopal Church at our ''Four Corners," which was at- 
 tended by no less dignitaries than Daniel Webster and 
 John Ouincy Adams, and also the Hon. Horace Mann, 
 if I mistake not. Mr. Webster, who was on that occasion 
 evidently suffering from asthma or hay fever, did not 
 show much animation in his speaking, especially as con- 
 trasted with Mr. Adams, who, in mind and body was all 
 activity. The following extract from Mr. Adams' speech^ 
 which we take from a manuscript copy, may be of some 
 interest to our readers : 
 
 '* There was one usage in the ancient republic of 
 Sparta which now occurred to him and which filled his 
 mind with this pleasing idea, namely, that these en- 
 deavors of ours for the fit education of all our children, 
 would be the means of raising up a generation around 
 us which would be superior to ourselves. The usage 
 was this : The inhabitants of the city on a certain day 
 collected together and marched in procession, dividing 
 themselves into three companies, the old, the middle- 
 aged, and the young. When assembled for the sports 
 and exercises, a dramatic scene was introduced, and the 
 three parties each had a speaker, and Plutarch gives the 
 form of phraseology used in the several addresses on 
 the occasion. The old men speak first, and addressing 
 those beneath them in age, say : 
 
 ' We have been in days of old, 
 Wise, generous, brave and bold.' 
 
 Then come the middle-aged, and casting a triumphant 
 look at their seniors, say to them : 
 
 'That which in days of yore ye were, 
 We at the present moment are.' 
 
20 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 Lastly march forth the children, and looking bravely 
 on both companies who had spoken, they shout forth 
 thus : 
 
 ' Hereafter, at our country's call. 
 We promise to excel 30U all.' " 
 
 In connection with a reference to the influence of Mr. 
 Chaddock, it should be stated that his descendants have 
 ever manifested a deep interest in the welfare of the 
 Academy. His daughter, Roxana, wife of Hon. Albert 
 Smith, was a generous donor to its funds ; and his 
 granddaughter, ]\Trs. Annie L. (Smith) Bigelow, late de- 
 ceased, often remembered the needs of the students. 
 Indeed, nearly all the scholarships which have been 
 granted to the students have come as gifts either from 
 Mrs. Bigelow or from Mrs. Eliza Salmond. 
 
 After Mr. Chaddock's departure the school rapidly de- 
 clined. It is thought that Rev. Mr. Chapin, the suc- 
 cessor of Mr. Chaddock, taught there for a brief period, 
 and that it was used at times for a Sunday school ; and 
 thus it was suffered to remain until about the year 1822, 
 when it was sold and moved to the Four Corners. In 
 early times it was utilized by Mr. Ephraim Stetson for 
 the storage and sale of strong waters,* and on these 
 ' 'Stetson Shoals," as the place was called, many a poor 
 ship carpenter met with serious if not fatal shipwreck. 
 It was subsequently lengthened out on its eastern end, 
 (the cut below shows about the whole length of the origi- 
 nal building. The piazza is, of course, a modern addi- 
 tion,) and in later years was occupied as a store and 
 shoe manufactory by Mr. Stephen Josselyn, but is now 
 used as a drug store by Mr. William Snow Curtis. The 
 
 *It is reported for a truth that these waters were, at least in very 
 cold weather, so weak that thev were unable to run. 
 
niSTORV OF HANOVER ACADEMY 
 
 21 
 
 bell, with its shar[), ringing sound, was probably trans- 
 ferred to the new Academy building, of which we shall 
 next speak. 
 
 THE FIRST ACADEMY BUILDING. 
 
PART 11. 
 HANOVER ACADEMY, 1828-^1 
 
 Its Second Buildinor and its Teachers. 
 
 This second building was erected in 1828, ten years 
 after Mr. Chaddock's leaving Hanover, and it stood on 
 the east side of Broadway Street, about midway between 
 the dwelling of J. Williams Beal and the Odd Fellows' 
 Hall, nearly at the foot of the present Academy Avenue. 
 It consisted of two stories, and in outward appearance 
 it resembled, as I should suppose, the old one, save that 
 it was somewhat larger. 
 
 It would be interesting to know who started this en- 
 terprise, and what were the inducements for so doing. 
 It is thought by some that Rev. Mr. Wolcott, who per- 
 haps at that time was teaching a private school near b\', 
 greatly favored and helped on the movement, and that 
 possibly his feelings were somewdiat hurt that he was 
 not earlier invited to become its teacher. In a letter 
 dated Nov, 3d, 1858, written by Charles A. Reed, the then 
 Preceptor of the Academy, to Mr. Wolcott, inviting him 
 to a reunion of the Alumni on Nov. 26th, he says : '' Be 
 assured that we would be exceedingly gratified to meet 
 you at this reunion, and would welcome you to the hos- 
 pitalities of Hanover, as one of the founders of our in- 
 stitution." All the shareholders of this property, thirty- 
 nine in number, and embracing some of the most sub- 
 stantial men of the time, have passed away, and in these 
 .matters of inquiry we are left to our own conjectures. 
 
HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADP:MV. 23 
 
 These proprietors belonged principally to the three towns 
 of Hanover, Scituate and Pembroke, and since the 
 '* Four Corners " serves as a central position for these 
 towns, the building, doubtless for this reason mainly, 
 was located here. It was built, according to Mr. Barry's 
 History, in shares of ^25 each, at an expense of about 
 ^1,200; the Trustees were incorporated in 1829; and 
 the names of the original proprietors were Alexander 
 Wood, Esq., Capt. Haviland Torrey, Joseph Eells, 
 Ephraim Stetson, Dr. Ezekiel Gushing, Rev. Calvin 
 Wolcott, Sarah Gardner (Wolcott ?), Robert Eells, 
 Asaph Magoun, Horace Collamore, Esq., Gen. A. VV. 
 Oldham, Capt. Tilden Crooker, Benjamin C. Pratt, 
 Ethan A. Stetson, Capt. William Josselyn, Eli Stetson, 
 Joseph S. Bates, Horatio Gushing, Esq., Isaac Magoun, 
 Col. John B. Barstow, Capt. Thomas Waterman, Capt. 
 Nathaniel Barstow, John C. Stockbridge, George Bailey, 
 Dr. Joseph Studley, Justus Whiting, Thomas Damon, 
 Benjamin Mann, Esq., Lemuel Dwelley, (Col.) Samuel 
 Tolman, Jr., Elias W. Pratt, Luther Ilowland (of Han- 
 son), James Waterman, Samuel Waterman, Samuel 
 Stetson, Elias Magoun, John Barstow, P2sq., Albert 
 Clapp, and John Wilder. 
 
 Perhaps if the former building had been for sale at 
 this time, it might have been purchased for the new 
 school. This new building was used continuously for a 
 school som.e twenty-three years. The shareholders were 
 incorporated February i8th, 1828, and Alexander Wood, 
 Horatio Gushing, John B. Barstow, Col. Samuel Tolman, 
 Jr., and Horace Collamore, were chosen as a Board of 
 
 Trustees. 
 
 ITS TEACHERS. 
 
 We are sorry that we cannot now tell more about its 
 
24 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY, 
 
 earlier teachers. Several of them, as it would seem, 
 taught but for a short time.* 
 
 The first teacher, Zephaniah Ames Bates (1828), 
 (not Bass, as in Barry's History), was the son of Joshua 
 and Bethiah (Ames) Bates, and was born in Hanover, 
 1803, graduated from Harvard College, 1824, and after 
 leaving here went South as a teacher, and died there in 
 1842. He was never married. Near relatives of his 
 are still living in Bridgewater, with one of whom, Sarah 
 T. Bates, a niece, I have had some correspondence. 
 
 Mr. Horace Hall Rolfe (1829), son of Rev. Wil- 
 liam and Judith (Hazletine) Rolfe, was born at Groton, 
 July 24, 1800, graduated at Dartmouth College, 1824, 
 and died in Charleston, S. C, February 24, 183 1. In 
 March, 1828, he married Mary Marcy, of Plymouth 
 (where he had taught for a time), and while in Hanover 
 they lived in the Seth Barker (Horatio Bigelow) house, 
 near North River Bridge — the same house in which Mrs. 
 Wade subsequently kept a private school. f 
 
 *Tlie order of teachers and dates of their teacliing, as given in 
 Rev. Mr. B.irrj's History of Hanover, are approximately correct. 
 I was in hopes to get some material for our Academy History from 
 the collection of documents made by Mr. Barry, but I learn that 
 there is nothing left which would be serviceable. I may state as a 
 matter of interest to manj', that one of his daughters, Caroline L. 
 Barry, now Mrs. C. L. Morton (widow), of Longwood, Florida, 
 was for a short time an Academy student. Another daughter, Eliza 
 B. Barry, is living wifh her mother, Mrs. I>ouisa Barry, in New- 
 tonville. I think there are also other daughters. 
 
 fMrs. Charlotte S. (Brown) Wade, was the young widowed con- 
 sort of Dr. Henry Wade, who practised in Hanover in 1829, and 
 died in 1830. Her school bore the somewhat ambitious title of 
 " Plymouth County Seminary," but, from what I have heard, she 
 was well deserving to be at the head of such an institution. As 
 she had the happy faculty of adapting herself to all ages, she was 
 
HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 25 
 
 Passing by the name of Rev. Cyrus Holmes (1830) 
 of whom we shall speak later on, we come next to Mr. 
 Ethan Allen (1830). I have in my possession a 
 receipt from him, dated April 19th, 1830, for tuition of 
 my eldest brother : '' Six weeks, $1.50 ; for bell-ringing, 
 wood, etc., ^o.io; total $1.60. Received payment." 
 Mr. Allen was born in Londonderry, V't., Nov. 25, 1794, 
 was graduated at Brown University in 1823, and after 
 teaching in Millwood, Va., in Hanover, and in Roches- 
 ter, N. Y., was ordained an Episcopal minister, and after- 
 wards served as pastor in Otis, 1836 — 46, in Nantucket 
 1846 — 55, and in Guilford, Vt., where he died May 
 19, 1867. 
 
 The Rev. Calvin Wolcott (1831), appears next as 
 the teacher for one year. He was for a longtime a resi- 
 dent of this place, serving as rector of St. Andrew's 
 
 greatly beloved by aU her scholars. Her system of teaching was 
 peculiarly unique, original, and interesting, and it was a pleasure 
 to be under her instruction. (Substance of a letter received from 
 Mrs. Adeline Briggs.) Another of her pupils, mentioned below, 
 says that " Mrs. Wade was a woman of high cultivation, belonging 
 to one of the first families of Hingham. a lady of great executive 
 ability, and one who, wherever she was placed, attracted the at- 
 tention of all who saw her, yet seemingly unconscious of it herself." 
 She was subsequently invited by the Society of Friends to open 
 a school in New Bedford, which she conducted until her marriage 
 to a Friend, Isaac Taber of that place. She would have served well 
 as Preceptress of the Academy had such an arrangement been then 
 in fashion. During her term of teaching (1830 — 4) the Academy was 
 obliged to have several difterent male teachers. Fora part of the time 
 her school was quite large, and she had one of her graduate pupils, 
 Miss Judith S. Cook, now living in Boston, for an assistant, to 
 Avhom Mrs. Wade left the charge of the school, and who finally 
 went to New Bedford to be her assistant there. Certainly this 
 school should not be overlooked in summing up the educational in- 
 fluences-which have left their stamp on the minds of this com- 
 munity. 
 
26 HTSTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 Church, from 1818 to 1834. I have fortunately obtained 
 many facts concerning his history from his grand- 
 daughter, Mrs. Annie Richards Prime, of Yonkers, 
 N. Y., the daughter of Dr. Jacob and Hhzabeth G.(Wol- 
 cott) Richards, of Braintree. His remote ancestor in 
 this country was William Wolcott (or Walcott), of Sa- 
 lem, 1636. His grandfather was Jonathan Wolcott, 
 who was born in Danvers and died in Windham, Ct., 
 May 25, 1745. His father, Elijah Wolcott, lived and 
 died in Williamsburg, Mass. Mr. Wolcott was born in 
 Williamsburg, April 27, 1787, and died in New York 
 City, January 21, 1861. In 181 1 he was married to 
 Sarah Gardner, of Danvers, who, according to Mr. Barry, 
 was a collateral descendant of Gen. Putnam. He en- 
 tered Phillips Andover Academy, Aug. 12, 1809, left 
 the school in 181 1, subsequently studied theology under 
 the direction of Bishop Griswold, and then made his 
 first settlement in Hanover. After leaving here he 
 officiated in the churches in Otis and Blandford, in the 
 western part of the State, became rector of Christ's 
 Church in Ouincy, and in Hopkinton, Vt., resigning the 
 latter church about 1844.* Then for some years he 
 served as general agent of the American Bible society 
 in Massachusetts and Western Virginia. In 1850 he 
 received a call from his old friend, Rev. Dr. Stephen 
 H. Tyng, of St. George's Church, New York, to become 
 assistant minister, which office he resigned about 1859, 
 on account of ill-health, but continued to live in the city 
 till his death. His remains were taken to Ouincy and 
 placed in the Richards' family vault, in the old ceme- 
 tery. A long time resident in Hanover when in the 
 
 *See History of St. Andrew's Church by Rev. Samuel Culler, 
 1848. 
 
HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 2/ 
 
 priaie of life, he is even now well remembered in this 
 place, and is highly esteemed by many who were his 
 hearers or his pupils. Of Mr. Wolcott's sons, two, 
 Samuel G. and Asa G., became distinguished physicians, 
 and one, George T., taught for a brief space in our 
 Academy. 
 
 For a winter or more Mr. Wolcott taught school on 
 ''Church Plain," in Scituate (afterward South Scituate, 
 and now Norwell), and he also had a private school in 
 the attic of his own house, corner of Broadway and 
 Oakland Avenue. He was, as I should judge, a very 
 nervous man, and was at times very severe in his pun- 
 ishments, the which, if attempted now in our schools, 
 would not be long endured. Facing the cold north-west 
 wind in winter as he walked over " Church Hill " in the 
 morning, was, no doubt, trying to his feelings, and for 
 this reason, or some other, he would occasionally omit 
 morning prayer, and when this happened we knew what 
 to expect. Woe to that scholar whose eye he, while 
 engaged as the first thing in ruling the writing books, 
 would detect looking off from his book. And yet he 
 was generally so pleasant and "clever" in the school- 
 room, and withal so good a teacher, that his scholars, 
 almost without exception, liked him and loved him. In 
 the attic library of my present residence, I presume 
 there may be found two or three small New Testaments 
 of a faded red binding, which are inscribed with his 
 name, and which he gave to us boys as a reward "for 
 diligence and good behavior." While we can justly say 
 that he was successful as a teacher, it can also be truly 
 said that his church enjoyed a good degree of prosperity 
 under his long pastorate. 
 
 John P. Washburn (1832), was born in Ware, April 
 
28 HISTORY OP^ HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 8, 1809, and died in Barnstable, April 14, ,1886. After 
 leaving Hanover he taught for a while at Scituate Har- 
 bor. While teaching in these places he was, according 
 to report, pursuing the study of medicine. He subse- 
 quently taught in l^ridgewater, Sandwich, and several 
 other towns, especially on the Cape. In Sandwich, in 
 1835, he married for his first wife Patience W. Crocker, 
 who died September 14, 1875, aged nearly 69 years. 
 They had four children, two of whom died in infancy, 
 and two daughters are now living. In May 4, 1879, ^^^ 
 married Martha N. Hinckley, of Barnstable, who still 
 survives. In his later years he was engaged in the in- 
 surance business in Barnstable. 
 
 Dr. Ira Warren (1833), was born in Canada, 1805, 
 studied for a time in Brown University, taught school 
 at Queen An tie's Corner, in Hingham, became precep- 
 tor for about a year in Hanover Academy, married in 
 1834 a village maiden. Miss Ruth Stockbridge Turner, 
 subsequently taught in the Academy at Edgartown, and 
 then went to Boston, where he studied medicine, and 
 where he practised as a physician till his death in 1864. 
 His remains are interred in our Hanover cemetery. 
 While in Boston he edited for a time ''The Christian 
 Witness" (Episcopalian), and wrote two books, ''Pusey- 
 ism, its Causes and Cure," and "The Household Physi- 
 cian," a large volume which has had an immense sale. 
 I may say that Mr. Warren in his early manhood resided 
 for some years at Hanover Corners, where I first be- 
 came acquainted with him. He then seemed to me to 
 be rather a man of thought than of action. His subse- 
 quent life and writings prove that on the first point at 
 least I was not mistaken. One of our Alumni, a man 
 of discernment and sound judgment, who resided for a 
 
HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 29 
 
 time in his family (George F. Stetson, of Hanson), in a 
 letter to me, characterizes him as " a clear and careful 
 thinker, a cultured, independent, and able writer, an in- 
 structive conversationalist, and altogether a refined, 
 sympathetic and charming friend and gentleman." I 
 am sorry that I cannot obtain his portrait for this work, 
 but it can be found in the medical treatise above 
 mentioned. 
 
 THOMAS FULLER WHITE- 
 
 Thomas Fuller White (1834 — 37) son of Abiel 
 and Joanna (Fuller) White, was born in Halifax, July 
 29, 1 8 10, died in Cumberland, Md., December 26, 1864. 
 He was of Pilgrim descent, his maternal ancestor being 
 Deacon and Doctor Samuel P\iller, who came over in 
 the Mayflower. Educated at Northampton, he early 
 betrayed an aptitude and fondness for teaching, and be- 
 gan this calling in several towns of Plymouth County, 
 one of his schools being in North Pembroke. His sue- 
 
30 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 cess in teaching led to his becoming principal of Hano- 
 ver Academy in 1834. He appears to have been emi- 
 nently skilful both in governing easily and in success- 
 ful teaching, qualities as diverse in their nature as are 
 the wisdom of the serpent and the harmlessncss of the 
 dove. His system of instruction, it is thought, would 
 not suffer in comparison with any of the modern 
 methods of education. His quarterly examinations and 
 exhibitions seem to have been red-letter occasions for 
 the Academy. He is described as being a gentleman 
 of fine personal appearance, of cultivated and graceful 
 manners, and, indeed, as a person who apparently had 
 no mean opinion of himself. Being also an accomplished 
 reader and a fluent speaker, he was naturally often 
 called upon to make addresses on public occasions. 
 While teaching in Duxbury in 1832 he was appointed 
 by Gov. Levi Lincoln as adjutant of ist Regiment In- 
 fantry, 1st Brigade, 5th Division of the Massachusetts 
 Militia, and was honorably discharged therefrom Jan- 
 uary, 1837. Resigning the Principalship of the Acade- 
 my this same year, he accepted a professorship of Latin 
 and Greek, at Charlotte Hall, Calvert County, Md., but 
 removed the following year to Cumberland of the same 
 State, to become the principal of the Alleghany County 
 Academy. For the improvement of his health he after- 
 wards engaged in civil engineering, and pursued that 
 calling until his decease. In Cumberland he served 
 one term as Mayor, but declined re-election. In 1861 
 he was appointed surveyor of Alleghany County. 
 Though engrossed with business he was an earnest 
 worker in the Temperance and other good causes, and 
 was a devoted and efficient member of the Episcopal 
 Church. 
 
HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 3 1 
 
 In November, 1841, he married Mrs. Mary Thistle 
 Hilary, and has had a large family of daughters, several 
 of whom died in infancy. Two became popular and 
 successful teachers, and two are residing in Cumberland 
 with their aged mother. I should have stated that Mr. 
 White, though living in a slave State in war times, was 
 unswerving in his devotion and loyalty to the Union.* 
 
 Herman Bourn( 1836-37) son of Andrew and Lucin- 
 da (Barrows) Bourn, was born in Attleboro, Jan. 9, 
 1800, and was graduated from Brown University, class 
 of 1825. The college catalogue latinizes his given name 
 to Hermannus, and simply states that he was from Attle- 
 boro. Mr. Bourn is described as being a very sedate, 
 quiet, dignified person, talented and scholarly. He was 
 the author of a work on Botany which, for those days, 
 was nicely gotten up and handsomely illustrated. 
 
 A few years since I was informed by a keeper of min- 
 erals and curios, in l^oston, that he had in his possess- 
 ion a pen-written list of students in the male depart- 
 ment of Hanover Academy, for the Second or Fall term, 
 commencing Monday, August 7, and ending Saturday, 
 October 28, 1837. Recentl}^ I visited the city store 
 and purchased this interesting document — the first list 
 of Academy boys which I have ever seen. This list, 
 remarkable for its chirography, was evidently written 
 by the teacher, Mr. Bourn, and is substantially correct, 
 though some few names as here recorded literatim^ are 
 not fully and accurately written : 
 
 Stephen N. Gifford, George Studley, Luther Briggs, 
 
 *For many of the facts in Mr. White's history I am indebted to 
 his niece, Miss H. E. Bruce, and to Mr. and Mrs Luther Briggs, 
 all of Neponset. 
 
32 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 Francis Collamore, Augustus Collamore, Theodore Col- 
 lamore, Robert Barstow, Joseph B. Barstow, Joseph 
 Dvvelley, Henry Bates, William Josselyne, James Tol- 
 man, Tobias O. Gardner, John A. Smith, James R. 
 Smith, Joseph B. Sylvester, Belcher Magoon, Luther 
 Studley, John D. Twiggs, George W. Eels, Andrew I. 
 Sprague, Sarah E. Barstozv, Priscilla B. SinitJi^ Austin 
 Dyer, Robert Dwelly, Jonathan Oldham, Thomas H. 
 Soule, Henry C. Wainwright, John E. Barstow, Horace 
 Stetson, Eleazer Josslyne, Asa C. Hammond, Charles 
 I. Hilburn, Robert Salmon, Alden Briggs 3d, Benjamin 
 Elliot. 
 
 Miss Hannah \V. Johnson (1837), wasfor two terms 
 a contemporary teacher with Mr. Bourn at the Acad- 
 emy. In her second term, ending in September, she 
 had 25 young lady students. Among the scholars of 
 Miss Johnson, as also of Miss Fuller at a later period, 
 I notice the names of Lydia K. and Elizabeth T. Bar. 
 stow, of Providence, daughters of John Barstow, Esq., 
 who many years afterward established a fund for the 
 Hanover Academy. From the accounts given of Miss 
 Johnson by her pupils, I should judge her to have been 
 an excellent teacher. The closing words of the valedic- 
 tory address, spoken by Miss Adeline Collamore, were 
 without doubt sincerely and truthfully spoken. Ad- 
 dressing her associates in study she says : 
 
 " Let us express our gratitude to her who so long and 
 faithfully instructed us. Accept our thanks, dear 
 teacher, for your unwearied exertions in promoting use- 
 ful knowledge among us, for your forbearance with our 
 many faults, and for the schenies you have continually 
 devised for our improvement and happiness while under 
 your care. It is with unmeasured feelings of regret 
 
HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 33 
 
 that we now bid you farewell, and while distance shall 
 separate us from you, ever indulge the assurance that 
 in the hearts of your pupils, your memory is cherished 
 w^ith gratitude and affection." And in one of several 
 helpful letters recently received from her, now Mrs. 
 Adeline (Collamore) Briggs of Neponset, she thus 
 speaks : "Under Miss Johnson's excellent tuition in 
 Hanover's classic halls, my school days ended. Tht? 
 memory of those days is to me an ever recurring delight 
 and will always be held in grateful remembrance. As 
 a teacher, she was most successful in winning the love 
 and confidence of her pupils. Uniformly kind and 
 courteous, of a sweet and lovable disposition, she won 
 all hearts at once. The hardest task became a pleas- 
 ure under her encouraging guidance." Another of her 
 pupils, but evidently one of the youngest class, has a 
 distinct recollection that she had "very red hair." She 
 afterward taught in Salem, N. H., and then obtained a 
 very desirable situation as private instructress in the 
 family of a wealthy rice planter residing in George- 
 town, S. C. 
 
 We herewith give a list of Miss Johnson's pupils, as 
 preserved by one of the scholars, Julia Collamore, sister 
 of the above named valedictorian — the first list of the 
 Academy female students which has come to my knowl- 
 edge. 
 
 Adeline Collamore, Julia Collamore, Sylvia B. Water- 
 man, Elizabeth Dwelley, Jane Hersey, Lydia Church, 
 Louisa Bowker, Huldah Stetson, Amelia Josselyn, 
 Amelia Barstow, Elizabeth Barstow, Louisa Wood, 
 Eliza Hobart, Louisa Farnham, Eliza Dyer, Cynthia 
 Dyer, Sarah A. Bates, Jane R. Oldham, Lois C. Stet- 
 son, Helena M. T. Eells, Sarah Barstow, Harriet Bar- 
 
34 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 Stow, Lydia W. Collamore, Celia Percival, Lydia K. 
 Barstow, Elizabeth T. Barstow, Helen Smith, Louisa 
 Clark, Sarah Hitchcock, Polly B. Talbot, Judith Ham- 
 mond, Mary Stetson, Susan Turner (of Pembroke). 
 
 JosiAH Fuller (1838-39) the son of Robert and Rho- 
 da (French) Fuller, and grandson of Dr. Noah Fuller 
 of Wrentham, Mass., and Westmoreland, N. H., was 
 born in Westmoreland. After leaving Hanover he 
 went to Honolulu, S. I., where he edited a paper and 
 was superintendent of the Royal Schools during the 
 reign of Kamehameha HI, who was a fast friend of the 
 missionaries. I am told that he there married Marga- 
 ret Mills of Natick, Mass., who went to Honolulu to 
 visit her sister, the wife of Rev. S. C. Damon, D. D., 
 the Seaman's chaplain of that place. They had two 
 sons, who are married and still live in Honolulu; also a 
 daughter, Elizabeth, w^ho died in California. He became 
 interested in the California mines and finally moved to 
 Oakland, Cal., where he died some ten years since. 
 
 Before coming to Hanover, Mr. Fuller taught the 
 Union Bridge District School in Scituate, and boarded 
 with a relative of mine, by which means I first became 
 acquainted with him. By virtue of this aquaintance, I 
 was induced to attend the Academy when it came under 
 his supervision. Here was the turning point of my life. 
 Had it not been for his boarding where he did, had it not 
 been for this Academy and his coming here as a teach- 
 er, I probably should have remained on the *'Bald Hill 
 Farm" all the rest of my days. How strange that one 
 little thing will so affect our entire destiny ! Not only 
 so, but the .mystery of life is such that, methinks, it 
 takes ten thousand little things to place us where we 
 
HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 35 
 
 are and to make us what we are. And so it has been 
 with all our ancestors ! 
 
 Mr. Fuller's sister Elizabeth kept a female school in 
 the upper hall. In her third and last term she had 28 
 pupils. She subsequently married Calvin McQuestion, 
 M. D., of Hamilton, Canada, who died some years since. 
 Afterwards, she went to live with her niece, Mrs. Arch- 
 ibald McKeand {nee Currier) of Chicago, and is now de- 
 ceased. 
 
 A list of Miss Fuller's scholars is also given by Miss 
 Collamore. Among them we find the following new 
 names : 
 
 Angeline Peterson, Mercy Wright, Mary Cushing, 
 Lydia Clark, Ann S. Dwellcy, Caroline Hildreth, Har- 
 riet Hiidreth, Elizabeth Torrance, Rachel A. Fuller, 
 Lucy Josselyn, Elizabeth Stetson, Deborah Briggs, 
 Nancy Percival, Mary Salmond, Elizabeth Eells, Abby 
 Pratt, Elizabeth Pratt, Lucy Dyer, Sarah Dyer, Eliza 
 Talbot, Frances Cushing, Mary J. Hilborn, Eliza Ellis, 
 Lucy E. Boynton, Grace F. Barstow. 
 
 The outlines of Rev. Cyrus Holmes' life are given 
 in Mr. Barry's Hanover History. He was born in Hal- 
 ifax, July 9, 1800, studied at Phillips Exeter Academy, 
 graduated (according to Barry) at Dartmouth, 1828,* 
 and at Andover Theological Seminary in 183 1, taught 
 in Woburn 1831-35 and Northampton, preached for a 
 while until his health failed him, and then came to Han- 
 over in 1840 and was Principal of the Academy for 
 some eight years, until 1848, the year before his death. 
 So highly was he esteemed by his fellow-citizens that 
 
 *I only find that Dartmouth College conferred upon him the 
 honorary degree of A. M. in 1835. His name does not appear on 
 the list of graduates. 
 
36 HISTORY OF HA\0\'ER ACADEMY. 
 
 without his seeking, he was elected as Representative 
 to our Legislature for 1848-9. I had just made a begin- 
 ning in Latin under Mr. Fuller, but it was under Mr, 
 Holmes' tuition that I mainly received my fitting for 
 college. 
 
 Mr. Holmes was a unique personality. Coming into 
 the school room the first morning, and in marked con- 
 trast with his immediate predecessor, he seemed to us 
 
 REV. CYRUS HOLMES. 
 
 quite farmer-like in look and dress and slightly un- 
 kempt in appearance, and we were at first some- 
 what abashed. But we soon found out that he was 
 a man of keen intellectual powers, of scholarly attain- 
 ments, and a very superior teacher who had a most 
 happy and effective use of the tongue. He had but lit- 
 tle need of high-priced, complicated philosophical appa- 
 ratus for instructive teaching. With his pencil or a 
 
THSTOKV OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 3/ 
 
 chip or a piece of coal or something equally simple, he 
 could illustrate much which admitted of illustration. A 
 line from one of his pupils who subsequently became a 
 teacher, Mr. Andrew T. Magoun, shows how interest- 
 ing and deeply instructive w^as Mr. Holmes in his 
 (ethical) teaching of one branch of English Grammar. 
 "We used to parse out of Young's Night Thoughts.* 
 Sometimes we would have quite an interesting discus- 
 sion. Mr. Holmes liked to have each one express his 
 views freely. I recollect on one occasion he said he 
 would as soon think of eating a quarter of beef at a 
 meal as of readincr Youno:'s Nisfht Thoughts without 
 pondering the subject under consideration." 
 
 Mr. Holmes also had but little use for the rattan. 
 With his tono-ue he could shame and subdue the most 
 refractory and grind out a tear from the most stubborn 
 and obdurate, and he would seldom quit a subject of 
 discipline until he had accomplished his purpose. On 
 
 one occasion, when a girl named Ruth had been 
 
 acting naughtily, he proposed to preach a short ser- 
 mon to the school, and said he would take his text from 
 the book of Ruth : Be ashamed. I believe the text 
 cannot be found there, but Ruth was most thoroughly 
 ashamed. The two girls who in sport forged a letter 
 purporting to be from a young man, inviting a certain 
 academy girl with whom he had no acquaintance to 
 
 * Speaking of "parsing," reminds me of a little incident in mv 
 own experience in that line under Mr. Holmes. I was giving the 
 "subject nominative" of a Greek verb, which, by an indistinct pro- 
 nunciation might stand either for we or vou (in Greek hemeis or 
 humeis). Perhaps, as being a little uncertain, I pronounced the 
 word somewhat indistinctly; whereupon I was asked : "What 
 kind of ;«^/5 (mice) Ford.?" "He-meis," was my reply, which was 
 correct. 
 
3b HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 take a beach ride — which letter was taken in earnest — 
 will never forget the flood of tears which were shed be- 
 fore their teacher got done with them. Other anec- 
 dotes in regard to Mr. Holmes can be found in a com- 
 memorative poem on a later page. 
 
 Still, Mr. Holmes' spirit and manner were ever gen- 
 ial and gentle, and his pleasant and brilliant repartees 
 and off-hand sayings were indescribable and can 
 never be forgotten by those who heard them. It is al- 
 most needless to say that as a teacher and companion, 
 he was to an unusual degree, beloved and respected by 
 his pupils. I have enjoyed the instruction of Dr. Fran- 
 cis Wayland and of other distinguished teachers, but I 
 never lost my regard and respect for Mr. Holmes.* With 
 
 *Well do I recollect the day when a lad, making my first visit to 
 Providence, 1S41, before there were any railroads in Plymouth 
 county (the " Old Colony" being opened in 1846 and the "Han- 
 over Branch" in ISGS) I took a stage-coach to Taunton, and passing 
 by the Academy building, beheld Mr. Holmes coming out of school 
 that by his presence he might give me his kindly benediction. What 
 that student lad, in after j-ears accomplished, especially in the way 
 of literary effort— all too meagerly and imperfectly — maybe learned 
 in part from the following sketch of his public life as given sub- 
 stantially in the Historical Catalogue of Brown University : 
 
 David Barnes Ford, A. B. IS-t.") (A. M. 1848, D. D. 1S9S) gradu- 
 ated Newton Theological Institution 1848; assistant instructor in 
 Hebrew, Newton, 1848 and 1849; ordained Baptist, 1851; pastor. 
 Canton, Mass., 1851-1854 ; for several years a supply in Marshfield, 
 Mass. Author: Perthes' Life of Chrysostojn, translated in con- 
 junction with Alvah Hovey, 1854; Sfndtes on the Buffistnal Ques- 
 tion with Review of J. W. Dale, 1879; Centennial History of First 
 Baptist Church, Marshfield, 1888; Commentary oti Romans, in con- 
 junction with Prof. A. N. Arnold, 1889; The Life-Work of Isaac 
 Backus, with Memorial Exercises at the dedication of the Backus 
 Monument, 1893; Ne7v England's Struggles for Religious Liberty, 
 1896; TheMeeti?igsofthe Warren Association in the Old Colony, 
 1896; Contributor to the Christian Review, Bibliotheca Sacra, and 
 Gth-^r periodicals. 
 
HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 39 
 
 the exception of Mr. Chaddock, his term of teaching here 
 was longer than that of any other Principal of the Acad- 
 emy. Mr. Holmes died Aug, i6, 1849, and ^^^ buried 
 in Pembroke Centre cemetery, where the remains of 
 his wife, Sophia (Collamore) Holmes have since been 
 placed by his side. The accompanying portrait of Mr, 
 Holmes was taken from a somewhat faded daguerreo- 
 type, but I think it looks quite life-like. He was a 
 person of medium height, of spare build, having bright, 
 dark eyes and a thin face which was slightly sallowish 
 in complexion, the result, perhaps, of long continued ill- 
 health. 
 
 The same methodical and careful one who has given 
 us the preceding lists, has also preserved the names of 
 Mr. Holmes' pupils who attended the first two terms : 
 
 Samuel Tolman, David B. Ford, Augustus Colla- 
 more, Francis Collamore, Theodore Collamore, Robert 
 Hersey, Robert Sylvester, Charles Torrey, Bailey H. 
 Hitchcock, Robert S. Curtis, Joseph Barstow, Freder- 
 ic O. Barstow, James Turner. Elisha Stetson, James 
 R. Smith, Edmund O.Sylvester, Edward Barstow, Rob- 
 ert Barstow, Joshua Fuller, Joshua J. Ellis, Charles 
 Brooks, William Clark, Franklin E. Felton, Cyrus Mor- 
 ton, Jolin B. Bates, Samuel House, Robert Salmond, 
 Walter Clift. 
 
 Only two new names of female students are recorded: 
 Priscilla Clark and Ann Eliza Josselyn. 
 
 I know of no list of students kept by Mr. Holmes 
 daring his many years of teaching. And about half the 
 teachers who have taught since, even though they may 
 have kept lists, have not left any behind them to my 
 knowledge. It is a source of unfeigned regret to me 
 that I cannot give all the names of our Academy stu- 
 
40 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 dents, especially as I can think of very many whom I 
 would delight to mention. 
 
 After the preceding paragraph was in type I received 
 from Mr. Holmes' daughter, Sophia A., wife of Mr. 
 Emmons Hatch, of Winchester, a list of names taken 
 from an Album bed-quilt which was presented to Mr. 
 Holmes in 1848, the last year of his teaching, by his 
 students in the Academy. This list of names, though 
 amounting to some seventy in number, does not of 
 course give but a small part of all his Academy 
 scholars. 
 
 Elizabeth T. Waterman, Samuel G. Cutler, Albert B. 
 Howland, John B. Bates, Henry Clark, Mary Pratt, 
 Lucy S. Dyer, Betsey S. Magoun, Mary^Collamore, Eliz- 
 abeth C. Sturtevant, Chloe S. Perry, Jared Gardner, 
 Priscilla Eells, Helena M. Eells, Ruth M. Eells, Anna 
 L. Eells, Sarah A. Bates, Haviland Barstow, Harriet R. 
 Blackman, Reuben Bates, Sarah H. Collamore, George 
 A. Collamore, Julia Collamore, Robert S. Curtis, Mary 
 
 A. Clark, Marcia Collamore, Sophia B. Clark, Huldah 
 
 B. Dwelley, George R. Dvvelley, Charles Dyer, R. Cor- 
 nelia Dyer, Nathan H. Dwelley, William P. Duncan, 
 Dorothy B. Dyer, Frederick Hatch, Henry Hersey, 
 Louisa E. Hatch, Lucinda Hatch, Marcia Josselyn, 
 George S. Josselyn, Eliza A. Josselyn, M. Josephine 
 Josselyn, Ann R. Haynes, Hulda S. Magoun, Nancy 
 W. Percival, Emmeline A. Pratt, Elias E. Pratt, Davis D. 
 Randall, B. F. Sylvester, Joseph C. Stockbridge, Sarah 
 M. Sturtevant, Sarah J. Sylvester, Alphonso F. Sturte- 
 vant, W. H. Stetson, Catherine A. Stetson, Mary Sal- 
 mond, Hulda M. Stetson, I. B. Talbot, James Turner, 
 
 A. H. Talbot, E. S. Talbot, Edward F. Wood, William 
 
 B. Wood, Henry A. Wood, Lydia C. Waterman, Joseph 
 
HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 4I 
 
 E. Wilder, Isaac Wilder, Thomas B, Waterman, William 
 C. Oakman, Jr. 
 
 Mr. Holmes, as we have said, died Aug i6, 1849. We 
 subjoin a Soxg by an unknown writer, ''Respectfully 
 Dedicated to the Memory of the late Rev. Cyrus 
 Holmes," Avhich was sung to the tune of "Long, Long 
 Ago," at the Academy Exhibition, Oct. 12, 1849: 
 
 " Kind was the heart which in sympathy beat ; 
 
 Now it is still — it is still. 
 Sweet was the smile which we all loved to greet; 
 
 But it has fled— it has fled. 
 Past are those moments of social delight, 
 Faded and fled are the scenes once so bright, 
 Shrouded the brightness of morning in night; 
 
 For he is gone — he is gone. 
 
 Weep not for him when you stand by his grave, 
 
 lie has gone home — has gone home. 
 Bright is his crown in the hoine of the saved, 
 
 He has gone home — has gone home. 
 Peaceful his rest in the home of the dead. 
 Peaceful the shadows that fall on his bed, 
 Weep not for him. for the spirit has fled 
 Up to its home — to its home. 
 
 Weep not for him when vou muse on the past. 
 
 He has gone home — has gone home. 
 Joy that his sufterings are ended at last, 
 
 And he's gone liome — he's gone home. 
 Let each meinento of him who has gone — " 
 
 (The remaining lines of the stanza are wanting in the 
 copy which I have quoted). 
 
 Mr. Charles Hitchcock (1848-49) while pursuing 
 the studies of the Sophomore year in Dartmouth Col- 
 lege, taught the Hanover Academy two terms during 
 the Fall of 1848 and the Winter of 1848-49. He was a 
 descendant of the distinguished Rev. Dr. Gad Hitch- 
 
42 
 
 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 cock of the West Parish of Pembroke, now Hanson, 
 while his maternal great-grandfather vyas Dr. Jeremiah 
 Hall, who bought what was afterwards known as the 
 Horace Collamore place in North Pembroke about 
 1748, and who was a distinguished physician in his day 
 — a surgeon in the P'rench and Indian war, 1758, a 
 member of the Provincial Congress in 1774, and a col- 
 
 CHARLES HITCHCOCK. 
 
 onel in the Revolutionary War. Mr. Hitchcock, the 
 son of Charles and Abigail Little (Hall) Hitchcock, 
 was born in Hanson, April 4, 1827 (though his parents 
 afterwards lived in Pembroke) studied at the same 
 time with myself and later in the Hanover Academy 
 under Mr. Holmes, afterwards, in 1846, entered Phil- 
 lips Andover Academy, graduated at Dartmouth col- 
 lege 185 1, read law with Hon. Daniel Blaisdell, at 
 
HISTORY OF HAXOVER ACADEMY. 43 
 
 Hanover, N. H., one year, and then taught the classics 
 a year in Washington, D. C. In the fall of 1853, he 
 entered the senior class of the Dane Law School, at 
 Cambridge, but finished for the bar with Harvey Jew- 
 ell at Boston. In October, 1854, he began practice in 
 Chicago where, during a professional service of many 
 years, he came to be regarded as one of the foremost 
 lawyers of the place. A Memorial of him, printed but 
 not published, has been placed in my hands, and surely, 
 if it be a just memorial, no one could desire higher 
 testimonials of character and worth than were ren- 
 dered to his memory by eminent members of the Bench 
 and Bar, and by officers of the Historical Society. On 
 July 10, i860, he married Annie, daughter of James 
 McClare, at Chicago, and he died in that city, May 6, 
 1 88 1, leaving no children. For some years he was 
 troubled with a distressing affection of the heart, for 
 which he sought relief by going to Europe, but no cura- 
 tive influences from abroad, and no skill of physicians 
 could remove or even alleviate the malady. 
 
 I may here add that his sister Sarah, who after 
 teaching a brief space early passed away, and a 
 younger brother, Bailey H. Hitchcock, also attended 
 the Academy at the same time with myself. Bailey 
 married an academy pupil, Sarah Collamore of N. Pem- 
 broke, and has made Toledo, Ohio, his home for more 
 than forty years. He has one daughter, Mrs. A. C. 
 Bartlett, and two sons. From a letter received from 
 him, I learn that he has done work as civil engineer 
 in more than ten states and in Canada. 
 
 George Theodore Wolcott (1849) the son of Rev. 
 Calvin Wolcott, was born in Hanover July 15, 1827. 
 
44 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 was for two years in Brown University, where he grad- 
 uated in 1848, taught here in Hanover one term in 
 1849, and died Oct. 22, 185 1, in Ouincy, and his re- 
 mains were interred in the old Weymouth bur)ing 
 ground. He was never married. 
 
 The following letter from him to his brother, dated 
 June 7, 1849, ^s interesting as showing his views and 
 feelings, on his re-visiting for a while the scenes of his 
 childhood : 
 
 " To-day there is a grand ship-launch at the lower 
 yard, and I have given the school a half-holiday on the 
 occasion. There is as much excitement among the 
 juveniles of the present day at such a time, as there 
 used to be of yore. They turn out /';/ toto and throng 
 the roads, and the Rainbow path, and sport along with 
 the same glee as their predecessors of a former gener- 
 ation 
 
 " Everything about the village is now most pleasant 
 and delightful. I know of no country village in New 
 England more a2:reeable for a summer residence than 
 Hanover. The trees are now almost in full leaf, the air 
 is delightfully pure, mild and fragrant, and as you go 
 out on an evening stroll, you are saluted with the varied 
 songs of thousands (.''!) of tuneful birds. There are so 
 many delightful walks in every direction, over fields and 
 through the woods, that one need never be tired of ex- 
 ploring them. I think the place has improved much 
 lately. Mr. Cutler has had a good influence upon the 
 people in the matter of taste, — setting out shade trees, 
 &c." 
 
 He then speaks of the auction sale of "our old place"' 
 to Dr.Joseph B.Fobes, and almost wishes that his father 
 had bought it. "The orchard," he says,"'*is one of the 
 
HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 45 
 
 finest in the county. The trees which father set out 
 have nearly attained their full size — very large and beau- 
 tiful. Last week the orchard on the lane was almost 
 one dense mass of blossoms, and the fragrance was per- 
 ceptible at the Corners 
 
 "I have had the school-room papered, and intend to 
 get it painted soon. My school is increasing quite fast. 
 It is a vacation at present in the Young Ladies' Semi- 
 nary, up stairs." 
 
 Why Mr. Wolcott left the school after one term 
 when everything seemed going on so prosperously, is 
 explained by the fact that, in consequence of a severe 
 cold he took when in college, the disease of consump- 
 tion began to develop itself, and he took refuge during 
 the following Winter in the milder climate of Virginia. 
 But the end of earth for him was approaching, and in 
 about two years after his teaching he was called «p to 
 a higher school. 
 
 Li the Autumn of 1847, M'ss Mary F. Taggard 
 opened a school for young ladies in the upper hall of the 
 Academy, and continued to teach there for some four 
 years. She was the daughter of Mr. John Taggard of 
 Charlestown, with whose business firm AL". John Syl- 
 vester of Hanover was at one time connected. After 
 leaving here she became the wife of Rev. Thomas 
 Womersley, a native of England, who first studied 
 medicine and afterwards graduated at Newton Theo- 
 logical Listitution. After several years of preaching 
 service, he returned to the practice of medicine, and 
 finally died at Watertown, March, 1897. 
 
 A letter recently received from her recalls so vividly 
 the past that we hesitate not to give it to our readers : 
 
 ''The Young Ladies' Seminary began existence in the 
 
46 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 Autumn of 1847, under the auspices of four residents 
 of Hanover 'Four Corners,' each having one or more 
 daughters of school age. The manager was Capt. John 
 Gushing; the only teacher was Mary F. Taggard of 
 Somerville. Outside pupils were admitted, not exceed- 
 ing twenty in number. The upper floor of an old Ac- 
 ademy building was a very pleasant school-room with 
 ante-rooms — the lower floor being used for a boys' 
 school. An old-style box-stove occupied the centre, a 
 standing desk and an excellent piano were at one end, 
 and a semi-circle of all that were fairest and dearest from 
 the village occupied convenient seats with desks and 
 other furnishings. There were happy times there. The 
 teacher was but eighteen years of age, the scholars not 
 far from the same, several of them older. There was 
 an unusual degree of sympathy manifested ; much in- 
 terest in the studies which ranged pretty high for those 
 days — and almost no friction in the discipline. The 
 grave and quiet Mary Salmond, the studious Lizzie 
 Waterman, Agnes Talbot, Josephine Josselyn, the tall 
 daughters of Rev. Mr. Duncan, among the older, — 
 Sarah Gushing, brimful of energy, the sweet little Bar- 
 stow girls, the vivacious Eliza Smith Salmond among 
 the younger pupils, are remembered as if I led them 
 but yesterday. Every session began with Bible-read- 
 ing and prayer. How well do I recall the village church, 
 the sociables, the singers' gallery from which we had a 
 full view of the great Daniel Webster as he came down 
 the aisle every Sunday [occasionally, rather T\ having 
 driven over from his Marshfield residence — the Sab- 
 bath school, the Wednesday evennig services. 
 
 Of the boys' school below, Mr.Wolcott, and then Mr. 
 McLauthlin, was Principal. George R. Dwelley, a pu- 
 
HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 4/ 
 
 pil there at that time, has been Superintendent of our 
 Watertown schools for, I think, a score or more of 
 years and has just resigned here," &c. 
 
 The following is a list (as written at the time, by one 
 of the pupils, E. T. W.,) of young ladies whom she 
 taught in 1849: 
 
 '' Maria E. Soule, Mary Salmond, Sarah Hriggs, Eliza- 
 beth T. Waterman, Elizabeth Ramsdell, Sophia B. 
 Loring, Agnes H. Talbot, Mary E. Torrey, Maria C. 
 Josselyn, Huldah B. Dwelley, Sarah E. Gushing, Em- 
 ma Barstow, Lydia C. Pratt, Lucy A. Barstow, Mary 
 E. Barstow, Ruth M. Eelis, Huldah M. Stetson, Eliza 
 A. Josselyn, Ruth W. Stetson, Mary A. Stetson, Laura 
 J. Duncan, Lucia A. Duncan, Annie L. Eells, Maria VV. 
 Wright, Susan Turner." 
 
 Perhaps nearly a majority of these are with us to 
 this day, and the married ones are doubtless the pride 
 and boast of their husbands and children. We leave 
 Daniel E. Damon, William Carver Bates, and others 
 personally interested, to supply the rest of the chapter. 
 
 Mr. Martin Parris McLauthlin (1850-54) was 
 born in Duxbury, July 24, 1825, and was the son of 
 Martin McLauthlin and Hannah Howard Reed, daugh- 
 ter of the distinguished inventor, Col. Jesse Reed of 
 Marshfield. The family early moving to F.. Bridgewater, 
 he attended the Bridgewater academies and then went 
 to Phillips Andover Academy, where he graduated 
 from the classical department in 1847. After teaching 
 the Winter term, 1849-50 of the Grammar school at 
 North Marshfield, now Marshfield Hills, he became the 
 Principal of Hanover Academy, beginning his service 
 March, 1850, and ending it in February, 1854, when he 
 
40 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 engaged in business with his brother. Under his tui- 
 tion the Academy attained a very high degree of pros- 
 perity. 
 
 On April lo, i865, Mr. McLauthlin married Elizabeth 
 Pease Vincent, second daughter of the Hon. Ambrose 
 and Susan (Parker) Vincent of New Bedford, and settled 
 upon his father's homestead in E. Bridgewater, where 
 
 MARTIN PARRIS M c L A U T H L I N. 
 
 all his children, six in number, were born. He now re- 
 sides in Maiden, where his wife died Nov. 22, 1890, 
 leavino^ five children. Besides this loss he has met with 
 other severe affliction. In Aug. 14, 1892, his eldest 
 son, George Vincent, who was an instructor in Biology 
 in the Mass. Institute of Technology, from which he 
 graduated in 1888, died from drowning at Nahant, 
 aged 24. Another son, Parker Reed, born Nov. 22, 
 1877, <^ie<^i April 23d, 1896, being at the time a member 
 
HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 49 
 
 of the above Institute. The other surviving children 
 are Elizabeth Rena, Martin Bernard, and Sara Louise. 
 The son on June i, 1898, married Miss Grace C. Grant, 
 and lives in Maiden. 
 
 For the first two years Mr. McLauthlin taught in the 
 old or second Academy, after which the building was 
 sold to Mr. Hiram Randall for $375, and moved some 
 years afterward to High street, Pembroke, where it was 
 used for a carriage and paint shop. Subsequently a third 
 story was added to the building, and it now bears the 
 name of Mechanics' Hall. We think that much good 
 work was done in that building while it stood at Hano- 
 ver Four Corners. 
 
 As illustrative of the culture received here in those 
 early days, we give the following incident as related by 
 a correspondent, the initials of whose name we will give 
 as A. B. C. 
 
 " I was making a journey by rail in another State 
 when a gentleman came in with three bright little girls 
 and took a seat near me. I was attracted by their ap- 
 pearance and soon we got acquainted, and engaged' in 
 an animated conversation, told stories, etc. The father 
 was a silent listener for a while, then said to me rather 
 abruptly, ' Will you please tell me where you were ed- 
 ucated ? I am engaged in literary work, and your lan- 
 guage seems so spontaneous and correct, and so differ- 
 ent from the present style of conglomeration, I was in 
 hopes you were a teacher somewhere that I might send 
 my girls to be educated.' I said I received most, I 
 might say all, my education in a small country Acade- 
 my. He said, ' Is it still in existence, and teaching on 
 the old lines ? ' I said, * It is still there, but modernized 
 to suit the times.' ' What a pity ! ' said he ; ' those old 
 
50 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 academical institutions have sent out more real, piacti- 
 cal students than all our modern colleges and famous 
 scientific schools. Then only students studied, because 
 they desired knowledge for its worth ; now half the time 
 is wasted just to kill it.' " We leave our readers to pass 
 their own judgment on the above, and to draw their own 
 inferences. 
 
PART 111. 
 HANOVER ACADEMY, 18^2-92. 
 
 Its Third Building and its Teachers.* 
 
 THE THIRD BUILDING. 
 
 *For the above picture I am indebted to Mr. A. E. Foss of Need- 
 ham, publisher of the Rockland and Hanover Directory. 
 
52 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 As Mr. McLauthlin was the last teacher in the old 
 Academy, so he was the first teacher in the new, and 
 was indeed greatly efficient in bringing about the erec- 
 tion of the latter building. This edifice, much more 
 pretentious in appearance than the former ones, stands 
 some fifteen rods back from the street and from where 
 the old Academy stood, on a high and beautiful eleva- 
 tion of land which commands an extensive and fine pros- 
 pect. This said parcel of land, containing one acre, 
 "be the same more or less," was purchased in 1851 of 
 Capt. Nathan Dwelley and wife, who deeded it to forty- 
 three grantees, including two societies, all whose names 
 are seven times written in full in the deed, and once 
 with the proportion paid by each.* It was paid for in 
 shares amounting to 105 in number, at $1.66 1-2 per 
 share, Samuel Salmond, Esq., heading the list with 
 forty-two shares taken. The following is an abstract of 
 the Deed : 
 
 Know all men by these Presents that I, Nathan 
 Dwelley, of Hanover, etc., and I, Huldah B. Dwelley, wife 
 of said Nathan, in my right, in consideration of $175, to 
 me paid by Samuel Salmond, Robert Sylvester, Seth 
 Barker, Frances Baldwin, Alexander Wood, Gustavus 
 Percival, Stephen Josselyn, Thomas B. Don n ell, Han- 
 nah Barstow, Charles Dyer, Robert Hersey, Martin W. 
 Stetson, Hannah Stetson, John P. Eells, Benjamin 
 Whitwell, John Sylvester, Nathaniel Barstow, Benjamin 
 F. Burgess, Martin P. McLauthlin, Michael Sylvester, 
 
 *Among these grantees were six individuals, Alexander Wood, 
 Nathaniel Barstow, John B. Barstow, Thomas Waterman, Havi- 
 land Torrej and Luther Rowland, who were original stockholders 
 in the old Academy. Of these same grantees three only are now 
 living, Robert Sylvester, Robert E. D\vellev,and M. P. McLauthlin. 
 
HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 53 
 
 George Curtis, Warren Wright, Joseph B. Fobes, Ed- 
 mund 0. Sylvester, Robert E. Dwelley, William Church, 
 Nathan Dwelley, John B. Barstow, Samuel Cutler, as 
 Rector of St. Andrew's Church, of Hanover aforesaid, 
 and by Samuel Cutler in behalf of the Dorcas Society 
 of said St. Andrew's Church, and also by the 
 said Samuel Cutler in behalf of the Young Ladies' 
 Society of said St. Andrew's Church, all of Han- 
 over in said County of Plymouth ; and Elijah Bar- 
 stow, Isaac H. Haskins, Abner Stetson, Thomas 
 Waterman, Samuel Tolman, Jr., Lemuel C. Waterman, 
 Josiah M. Smith, and George P. Clapp of South Scituate 
 in the County of Plymouth, aforesaid ; and Levi Sturte- 
 vant, Jr., Haviland Torrcy and Adam Billings of Pem- 
 broke in said County, and Luther Howland, of Hanson 
 in said County, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowl- 
 edged, do hereby give, grant, bargain, sell, and convey 
 unto the said (Salmond and others) a certain piece of 
 woodland lying near the Four Corners, so called, in said 
 Hanover, containing one acie and bounded as follows 
 
 or however otherwise bounded — to them 
 
 and to their heirs or successors forever ; reserving to 
 myself and to my heirs or assigns the right of passing 
 and repassing the same — hereby also granting a passage 
 from said above granted premises to the highway lead- 
 ing from said Four Corners in said Hanover to Bridge- 
 water, 40 feet wide, with a full and perfect right of oc- 
 cupancy of the same, for and during the time that the 
 before granted premises shall be improved for a school, 
 — and the above named grantees hereby bind themselves 
 and their successors to erect and maintain around said 
 granted premises a good and substantial picket fence, 
 supported by stone posts — and the said grantees further 
 
54 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 bind themselves and their heirs or successors that the 
 land of said Nathan and Huldah B. Dwelley adjoining 
 the above granted premises shall not be injured or in 
 any manner trespassed upon by the occupants of the 
 'above granted premises, and the said grantees yet fur- 
 ther bind themselves and their heirs or successors 
 that nothing of a sectarian nature shall pertain to the 
 above said school. 
 
 To have and to hold the above granted premises with 
 the privileges and appurtenances thereto belonging to 
 them the said (Salmond and others), their heirs and 
 assigns to their use and behoof forever. 
 
 And the said grantors do covenant with the said 
 (Salmond and others) that we are lawfully seized in fee 
 of the afore granted premises, that they are free from 
 all incumbrances, that we have good ri^rht to sell and 
 convey the same to the said (Salmond and others), and 
 that we will and our heirs, Executors and Administra- 
 tors shall Warrant and Defend the same to the said (Sal- 
 mond and others), their heirs and assigns forever 
 against the lawful claims and demands of all persons. 
 
 The above deed, which was executed August 5, 1851, 
 was written, presumably, by Alexander Wood, Esq., of 
 Hanover, but was acknowledged before Col. Samuel 
 Tolman, of South Scituate, as Justice of the Peace. On 
 November 20th, 1852, it was received and recorded in 
 the Registry of Deeds, Book 249, Pages 98, 99, 100. 
 William S. Russell, Register. 
 
 A contract for building the Academy, fencing the 
 grounds and digging a well, was made with Robert E. 
 Dwelley for the sum of $2240. The digging of a cellar 
 for wood-room, etc., was not in the original contract, 
 and of course was an extra expense. There was paid to 
 
HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 55 
 
 Nathan Dwelley for six-ninths of the old Academy, 
 $300, and to Samuel Salmond, Haviland Torrey, and J. B. 
 Barstow, who each owned one-ninth, $150. A bell cost- 
 ing $138, was given by Mary Sahnond, eldest daughter 
 of Samuel Salmond. Including these items we find the 
 total cost of the buildings and grounds as furnished and 
 prepared to be $3483.52, which sum was paid for in i lo- 
 shares, at $25 per share, together with individual sub- 
 scriptions, donations from the Young Ladies' Society^ 
 and proceeds from the sale of the old Academy. All 
 the grantees mentioned in the Deed, and four others^ 
 T. H. C. Barstow, Rev. Abel G. Duncan, Dr. A. C. 
 Garratt, and IVTelzar Hatch, who by paying $25 each, 
 and by signing the Constitution and By-laws became 
 entitled '' to all the rights and privileges of proprietors,'* 
 took shares in the same — Mr. Salmond heading the list 
 with 42 shares taken. Taking into account all that Mn 
 Salmond and family did for this new building and sub- 
 sequently for the school, we think it might have been 
 properly named the Salmond Academy.* 
 
 The school was kept in the lower part of the building,, 
 while the upper hall was early furnished with a carpet, 
 settees, curtain fixtures, etc. By formal vote the build- 
 ing was to be used only for " educational, moral and lit- 
 
 *On occasion of the death of Mr. Salmond, May 28th, 1859, the 
 Trustees passed the following Resolve : 
 
 ■'As a benefactor and a practical advocate of education he was 
 deservedly esteemed bv this community. His demise, while a pub- 
 lic loss, is more particularly a loss to education and religion, and 
 while the dispensation of Providence is a subject of regret to the 
 friends of the Academy, they bear a grateful testimonial to his 
 unfeigned liberality." A subsequent teacher, Mr. Conant, in a 
 letter recently received, says, " Had it not been lor his (Mr. Sal- 
 mond's) help, his influence, and his willing, earnest daughter, I 
 hardly think the new Academy would have been built." 
 
^^^^-<^^.^^<^v^ 
 
Owi ^ 0/cUn crn^. 
 
58 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 erary purposes, purely and unquestionably as such." 
 Subsequently its uses were enlarged, and a considerable 
 income was derived therefrom. It has been rented to 
 the Episcopal, Congregational and Methodist Societies 
 for religious services, sewing circles, fairs, festivals, etc., 
 and once, in i860, for a " Friends' Meeting; '' also for 
 divers exhibitions, concerts, singing schools, gymnastic 
 class, Brass band, Lyceum, panoramic shows, flower 
 shows, divers lectures on education, temperance, phren- 
 ology, politics (including one Kansas meeting) and once 
 at least to " Comical Brown." 
 
 The most noted assemblage that ever gathered in the 
 upper hall was at the dedication of the Soldiers' Monu- 
 ment, July 17, 1878, when a carload of dignitaries ar- 
 rived from Boston, including Governor Rice, Speaker 
 Long, General Banks, Secretary Pierce, and many 
 others, all of whom repaired thither to partake of "a 
 substantial and inviting breakfast provided by the gen- 
 erous hospitality of the ladies of the venerable parish of 
 St. Andrew." (See Dedication Pamphlet, pp 9, 10). 
 We may here also state that many of the most dis- 
 tinguished orators of the day have given lectures in the 
 Hall under the auspices of the Lyceum Club, of which 
 we may speak further on. 
 
 On Sept, 22, 185 1, a Constitution and By-laws as 
 prepared chiefly by Mr McLauthlin were adopted, 
 under which constitution, early the next year, the fol- 
 lowing Board of Trustees were elected : Samuel Sal- 
 mond, Esq., Rev. Samuel Cutler, Rev. Abel G. Duncan, 
 Dr. Alfred C. Garratt, Seth Barker, Capt. Elijah Bar- 
 stow and M. P. McLauthlin, ex officio. 
 
 On Sept. 29, Mr. McLauthlin, Charles Dyer, and Rev. 
 Samuel Cutler were appointed " a Committee to pre- 
 
HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 59 
 
 pare, if they think it expedient, for the dedication of the 
 New Academy." 
 
 The printed Order of Exercises as prepared by the 
 Committee reads as follows : 
 
 dedication of 
 
 HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 Hanover, Mass., 
 
 On Tuesday, March 2, 1852, at 2 o'clock, P. M. 
 
 Voluntary. 
 
 Invocatory Prayer, by Rev. A. G. Duncan. 
 
 HYMN. 
 Bv Miss Liicv S. Delano. 
 Whj meet we here, a happy band.'* 
 
 VVithin these new-raised walls. 
 Erected by the artists' hand, 
 Whose touch the forest falls. 
 
 We've come to dedicate a shrine. 
 
 To lill with richest lore; 
 Where trutli and puritj' may shine, 
 
 And wisdom's depths explore. 
 
 And here let little children come 
 
 Secure from all that harms, 
 Drawn gently, as the Holy One 
 
 Once called them to His arms. 
 
 Thy blessing, Father, on us here, 
 
 Thy favor each would share ; 
 Teachers and children, without fear. 
 
 We give unto Thy care. 
 
 Dedicatory Address, by Rev. E. Porter Dyer. 
 Dedicatory Prayer, by Rev. Samuel Cutler. 
 
60 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 HYMN. 
 Bj Rev. E. Porter Djer. 
 The Pilgrim left his native land 
 
 A thousand leagues behind, 
 In drear New England's wilderness 
 
 A dwelling place to find. 
 He came in faith across the sea, 
 
 Andlol the desert smiled; 
 A meeting-house he built for self, 
 
 A school-house for his child. 
 
 For well he knew his sturdy faith, 
 
 Bequeathed unto his heir, 
 Would flourish in a cultured soil 
 
 The best of any where. 
 He therefore eschewed ignorance, 
 
 And planted Learning's tree. 
 Among whose glorious later fruits 
 
 Stands our Acadkmy. 
 Then hail the day Avhich bids us meet 
 
 With services Divine, 
 To consecrate to Learning's self. 
 
 Another graceful shrine; 
 Where Science leagued with Literature, 
 
 May shed a cheerful ray 
 On generations that shall rise, 
 
 When Ave are passed away. 
 And distant be the woful hour, 
 
 The period long remote. 
 Ere Time or Flame these beauteous walls 
 
 To ruin shall devote. 
 Meanwhile, be theirs tiie rich reward, 
 
 Who reared this classic dome, 
 Tliat literature and science here. 
 
 Have found a pleasing home. 
 
 Addresses. 
 
 HYMN. 
 By Rev. A. G. Duncan. 
 Lord, our God, Thy wondrous glory, 
 In our song we celebrate ; 
 
HISTORY OF. HANOVER ACADEMY. 6l 
 
 Not for fields with carnage gory, 
 Won frotn foes in deadly hate, 
 
 But for peaceful 
 Fruits, that now we dedicate. 
 
 Thanks w^e give, and seek Thy hlessing 
 
 On our humble enterprise; 
 In Thy ways still onward pressing. 
 
 In Thy wisdom we are wise. 
 Strong and faithful 
 
 Make us, as we higher rise. 
 
 For Thy glory, may this building 
 
 Learning's favored temple stand, 
 With a gushing fountain yielding 
 
 Streams to gladden e'er each band 
 Gathering hither. 
 
 Youth I the hope of Freedoin's land. 
 
 On th' immortal leaves, unfolding. 
 
 Of the youthful mind and heart. 
 Be inscribed bright lines for moulding 
 
 By fair virtue's heavenly art. 
 Youthful genius, 
 
 In Thy cause to act its part. 
 
 Bexedictiox. 
 
 We here subjoin Mr. Dyer's Address, vvliich, accord- 
 iu'j; to the Records, was pubHshed by request and paid 
 for by subscription. The author in a Prefatory note 
 says: *' This Address was written and delivered with- 
 out a thought on my part that a copy of it would ever 
 be required for the press." 
 
 " Ladies and Gentlemen : — The occasion which has 
 brought us together in this place and at this hour, is an 
 occasion of no ordinary interest. 
 
 We are assembled to set apart and dedicate this 
 House, with becoming religious services, to the pur- 
 poses of sound learning and instruction. 
 
62 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 In compliance with an invitation from the Com- 
 mittee of Proprietors, I appear before you to offer, in 
 connection with these services, a brief Introductory 
 Address. 
 
 Sincerely do I regret, as I have often regretted 
 since accepting the invitation, that this duty had not de- 
 volved on some abler and better man, who, if not a more 
 ardent friend of the Cause of Sound Learning than I 
 am, might, nevertheless, be more thoroughly posted up 
 in the unwritten history of modern Education, and every 
 way better able to add to the exercises ofthis occasion 
 a becoming charm. 
 
 But I stand beforeyou with aheart deeply impressed 
 with the importance of sound learning. And sincerely 
 do I rejoice with you in the blessing which, after so 
 much of deliberation and anxiety and effort and cost, 
 has at length crowned your enterprise with such abund- 
 ant success. 
 
 In my judgment it is no light thing to assume the 
 responsibility of developing and moulding the intel- 
 lectual character of a single pupil. It is no slight bless- 
 ing conferred on an individual, on society, on the world, 
 when that individual is thoroughly educated and fitted 
 to occupy as a citizen of the world, positions of respon- 
 sibility and trust. The man who takes up one such in- 
 dividual, though a lad from the streets, and educates 
 and gives him to the world, becomes a benefactor of his 
 race. What then must be the richness and extent of 
 that manifold blessing which confers an education on the 
 whole neighborhood and of an entire generation. But 
 your work contemplates blessing not one neighborhood 
 alone, but many. The structure you have reared is 
 substantial. You expect the feet of more than one gen- 
 
HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 63 
 
 eration of youths will cross its threshold to obtain in- 
 struction within its consecrated walls. And doubtless, 
 long after most of you who have been deeply interested 
 and actively engaged in its erection, shall have been 
 gathered to your fathers, this noble edifice, standing 
 where you have reared it, and proffering the advantages 
 of an Academic Education to all, wnll w^elcome to its 
 halls a multitude of those who shall come after you on 
 the journey of life. Your children's children w-ill eat 
 the fruit of the tree you have planted, and sit down 
 under its shadow with great delight And this institu- 
 tion so cherished by you who have furnished to learning 
 this beautiful asylum, will exert on this community its 
 enlightening, elevating, refining influences, possibly till 
 tJiey themselves shall cease to be any longer interested 
 in all that is done under the sun. 
 
 Not without design, then, stands this elegant struc- 
 ture here. It was erected for a specific purpose. To 
 that purpose it is to be publicly set apart and conse- 
 crated to-day. That we may be the better prepared to 
 engage in this service, let us consider a moment 
 
 The purpose of its erection, and — 
 
 The manner in which that purpose is expected to be 
 accomplished. 
 
 First. To what purpose has this house been erected "■ 
 Certainly not to become a sacred fane, with its mitred 
 priest and its altar, whereon incense shall be religiously 
 offered to the Most High, and where the tenets of some 
 particular religious sect shall be sedulously inculcated, 
 as if life and death depended on the ability to pronounce 
 some denominational Shibboleth ; not to become an 
 arena for the hot discussion of political creeds with a 
 view to preoccupy with preferences and prejudices the 
 
64 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 minds of pupils, deafening their young ears with the 
 everlasting din of party politics. 
 
 Nor yet was it reared as a princely palace to Mam- 
 mon, to add one more to the ten thousand superb 
 Plutian temples, which, for selfish ends, private enter- 
 prise is erecting all over the land to the God of riches. 
 
 And yet it is gravely hinted in some quarters that an 
 American citizen cares only for three things — Religion, 
 Politics, Money — and that his whole soul is intent on 
 reaching the summit of this inverted climax. It is inti- 
 mated that he prizes his religion mainly for the liberty 
 it gives him to go into politics with individual earnest- 
 ness, and a delightful consciousness of his inherent 
 dignity as one of the sovereign people ; that he loves 
 his politics only as they open to him one chance in ten 
 thousand of securing some lucrative office or some 
 pecuniary reward which shall enable him more luxu- 
 riously to feast his greedy eyes on gold, or lay on the 
 altar of his devout worship one fresh token of his affec- 
 tion for his heart's dearest idol which he has irreverent- 
 ly denominated the "Almighty Dollar." 
 
 But though there be too much truth in this severe 
 insinuation, we rejoice to believe it is not wholly true. 
 Here stands a noble edifice which measurably contra- 
 dicts the foul aspersion — which speaks to the passing 
 traveller, and which will continue to speak to genera- 
 tions to come, the delightful fact, that, however as 
 Americans we may in general regard the peculiarities 
 of our respective religious sects, however we may culti- 
 vate our zeal for party politics, and cherish our insatia- 
 ble love of silver and of gold, there are among us men 
 of too much discernment, of too much shrewd prophetic 
 forecast, not to know that if we exhaust all our energies 
 
HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 6$ 
 
 on these hobbies, the inheritance we shall transmit to 
 our children will be poor indeed. And it is delightful 
 to see men acting under this salutary conviction. It is 
 delightful to see them at times laying aside their denom- 
 national and party distinctions for the general good. It 
 is delightful to see them casting their money into a 
 common treasury, uniting heart and hand in extending, 
 as you now do, to the children of successive generations 
 a cordial welcome to the blessings of wholesome mental 
 discipline and sound learning. 
 
 Thus far, on this point, I have spoken somewhat neg- 
 atively. I have said the purpose for which this house 
 is erected is not specifically for religion, politics, nor 
 pecuniary gain. But it is designed to be a temple of 
 Education, and Education in this use of the term con- 
 templates the mind of youth in a two-fold aspect. 
 
 1st. As a treasure-house of knowledge. God has 
 endowed every rational mind with a capacity for knowl- 
 edge, and a faculty of retaining it. In the aged person, 
 this faculty, strengthened by e.xercise, often attains to a 
 capaciousness that is truly wonderful. His memory 
 may have lost something of its retentive power, and yet 
 it is capacious and full. The old revolutionary hero can 
 draw from the recollections of the past many a thrilling 
 incident, unwind many a thread of history, for his mem- 
 ory is as full of 'Mong yarns" as a cocoon is of silken 
 fibres. The new-born intellect of the child, however, is 
 undeveloped. In him the capacity of memory is yet 
 limited. It demands expansion. In him curiosity is 
 awake. Whatever arrests his attention is stored in his 
 memory. And the more he treasures there the more 
 does he strengthen memory and increase its capacity. 
 
 Now, to direct the curiosity and fix the attention of 
 
66 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 youth upon those facts and events in History, those 
 axioms and principles in Science and Philosophy, which 
 shall hereafter be esteemed acquisitions of no small 
 value, but which on the contrary shall serve to guide the 
 active powers of the mind, is one very important branch 
 of the business of Education, and regarding i^^ducation 
 as a distinct science this seems to be one of its funda- 
 mental principles, viz., to preoccupy the mind as early as 
 possible with that which shall be of the greatest service 
 in riper years. 
 
 It is recorded of Agesilaus, king of Sparta, that, on 
 being asked what he thought most proper for boys to 
 learn, he replied, " That which they will need most 
 when they come to be men." 
 
 In accordance with this just remark you have pro- 
 vided here a commodious house where the elements of 
 science and literature may be taught, and where the 
 foundation may be begun for future intelligence and 
 even for eminent learning. For, alas ! to educate the 
 mind as a store-house and to do it thoroughly, is beyond 
 the power of any institution of learning in the land. 
 This must be the work of a lifetime, if, indeed, human 
 life itself be not a period too short — a work which is 
 thorough and complete only when the mind is actually 
 full and incapable of any further progress or expansion 
 forever. The foundation of this great work, however, 
 as I have already said, may be begun here. To this 
 purpose then, as a part of the object contemplated in its 
 erection, we dedicate this beautiful Academy. Day 
 after day, week after week, term after term, year after 
 year, as pupils go down to their respective homes from 
 this seat of learning, may it be with their minds ren- 
 dered more capacious as store-houses, and not only 
 
HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 6/ 
 
 more capacious, but more abundantly enriched with the 
 treasures of wisdom and knowledge than when they 
 came up hither. Here may the principles of Astronomy 
 of Botany, of Chemistry, of Declamation, of Elocution, 
 of Geography, and so on through the whole alphabet 
 of science and literature, be treasured in their minds. I 
 say the principles ; for these are very few, though the 
 facts arranged under any one of them may be innumer- 
 able. Take, for instance, " The Rule of Three ;" the 
 principle is simple, easy to be comprehended, easy to be 
 retained. The cases that might occur under this prin- 
 ciple, however, are without number. We ask not that 
 the mind be burdened with such cases, but only with 
 the principle, which with ordinary mental discipline can 
 always be applied as occasion demands. To fix these 
 general principles in a pupil's mind is, I repeat it, an 
 important part of the business of Education. 
 
 2d. Education further contemplates the mind of 
 youth as an agent or instrument. 
 
 It is evident, however much a man may know, his 
 knowledge can be of no essential benefit to the world if 
 he has no faculty of communicating what he knows. 
 Hence Education contemplates the mind, not merely as 
 the passive recipient, but also as the active dispenser of 
 knowledge, as an instrument, or rather a case of instru- 
 ments, all of which need to be ground and set to the 
 keenest possible edge, that the owner may have them 
 always at hand, all sharp, keen, bright, and ready for 
 use at a moment's warning. Take, for instance the 
 faculty of Reason. It needs to be so developed, strength- 
 ened and trained by exercise, as to be ready to discuss 
 and argue debatable questions, and be ever able to de- 
 duce just inferences from given premises. Todiscipiine 
 
6S HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 the faculty of Reason into such perfection of skill as to 
 enable him to do all this with the greatest promptness, 
 precision and ease is one of the proudest triumphs of 
 Education. 
 
 Take the faculty of Imagination. Its province is, 
 out of ideas previously stored in the mind, to form such 
 striking combinations as never before existed ; such as 
 excite wonder and admiration in the poems of Byron, 
 the plans of Napoleon, or the novels of Scott ; such as 
 you discover with rare delight in the creations of the 
 artist's pencil, or in the musical compositions of a 
 Handel or a Mozart. The teacher may not know which 
 of his pupils or whether any of them will gain celebrity 
 by the productions of his imagination ; and yet the cul- 
 tivation of this faculty, so as to render it quick and skil- 
 ful at combinations, and ready for invention, is part of 
 the business of Education. And so it is with regard to 
 all the active intellectual powers. 
 
 I need not stop here to point out the precise benefits 
 which may accrue to each faculty of the mind by edu- 
 cation. But I must say this, that while Education aims 
 to store the mind with facts and principles, it also aims 
 so to discipline its powers as to render that mind a fitter 
 instrument for the production of knowledge. It is im- 
 portant not merely that a pupil acquire knowledge, but 
 that he also receive such mental culture as shall enable 
 him to make the best use of his knowledge and secure 
 the greatest amount of power and influence for good 
 with his fellow citizens. Hence he must learn not only 
 what in literature and science is important to be known, 
 but also the art of writing and speaking according to 
 the established rules of Logic, Rhetoric and Grammar, 
 
HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 69 
 
 that he may both easily and impressively communicate 
 to others the results of his own observations or re- 
 flections. 
 
 These things are perfectly obvious. How inestimable 
 must be the blessings conferred by such an education. 
 
 Second. But in what manner or by what means is it 
 expected that these blessings are to be secured here ? 
 
 The answer to this inquiry is brief. Vou have erected 
 here a spacious, elegant temple, which we now conse- 
 crate to educational purposes. If it be not already done 
 you will doubtless, sooner or later, find it desirable to 
 furnish this Academy with some convenient school 
 apparatus for illustrating the different branches of 
 science taught here. But neither this beautiful house, 
 nor any amount of instrumental furniture will of itself 
 educate one of your children, if, having provided these, 
 you keep the doors locked and your children at home. 
 Nor will your children become educated by going to an 
 Academy, however splendid the building, or however 
 richly endowed, unless you have stationed there, to 
 greet them when they come, and instruct them while 
 they remain, one who has not only drunk deep at the 
 fountains of knowledge himself, but who possesses that 
 happy faculty of communicating his knowledge which 
 shall both interest and benefit his pupils. Such teachers 
 it is not always an easy matter to procure. But when 
 such an one is secured, as I understand is the case 
 among you, remember, I pray you, that even lie cannot 
 labor to the greatest advantage without your continual 
 support and sympathy, your friendly counsel and en- 
 couragement. Nay, in the same breath in which you 
 ask God to bless your beloved children, ask him to bless 
 also your Academy, that it may become a nursery not 
 
70 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 of education alone, but of piety and virtue ; and plead 
 especially for him who is daily making his mark on the 
 minds of your sons and daughters, that he may fnlfil the 
 high responsibilities of his office as *'a workman that 
 needeth not to be ashamed." 
 
 For such purposes then, to be secured by such means 
 was this house erected. To such purposes we now 
 sacredly dedicate it in the name and behalf of the 
 Proprietors. 
 
 Gentlemen of the Trustees : You have been chosen 
 to guard the interests of this institution and to secure 
 this edifice so far as in you lies, for the- purposes for 
 which it was built. We congratulate you that Litera- 
 ture and Science, having long enjoyed here a temporary 
 dwelling-place, have at last consented to be installed in 
 this new temple, under your guardianship, and to make 
 this a permanent abode. 
 
 And, fellow-citizens, as friends of Education and 
 lovers of our race, from this elevated standpoint, we 
 cannot help casting our eye down the long vista of the 
 future to contemplate the blessings which will flow 
 from this humble seat of learning to generations yet 
 unborn. When we think of the number of eminent 
 men and distinguished women who shall hereafter look 
 back and point with mingled pride and veneration to 
 this consecrated spot, we cannot but hail this as a proud 
 day for Hanover. It is not among the least-pleasing 
 circumstances of this hour to learn that this is wholly 
 a popular enterprise; that the stock of this house, 
 divided into small shares, has, for the most part, been 
 taken by your citizens, that the thing might be the crea- 
 tion of the people. I am pleased to learn that a liberal 
 donation of one thousand dollars, towards the erection 
 
HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. JJ I 
 
 of this building, has been cheerfully made by one of the 
 venerable fathers of the town to whom God has given 
 both the means and a heart for this service. Nor did 
 it afford me any less pleasure to learn that a benevolent 
 lady among you has also made a generous donation to 
 endow what, for want of a better title, I may denomi- 
 nate a sort of Belfry Professorship, in the department of 
 Punctuality ; and that through her beneficence, you 
 have been enabled already to secure for that important 
 Professorship the services of a " tonguey fellow," of 
 striking and persuasive eloquence, who without much 
 knowledge of any science in particular, is nevertheless 
 thoroughly versed in Bell-Letters. 
 
 All these agreeable circumstances add to this hour a 
 delightful charm. Once more, then, before we separate, 
 let us join heart and voice in the consecration of this 
 beautiful Edifice. To Science, Literature, Education, 
 we now consecrate these halls, these seats, these desks, 
 these walls. May the Lord God of our Fathers smile 
 on this humble effort of their children, to transmit the 
 blessings of knowledge through this Academy to multi- 
 tudes unborn. 
 
 While I am speaking the cry for educated men is 
 waxing louder and louder. It is coming up from the 
 four quarters of the globe, from every departm.ent of 
 human industry. A few years ago if the learned pro- 
 fessions, so called, were supplied with men of thorough 
 education, it was enough. Now our teachers, our public 
 lecturers, our school committees, our engineers, our 
 mechanics, our farmers, are calling for, nay, loudly de- 
 manding, that more of the genial light of science be 
 shed on their respective pursuits and callings. And 
 these demands must be met. And happy is that people 
 
72 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 who, yearning for the welfare of their race, and admon- 
 ished by those '' coming events " which '' cast their 
 shadows before," have anticipated the increasing de- 
 mand for the general diffusion of learning, and have 
 stepped forth to do their part toward supplying the de- 
 mand, as we deem it no flattery to say, you have nobly 
 done yours. 
 
 The following account of the Dedicatory Exercises 
 taken from the Hingham Journal, signed D., was with- 
 out doubt written by Rev. Mr. Dyer.* 
 
 '•^ Messrs Editors : I herewith enclose you a copy of 
 the Order of Exercises at the Dedication of Hanover 
 Academy. This new, neat, commodious, and, withal, 
 beautiful, building was dedicated on Tuesday last with 
 appropriate religious services. Notwithstanding the 
 storm, the hall, which is judged capable of seating three 
 hundred, was well filled. Many ladies were present. 
 Instead of a voluntary, as the storm prevented the 
 bringing in of an instrument for that purpose, the 
 Choir [under the direction of Mr. Benjamin Erost] 
 favored us with an Anthem for an opening exercise. 
 Then followed an Invocatory Prayer, by Rev. A. G. 
 Duncan ; Hymn by Miss Lucy S. Delano of Scituate ; 
 Dedicatory Address, by Rev. E. Porter Dyer, of Hing- 
 ham ; Dedicatory Prayer, by Rev. Samuel Cutler, of 
 Hanover ; Hymn, by Rev. E. Porter Dyer. 
 
 A very interesting letter from Rev. Lucius Alden, 
 
 *Mr. Dyer was born in So. Abington (Whitman) in 1813. Grad- 
 uated at Brown University, 1833, and was pastor in Hingham some 
 sixteen years, resigning in 1864. In his .last years he supplied the 
 Congregational church at Hanover Corners until 1881, when he 
 was laid aside by paralysis and died at So. Abington the next 
 jear. 
 
HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 73 
 
 formerly a pupil at Hanover Academy — a letter running 
 back to its foundation, and glancing at its history for 
 many years, speaking of men who had gone forth from 
 that Academy and acquired some celebrity, being 
 read by the Principal of the Academy, was well 
 received, and furnished appropriate topics for subse- 
 quent remark. Addresses were then made by Rev. 
 Messrs. Walker and White of Abington, Rev. Mr. Sla- 
 son, of Hanover, and Mr. M. P. McLauthlin, the 
 Principal. A Hymn, by Rev. A. G. Duncan was then 
 sung, and the exercises closed with Benediction by Rev. 
 Mr. Slason, It was said that several clergymen from 
 neighboring towns were invited who were not present, 
 probably on account of the storm. 
 
 It is now about half a century since the Academy in 
 Hanover was founded, and we congratulate the citizens 
 of that town that this long cherished institution in their 
 midst is thus furnished with a new building at a cost of 
 some three thousand dollars. This new edifice stands 
 in a beautiful young grove directly in rear of the old 
 building ; it is painted white, and furnished with green 
 blinds and a tower, and makes quite an imposing appear- 
 ance. The bell, weighing four hundred pounds, was 
 the gift of a young lady in Hanover. — Yours re- 
 spectfully." 
 
 In the pamphlet containing the Address, the Trustees 
 — Rev. Samuel Cutler, President — add the following : 
 
 The occasion of the dedication of the new Academy 
 seems to bespeak auspicious omens in regard to the 
 future prosperity of the Institution, as under the well- 
 devised and energetic action of Samuel Salmond, Esq., 
 seconded by the cordial unanimity of many others inter- 
 
74 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 estecl, there has been effected a new organization of the 
 Academy, by the adoption of a regular Constitution and 
 the establishment of an elective Board of Trustees, by 
 which a permanent direction might be given to the 
 school, independent of sectarian prejudices, yet by no 
 means void of a strong and healthful moral government. 
 
 The Trustees and Proprietors of the Institution also 
 fondly anticipate that, through a continued, as far as 
 may be, and effective Principal as the chief Instructor, 
 by which the school may be devoid of an oscillating 
 character, the Institution may enjoy the ready confi- 
 dence of the public and attain a worthy eminence. The 
 new and elegant Academy, together with its ample 
 grounds, is pleasantly situated on rather a commanding 
 site, being retired some distance from the street. It is 
 commodiously constructed, in accordance with the mod- 
 ern style The Fall Term will commence 
 
 about the last of September and continue eleven weeks. 
 Signed by the Trustees. 
 
 Mr. McLauthlin continued as the first teacher in the 
 new Academy until Feb., 1854. He thinks the largest 
 number that attended any one term was sixty. Accord- 
 ing to the Records, he was granted, in Feb. 9, 1853, for 
 reasons not stated, "leave of absence for three months 
 — he retaining his position as Principal of the school 
 and supplying Mr. Frederic O. Barstow to take his 
 place during his absence." On the occasion of his re- 
 signing the Principalship, the Trustees express their 
 sense of the importance of his labors as a teacher, es- 
 pecially, perhaps, as connected with the building of the 
 new Academy, in these words : "Resolved, That the 
 Trustees of the Hanover Academy hereby accept the 
 resignation of Mr. M. P. McLauthlin, and tender to him 
 
HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 75 
 
 their thanks for his zeal, energy and fidelity as Principal 
 of the Academy, and express their desires for his future 
 usefulness and happiness." 
 
 There is no full list of Mr. McLauthlin's scholars. 
 Many of Mr. Holmes' pupils, as those of Messrs. Hitch- 
 cock and Wolcott, doubtless continued to study under 
 this teacher. The following names have not, I think, 
 been mentioned before, and perhaps most of these were 
 new scholars. I trust no one will look for perfection in 
 these partly conjectural lists which follow, or blame me 
 for any want of accuracy. I should the rather be 
 blamed for attempting the impossible. 
 
 The names below which are asterisked will reappear 
 in Mr. Conant's catalogue. Perhaps some of them 
 should have made their first appearance in his list 
 rather than here. 
 
 Sidney Barstow,* William Carver Bates,* Elmina 
 Curtis, Sarah Collamore, Theodore Dyer, Jedediah 
 Dwelley, Harriet L. Garratt,* Cyrus C. Holmes,* 
 Sophia B. Loring, John E. Sylvester, Loammi B. Syl- 
 vester, Susanna F. Sylvester, Moses Bass Stuith,* Al- 
 phonso L. Sturtevant, Edward P. Stetson, Mary A. 
 Stetson, Benjamin Barstow Torrey,* Herbert Torrey* 
 Zephaniah Talbot, Ebenezer C. Waterman.* 
 
 From a circular sent out some years since to the "Class 
 of 1852," by Mr. L. Vernon Briggs, and from the replies 
 thereto, I should infer that some of the following mainly 
 new names might also belong here : 
 
 Melzar C. Bailey,* Charles B. Briggs,* Ara Brooks, 
 Eliza M. Billings,* George C. Briggs,"^ John Corthell, 
 Mary W. Curtis, Mary A. Church, Arabella Collamore, 
 Caroline D. Collamore, Mary B. Church,* Sarah Colla- 
 more, Priscilla Ellis, Henry Hunt, Andrew Howland, 
 
76 
 
 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 Franklin Jacobs, Caleb B. Josselyn, William C. Litch- 
 field, Clara H. Mann, Susan M. Magoun,* John C. 
 Nash,* George B. Oldham, Allen Phillips, Ruth C. 
 Pratt, Cerena Pocorney, Joseph C. Stockbridge, Sarah 
 J. Stetson, Cordelia Sherman, Frances Turner, Joanna 
 Taylor, Lucy Vinal, Kilborn Whitman, Edward Whit- 
 man, Oren T. Whiting, Thomas Whiting, Cynthia 
 Whiting, Tryphena Whiting, Ellen A. Wood.* 
 
 
 GEORGE CONANT. 
 
 Mr. George Coxaxt, Principal, and Mrs. Mary Anne 
 Friend Conaxt, Assistant Teacher, (1S54-55), began 
 their first term March 13, 1854, with 42 scholars. Pre- 
 vious to his coning here he had been teaching for two 
 years in Topsfield of this State. In the announcement 
 for the Fall Term we learn that in the ladies' depart- 
 ment instruction by the Preceptress was given not only 
 
HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 7/ 
 
 in music on the Organ and Piano Forte, but also in Duo- 
 Chromatic or two Crayon drawing, specimens of which 
 (worth from five to a hundred dollars) could be seen at 
 the Academy, resembling the finest steel engraving ; 
 Painting in water colors ; wax flowers and fruit ; worst- 
 ed flowers and embroidery ; and ornamental leather 
 frames, in imitation of carved walnut. We also learn 
 that a ''Young Men's and Young Ladies' Literary So- 
 ciety for the purpose of Debate etc., is connected with 
 the school, affording an excellent opportunity for self- 
 improvement. A Library and an apparatus belong to the 
 Society and School." This "Philomathean" Society 
 and Library were founded in the last part of Mr. Mc- 
 Lauthlin's administration, (the Library in Oct., 1853), 
 and the Catalogue of books, which I have seen, num- 
 bers nearly three hundred. Many of these books were 
 purchased, and many were donated by students and the 
 teachers and by out-siders, of whom Mr. Salmond was 
 by far the largest giver. The book which heads the 
 list and marked No. i, was Drake's Indian Chiefs, pre- 
 sented by William Carver Bates, a student at that time. 
 The Library Book not only gives the names of the 
 Books but also, from the year 1856, the names of the 
 scholars or teachers who took them out, though with 
 serious breaks, even as far down as the year 1865. 
 This list shows a large number of names of whom no 
 literary Listitution need be ashamed. In our Academy 
 Archives is preserved one green, faded, water-stained 
 ribbon imprinted in large letters ; Philomathean Soci- 
 ety.* 
 
 *01d Philomathea, the scene of debate — miniature house of Con- 
 gress, save the Investigating Committee — many a nightwe decided 
 there the destinv of nations, and no nation suftered at our hands, 
 
78 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 A Lyceum Club, which was formed in the village 
 when Mr. McLauthlin was teacher, seems to have been 
 very flourishing under Mr. Conant's administration ; 
 and a Trustee's vote passed Oct., 1854, allows them to 
 have the '' use of the Academy Hall and fixtures for 
 twelve evenings at .75 per evening " The course of 
 Lectures duiing the Winter, the admittance fee to 
 which was only ten cents, was largely attended, and 
 among the list of speakers were Rev. John Pierpont, 
 Judge Thomas Russell, Edwin P. Whipple, George S. 
 Boutwell and Oliver Wendell Holmes. Such distin- 
 guished Lecturers as these were paid at the rate of 
 from five to eight dollars apiece with their expenses, 
 and they were obliged to ride in a cold stage-coach from 
 Abington and return. To reach the first morning train 
 to Boston they had to partake of breakfast before day- 
 light. Now our lecturers can ride in palace or electric 
 cars and get their one or two hundred dollars per lecture. 
 It would be interesting could some one write the history 
 of this club. I have been told that Rev. Dr. Ezra 
 Gannett, Hon, Josiah Quincy, and others alike distin- 
 guished, lectured here in the previous Winter. 
 
 Under Mr. Conant's administration, in 1854 and 
 1855, large additions were made to the Philosophical 
 apparatus of the Academy, amounting in value to ;^222. 
 Of this sum Mr. Salmond paid $100, Messrs. Robert 
 Sylvester, George Curtis, and John Gushing paid ^10 
 each, Michael Sylvester and Elijah Barstow, $S each, a 
 lect'jre by Mr. Conant netted $6.60. The proceeds of 
 an Exhibition, held Nov. 27-28, 1854, were $63.36 ; and 
 
 though proud Albion's Qtieen had good cause to protest against 
 the cruel murder of the King's English.— C C Holmes, Newberne. 
 N. C, Nov. 28, 1>7(;. 
 
HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 79 
 
 the balance, twelve dollars, was made up by Mr. 
 Salmond. 
 
 The admission fee to the above '' Exhibition " was 
 only ten cents, and the Academy Hall was crowded and 
 jammed each evening. On the second evening, as Mr. 
 Conant writes me, ''the boys and girls outdid them- 
 selves. They were encored repeatedly, and kept the 
 sweating and eager listeners in their seats and on their 
 feet till about midnight." The exercises consisted 
 mainly in the speaking of pieces and dialogues, and in 
 singing. Of course the then famous '' Box and Cox" 
 was vividly acted out on the stage. One dialogue, 
 entitled, "The Nervous Man and the Man of Nerve," 
 was very lengthy, and embraced nearly all the school in 
 its cast of characters. "The names of the 'stars' and 
 their parts," says Mr. Conant, "would be interesting 
 reading. The two ' Billy ' Bateses, the Torreys, Wilder, 
 Holmes, Waterman, Barstow, Garratt, Woods, Stetson, 
 Hatch, Josselyn, Ramsdell, h^lls, Salmond, Nash, 
 Magoun, Wright, figured conspicuously, if my memory 
 serves me." The singing of the quartette, Mr. Conant, 
 B. B. Torrey, Eliza Ann Josselyn, and Elizabeth B. 
 Sylvester, is spoken of even to this day as being remark- 
 ably fine.* 
 
 The above-mention of the Barstows reminds me of a 
 brief poetical composition which Albert Barstow, one of 
 our brightest boys but early called from earth, got off 
 on one occasion — 
 
 " Composition writing is very tough, 
 I have written two lines and that's enough." 
 
 *Miss Sylvester subsequently married Mr. Israel H. Macomber, 
 of Marshfield, and Miss Josselyn became the wife of Judge John H. 
 Boult, an Amherst graduate, and now resides in Oakland, Cal. 
 
80 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 But Mr. Conant, as I have heard, took a different 
 view of the matter. 
 
 The Records state that on Aug. 2, 1855, Mr. Conant, 
 who was suffering from an attack of sickness, was given 
 leave to close the present term at the expiration of nine 
 weeks by refunding the due proportion to scholars that 
 have paid for the full term. Mr. C, on deciding to 
 leave Hanover, procured a teacher without the knowl- 
 edge of the Trustees, for the last two weeks of the term, 
 whereupon they ''deemed it advisable that the term 
 close at that time." 
 
 On leaving Hanover he took charge of a new Acad- 
 emy in central Ohio, where he speedily recovered from 
 his Hanover pleurisy. He afterwards taught in Ken- 
 osha, Wis., in Aurora, N. Y., in Coshocton, O., in 
 Genesee County, N. Y., and in Plainfield, O. In many 
 places he also served as Superintendent of Schools. His 
 term of teaching service began in 1843 and ended in 1892. 
 Since the latter date he has been largely engaged in 
 pedestrianism, canyon visiting, mountain climbing, etc., 
 and now feels himself " to be 70 years young." His 
 present residence is Pasadena, Cal. His wife died very 
 suddenly of heart disease in New York State in 1883. 
 For 29 years she had been his most efficient helper in 
 schools. 
 
 Under Mr. Conant's administration was issued the 
 first Catalogue of Academy students which has come to 
 my knowledge. The names are given alphabetically 
 and in full, with places of residence annexed, and the 
 sexes have separate columns. It contains many names 
 which we have already met with, but I have thought it 
 best to print it entire. 
 
 Melzar Cushing Bailey, Francis Bemis, William 
 
HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 8 1 
 
 Carver Bates, William Henry Bates, George Harvey 
 Bates, Albert Barstow, Henry Briggs Barstow, Sidney 
 Barstow, Haviland Barstow, Henry Payson Briggs, 
 George C. Briggs, Charles B. Briggs, Leander Cham- 
 berlain, Samuel Joseph May Gushing, Roswell Dear- 
 born Gushing, Nathaniel Gushing, Edwin Josselyn 
 Chandler, Charles Henry Eells, Judson Ewell, Gyrus 
 Collamore Holmes, Euther Wright Holmes, George 
 Stephen Josselyn, Joseph Eobes Knapp, Charles Albert 
 Kimball, George Allen Litchfield, Edwin Richard Litch- 
 field, John Gushing Nash, Charles Blanchard Phillips, 
 Henry Pratt, Levi Ramsdell, William Alfred Rogers, 
 Moses Bass Smith Ebenezer Simmons, Daniel Kimball 
 Stetson, Edward Gray Stetson, George Washington 
 Sturtevant, L. Curtis Sylvester, Jethro Swett, Benjamin 
 Barstow Torrey, Herbert Torrey, Robert Samuel Tal- 
 bot. Henry Tirrell, Ebenezer Copeland Waterman, 
 Henry Whitman, Peter Salmond Whitman, Joseph 
 Eells Wilder, Nathaniel W'alter Winslow, Henry Alex- 
 ander Wood, William W. Weyer. 
 
 Helen Pauline Barker, Lucy Abby l^arstow, Grace 
 Foster l^arstow, Mary Elizabeth l^arstow, Caroline 
 Louisa Barry, l^^lizabeth F. Billings, Mary Bradbury 
 Church, Susan E. Cobb, Mary Webb Damon, Ellen 
 Curtis Gardner, Harriet Lucy Garratt, Lavina Allen 
 Hatch, Margaret P. Ives, Elizabeth B. Jones, Eliza Ann 
 Josselyn, Priscilla Josselyn, Ophelia Litchfield, Martha 
 Augusta Litchfield, Susan Maria Magoun, Eliza Smith 
 Salmond, Marianna Stetson, Mary Tolman Stetson, 
 Betsie Homer Stetson, Elizabeth Belcher Sylvester, 
 Sarah Emily Sylvester, Martha Reed Sylvester, Helen 
 M. Sylvester, Amelia Frances Stockbridge, Maria War- 
 ren Wright, Ellen Allston Wood. Of these, twelve 
 
§2 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 came from Pembroke, thirteen from S. Scituate, forty- 
 three belonged in Hanover, and the rest were from 
 other places. 
 
 A Mr. Barrett, who does not seem to have been fortu- 
 nate enough to leave even the initials of his given name 
 behind him, was next chosen Principal. He began 
 school Sept. 5, 1855 with only twenty scholars, and after 
 keeping two days, asked the privilege to stand as a 
 candidate for teacher of a high school in a distant place. 
 The Trustees not granting his request, he somewhat 
 abruptly took his leave. The scholars on assembling at 
 the school one morning as usual, found themselves un- 
 expectedly without a teacher. 
 
 It was thought best in this crisis that the breath of 
 life should, if possible, be continued in the school, and 
 so an individual from So. Scituate was urged to make 
 the effort. P^ortunately for the institution, after a few 
 days of that gentleman's imperfect service, Mr. F. O. 
 Barstow was secured as Principal, and he entered on his 
 duties the thirteenth of September. 
 
 Frederick Olney Barstow, ( 1855-6), a native of Han- 
 over, was born June 6. 1830, and graduated at Brown Un- 
 iversity in 1852. After supplying Mr. McLauthlin's place 
 in the spring of 1853 he took a voyage to England and 
 back, then to Canton, China, and subsequently to 
 France via New Orleans. Afterward he took the pre- 
 ceptorship of the Academy as previously narrated and 
 resigned the same in July, 1856. In 1857 ^"<^^ 1^5^ he 
 took a course of lectures in medicine and surgery in 
 Albany, N. Y., and in Boston. He married on June 
 28, 1858, an Academy girl, Mary Elizabeth Torrey, who 
 died Jan. 12,1897. He has three daughters living, all 
 
HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY 
 
 83 
 
 married, one of whom, Mrs. R. P. West, resides in Seat- 
 tle, Wash. His first settlement as a physician was 
 at Swampscott, 1858-61, then at San Andreas, Cala- 
 veras Co., Cal., where he was elected Principal of the 
 grammar school and Superintendent of the schools of 
 the County. Ordained as a minister of the Protestant 
 Episcopal Church, July 22, 1866, he took charge of a 
 church at Sonora and of St. Andrews Mission in San 
 
 FREDERICK OLNEY BARSTOW. 
 
 Francisco. In 1869 he returned to Massachusetts and 
 had charge of Trinity Church, Weymouth, Nov., 1869, 
 May 1870. He was then appointed missionary to La 
 Messilla, New Mexico, and established the first mission 
 and school of the P. E. Church in that territory. In 
 1876--79 he served as assistant minister in Grace Church, 
 San P>ancisco, and in 1880 became rector of St. Peter's 
 
84 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 Church. Since 1881 he has not had the charge of any 
 Church, but calls himself a " Teacher and Practitioner 
 of Divine Science." His present residence is Fruitvale, 
 Cal. He was a born artist, and the ''little cabin," 
 12x18 feet, where he is now living as he professes ^' a 
 kind of hermit life," is well supplied, as I should judge 
 from a picture, with artist's materials. The above por- 
 trait was taken in said cabin by himself, presumably 
 with the aid of a string. 
 
 In a circular addressed by L. Vernon Briggs to 
 ''classes 1854 — 56" (Messrs. Conant and Barstow, Prin- 
 cipals), I find the following new names. Possibly some 
 of these names should appear elsewhere : 
 
 Abbie Briggs, Hannah E. Ikooks, Charles W. Bar- 
 stow, Henry H. Collamore, Eugene H. Clapj^, Frank A. 
 Clapp, Fred. W. Clapp, Robert S. Church, Edward 
 Church, Hannah Davenport, Hannah B. Hart, Nathaniel 
 Henshaw, John Magoun, Calvin T. Phillips, Charles F. 
 Phillips, Morrill A. Phillips, Josiah Stoddard, George F. 
 Stetson, Lydia Sylvester, Timothy Studley, W. W. 
 Weyer. 
 
 Charles Andrew Reed (i856-'6o), son of Samuel 
 and Caroline (Nash) Reed, was born in Weymouth June 
 18, 1836, and was graduated from Amherst College in 
 1856. He began his services as Preceptor of the Acad- 
 emy Sept. 8, 1856, and continued them for fourteen 
 terms until the first part of i860, having had under his 
 charge 143 different pupils. He studied law with Ellis 
 Ames, Esq., of Canton, who was eminent both as a law- 
 yer and as a historian, and was admitted to the bar in 
 • Boston, July 18, 1861. Since that time he has been a 
 lawyer of distinction in Taunton, a mayor of that city, a 
 member of the City Council, and of the Mass. Legisla- 
 
HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY 
 
 85 
 
 tare (1881), and city solicitor since 1880. In June 27, 
 1 87 1, he was married to Welthea N. Dean of Taunton, 
 and has two children. 
 
 Mr. Reed, to use the words of one of his pupils, whom 
 we have before quoted (G. F. S.), "was a most capable, 
 faithful and successful teacher," and his service at the 
 Academy seems to have been acceptable and successful 
 to an unusual degree. It is therefore not strange that 
 he says "no portion of my earlier years is so pleasant 
 
 CHARLES ANDREW REED. 
 
 as the years 1856-59, which I spent in Hanover." 
 
 Perhaps the most important event of his administra- 
 tion was the formation of the Alumni Association, with 
 its several annual reunions and public celebrations, 
 which were held about the time of Thanksgiving. The 
 first call on the Alumni to hold a reunion meeting; made 
 
S6 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 by the Committee on behalf of the Alumni Association 
 thus reads : 
 
 The Committee would respectfully request your pres- 
 ence at the approaching literary festival, and most 
 cordially welcome you back to the scenes and associa- 
 tions of Academy days. The oration by J. E. Corlew, 
 M. D., will be delivered Nov. 26, 1858, at the Episcopal 
 Church in the afternoon of the day assigned for these 
 exercises. 
 
 The Committee are assured that to you, as an old 
 member of the Academy, the object of this Association 
 — to revive the various associations of former days — - 
 to establish a bond of friendship between all those who 
 have resorted thither for instruetion — - and to render 
 this our educational institution worthy of your esteem 
 and confidence— - will meet a most hearty reception. 
 Most respectfully yours, 
 
 Chas. A. Reed, 
 L. C. Waterman, 
 
 D. B. Eord, 
 Samuel Tolman, Jr., 
 
 E. O. Sylvester, 
 T. B. Waterman, 
 
 Committee. 
 
 Dr. Corlew's Address, methinks, must be well-re- 
 membered by some to this day. In the course of his 
 remarks he gave such a vivid and realistic description 
 of some of his schoolmates, even of their characters and 
 conduct, looks and habits, that many of them, and 
 especially of the young ladies, were greatly nettled and 
 began to dread what the next word might be. 
 
 But the whole of the afore-mentioned day was used 
 for public celebration, and in the forenoon an Address 
 
HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 8/ 
 
 was deliv^ered in the Academy Hall before the ''Philo- 
 mathean Society" by William Carver Bates, Esq., a 
 native of Hanover and an Alumnus who has ever greatly 
 interested himself in the literary and financial interests 
 of the Academy. The theme of his discourse was " The 
 Outer and the Inner Life," and this, as he assures me, 
 was the first public address of his life. Other public 
 addresses of his must be remembered by many of our 
 readers, especially the one delivered in 1877 on .the 
 150th anniversary of the incorporation of the town, as 
 also another delivered the next year at the dedication of 
 the Soldiers' Monument.* 
 
 Such was the beginning of our public reunion cele- 
 brations, reminding us, by our going into the Church 
 and our marching back and forth in procession, very 
 strongly of our college commencements. The brass 
 band, indeed, was wanting, and the scholastic cap and 
 toga, but were not tliese within the limit of future possi- 
 bilities ? 
 
 In the following year, 1859, the Philomathean Society 
 on the forenoon of Nov. 25th again held their meeting 
 and listened to an address by Cyrus Collamore Holmes, 
 Esq. He was son of Rev. Cyrus Holmes, and was also 
 one of our patriot boys who enlisted and died in the war 
 for the preservation of the Union. 
 
 In the afternoon of the same day the Alumni Asso- 
 
 * The doings of the latter occasion have been fitly chronicled in 
 the Pamphlet of Dr. William Henry Brooks, but no proper historic 
 record has been made of the preceding anniversary, which for the 
 town was a very note-worthy affair. Its great procession, one and 
 a half miles long, its great assemblage of between 4000 and 5000 
 people, its great oration by Gov. Long, its great dinner, and all 
 its other great things should no longer be left unrecorded by the 
 historian. 
 
S8 
 
 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 ciation were favored with an address delivered in the 
 Episcopal Church by the Principal of the Academy, 
 Charles A. Reed, A. M., who took the place of Rev. 
 Marcus Ames who had been selected as orator of the 
 day. And in the evening there was a social gathering 
 
 of the members of the 
 Association in the Acad- 
 emy Hall, a festival, as it 
 was hoped to be, *' of 
 most happy memory." 
 
 Our Alumni Poetess, 
 Mrs. Augusta (Briggs) 
 Cheney of Worcester 
 has kindly sent me the 
 first of her many Alumni 
 Poems, and I insert it 
 here (accompanied with 
 her recently taken por- 
 trait) as being per- 
 haps the one which 
 was delivered on this 
 
 MRS. CHENEY. OCCasioU. 
 
 To dear old friends in front, and flank, and rear, 
 
 On all, and every side, I make my bow. 
 A half fledged poet feels exceeding queer 
 
 As all who've had experience v ill allow. 
 So I stand here, with mingled hope, and fear, 
 
 Dreading the sentence you may chance bestow, 
 Like one, who waits the verdict of his life. 
 Or asks some doubtful maid, to be his wife. 
 
 Perhaps some critic, with his wondrous sight. 
 
 With line, and square, and microscopic eye. 
 May weigh each line, and verse that I may write. 
 
 And errors in my rhyme or rhythm may descry. 
 No matter! I'll admit their plebian parentage, 
 
HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY 
 
 And all his irritating powers defv ; 
 And still be calm, though no applause is shown, 
 And as th.eir merits, claim their faults mv own. 
 
 And while I make this very frank confession 
 And own my lines are far from errors free, 
 
 'Tis only in the coupling or expression 
 
 The writer's heart will bear close scrutiny, 
 
 And poetry not being my profession. 
 
 More freely I dare hope your sympathy ; 
 
 Remember, I'd no art to beautify, 
 
 But give you this, ere yet the ink is dry. 
 
 How many well-remembered faces meet my view, 
 Where e'er I turn I meet familiar eyes. 
 
 And here tonight, though memory should be true. 
 In seeing you I quite forget how fast time flies; 
 
 Scenes long forgotten, I in'thought renew. 
 
 My schoolgirl days in sweet remembf-ance rise, 
 
 And it seems but a day, since I with book in hand, 
 
 Made my debut upon this very stand. 
 
 No. not the samel for modern enterprise 
 Has reared this building on the ancient site. 
 
 And though I own, to an impartial eye. 
 This seems more goodly in its coat of white; 
 
 Yet deep within my heart, still lingering lies, 
 A wish, I would not utter save to friends tonight. 
 
 That in its place I might see standing here, 
 
 The ancient building, brown, and square, and queer. 
 
 Those schoolgirl dreams so dear to many a heart 
 Of wealth and pleasure, love and married state. 
 
 When each fair maid, seemed anxious first to part 
 The golden clouds, which hid her future fate. 
 
 But still with maiden modesty would start 
 If one perchance, not awed by frown sedate, 
 
 Foretelling sure their destined place in life, 
 
 Proclaimed each blushing maid, as some mail's ivtfe. 
 
go HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 But time, and change, have wrought their work upon 
 Those merry groups, and all their dreams are flown, 
 
 And youth's short days and fancies free are gone, 
 
 And much we dreamed of then, we since have sadly known ; 
 
 Some few remain to walk life's paths alone. 
 We pity them far more than those who own 
 
 That they have halved their pains 
 
 And doubled joys, by matrimonial chains. 
 
 Marriage, and change, and death, have changed our youthful band 
 And many cherished forms we miss within these walls. 
 
 Many loved tones, and kindly grasp of hands, 
 Sad memory to our mind recalls, 
 
 And fate, refuses to unite the broken strands, 
 Which Time has in our chain of life let fall ; 
 
 But sadness ever mingles in our cup of joy , 
 
 And purest metals, mixed with base alloy. 
 
 Yet still though not unmindful of the sober past 
 
 O'er what has been, why should we sit and croon ? 
 Or retrospective views forever cast? 
 
 Unmindful of the high, and priceless boon, 
 Of friends, and friendship, which longyears may last. 
 
 No ! let us rather hope for happiness at future day, 
 
 Than sigh for buried hopes long passed away. 
 
 Our schoolgirl days may nevermore return. 
 
 No more we dream, as once in days gone by. 
 Yet still within our hearts, shalTever burn 
 
 The love enkindled by their memory. 
 And every heart shall be a sacred urn, 
 
 Sealed with a tear, hidden from outward eye. 
 And friendship shall more sacred grow, as year by year 
 Our numbers weaken at this gathering here. 
 
 Just a week prior to this celebration, the Fall Exhibi- 
 tion of the Academy was held in the hall in the even- 
 ing. This consisted largely of Colloquies, one of 
 which was the School of Orators, whose names were 
 Schemer, Fickle, Bother'em, Lumper, O'Tire'em, 
 
HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 9I 
 
 O'Whack'em, and Check, respectively represented by 
 F. W. Clapp, C. B. Phillips, C. H. Eells, J. S. Crosby, 
 K. Whitman, E, H. Clapp, and W. B. Young. Another 
 was Le Melange, in which figured Stubbins, a Yankee, 
 Linguist, Philosopher, Poet, Transcendentalist, Mathe- 
 matician, Logician, Patriot and Elocutionist, who were 
 also represented by Augustus Jacobs, F. W. Clapp, J. 
 S. Crosby, J. P. Thorndike, C. H. Eells, K. Whitman, 
 I. L. Waterman, and C. B. Phillips. A third colloquy 
 was Maurice, the Woodcutter, and among the actors 
 we see the new names of J. T. Corlew, W. L Wright, 
 A. L. Stetson, and Misses L. A. Hollis and A. M. Barker. 
 Besides this was the Pastoral of the Seasons, in 
 which Misses M. W. Robbins, P. N. Robbins, C. S. 
 Gardner, L. A. Hollis, E. S. Salmond, H. D. PVeeman, 
 S. E. Sylvester, E. F. Raskins, A. C. Hatch, F. L. 
 Howland, and H. P. Leach took part. Between or in 
 addition to these parts were twenty Addresses by the 
 young gentlemen, many of whom we have mentioned, to 
 which names we would add those of Elbridge E. Gard- 
 ner, Emery Burgess, Morrill A. Phillips, Charles T. 
 Whitman, Charles P. French, William F. Talbot, and 
 George W. Mann. All these exercises, interspersed 
 with Music, must have made a lengthened performance. 
 Perhaps we may here notice next year's Exhibition 
 Programme (Nov. 20, i860), which in character differs 
 somewhat from the former one. For we have besides 
 the speaking of pieces the delivery of original Orations, 
 viz., on Education by J. P. Thorndike, on Government 
 by Kilborn Whitman, on the Formation of Meadows on 
 North River by Eugene H. Clapp, on St. Stephen's 
 Bell by Joseph T. Corlew, and on Eloquence by John S. 
 Crosby. Then there was one Colloquy, called the 
 
92 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 Spinning Wheel and the Piano, also a brief Dialogue 
 on the Hatter and the Printer, and the lengthy 
 Historical Dialogue of Wilhelm Tell. 
 
 The programme of the Alumni Association for Nov. 
 30, i860, announces that ''the Exercises at the Episco- 
 pal Church commence at 2 1-2 P. M., and the address 
 will be delivered by Rev. David B. P^ord " ; also that 
 there will be a Social Gathering in the Hall in the even- 
 ing, and addresses are expected from former Principals, 
 and various members of the Association. Others than 
 alumni of the Academy have discoursed on similar occa- 
 sions later in the Episcopal Church, — Mr. Peleg T. 
 Keene in 1863, and still others perhaps, but its doors 
 have not, I believe, since been opened to any other 
 alumni orators.* Possibly the address of the afore- 
 mentioned ora:tor of the day finished up the business in 
 that line for all time. If this be so, let us look at his 
 production a little longer before dismissing it forever. 
 Its theme was " Intellectual and Moral Culture in our 
 Public Schools." It was afterwards printed, for sub- 
 stance, in the Boston Review, and was also published 
 subsequently in pamphlet form. The author's conten- 
 tion in the discourse is that our public schools should 
 .not be destitute of moral and religious training and 
 influence, while all theological teaching and sectarian 
 dogmas should be discarded. In doing this, he considers 
 and endeavors to answer three objections : First, That 
 children should not be instructed in any religious tenets 
 or doctrines until they shall have arrived at maturity of 
 understanding, and for themselves shall be able to judge 
 
 * The Directors on Nov. 10, I8GI, voted to grant the use of the 
 Academy Hall on Friday evening, Nov. 22d, to the Hanover 
 Academy Alumni Association. 
 
HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 93 
 
 between right and wrong; Second, That the school- 
 room is not a fit place for religious instruction ; that 
 there is no natural connection or congruency between 
 the teaching of religion and the teaching of mathe- 
 matics, geography and grammar ; that the mingling 
 together of profane and sacred studies in school would 
 tend to diminish one's reverence for the Bible ; and that 
 the proper place for imparting religious instruction is in 
 the family circle, the church, and the Sabbath school. 
 Third, However desirable in itself may be the union of 
 intellectual and moral culture in our public schools, it is 
 yet wholly impossible on account of the multiplicity of 
 religions and religious sects in our land. We may state 
 that the author began his address by quoting the law of 
 1647 fo>" the establishing of public schools, which was 
 enacted in order to thwart the wiles of *' yt ould deluder, 
 Satan," and "yt learning may not be buried in ye grave 
 of our fathers." In closing his address, the author 
 quotes from the last speech which Webster uttered in 
 Faneuil Hall : 
 
 " We know that when we work upon materials im- 
 mortal and imperishable, they will bear the impress 
 which we place upon them through endless ages to 
 come. If we work upon marble, it will perish. If we 
 work upon brass, time will efface it. If we rear 
 temples, they will crumble to dust. But if w^e work on 
 men's immortal minds, — if we imbue them with high 
 principles, with the just fear of God and of their fellow- 
 men, — we engrave on those tablets something which no 
 time can efface, but which will brighten and brighten to 
 all eternity." 
 
 But we must not yet wholly lose sight of the Acad- 
 emy and its Preceptor, Mr. Reed. We see from the 
 
94 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 records that under his regime the heating by the fur- 
 nace, probably a very small one, has been discontinued, 
 and the old stove and fixings have been exchanged for a 
 new air-tight stove ; new seats have been placed at the 
 sides of the hall, and repairs have been made on the 
 fence, the well-curb, and the bucket-rope.* The summer 
 term of 1859 was shortened to seven weeks on account 
 of the teacher's sickness. Not long before his resigna- 
 tion he presents a map of Plymouth County for the 
 benefit of the Academy. His resignation at the close 
 of the Winter term calls forth the following vote, passed 
 Jan. 24, i860. "Voted; That in accepting the resigna- 
 tion of Mr. Charles A. Reed, M. A., the Board of Trus- 
 tees take pleasure in assuring him of their high satis- 
 faction in the services he has rendered as Principal of 
 Hanover Academy for the last three and a half years, 
 their regret in being deprived of his services as a 
 Teacher, and their best wishes for his future success 
 and happiness in the profession on which he proposes to 
 enter." 
 
 From a partial list of Mr. Reed's pupils as furnished 
 by himself, and from the pages of the Philomathean 
 Library Book, I have gathered the following mostly 
 new names. Probably several of the scholars named 
 began with Mr. Barstow or even earlier, and some may 
 have begun later than with Mr. Reed. There are no 
 catalogues to help us decide on these matters. 
 
 Nathaniel Besse, Lysander F. Bates, Samuel N. 
 Blake, Thomas D. Brooks, Emery Burgess, Edwin J. 
 Bates, Alice Mead Barker, Sylvia A. Bourne, Sarah W. 
 
 *This windlass arrangement erelong Siave place to a chain pump, 
 and this in turn to a pump with handle, till finally pumps and well were 
 wholly discarded. 
 
HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 95 
 
 Burgess, Amy Elizabeth Barstow, Charlotte E. Brackett, 
 Laura A. Brewster, George H. Clapp, Elisha F. Cole- 
 man, Albert F. Curtis, Benjamin Curtis, Otis Cushing, 
 John S. Crosby, Joseph T. Corlew, H. G. Crossley, Mary 
 Collamore, Lucy H. Chamberlain, George F. Damon, 
 G. F. Dwelley, Charles E. D\velley, George Dana 
 Doten, P>anklin Thomas Doten, Mercy A. Doane, 
 Lyclia A. Damon, Sarah M. Damon, H. M. Dunbar, 
 Abbie C. Donnell, Jennie B. Donnell, James J. Ford, 
 Earle B. Ford, William A. Farrar, Charles P. French, 
 Willis H. Freeman, Huldah D. Freeman, Louisa A. 
 Farrar, Henry H. Gardner, Elbridge Everett Gardner, 
 Charlotte S. Gardner, Thomas B. Holmes, John Hunt, 
 John F. Hatch, EHzabeth A. HoUis, Esther Foster 
 Haskins, Fidelia L. Howland, Mary P. Howland, Abbie 
 Caroline Hatch, Mary D. A. Hatch, Aurelia Hall, 
 Henry Herbert Josselyn, Augustus Jacobs, Helen M. 
 Josselyn, Louisa C. Josselyn, Joanna Josselyn, Harriet 
 P. Leach, George W. Mann, Florence Ella Mann, 
 Julia M. Monroe, Rowena Orcutt, John Q. Pratt, George 
 M. Reed, William A. Robbins, Florence V. Rogers, 
 Mary W. Robbins, Phebe N. Robbins, Irene M. Rose, 
 Abner L. Stetson, George E. Stockbridge, Joshua 
 Adams Stetson, John Q. Stetson, Susan J. Stetson, F. 
 
 A. Stockbridge, Susan R. Stetson, Elizabeth Stock- 
 bridge, Juletta Sylvester, Caroline T. Southworth, A. 
 J. Sampson, J. P. Thorndike, Helen M.Thomas, Susan 
 J. Turner, Mary C. Tolman, Rudolphus C. Waterman, 
 F. T. Whiting, George Whiting, Warren Irving Wright, 
 Irenaeus L. Waterman, Charles T. Whitman, Betsey 
 H. Whiting, Lucinda E. Wilder, Emily Waters, William 
 
 B. Young. 
 
 On the date last mentioned, Samuel G. Stone (i860- 
 
g6 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 6 1), a graduate of Amherst in 1859, was chosen Prin- 
 cipal to commence his services with the Spring term, 
 Feb, 27, i860. He was son of Thomas S. and Martha 
 (Spaulding) Stone, and was born in Cavendish, Vt., 
 Oct. 30, 1833. After leaving Hanover he taught in 
 Rochester, Ware, Westerly, R. I., and Charlestown, 
 and is now an insurance broker and florist in the last- 
 named place. 
 
 In Aug. 6, 1866, he married Alice P., daughter of 
 Elijah Beaumont of East Hartford, Ct., but, I think, 
 has no children. 
 
 Mr. Stone was a thorough classical and general 
 scholar,* and brought the highest recommendations 
 from his teachers ; but owing to an imperious or impet- 
 uous disposition, he and the official powers soon came 
 into collision. On Dec. 17 a meeting was called to 
 confer with Mr. Stone as to some complaints respecting 
 the government of the school and objectionable language 
 used by him towards the pupils, — the purpose of the 
 meeting being to advise Mr. S. in some things in which 
 the Trustees thought him indiscreet. More definite 
 action was taken on Feb. 8, 1861, when a committee 
 was appointed '' to state to him the dissatisfaction of 
 the Trustees and parents with his want of self-control 
 in the government of the school, and the opinion of the 
 Trustees that on the whole it is best for the interests of 
 the school to make a change of Instructors." At a 
 meeting of Feb. 1 1 this Committee reported that Mr. 
 Stone was not ready to say whether he would resign at 
 the close of the term, or take, as per agreement, three 
 
 *It is related as one of his attainments that he never could be 
 ' spelled down." At a spelling match in Music Hall he won a $600 
 Steinway piano. 
 
HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 97 
 
 months' notice. At the same meeting a Committee 
 was chosen to make inquiries for a new Principal. 
 Shortly after this, Mr. Stone gave out notice that he 
 would continue three months. On March ii,a meeting 
 of the Proprietors was called to act on the petition of 
 Seth Barker and others that the services of Mr. Stone 
 be retained. This meeting was largely attended by 
 spectators, — Mr. S. having requested his scholars to 
 come and to invite their friends ; but the time of the 
 meeting was largely taken u]) in discussing the fourth 
 article of the Constitution touching the power of the 
 Trustees to dismiss a Teacher. Finally after long de- 
 bate it was voted to dissolve the meeting and conse- 
 quently the petition was not acted upon. The next day 
 after this meeting Mr. Stone made known his determina- 
 tion to remain in the school and to contest his right by 
 purchasing a share of the stock if necessary. Where- 
 upon another meeting of the Proprietors was held April 
 8, to act upon the matter of the continuance or non- 
 continuance of Mr. Stone's services, when it was "Re- 
 solved " by a stock vote of the Proprietors, 47 voting 
 affirmatively and none in the negative, '' that the ser- 
 vices of Mr. Samuel G. Stone end at the close of the 
 present term, Tuesday, May 14, 1861, provided the 
 Trustees concur in said vote." On this closing day of 
 the school, thirty two scholars were present ; and all 
 the Trustees were in attendance, and at the close of the 
 exercises the Secretary, Capt. Elijah Earstow, read to 
 the school the foUowing notices : 
 
 1st. The Trustees give notice that by vote of the 
 Proprietors and the concurrence of the Trustees of 
 Hanover Academy, the services of Mr. Stone as Prin- 
 cipal of the Academy end this day. • 
 
98 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 2d. The Trustees in behalf of the Proprietors and 
 themselves would inform Mr. Stone and all who are in- 
 terested that he can no longer occupy these premises, 
 and we hereby notify him to remove forthwith his books 
 and effects from the building. 
 
 3d. The Trustees also give notice that they have 
 unanimously elected Mr. P. T. Keene, Jr., in place of Mr. 
 Stone, who will commence the summer term on Monday 
 next, May 20th, 1861. 
 
 From what the Trustees know of Mr. Keene they 
 confidently recommend him to all who are interested in 
 the welfare of their children, as competent for the posi- 
 tion to which they have chosen him." * 
 
 The next page of the records has this statement : 
 "Saturday night. May 18, 1861. A mob led by Samuel 
 G. Stone assisted by John S. Crosby, assistant teacher, 
 broke into the Academy by battering the door and 
 gained possession of the building." We may remark 
 that the building had been garrisoned after Mr. Stone 
 had been once ejected therefrom, but the guards could 
 not resist this modern Caesar and his forces, armed with 
 stones, brickbats and battering-ram. Among Mr. 
 Stone's abettors in this work of darkness were not only 
 his personal friends and sympathizers, not only a big 
 crowd of the commonalty, men and boys, urging on the 
 contest with their shouts and cheers, but even some of 
 the youthful soldiers, who were making the old Acad- 
 emy their rendezvous while preparing for the civil war, 
 enlisted in Mr. Stone's behalf and did valiant home-ser- 
 vice on this occasion ere they shed their blood on the 
 Southern battlefields. And thus was this our Sumter 
 
 *Mr. Keene had previously taught in our Public Schools. 
 
HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 99 
 
 taken (not long after the Southern Sumter) and held by 
 the besiegers with force and arms ; and Mr. Stone began 
 his school in the Academy building, May 20, 1861. 
 
 Early in June an Appeal was made to the Supreme 
 Court by Mr. Stone's lawyer, Hon. Perez Simmons, * 
 for an injunction to keep the Trustees from interfering 
 with his School, on the ground that he was an owner in 
 common of the property, but Judge Hoar decided that 
 Mr. Stone had thereby no exclusive rights to the prem- 
 ises. The Trustees, however, compromised the matter 
 and granted Mr. S. possession on certain conditions 
 until the close of the Summer term. On leaving the 
 school he gave to the Trustees a deed of his share, but 
 he failed in his promise to leave the building in good 
 condition, and the Trustees found some of the apparatus 
 missing or injured. 
 
 The records also state that Mr. P. T. Keene, Jr., of 
 Duxbury, the newly elected Principal of Hanover Acad- 
 emy, began the summer term also on May 20, 1861, in 
 the Lecture Room of the Episcopal Church, but on 
 account of sickness he left the next day and was not 
 able to recommence until June 19. Length of term 
 seven weeks, number of scholars sixteen. Both of the 
 schools closed at the same time, Aug. 2, 1861. 
 
 At the next meeting of the Board, June 19, it was re- 
 solved to incorporate the Academy under Chapter 6'] of 
 the General Laws of Massachusetts. 
 
 The incorporation was effected August 14, 1861, 
 under the auspices of Benjamin W. Harris of East 
 Bridgewater, Justice of the Peace, afterwards a mem- 
 
 * Mr. Simmons, born in Hanover in i8ii, and a graduate from Brown 
 University in 1833, was for a short time a student in the Academy, prob- 
 ably when under the Preceptorship of Mr. Bates. 
 
100 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 ber of Congress, and a Judge of Probate for Plymouth 
 County. The casting of votes was as follows : Total 
 in the afifirmative, for incorporation, twenty-nine votes, 
 representing eighty-two shares. Total in the negative, 
 two votes, rej)resenting three shares. Total absent or 
 not voting, thirteen persons representing twenty shares. 
 
 After this vote, Lemuel C. Waterman was by ballot 
 elected Clerk of the Corporation, who was then called 
 forward and sworn to the faithful performance of all his 
 duties as Clerk of the Corporation of Hanover Academy 
 by the presiding Justice who then vacated the chair. 
 
 Thankful we are that the war is over and that no 
 blood has been shed ; but there are some results of the 
 'Mate unpleasantness" which we must notice. The 
 field, indeed, was dispossessed of the belligerents, but 
 they, encouraged by Perez Simmons and others, set up 
 a school some three or four miles distant, in " Snappet," 
 which was naturally regarded as an opposition move- 
 ment. Mr. Stone, however did not continue his ad- 
 ministration in this " Assinippi Institute" more than 
 two or three years, nor did it, as subsequently con- 
 ducted by Mr. Crosby and others a few years longer, 
 much injure the Academy. Then there were home 
 damages and expenses to pay for. Our fort needed 
 repairing, and the bill for repairs was $31.20. There 
 w^ere also counsel fees — a bill of Messrs. Harris and 
 Jewell for $50, and of Charles F. Choate, Esq. the long 
 time President of the Old Colony Rail Road, for $40.25, 
 expenses of keepers (guards of the building) $35.40, 
 witnesses to Boston, $8.50. To pay these and other 
 items, Mrs. Eliza Salmond gave $50, George Curtis 
 $25, John Cushing $20, E. O. Sylvester and Dr. Free- 
 man Foster $15 each, Rev. Samuel Cutler and Isaac 
 
HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 lo: 
 
 H. Haskins $io each, Dr. Joseph B. Fobes, Rev. 
 Joseph Freeman, Elijah Barstow and T. H. C. Barstow 
 $5 each, Nathaniel Barstow, $3, and Dr. John O. 
 French $2. Received also $3.93 from sale of Mr. 
 Stone's share. And thus the whole bill of expense for 
 law-suit and damages, amounting to nearly $200, was 
 paid. 
 
 Mr. Stone continued to reside in Hanover, as we 
 have seen, for some time longer. For two or three 
 years he served as member of the School Committee, 
 and as Secretary of that Committee he wrote for the 
 year 1862-3 a long and able School Report, covering 
 twenty-four printed pages. 
 
 Mr. John S. Crosby, of 
 whom mention has been 
 made, is a descendant of 
 Simon Crosby, an early em- 
 igrant to the Massachu- 
 setts Colony, and was born 
 in Waldo County, Maine, 
 Jan. 13, 1842. InearJylife 
 he came to Massachusetts, 
 studied in our Academy 
 and taught therein and in 
 many of our schools, and 
 was regarded as one of the 
 most inspiriting and suc- 
 cessful of our teachers. I 
 personally knew of his abil- 
 joHN s. CROSBY. ^y ^g a tcachcr and dis- 
 
 ciplinarian in some of the district schools of So. 
 Scituate when I was a member of the school com- 
 mittee in that town. In 1866 he was called West 
 
I02 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 to take charge of the High School at St. Joseph, Mo., 
 and was a most successful master of that school for 
 some twelve years. After this he was settled as a 
 lawyer for about ten years in Kansas City, Mo. About 
 this time he began to take a special interest in indus- 
 trial and social questions, and at length became a 
 '' populist " agitator and leader. As a platform speaker 
 he stands in the opinion of many, almost unrivalled for 
 magnetic and effective oratory, and has been called 
 " the Wendell Phillips of the single tax movement." 
 In 1896 he published a work entitled: ''An Inquiry 
 into the Nature and Functions of a State." In 1897 
 he removed to New York, and has now a law office in 
 that city. He was twice married and has one daughter 
 living near us, Mrs. Louise C. Drew of West Roxbury. 
 
 The Academy having now been incorporated with 
 the desire and design that no euicnte like the one above 
 described should ever happen again, the Directors at a 
 meeting held Aug. 26, 1861 voted that Rev. Messrs 
 Cutler and Freeman be a Committee to confer with 
 Mr. Peleg T. Keene, Jr. the present Principal of the 
 Academy, in relation to the adoption of such rules and 
 regulations as they may deem expedient for the pro- 
 tection of the Academy buildings, grounds, and fences 
 from injury, also in relation to the deportment of the 
 pupils. Whereupon on Sept. 2, they issued the follow- 
 ing rather stringent rules for the proper regulation and 
 government of the school. 
 
 I. There shall be no rough playing in the building, 
 such as throwing balls, standing upon or running over 
 the desks and seats ; no injury shall be done to the 
 fence, trees, or any other property ; no pencil or other 
 marks on the wall. 
 
HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. IO3 
 
 2. Any scholar injuring the building, its furniture, 
 or the trees, fence or anything pertaining to the Acad- 
 emy shall be held responsible for the damage he may 
 commit. When the person or persons are unknown 
 there shall be charged for the damage, pro rata, in all 
 the bills as " Damage to Property." 
 
 3. No scholar shall leave the premises at recess 
 without permission from the Principal. 
 
 4. No scholar is allowed to enter or leave the Acad- 
 emy building except by the door. 
 
 5. No scholar shall go into the Attic or Belfry 
 except the Bell-ringer, and he only when it is necessary 
 to arrange the bell or other things pertaining to the 
 building. 
 
 6. No scholar is allowed to throw any paper or other 
 article upon the floor. 
 
 7. There shall be no profane swearing, no indeco- 
 rous language. 
 
 8. There shall be no use of tobacco in any form on 
 the premises. 
 
 9. Any scholar persisting in violating either of 
 these rules shall be expelled from the school. 
 
 10. (Additional). No guns or other fire-arms are 
 allowed on the premises. 
 
 Possibly from the adoption of these rules at this time 
 our readers may draw an inference, rightly or wrongly, 
 as to the Academic history of the recent past. 
 
 With the name of Mr. Peleg T. Keene (1861-64) 
 we have already become somewhat familiar He 
 was the son of Peleg T. and Ruth Keene, and 
 was born in Marshfield Oct. 21, 1841. We have 
 already spoken of his first term in Hanover. In 
 
104 
 
 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY 
 
 his Second or Fall term he had thirty-five scholars. 
 His programme for the Spring term, Feb. 24, 1862, 
 announces Edward Southworth as Assistant, and Susan 
 A. Smith of N. Pembroke as teaclier of music. Mr. 
 Keene, it will be recollected, began to teach here in 
 troublous times with only a handful of scholars, yet his 
 last three terms had an average attendance of nearly 
 forty-seven. 
 
 On leaving here at the end of the Spring term, 1864, 
 
 PELEG T. KEENE. 
 
 the Directors on April 26 passed the following Resolve : 
 *' That in accepting the resignation of Mr. Peleg T. 
 Keene, Jr. who for three years has so satisfactorily 
 filled the office of Principal of Hanover Academy, we 
 would tender to him our appreciation of his untiring 
 efforts in promoting the welfare of the pupils under his 
 care, and that we congratulate him in view of his very 
 
HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. I05 
 
 popular and successful term of service. The Directors 
 would assure him of their interest in his future welfare, 
 and their hope that he may be as useful and prosperous 
 in the profession or calling upon which he may enter, 
 as he has been as a teacher among us." 
 
 After leaving Hanover, Mr. Keene went to North 
 Adams as assistant engineer on the tunnel, and was 
 shortly after called to Washington as clerk in the 
 Bureau of Yards and Docks, and while residing there 
 he stu'Jied medicine in the Georgetown College and 
 graduated at the head of his class. Subsequently, Dr. 
 Keene was appointed Health Officer of Washington, 
 which office he held for a number of years. For a long 
 time he was there associated with Dr. D. W. Bliss of 
 " Condurango " medicine fame. He married in 1875 
 Miss A. Fannie Reed of Rockland, who died of con- 
 sumption in 1878, leaving one son. After this he went 
 to Portland, Oregon. His death occurred in Mansfield, 
 Mass., while on a visit to his sister, Mrs. George C. 
 Soule who now lives in Boston. " At the time of his 
 death in 1889 he was connected with a chain of hospi- 
 tals from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast." 
 
 I think the following were mostly new scholars under 
 Mr. Keene or at about his time. 
 
 Marcus F. Ames, Jerome K. Briggs, George Briggs, 
 Frank Baker, George Baker, James E. Bates, Edward 
 G. Barnard, George W. Barnard, Etta H. Barstow, 
 Delia L. Baker, Alice M. Barker, Josiah A. Chandler, 
 Henry Currell, Benjamin Church, Walter R. Clift, 
 James C. Church, Ida M. Chamberlain, Bertie H. Cobb, 
 Reuben C. Donnell, E. Frances Damon, Vesta Ewell, 
 Mary L. Eells, Charles A. Foster, C.T. French, Henry 
 B. Holmes, Israel Hatch, Edward Haskins, Rebecca J. 
 
io6 
 
 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY, 
 
 Joyce, Wesley W. Kender, James Kent, George W. 
 Lewis^ Sarah F. Merritt, Urban Percival, Grace H. 
 Phillips. Annie M. Polclen, Isabella J. Pratt, Charles F. 
 Randall, Carrie ¥.. Randall, William Henry Savage, 
 Horace M. Stetson, Edward Shepherd, William Ste- 
 phens, Edward South worth, Sidney Soiile, Melvin W. 
 Stetson, Lorenzo S. Sherman, Herman Sturtevant, 
 John F. Savage, Emma L. Stoddard, Emma B. Stock- 
 bridge, Waldo Tilden, Charles P. Turner, Horace S. 
 Tower, Herbert A. Thorndike, Frank A. Tower, Fred 
 Tower, Wendell P. Thayer, Mary B. Turner, Addie 
 W. Turner, Fannie J. Wright, Jennie Widdows, Katie 
 Wood. 
 
 Edward South- 
 woRTH, for a time Mr. 
 Keene's assistant in 
 mathematics while a pu- 
 pil in the Academy, 
 was son of James and 
 Julia (Tilden) South- 
 worth, and was born in 
 So. Scituate, April 26, 
 1838. After honorable 
 service in the Civil War 
 he was elected Repre- 
 sentative to the Legis- 
 lature from the third 
 district Plymouth Co. in 
 the Fall of 1865. Ap- 
 EDWARD scuTHwoRTH. polntcd Principal of the 
 
 Coddington Grammar School, Quincy, in 1866; teacher 
 in the Dwight School, Boston, Sept. 1867, sub-master in 
 the Rice School, Sept. 1869, and in 1878 was appointed 
 
HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 10/ 
 
 master of the. Mather School, which position he now 
 holds. In Dec. 2, 1859 he was married to an Academy 
 pupil, Eliza S. Talbot who died May 16, 1864, while he 
 was in the army, leaving one daughter, Fannie Baldwin, 
 born Feb. 20, 1861. He was married again to Hattie 
 E. Hill of Sherborn, May, i, 1867, and has two children 
 living, E. Frank and Stacy B. Southvvorth. 
 
 Mr. Keene's Music Teacher, Miss Susan A. Smith, 
 of North Pembroke, has in late years given herself 
 more especially to historical and genealogical research, 
 — being, as she describes herself **a busy woman with 
 the ancestral trees." 
 
 Under Mr. Keene's administration, and in the midst 
 of our great Civil War an Exhibition was held in the 
 Academy Hall Friday evening. May 3, 1863. The 
 following is a full programme of the exercises. Our 
 readers will perceive that it savors largely of the war- 
 spirit. 
 
 Music — All together once ngairi. 
 
 Declamations. — 
 
 Latin Extract: Speech of Adherbal to the Roman Senate. 
 
 Willis H. Freeman 
 God bless our Stars . . . . . S. B. Thorndike 
 
 Dialogue. — Not an Uncommon Complaint. 
 
 John Doe Charles F. Randall 
 
 Richard Roe ..... Charles A. Foster 
 
 Reading. — What is Life Lizzie E. Stockbridge 
 
 CoLLoquY. — Dogmatism. 
 
 Upper Dog ..... James C. Church 
 
 Under Dog Herbert A. Thorndike 
 
 Outside Dog ..... Reuben C. Donnell 
 
 Music— The Echo. 
 
 Tableau. — The Bridal Prayer . Miss L. E. Stockbridge 
 
 Declamations. — 
 
 Early Rising ...... Emery Burgess 
 
 Peace to the West .... Edward G. Barnard 
 
io8 
 
 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 her sons 
 
 The Sword of Bunker Hill . 
 Drama. — Counterplot 
 
 Mrs. Vilmont (a widow of decayed 
 
 Sophia (her daughter) 
 
 Allan 
 
 Henry 
 
 The Magistrate 
 
 Eveline (an orphan heiress) 
 
 Matilda (her friend) 
 
 Viola (a servant). 
 Declamations. — 
 
 Upward! Onward! 
 
 Our Country 
 
 Tableau.-— Day and Night 
 
 Reading. Revolutionary Story 
 Music. There's a Sigh in the Heart 
 Dialogue. Discretion the Better Pi 
 
 General Feathers 
 
 Corporal Blunt 
 
 Captain Wary 
 
 Private Gore 
 Declamation. Words for the Hour 
 Music. Welcome to May. 
 Dialogue. Juvenile Rebellion. 
 
 Blushrose 
 
 Mintdrop 
 
 Silvertop 
 
 Amaranth 
 
 Cantelope 
 
 Major Spindle 
 
 General Slasher 
 
 Orator Splurge 
 
 Citizen Topple 
 
 Sergeant Muddle 
 
 Corporal Tipkins 
 Declamations. 
 
 Crowning Glory 
 
 The Polish Boy 
 Music. Battle Crv of Freedom 
 
 . Daniel H. Welch 
 
 fortune) Susie A. Smith 
 Lizzie S. Salmond 
 . Joseph T. Corlevv 
 Charles T. Whitman 
 George W. Barnard 
 Lizzie E. Stockbridge 
 Annie E. Eells 
 
 . H. A. Thorndike 
 
 Edward Haskins 
 
 f Abbie C Donnell 
 
 \ Emma B. Stockbridge 
 
 Lizzie S. Salmond 
 
 t of Valor. 
 
 . J. T Corlew 
 
 E. G. Barnard 
 
 Emer}' Burgess 
 
 Charles T. Whitman 
 
 Edward Ring 
 
 Etta H. Barstow 
 
 Annie E. Eells 
 
 Mary L. Eells 
 
 Amy E. Barstow 
 
 Jennie Widdows 
 
 Charles F. Randall 
 
 S. B. Thorndike 
 
 Charles A. Foster 
 
 Reuben C Donnell 
 
 Eldward Ring 
 
 IL A. Thorndike 
 
 . Emery Burgess 
 Joseph T. Corlew 
 
 Mr. Keene's term of service in Hanover was distin- 
 
HISTOKY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 109 
 
 guished by gifts made to tlie Academy fund by John 
 Barstow, Esq., of Providence. The following is a 
 copy of the letter in which he makes his principal 
 donation. 
 
 To the Trustees and Proprietors of Hanover Academy. 
 
 Gentlemen. — Having a desire to aid in supporting 
 a good school in my native village, I have for that pur- 
 pose deposited with my much esteemed and trustworthy 
 
 JOHN BARSTOW. 
 
 friend Benjamin B. Torrey, a U. S. Treasury Note, of 
 One Thousand Dollars, bearing interest from the 19th 
 of February last at the rate of 7 3-10 per cent, per 
 annum. 
 
 This one thousand dollars, I present to the Trustees 
 and Proprietors of the Hanover Academy recently in- 
 corporated, and their successors, in Trust, as and for 
 
no HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 a ''Permanent Fund," the income derived therefrom is 
 to be applied to the support of the Academy in the 
 following manner. 
 
 First. — Keeping the Buildings in good repair. 
 
 Second. — Furnishing the School from time to time 
 with Maps, Atlases, Books of Reference, and with 
 such School apparatus as may be necessary for illustra- 
 ting the Branches that may be taught, — meaning there- 
 by such as are not usually furnished by Teachers or 
 Scholars. 
 
 For Trustees of this " Permanent Fund" Thereby 
 appoint the Treasurer of the Corporation, ex ofificio, 
 and his successor, and the above named Benjamin B. 
 Torrey — authorizing them to invest said Fund from 
 time to time in any safe and productive property or securi- 
 ties, and to change said investment at their discretion, 
 — and I also authorize the Trustees of the Corporation 
 to appoint a Trustee to the " Permanent Fund " to sup- 
 ply the place of said Benjamin B. Torrey whenever it 
 shall become vacant by his resignation or death. 
 
 At a meeting held April 28, 1862, the Directors in 
 view.ol: Mr. B irstow's generous gift passed the follow- 
 in 2; : 
 
 '• Resolved : That the Board of Directors in behalf of 
 themselves and the Corporation, express to Mr. Barstow 
 their grateful sense of obligation for the judicious and 
 timely gift of one thousand dollars which he has given 
 ' to aid in supporting a good school in his native vil- 
 lage.' " 
 
HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. Ill 
 
 This fund is now deposited in the Warren Institution 
 for Savings, Charlestown, Mass.* 
 
 In January, 1863, Mr. Barstow made a proposition to 
 the Trustees for the erection of an out-building for the 
 female department after his own pattern and at his own 
 expense. This building as subsequently erected un- 
 der the supervision of Lemuel Gushing Waterman, 
 Esq., must have cost, I suppose, towards two hundred 
 dollars. 
 
 One other donation to the Academy in 1863, was 
 that of a piano which the Preceptor hitherto had hired 
 at an annual rent of thirty-two dollars. It was offered 
 for one hundred dollars in cash, and towards its pur- 
 chase Samuel Cutler and George Gurtis gave twenty 
 dollars each, Mrs. Salmond fifteen dollars, Peleg T. 
 Keene twelve dollars, John Gushing ten dollars, and 
 others gave smaller sums. 
 
 Arthur Sewell Lake (1864-65), son of David and 
 Julia B. (Sanborn) Lake, was born in Ghicester, N. H., 
 Nov. II, 1837, graduated at Dartmouth 1862, became 
 Principal of Conway Academy, Mass. in 1862, of Hing- 
 ham Academy in 1863, and of Hanover Academy, May 
 16, 1864. Prior to his coming here it would seem that 
 
 * I have a letter in my possession, dated Providence, Dec. 28. 
 1897, from Mr. John Barstow's two daughters, expressing their 
 desire that, in case the Academy should be permanently closed, 
 the fund should be devoted to the Hanover Free Library. They 
 express themselves as being " sure that their father would wish 
 it." 
 
 Furthermore in carrying out their desire, they on Dec. 19, 1898, 
 signed a legal document authorizing the Trustees of said Barstow 
 fund to pay it over to the Trustees of the Hanover Free Library, 
 the income of which is to be used for the purchase of books in gen- 
 eral accord with the instrument of trust as made to the Academy. 
 
112 
 
 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 he taught in Titicut, North Middleboro, Academy, for 
 its trustees "recommend him as a worthy young man 
 and an accomplished and efficient teacher." My neigh- 
 bor, Dr. Clarence L. Howes who was fitted for college 
 under Mr. Lake calls him "a fine Classical scholar and a 
 good teacher." His letters of application date from 
 
 ARTHUR SEW ELL LAKE 
 
 Loudon, N. H. Having received a louder call he re- 
 signed at Hanover April 1865, and went to Thomaston, 
 Ct. where he taught several years in the Academy 
 which was erected for his use at a cost of $12,000, 
 which was collected by himself. Subsequently he 
 taught in West VVinsted and in Torrington, Ct., and in 
 1873 went to Shenandoah, Iowa, his present residence, 
 and has from that time been engaged in the real estate 
 
HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. II3 
 
 business. In Thomaston, he married one of his pupils, 
 and has one daughter who is a teacher, and a son who 
 is connected with a bank in that place. In politics, he 
 declares himself to be "a sound money Republican, and 
 in religion, still a Congregationalist." 
 
 In his Hanover reminiscences he speaks of the won- 
 derful performance of the school in gymnastics, of 
 which he in practice knew nothing.* He says: "I can 
 still see them, in mind, marching, counter-marching, 
 circling, and turning hither and thither, almost getting 
 into knots, but finally all evolved free from blunder or 
 failure in the least. The ladies had a special costume 
 for the exercise." As his teaching here was in war 
 times he one day arranged to have the school sing 
 "John Brown's body." One of the pupils, now a staid 
 Aesculapius in our village, expecting a solemn, grave 
 and slow song, was so struck with the novelty of the 
 speed and apparent hilarity of the tune, that, as soon as 
 they commenced singing, he began to laugh, and kept 
 it up till the song was ended. One day there was a 
 ship-launching, and "we all went down to the ship yard 
 to see the launching, the first and last sight of that 
 kind to me." While visiting the home of Daniel Web- 
 ster in Marshfield (April 15, 1865), the church bell there 
 began to toll for the death of Abraham Lincoln on the 
 day previous. He brought the news back to Hanover, 
 and "we tolled the two church bells in honor of the 
 dead." 
 
 The Summer term followinfr Mr. Lake's resio^nation 
 seems to have been omitted. 
 
 * I find from the Records that the Acndetnv Treasurer at about 
 this time received $8 25 from a "gymna.'^tic class" for the use of 
 the Hall. 
 
114 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 During his stay in Hanover, some $50, of the Barstow 
 Fund was expended for the purchase of reference books. 
 We may also add here that in the Summer of 1866 Mr. 
 Isaac M. Wilder presented to the Academy a large 
 collection mainly of College and Classical books which 
 doubtless belonged to his son, Joseph E. Wilder who 
 left his studies in Amlierst College to enlist in the war, 
 and was killed in battle. 
 
 Isaiah Dole (1865), son of Wigglesworth and Eliza- 
 beth (Haskell) Dole, was born in Bloomfield, now Skow- 
 hegan, Me., May 23, 18 19. After graduating from 
 Bowdoin College in 1840 he gave himself to the work 
 of instruction, making a specially of Latin and Greek. 
 He taught at Bluehill Academy, 1843-47, ^^^ ^^- Stephens 
 Academy, N. B., in Gorham Seminary, though not con- 
 tinuously, 1848-64, and at Lasell Seminary, Auburn- 
 dale, 1875-81. He was chosen as Preceptor of .our 
 Academy out of seven applicants who had visited 
 Hanover (there were fifteen applications in all), and he 
 began here Sept. 4, 1865, and resigned in November, 
 after teaching but one term. He was doubtless dis- 
 couraged by the smallness of the school, though he had 
 twenty-seven scholars. After leaving Auburndale he 
 resided in Keene, N. H. where he died May 17, 1892 
 of pulmonary consumption. In Aug. 18, 1844 he mar- 
 ried Elizabeth T. Pearson who died in 185 1, leaving two 
 children, one of whom, Edmund P. Dole, now of Seattle, 
 Wash., attended the Academy. A daughter, Mrs. 
 William J. Sewall, resides in Keene, N. H. Mr. Dole 
 was a frequent contributor to educational and religious 
 periodicals, and during the closing years of his life 
 spent much time upon a comparative grammar of the 
 
HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. II5 
 
 English and Latin languages, which however he left 
 incomplete. He was undoubtedly one of the best scholars 
 that ever taught in our school. The Academy Trus- 
 tees, in their printed notice, justly say that *'Mr. Dole 
 comes highly recommended as a gentleman of great ex- 
 perience in teaching, and of high literary attainments." 
 
 John P. Apthorp (1865-66) son of a Congregational 
 minister, was born in Quincy, 111., Sept. 7, 1839. After 
 residing for brief periods in different places in the West 
 became to N. Bridgewater, now Brockton, in 1854, and 
 was fitted for college in the Academy of that place 
 under the tuition of Mr. S. D. Hunt. After graduating 
 from Amherst in 1861, he taught for a brief space in 
 Conway Academy (1861-2) and in Myricksville near 
 Taunton. "Overcome by a wave of patriotism" in 1862, 
 he enlisted for the war in the loth Mass. Battery IJght 
 Artillery which joined the Army of the Potomac just 
 after the battle of Gettysburg, and which took part 
 in all the battles and campaigns of that army until 
 the surrender at Appomatox. Of his two brothers who 
 entered the army one was killed in battle near Decatur, 
 Ala. in 1864. Returning North he soon after became 
 Principal of Hanover Academy and taught the Winter 
 term of 1865-6. '*My relations," he says, ''with the 
 pupils and people of Hanover Four Corners were very 
 pleasant, in some respects more so than in any other 
 place where I eyer taught. My recollections of a sleigh 
 ride which the school took that Winter are still very 
 fresh. At the close of the term the pupils presented 
 me with a Bible which I keep as a valued souvenir of 
 that time." Following a brother to Florida he engaged 
 somewhat unsuccessfully in orange growing, also quite 
 
Il6 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 largely in government surveying and in teaching, and 
 was for a time Superintendent of Schools in Leon 
 County. On removing to Tallahassee he bought a 
 small property near by, and has since devoted his time 
 chiefly to his dairy-farm. In 1892 he was attacked by 
 a nervous disease which has disabled him ever since. 
 His letter to me had to be written by another hand. 
 
 In August, 1873, he visited Massachusetts, and was 
 married at Ipswich to Miss Ellen Osgood of Fryeburg, 
 Me., who died in her Florida home April 23, 1896, leav- 
 ing three daughters, the eldest of whom, Mary, gradu- 
 ated two years ago at the head of her class in the West 
 Florida Seminary. 
 
 In March, 1866, Mr. Peter L. Woodbury* was en- 
 gaged as teacher to take the place of George Henry 
 Bliss, of Vermont, who was accepted to begin Feb. 26, 
 but who failed to meet his engagement. Mr. Woodbury, 
 the son of Jesse and Hannah (Duncklee) Woodbury, was 
 born in Francestown, N. H., May 4, 1840, graduated at 
 Dartmouth, 1865, began teaching here March 12, 1866, 
 and closed the school with a shortened term, July 12, 
 1867, to take the High School in Foxboro. Though his 
 school closed with only seventeen scholars, yet the 
 Records say that during most of the year the school 
 was " in a satisfactory condition." In his vacation, Aug., 
 1866, he writes from Francestown on the expediency of 
 advertising the Academy. He states that he has had an 
 offer of a High School, but hopes he would do as well by 
 
 *This is his name as found in his letters, though the Academy 
 Records give S. as his middle initial; and vet in all his college 
 course he is registered without any middle name. The L., as I am 
 told, stands for Levi. 
 
HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. I I7 
 
 remaining in Hanover, and he fears that his good friends 
 here would be disconcerted by siieh a change. 
 
 Of his later history, I have only learned that he 
 taught for three or four years in the Holderness School 
 at Plymouth, N. H., and that he left P. in 1892 to teach 
 a High School in Eastport, Me. 
 
 For some years past we have had no list of students, 
 but I think that those whose names here follow newly 
 entered either under Mr. Woodbury, or his predecessors, 
 Apthorp, Dole, or Lake. 
 
 Henry S. Bartlett, Walter S. Barker, J. Williams Beal, 
 Alice Briggs, Lizzie Barrows, George Currell, Frank 
 Clapp, H. E. Chamberlain, Frank Collamore, Susie W. 
 Clift, Delia ¥. Carey, Rose Corbett, Nellie Clapp, Clara 
 M. Chase, Clara Crooker, Florence R. Cushing, Belle 
 Cushing, Rosie M. Cobbin, Sarah C. Church, E. P. Dole, 
 Nancy C. Donnell, Annie E. P^ells, Abbie Estes, Avis 
 Ford, Agnes H. P^reeman, Justus Gardner, Briggs Gul- 
 liver, Clarence L. Howes, Jennie B. Hersey, Susan P. 
 Hatch, Beulah S. Holmes, Charles Josselyn, Isaac 
 Keene, Abbie Kilbrith, Maria Leonard, John J. McFar- 
 land, Herbert E. Reed, Frank A. Reed, Coolidge Rob- 
 erts, Sarah A. Russell, Irene Rose, Edwin Stockbridge, 
 Alice R. Shepherd, Carrie Stearns, Martha E. Snell, 
 P^unice P. Simmons, Mary Savage, Ella B. Stetson, 
 Roger Tappan, Ella J. Thomas, P'rank H. Waterman, 
 Herbert Witherell, Amey Young. 
 
 Ebenezer Bradford Gay, of Dighton, was next 
 chosen Principal. He began the school with 24 pupils, 
 Sept. 2, 1867, and resigned the following November, 
 having only 16 paying scholars. Verily, if it can be 
 said that the Academy was alive during this recent 
 period, it was living, apparently, at a poor dying rate. 
 
I 15 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 John Prince Thorndyke, (1867 — 68, with Mary L. 
 Eells for assistant), "was born in Boston, Jan. 16, 1846. 
 In May, 1852 he was taken to Samuel Brown's in Pem- 
 broke, where he attended boarding school for boys, held 
 on the premises. His tutors in this school were Messrs. 
 Storrs, Willard, Crehore and George R. Dwelley, of 
 Hanover, the latter being one of the most famous 
 teachers in Massachusetts. Here he remained as long 
 as the school continued, or until the spring of 1856. In 
 June, 1856, he began attendance at the Academy, and 
 continued as a pupil until Dec. 18, 1862, making an at- 
 tendance of 26 consecutive terms with only an absence of 
 five days. His teachers in the Academy were Messrs. 
 F. O. Barstow, C. A. Reed, S. G. Stone, and P. T. 
 Keene. 
 
 "Besides enjoying the advantage of a longer term of 
 instruction in this institution than any other pupil, it 
 may be of interest to note that with the exception of 
 Mr. P\ O. Barstow [and Charles Hitchcock] the subject 
 of this sketch is the only person who ever was both 
 pupil and preceptor of the Academy. On December 8, 
 1867, he began his labors as principal of the school which 
 was in a very weak condition, numbering only 16 pupils ; 
 but by unfaltering perseverance he soon raised the rep- 
 utation of the school to its old time status, and when he 
 closed his work, Nov. 20, 1868, he had the satisfaction 
 of knowing he had made a successful effort as results in 
 all directions abundantly proved. In the spring of i860 
 he became interested in religion, and was christened 
 into the Episcopal Church, Hanover, by Rev. Samuel 
 Cutler, July 15, and was confirmed by Bishop Eastburn 
 June 25, 1861. In March 8, 1869, he was baptized in 
 Niagara river at Tonawanda, N. Y., and united with the 
 
HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. I I9 
 
 " Disciples of Christ " denomination, in many places 
 known as the '' Christian " denomination. 
 
 ''On Aug;. 30, 1869, he was married to Flora J. 
 Straight, in Rochester, N. Y., by whom he had four 
 boys. June 20. 1894, he w^as married to Agnes W. Glea- 
 son, of Plymouth, Mass. Upon the transition of his 
 little three-year old boy, in 1879, totally failing to find a 
 particle of consolation (for which he so yearned) in 
 his religion, his Bible or his church, he gave them all up 
 as broken, unreliable reeds. After mature deliberation 
 and most thorough investigation into the claims of 
 Spiritualism he became convinced of the truth of its 
 philosophy, and associated himself with that sect. He 
 has been for 13 years an earnest public worker on the 
 platform, and durino: that time has labored in 13 differ- 
 ent States. In 1894 he was duly ordained as a minister 
 of the gospel of Spiritualism." 
 
 The reader will observe that in the above sketch I 
 have used quotation marks, because the writer, unlike 
 any other of my correspondents, sincerely hopes I "will 
 not leave out a word." I do not know whether this re- 
 quest was prohibitory of my adding a word or not. Had 
 I taken my usual liberty I could have spoken of some 
 interesting matters which Mr. Thorndyke has omitted. 
 I will simply add that the Academy authorities would 
 have retained him longer, but he hoped for something 
 better in the great West. The Academy was closed 
 one term after his leaving. He states in a letter recent- 
 ly received that " After leaving the Academy he was 
 called to take charge of the public schools of Tona- 
 wanda, N. Y., and that he has been engaged in the com- 
 mercial world, East, West and South." His present resi- 
 dence is Flint, Michigan, where he has recently estab- 
 
120 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 lished a small monthly paper, called The Flint Mes- 
 senger, "an exponent ot liberal thought.'' I expected 
 to present his likeness, but for some unknown reason 
 I have failed to hear from him of late. 
 
 We are happy to present here a full and accurate 
 list of Students under Mr. Thorndike which he him- 
 self furnished for this work. We print it in full and as 
 he wrote it, though it contains a few names already 
 mentioned. 
 
 Henry S. Bartlett, William Briggs, William P. Brooks, 
 Samuel J. May Brooks, Charles E. Collamore, Edwin 
 A. Collamore, Frank Jl Collamore, Francis Collamore, 
 George N. Curtis, Abner L. Curtis, Seth A. Curtis, 
 Patrick Christy, Reuben C. Donnell, Manley J. Gurney, 
 William J. Hodge, Willard T. Hatch, Gilman S. Josselyn, 
 J. Austin Knapp, Samuel S. Knapp, Thomas Loring, 
 James Murphy, Charles B. Muich, Herbert W. Otis, 
 E. Frank Otis, Horace D. Osgood, Frank A. Reed, 
 Lorenzo S. Sherman, Daniel A. Sherman, Fred C. 
 Stetson, Samuel Tolman 3d, Richmond Talbot, Frank 
 H. Torrey, Miles S. Turner, Charles P. Turner, Frank 
 H. Waterman, Edwin C. White, William B. Wood. 
 
 P'annie H. Barstow, Clara M. Chase, Lizzie O. Gush- 
 ing, Annie Church, M. Jennie Currell, Alice H. Curtis, 
 Nancie C. Donnell, Nellie H. Ford, Sarah J. Flaveli, 
 Mary E. Flaveli, M. Ella Farrar, Ida H. Frinsdorff, 
 Mary L. Foster, Lucy J. Gurney, Fannie A. Hobill, 
 Lizzie M. Howard, Welthea M. Magoun, Katie 
 McCurdy, Annie A. Murphy, Mary A. Oldham, Sarah 
 A. Russell, Alice R. Shepherd, Mary E. Sturtevant, 
 Addie M. Stockbridge, Lucy P. Stockbridge, Ruthena 
 Stockbridge, Louisa O. Stetson," Lucy A. Stetson, Ann 
 E. Stetson, E. Ellen Savage, Sarah E. Studley, Julia E. 
 
HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY 
 
 121 
 
 Sylvester, Grace Thorndike, Mary P. Tower, Mary S. 
 Turner, l{mma II. Torrey, Ella J. Thomas. 
 
 Josephine McRoy (1869-70), of Saxonville, was 
 born in Framingham Jan. 28, 1850 and was graduated 
 from the Saxonville High School in 1865 and from the 
 Framingham Normal School in Jan. 1869, and is now 
 the wife of Mr. Israel Hatch, an Alumnus of the 
 
 JOSEPHINE McROY, 
 
 Academy, and for some time past a member of the 
 School Committee of Norvvell. She, as sole Principal, 
 began teaching in the Academy March i, 1869, for 
 $500 per year, the first recorded instance of an Academy 
 teacher's receiving a stated salary. In July 18, 1870, 
 she resigned her principalship on account of ill health, 
 the last term being shortened one half. In her first 
 term she had twenty-three scholars and in her second 
 
122 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 term twenty-seven, and the annual Report states that 
 she taught ''satisfactorily and successfully." Dr. H. 
 L. Sweeny who was one of her pupils, states in his 
 Historical Address of 1889, that she ''was very 
 popular with the pupils, especially the large boys 
 of whom there was quite a number." At the close 
 of her administration, however, the prospects of 
 the school were not encouraging. The Treasurer, 
 Rev. Samuel Cutler, in his Report, Aug. 5, 1870 says: 
 "The establishment of a High School in Hanover and 
 also in Pembroke, while lessening the number of 
 scholars in the Academy, is also rendering it somewhat 
 doubtful whether and how long it can be sustained." 
 The Academy, however, was sustained for some twenty 
 years longer, partly by means of an Alumni fund, the 
 raising of which took place at about this time. 
 
 In the first part of i860, the chairman of the Alumni 
 Committee, William Carver Bates, sent out the follow- 
 ing notice: 
 
 "Alumni Fund. 
 
 All persons interested in the prosperity of Hanover 
 Academy, are invited to contribute to an Alumni 
 Fair to be held at Hanover some time during the next 
 Summer in the Academy building. The particulars 
 will be announced hereafter. This is to urge every 
 Alumnus to begin early in the work of preparing 
 and sending forward articles for sale at the Fair. 
 Packages may be sent to Mrs. Pldmund O. Sylvester, 
 Hanover, Mass., or to the subscriber at Boston. 
 
 It is proposed to give a subscription Entertainment, 
 musical and literary, in behalf of the fund at the Academy 
 Hall, P^b. 22, 1869, tickets to which may be had of the 
 
HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMV. I23 
 
 Committee. Let us all contribute to the prosperity of 
 our Alma Mater." 
 
 On the day of the Subscription entertainment a 
 communication (signed, ''S. C") was handed to the 
 chairman of the Alumni Committee, stating that ''For 
 the encouragement of such an effort (to raise subscrip- 
 tions for the fund) . . . you may say that a friend of 
 the Academy, and in memoriam of one who was for a 
 little time a pupil in the old building, but nowdeceased, 
 [S. Gardner Cutler, died Feb. 12, 1869], will give $100 
 toward the fund. It will not be necessary for you 
 publicly to announce the name" etc. 
 
 From the proceeds of the fair which was held in 
 August 1869 amounting to about $600, and from sums 
 added by friends, a $1000 U. S. Bond was purchased 
 for $1196.25. In 1870 this bond was exchanged for 
 thirteen shares of the Ogdensburg and Lake Champlain 
 Rail Road. On July 20, 1871 another hundred dollars 
 was donated to the fund by Mrs. Albert Smith, daughter 
 of Rev. Mr. Chaddock. And on Sept. 4, 1872 another 
 fair was held which realized the sum of $323.36. From 
 a report made by the Treasurer,* Dec. i, 1876 it will be 
 seen that the Alumni F'und at that time amounted to 
 about $2,300, which accrued as follows: Twenty-eight 
 subscriptions, $718. Fairs, 1869 and 1872, $928; R R. 
 Dividends, $468; Savings Bank interest, $217; total 
 $2,331. It was the hope of some of the Committee 
 that the Alumni fund might amount to at least five 
 thousand dollars, and it is further stated by the Treasu- 
 rer, Wm. C. Bates, that according to his understanding 
 "the wishes of the contributors were that the interest 
 only of the fund should be used for the school, and if 
 at some future time the fund can no longer be used for 
 
124 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 that purpose, that it shall be given to some educational 
 object of acknowledged merit." 
 But alas: 
 
 " The best laid schemes of mice and men 
 Gang aft a-gle_y." 
 
 Owing to the depression of stocks, the railroad in- 
 vestment proved a sorry one, realizing a loss of $912. 
 The number of scholars naturally lessened by reason 
 of the High Schools being established in all the sur- 
 rounding and outlying towns, and no adequate support 
 could be furnished to the teachers only as their salaries 
 were eked out by grants from the Alumni fund. Thus 
 there has been paid to the Preceptors of the Academy 
 from 1873 to 1893 inclusive, some $1,800 of the Alumni 
 fund (leaving a balance of between two and three 
 hundred dollars in the Treasurer's hands).* *Tt is per- 
 haps fair," says our Treasurer, "to claim that our ap- 
 propriation of $100, or $150, annually for so many years 
 kept the Academy in session many years that otherwise 
 would have been idle." 
 
 I think that most of the following new names belong- 
 to Miss McRoy's list. 
 
 Anna P. Alden, Willie Barton, Anna Baldwin, Mary 
 D. Boylston, Arthur Chamberlain, Alfred H. Downes, 
 Emma Dorr, Hattie L. Eells, Martha P. French, Alice 
 J. Gardner, David P. Hatch, Warren I. Hall, Alice 
 Hunt, Eva Hunt, Alice Harding, Flora J. Magoun, 
 Grace L. Percival, Lillie Paulding, Fred C. Stetson, 
 Henry L. Sweeny, Samuel S. Sylvester, Charles 
 Sturtevant, Eliza S. Sylvester, Hattie Stetson, Flavell 
 
 *This balance will probablj be given to the town for the use of 
 the Public Library. 
 
HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. I25 
 
 S. Thomas, Anna Tolman, Emma Thomas, Emily 
 Turner, Isabel E. Witherell. 
 
 James Wallace McDonald (1870 — 71) was born in 
 Bangor, Me., Jan. 26, 1843, and was graduated from 
 Bowdoin College in 1867. After teaching in E. Abing- 
 ton, (now Rockland) he began in the Academy Sept. 5, 
 1870, with 31 scholars, and left April 24, 1871, before the 
 close of the term to take a High School in So. Abing- 
 ton (now Whitman). The scholars in the Fall term 
 numbered 32 and in Winter 35. It was to his disad- 
 vantage, I think, that he followed a popular and greatly 
 admired young lady principal. He was regarded as a 
 good teacher, but his manner or discipline was, as I am 
 told, not entirely pleasing to the school, and perhaps ex- 
 posed him to small annoyances. Dr. H. L. Sweeny in his 
 above-mentioned historical address spoke of a remarka- 
 ble belfry episode, and of a fruitless effort with the air- 
 pump to deprive a mouse of the breatli of life — which 
 occurrences some of the students may still remember. 
 The same writer also gives a description of a remarka- 
 ble two-evening exhibition which occurred under this 
 teacher's administration. Mr. McDonald is now and for 
 a long time has been an efificient and popular agent of 
 the Massachusetts Board of Education, and resides in 
 Stoneham. 
 
 The following names of new scholars maybe regarded 
 in general as belonging to Mr. McDonald. 
 
 Thomas J. Brooks, Hattie S. Briggs, Sarah K. Beal, 
 Mary A. Cushman, Charles A. Delano, Percy Douglass, 
 Alice W. Eells, John Flavel, Mary A. Hunt, Mary 
 W. Howes, Lucy A. Howland, George Lawrence, Teresa 
 Locke, Lucy Litchfield, Frank W. Magoun, Edgar W. 
 
126 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 Phillips, Edwin P. Phillips, P'rank Silver, Arthur 
 Sturtevant, Edward P. Sweeny, Sasie Sylvester, Emma 
 L. Savage, Ellen B. Stetson, Emma A. Stetson, P'lorence 
 D. Sweeny, Bella Thomas, Walter I. Underwood, Ella 
 J. Vinall, Fred White. 
 
 Roland Hammond (1871), was born in Mattapoisett, 
 Feb. 14, 1842, graduated at Tufts college, July, 1868, 
 obtained the degree of M. D. from Harvard University 
 in 1872, practised medicine in Bellingham until 1882, 
 when he removed to Brockton [Campello] where he now 
 practises his profession. He taught in Gilford Acade- 
 my during 1868 and '69, and began teaching here May 
 2, 1 87 1, with 23 scholars, and taught one term. The 
 Fall term was omitted. Mr. Hammond's manner and 
 disposition seem to have been rather the reverse of 
 those of his predecessor, and his scholars, I presume, 
 were pleased with his easier nature and administration. 
 In Bellingham he was chairman of the school committee 
 and superintendent of schools from 1872 to 1882 inclu- 
 sive, and was also town clerk during 1880, '81 and 'S2. 
 In Brockton he was also on the school committee in 
 1886, '8y and 'S8, and was Justice of the Peace from 
 1881 to '8S inclusive. In Sept. 25, 1873, he married 
 Mary Lucinda Rockwood, of Bellingham, and, in 1890, 
 had one son, Roland Hammond, Jr., born July 29, 1875. 
 I think he has prepared a genealogical history of the 
 Hammond family. 
 
 Perhaps the following new names may be inserted 
 as belonging here. 
 
 L. Vernon Briggs, Horace Baker, Nathan Baker, 
 Nellie Barstow, Stella Barstow, Charles Currell, George 
 N. Capell, Fannie M. Cudworth, Hattie Collamore, 
 
HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 12/ 
 
 Fiorina M. Collamore, Lydia Collamore, Edwin A. 
 Damon, Barney E. Dagon, Jennie Ford, Willard Hodge, 
 Fred Hopkins, John R. Hobill, Victor E. Hobill, Lizzie 
 Hobill, Nellie Henry, Isadora Hatch, James C. Jones, 
 Lizzie Magoun, Edward Purcell, Fred Randall, Emma M. 
 Ramsdell, Annie B. Ramsdell, John H. Stetson, Elliot 
 Stetson, Arthur T. Simmons, Fred Simmons, George 
 Stetson, Frank D. Stetson, Nelson M. Stetson, Frank 
 Sprague, Addie Sprague, Fannie Stetson, Alden D. 
 Turner, Charles Turner, Albert Torrey, Cleland 
 Whiting. 
 
 Rev. Timothy D wight Porter Stone (i 871 --74), 
 son of Rev. Timothy Stone, and named in partfrom his 
 uncle, President Ebenezer Porter of Andover Theologi- 
 c.il Seminary, was born in Cornwall, Ct., July 27, 181 1, 
 fitted for college at Phillips Andover Academy, studied 
 for two years in Dartmouth, but graduated from Amherst 
 in 1834, with Henry Ward Beecher. After teaching, 
 in Concord and Plymouth, N. H.he studied at Andover 
 Theological Seminary and graduated ■ therefrom in 
 1842. Subsequently he became Principal of Abbott 
 P^emale Seminary in Andover, of the Massachusetts 
 Reform School in Westboro, and of the Connecticut 
 Normal School, and taught in the Norwich Grammar 
 school and in several other Schools. In several places 
 he has been teacher of elocution. He brought recom- 
 mendations from the Presidents of Dartmouth and 
 Amherst Colleges and from other high authorities, and 
 his programme states that "other references could be 
 furnished in abundance from every section of the 
 United States." He began teaching here the Winter 
 term of 1871--2, and taught something over three years 
 
128 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 or thirteen terms. The average number of Scholars 
 here is given as thirty-six, the largest fifty, the smallest 
 twenty-five. One Winter he had an evening school of 
 young men which was fairly successful. One who had 
 good means of knowing speaks of him as "an inspiring 
 and successful teacher." He was certainly a teacher 
 of great experience, of large information, and of much 
 capability, but was at times rather eccentric. When 
 teaching here, he at first had the help of some young 
 ladies from abroad, but was afterward assisted by some 
 of his scholars and by his wife who was highly esteemed 
 as a teacher. His wife's maiden name was Susan M. 
 Dickinson, a native of Holliston, and she is still living 
 in Cortland, N. Y., where her son, John Timothy Stone, 
 is settled as a pastor. Her two daughters, as she in- 
 forms me, still continue the work of teaching. Mr. 
 Stone had been married once previously, but of the 
 first wife and of several grown up and most promising 
 children he had been quite suddenly and most sadly 
 bereaved, and he probably never fully recovered from 
 the shock. 
 
 During his stay in Hanover an addition was made to 
 the philosophical apparatus to the amount of over $150, 
 for the payment of which $100 was received from the 
 Alumni fund, and $50 was given by Mrs. Bigelow. 
 From Dr. Sweeny's Historical Address I also learn 
 that a fair was held in 1872 on the Academy grounds 
 which netted about $400, the proceeds being for the 
 benefit of the Alumni fund. 
 
 Among the Academy papers we find this resolve: — 
 "That the Directors of the Hanover Academy, in ac- 
 cepting the resignation of Rev. T. D. P. Stone as its 
 Principal, desire to place on record their sense of the 
 
HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 129 
 
 industry, fidelity and care for the promotion and im- 
 provement of the Academy property, and for the best 
 interests of the institution which characterized the 
 discharge of his duties during the entire period of his 
 labors in this relation." 
 
 Mr. Stone was ordained at Holliston, March i, 1843, 
 and served in the pastorate of several churches, as 
 
 at Holliston, Amesbury, 
 Marblehead. Stow, and As- 
 sabet, and during his stay 
 here he was pastor of the 
 Congregational church in 
 this village. He also found 
 time to write several works 
 for publication. His death 
 occurred in Albany, N. Y., 
 April II, 1887. 
 
 Towards the last of Mr. 
 Stone's teaching here, in 
 1874, M^^s. Cheney deliv- 
 ered the following spicy 
 poem at the Alumni Re- 
 AUGusTA BKiGGs (CHENEY). uniou. At my urgent re- 
 quest another picture of herself is here presented, taken 
 evidently when she was in one of her merrier moods. 
 
 Alumni, 1874. 
 
 I've stood before you now so many times, 
 And offerings gave, of sentimental rhymes, 
 I thought it well to-night, to change the strain, 
 And in rude doggerel now "rise to explain;" 
 For you all know, I have a merry streak 
 Which prompts me oft in mirthful vein to speak, 
 Expressing thus the wish, as you may see. 
 That this our gathering may more jovial be. 
 
130 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 And looking 'round, I see on many a face 
 
 Glances annihilating time and space, 
 
 For aged wrinkles fail to hide the grin, 
 
 The youthful impress of the fun within. 
 
 There's Tolman, though his hair is growing white. 
 
 He's sprightly as a boy, I see to-night, 
 
 And I myself, though getting on in years. 
 
 Here feel as merry as my young compeers, 
 
 And with a smile, my memory recalls 
 
 Sad capers cut in Academic halls. 
 
 The ancient building, with bell hung in air, 
 
 The recitation room, minus a belfry stair. 
 
 But trap in ceiling, cunningly displayed. 
 
 Tempting young climbers to its secret shade; 
 
 Where Nancy and myself, by help of boosting, 
 
 Oft ate our dinners, 'neath the rafters roosting; 
 
 And talked of beaux, I fear, far more than books, 
 
 Of this boy's plainness, or that one's good looks. 
 
 Ah! little thought I then, she would forswear her nation, 
 
 And French become, by such a close relation. 
 
 The bell rope dangled through the ancient Hall, 
 
 And many a merry time I now recall, 
 
 When from its use most slylv 'twas perverted, 
 
 And every bone and sinew we e.xerted 
 
 By nimble use of our extremist pe.dals. 
 
 As champion athletes to obtain a medal: 
 
 A swinger stationed was, at either end, 
 
 The rope was big, and hard ! and Heaven defend 
 
 The luckless legs of rythmic time that failed, 
 
 Or once in line, before the ordeal quailed. 
 
 For let those ponderous strands but hit your heels, 
 
 Your laughter changed at once to painful squeals, 
 
 And I remember, when my calves showed scars 
 
 More numerous, than a veteran's from the wars. 
 
 With those old days, most vividly there comes 
 The stinging satires of Preceptor Holmes, 
 Who with his tongue, could more effective flay, 
 Than all the flogging of the present day; 
 « And girls, as well as boys, all got a hit, 
 
 And cowed beneath the lash of his sarcastic wit. 
 Girls when approaching joyous sweet sixteen. 
 Are just the age to feel such words most keen, 
 
HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. I3I 
 
 So I recall a day, when negligence confessing, 
 
 I stood before him with imperfect lesson. 
 
 He glanced at me with a sardonic smile, 
 
 The other eye on Henry Hall meanwhile, 
 
 And said in voice of thunderous expansion, 
 
 "Did you, and Hall; go to the Ball in Hanson?" 
 
 And Sarah Collamore, unlucky elf! 
 
 Was always bringing down upon herself 
 
 His well aimed thrusts against her flippant way, 
 
 And nothing was too sharp for him to say. 
 
 So one day, in a tone which struck her dumb, 
 
 He said, "A great girl with a skull so numb, 
 
 Though beaux from all parts of the country come. 
 
 She has not wit enough to do that sum." 
 
 His arrows flew with never ending aim. 
 
 Each culprit pointed out, and called by name. 
 
 That one reminded, "that no strange device 
 
 Could learn his lessons by Sophia's eyes;" 
 
 And Mary, when dismissal was denied, 
 
 Was asked, "If Perry waited her outside?" 
 
 She, venturing her boldness to display. 
 
 Said, "Wish he did, but he don't go our way." 
 
 A hundred little incidents I could recall. 
 
 Familiar to these present one and all. 
 
 But I'll not greedily usurp the time, 
 
 Lest I may bore you, with my foolish rhyme. 
 
 Not long ago, I saw some witty man, 
 Had chanced in a directory, the names to scan. 
 And served them up with such a heap of fun 
 As scarce seemed possible, he could have done. 
 So we within these walls, so well defended, 
 A rather motley crowd have comprehended. 
 Turners, and Gardners, Dyers, for occupation, 
 A Carver, and a Cutler, per quotation. 
 The shipping too has stood financial shocks, 
 And well built Briggs are still upon the stocks. 
 And the young Waterman, in spite of all his tacks 
 May yet be swamped by these same little smacks. 
 
 The followers of Walton, have found this location 
 And angling young men have plied here their vocation 
 And in our midst have slyly baited hooks 
 
132 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 Intent on fishing, far more than their books. 
 And in spite of laws which their forefathers set, 
 Both Salmon and Eells have drawn into their nets, 
 And it would not be strange, if one patiently waits, 
 If some bigger fish should come after their Bates. 
 
 One word ere I close. Hiough I justly feel pride 
 In the dear little river, so near my home side. 
 As it slowly meanders through meadows of green, 
 The flow of its waters so calm and serene. 
 Among these old friends no envy I fear. 
 You can spare us the river long cherished and dear, 
 And scarce on its banks need seek shady nooks 
 While the light is reflected, in your beloved Brooks. 
 
 Most of the following new names, we think, may be 
 assigned to Rev. Mr. Stone. 
 
 Carver Bates, Cora Bourne, Sadie R. Beal, Velma 
 Briggs, Elvena Currell, Lucy Dagon, Emma J. Estes, 
 John Farrar, William H. Farrar, John H. Flavell, E. T. 
 Fogg, Jr., Elmira T. Foster, James Hunt, James Ken- 
 edy, Luther Litchfield, Frank W. Magoun, Mary 
 McCurdy, James L. Paul, Charles Rose, Fred Sim- 
 mons, Ernest T. Sweeny, George Stetson, John Stone, 
 Herbert Stetson, Howard L. Swan, Lizzie G. Stone, 
 Susie D. Stone, Agnes S. Sturtevant, Abbie Stetson, 
 Ella Turner, William H. Webber, Arthur C. Witherell, 
 George C. Whiting. 
 
 Mr. John G. Knight (1875-82), the son of Rev. Joel 
 and Jane L. (Gould) Knight, was born in Ipswich, Jan. 
 20, 1840, educated at the Academy of East Greenwich, 
 R. L, and at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Ct., 
 enlisted for the war in 1863 and was mustered out as 
 Quartermaster-Sergeant at its close. He first taught 
 in Hingham a year and a half, and then, in 1868, became 
 the first teacher of the Hanover Hi2:h School where he 
 
HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 133 
 
 remained nearly seven years. In April, 1875, he com- 
 menced teaching in the Academy and resigned in the 
 Summer of 1882, after a service of wenty-nine terms, 
 or a little over seven years, — only two teachers, Messrs. 
 Chaddock and Holmes, having taught here longer than 
 he. For many years he was Secretary and Treasurer 
 of the Plymouth County Teachers' Association, and for 
 ten years he served as member of the School Com- 
 
 JOHN G. KNIGHT. 
 
 mittee of Hanover. In 1869 be married Harriet J. 
 Gardner of Hingham, and has two sons, Gardner and 
 George W., both born in Hanover. In recent years he 
 has been employed as clerk in the firm of Ezra Phillips 
 and Sons of this town. 
 
 During his teaching here, there were held, according 
 to the Treasurer's Records, no less than three "Flower 
 
134 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 Shows" (planned originally by Rev. Dr. Brooks), that 
 of 1876 realizing $70.24, while those of the two follow- 
 ing years netted $52.22. From the same records I 
 learn that Mr. Knight kept an evening school in 1878 
 in the Academy, which Tietted $25. and that $45 was re- 
 ceived from the sale of an old piano. During his academic 
 service he had, as he writes me, "two or three very 
 excellent literary entertainments," but as there are no 
 printed programmes of them, no full account of them 
 can now be given. It is a source of regret that this is 
 the case with most of the Celebrations and Exhibitions 
 and Reunions which have almost yearly taken place in 
 the life of the Academy. 
 
 Fortunately we can present here a brief poem which 
 Mrs. Cheney gave at the Alumni Reunion of 1880. 
 
 Alumni, 1880. 
 
 Once more dear Alma Mater for thy sheltering arm, 
 
 Thy weary children turn again to thee, 
 And come, as in our happy childhood days, 
 
 To crave a blessing at the parent knee. 
 
 We lay our joys and sorrows at thy feet, 
 
 Full sure thy heart still beats for us unchilled. 
 
 Though sad and disappointed we may come, 
 Our youthful aspirations unfulfilled. 
 
 And with our best years spent in bootless strife, 
 Achieving nothing of our youthful dream, 
 
 We find ourselves both old and grey 
 
 Silently drifting down Life's wayward stream. 
 
 Who ever does fill out the woof of life. 
 
 Or perfect the original design ? 
 Who looking backward finds naught to regret.^ 
 
 Or on Time's record finds no faultless line? 
 
 Yet not repining, to thy side we come. 
 
 Far more than we deserve. Our Lord has blest, 
 
HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 1 35 
 
 And though our thankless hearts sometimes rebelled. 
 His unremitting kindness stands confessed. 
 
 And as with joy we gather here to-night, 
 
 And in fond retrospection view the past, 
 Look in the loving eyes of youthful friends, 
 
 And tenderly join hands in loving clasp, 
 
 We feel the lowliest of us has not lived in vain. 
 But all some niche have filled, for them the best, 
 
 Where each has found for them Life's problem solved, 
 And well content, can leave to God the rest. 
 
 The follovvini; are but a few of the new names* which, 
 as I suppose, should appear in this list, while it doubt- 
 less has names which should appear elsewhere, or possi- 
 bly be wholly omitted. 
 
 Addle Alden, Benjamin P. Barstow, Mary E. Baker, 
 Chester Barker, Walter Barnard, Lizzie B. Barker, 
 Annie W. Bates, Everett E. Corthell, Lucy B. Clark, 
 Carrie K. Curtis, Minnie E. Capell, Julia Collamore, L. 
 F. Doane, Mercer Ford, Carrie A. Ford, Josephine 
 Ford, Dennis A. Flaveli, Chauncy D. Ford, Angela B. 
 
 * It will have been observed in the course of this work, that I 
 have i^eiierally sought to avoid the frequent repetition of names, 
 and so I have chiefly made mention of netv names in the different 
 lists. I would again beg those who see many mistakes in these 
 lists to consider the two-fold difficulty I have had, in the almost 
 total absence of catalogues, in making these lists : first, to ascertain 
 the names of scholars, and, secondly, to give these names their 
 right place. The doing of this latter, especially, has been largely a 
 matter of conjecture, and I have no doubt that manj' will wonder, 
 smile, or frown, to see their names, if perchance I have these right, 
 so tar removed from their proper location. My only hope is that 
 these lists, imperfect as they are, will serve to indicate in a general 
 way something of the numbers and character of those who were 
 accustomed to attend the Academy in its later years. I am certain 
 of one thing, that these lists will be more satisfactory toothers, 
 however much dissatisfied they may be, than they are to myself. 
 
136 
 
 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 Ford, Edith G. Ford, Frank E. Hunt, Ella Josselyn, 
 Charles H, Knapp, Ella B. Keene, Walter Keene, Clara 
 Lindsay, Nellie Loving, Louise Loving, Jason A. 
 Magoun, Joseph C. Otis, Daniel Phillips, Edmund 
 Packard, Solomon P. Russell, Lucy Russell, Grace L. 
 Russell, Ruthetta M. Sylvester, P2mily E. Sylvester, 
 Martha W. Sylvester, Agnes Sherman, Grace Stetson, 
 Etta M. Stetson, Martin Simmons, Lydia D. Stetson, 
 Susie Simmons, A. Y. Tillson, Susan O. Turner, 
 Walter R. Torrey, Howard Torrey, George Torrey, 
 Lillie Totman, Harriet Tolman, Alfred Tolman, Ruth 
 Turner, Samuel A. Walker, George H. Whitman, 
 Charlotte E. Win slow, Lina White, Harry Winslow. 
 
 FRANK WALLACE BRETT, 
 
 Frank Wallace Brett (1882 — S8), born in Hing- 
 
 ham, May 14, 1861, was 
 
 graduated from the Hingham 
 
HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 1 3/ 
 
 High School, and, in 1880, from the Bridgewater Nor- 
 mal School. After teaching in Norwell Centre about a 
 year and a half, he became preceptor of Hanover Acad- 
 emy September, 1882, and resigned in June, 1888, his 
 term of Academic teaching amounting to six years, 
 being in comparison with that of others the fourth in 
 duration. The school increased in numbers until the 
 average attendance exceeded 40, and the membership 
 exceeded 50 per year, while his income as teacher, 
 (with help from the Alumni fund, presumably) averaged 
 $7^0 a year, and in the last year amounted to $925. 
 During his administration, (in 1886) a great work was 
 done in repairing and fitting up the Academy at an ex- 
 pense of over $500, for the payment of which ^150 was 
 received from Mrs. Bigelow, ;^ioo from Mrs. Salmond, 
 and ^271 from the Barstow Fund. The Hanover Brass 
 Band, by its rent of the hall, lent a helping hand to the 
 furtherance of the interests of the Academy. 
 
 While teaching in Hanover Mr. Brett took to himself 
 a wife. In August 2, 1885, he married Annie Josephine 
 Cuming, and has had two sons, Afley Leonel, born 
 August 9, 1887, and Roy Cuming, born August 22, 1891, 
 both of whom are living. 
 
 Mr. Brett, more than other teachers, seems to have 
 patterned somewhat after college examples. I refer to 
 his occasional issuance of catalogues or leaflets, con- 
 taining the scholars' names. So far as I have seen, Mr. 
 George Conant is the only other teacher who has done 
 so. Then he advertises a fixed course of study, at the 
 end of which is a graduation with its salutatory, vale- 
 dictory, etc. Four such graduation programmes I have 
 seen each ending off with a Latin motto, perhaps not 
 always patterned after the highest style of Ciceronian 
 
138 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY, 
 
 Latinity), and two of these, referring to the years 1886 
 and 1887, required eacln an all-day performance. In the 
 former case there were two graduates, Georgie Ellen 
 Barstow, and Hattie Mabel Chandler, and an Alumni 
 oration pronounced by William Paley Duncan, Esq., in 
 which he gave a very full account of the school for the 
 past thirty years, and many reminiscences of his school 
 days*. We herewith give the opening and the close of 
 his address as printed in a local sheet. 
 
 " Mr. President, fellow Alumni, and former classmates: 
 Although I wish this honor had fallen to another, I 
 yet most gratefully participate in the anniversary exer- 
 cises and reunion of the Alumni of our ancient Acade- 
 my. I welcome you back to the classic shades of our 
 Alma Mater on this bright day of leafy June. I wel- 
 come you Elders freighted with life's successes, with 
 honor and position ; I welcome you whose life has not so 
 smoothly onward run, who have encountered the rough 
 edges of disappointment, whose bright hopes have not 
 been fully realized. And you I welcome who to-day, 
 just now, have entered our ranks, you newly fledged 
 Alumni, full of fond expectations, ambitious thought 
 
 *In a recent letter he mentions this reminiscence : " We had a 
 Debating Club composed largely of students of the Academy. The 
 question for debate one evening was on this wise : ' Which is the 
 greater sinner, the drunkard or the moderate drinker.?' After 
 listening to a labored argument on one side tliat the moderate 
 drinker was by far the greater offender, a well known disputant on 
 the opposite side, [Mr. James Turner, I should think] arose and 
 said : ' Mr. President, if the argument of the gentleman is true that 
 the moderate drinker is the greater sinner, I should advise that all of 
 us moderate drinkers become drunkards in order to improve 
 our morals.' Suffice it to say that the debate was decided in his 
 favor." 
 
HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. I 39 
 
 and purpose. Brothers, sisters, teachers, friends, robust, 
 victorious, weary or disheartened, beginners, or just 
 ending life's drama, one and all, I bid you welcome, yea, 
 thrice welcome, on this festal day." 
 
 The closing part was as follows : 
 
 '' But, fellow i\lumni, I forbear. In theory we are all 
 young, but as we gaze the truth begins to dawn upon 
 many of us that the boon of youth is ours no longer. 
 Yet, as we strike hands to-day in love and friendship, 
 we forget 
 
 The strife of manhood with its hopes and fears, 
 
 The griefs and trials of our riper years. 
 
 The sad experience and the sore defeat, 
 
 The prayer unanswered, the triumph incomplete. 
 
 Our minds revert to golden days of yore, 
 In sweetest retrospect we count them o'er, 
 And deem each gentle face, each manly form 
 As fair, as brave as though unswept by storm ; 
 As bright and beautiful as erst in youth, 
 IJy sin unsullied, radiant with truth. 
 
 So let us part with many a fond regret, 
 Hoping to meet again as we have met. 
 In heaven or earth — what matter if we love. 
 In spirit one— on earth or realms above." 
 
 In the evening there was a Social Reunion which 
 was enlivened by the Hanover Brass Band and made 
 edifying and interesting by divers addresses of distin- 
 guished Alumni. 
 
 In 1887 there were four graduates with another 
 Alumni Oration. As it may interest some to see a 
 specimen programme I will venture to print the follow- 
 ing: 
 
 Graduating Exercises, June 17, 1887, at 10 a.m. 
 
 Salutatory — "Aims," .... Ernest Alonzo Thomas 
 
 Reading — "Piece of Calico," .... Viola Mav Bryant 
 
140 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 Duet — .... Misses M. A. Farrar and A. N. Little 
 
 Reading — "The Engineer's Murder," ... L. P. Rose 
 
 Class History — "For, Four, Forth," . . Annie Niles Little 
 
 Latin Essay — "Lingua et Scientia," . . Mabel Allen Farrar 
 
 Reading — "The Old Surgeon's Story," . . . L M. Fernald 
 
 Valedictory — "Education and Learning," . Mary Ellen Curtis 
 
 Presentation of Diplomas. 
 
 Dinner — Basket Collation. 
 
 x\lumni Oration and Addresses, at 2 p.m. 
 
 "Education of To-Day." 
 
 FLAVEL S. THOMAS, M.S. 
 
 OF Hanson, Mass. 
 Social Reunion at 8 p.m 
 Reading and Vocal Music. 
 
 The next year the graduating exercises were held in 
 the evening. There were three graduates, Viola May 
 Bryant, Mary Ellen McCarthy, Nettie May Chandler, 
 but no Alumni Oration. I know of no other printed 
 graduation programme (though there may have been 
 others) save that of 1891, the last year but one of the 
 Academy's existence. 
 
 After leaving Hanover, Mr. Brett taught as Principal 
 in the Avery Grammar School at Highlandville, in 
 Needham, for three and a half years, and then took 
 charo-e of a new laro:e Grammar School in Braintree for 
 some four years, when he resigned to enter upon the 
 practice of medicine in South Braintree, having obtained 
 in 1894 the degree of M. D. from the college of Phy- 
 sicians and Surgeons in Boston. While teaching in 
 Braintree he was for several Winters a sub-master of 
 the Brockton Evening High School. He has also since 
 served on the School Committee of Braintree. 
 
 At his graduation from the Medical School, the 
 Trustees appointed him lecturer on the faculty, and he 
 
HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. I4I 
 
 has since held continuously the chair of Bacteriology in 
 that Institution. Much of his success in life he ''at- 
 tributes to the healthy stimulus of the vigorous young 
 minds with whom he was so pleasantly brought in con- 
 tact during the six long-to-be-remembered years in 
 Hanover Academy." 
 
 The following is mainly a memory list of new names, 
 as given principally by Mr. Brett. 
 
 Lena B. Allen, Lottie W. Brownville, Viola M. 
 Bryant, Edward C. Bowers, Florence M. Barnard, 
 Bertha L. Buttrick, Edward K. Bacon, Charles D. 
 Bonney, Clarence E. Barnard, William Curtis, Edgar 
 Chandler, Ellen F. Cox, Hattie M. Chandler, Henrietta 
 Collamore, Nellie D. Collamore, Mary E. Curtis, Nettie 
 N. Chandler, Joseph M. Christy, Ellen B. Curtis, Percy 
 Damon, Harry Damon, Jennie Drew, Edwin Damon, 
 Elwin Damon, Alice Dow, Emma Dame, Edward R. 
 Flavell, Mabel A. Farrar, Ida M. Fernald, Ella R. 
 Flavell, Lillian C. Flavell, Edgar C. Gardner, Henry 
 Gardner, Nellie N. Howland, Samuel W. Hollis, Grace 
 F. Hatch, Marcellus Hatch, Walter R. Hatch, Annie 
 A. Howland, Oliver Hatch, Hiram H. Howland, Albert 
 C. Joyce,, John F. Kirby, John Kalua, Annie N. Little, 
 Everett S. Lawrence, Lacie B. Magoun, William Mer- 
 ritt, Lucy J. McFarlen, Mary E. McCarthy, Arthur 
 Magoun, Sadie F. Merritt, Annie Mann, William Pratt, 
 George T. Reeves, Elizabeth P. Rose, P'rederic S. 
 Smith, Sarah E. Snell, Delia A. Studley, Nellie Sim- 
 mons, Fannie W. Stetson, Flora E, Smith, S. Eliza 
 Snell, P'red S. Smith, Mertie C. Simmons, William W- 
 Sylvester, William Turner, Nellie Tower, Jennie Tower, 
 Henry Tolman, Sadie E. Tolman, P>nest A. Thomas, 
 Herbert C. Tolman, Burton L. Thomas, Emma vS. 
 
142 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 Thayer, Maria W. Tolman, Joseph Tolman, Thomas E. 
 Waterman, Harry T. Watkins, Thomas S. Walker, 
 George E. Waterman, Alberta White, Osmund F. 
 White. 
 
 Andre\v Preston Averill (1888 — '89), was born in 
 Micldleton, Essex County, July 18, 1856, graduated at 
 Harvard, 1882, taught as principal in the High School, 
 in Bolton, in Townsend, and in the Sawin Academy 
 and Dowse High School at Sherborn, which is his last 
 known address. He was preceptor of Hanover Academy 
 the Fall and Winter terms of 1888— '89*. His brief 
 term of service here does not seem to have been emi- 
 nently successful. The school, for some cause, lacked 
 interest in their studies. 
 
 In 1890 he writes to his class Secretary, Henry W. 
 Cunningham of Boston, that his "life has been unevent- 
 ful as a teacher in the public schools of Eastern Massa- 
 chusetts." In some respects his life has not been without 
 events. Soon after graduation he married Miss Clara 
 Ada McKay, in New York city, and up to 1895 has had 
 five children, the first of whom was " class baby," that 
 is, the first child of a member of the class born after 
 graduation, and, as such, little '* Charlie Peabody " re- 
 ceived a cradle from the class. 
 
 Mrs. Ellen Josephine (Towle) Sweeny (1889 — 90), 
 belonging to a family of Scotch descent, was the daugh- 
 ter of Darius and Hannah (Dimond) Towle, and was 
 born in N. Danville, N. H., June 20, 1850. When four- 
 
 *Under Mr. Averill's administration and thereafter, there were 
 but three school terms per year, while hitherto there had been four. 
 Mr. Brett, the preceding teacher inaugurated a partial change by 
 shortening the summer term to seven weeks. 
 
HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. I43 
 
 teen years of age, as she writes me, a copy of *' The 
 Good Girl and True Woman " fell into her hands, and 
 from that time her heart was set upon taking a course 
 of study at Mary Lyon's school. As a result of that 
 purpose she in 1876 graduated from Mt. Holyoke Sem- 
 inary. 
 
 Immediately upon graduating she became Precep- 
 tress of the Seminary in Doylestown, Pa. Subsequent- 
 
 MRS. SWEENY. 
 
 ly she taught in the West School of Maiden two years, 
 and then became principal of the Medfield high school, 
 which position she resigned in 1884 to become the wife 
 of Dr. Henry L. Sweeny, of Hanover. A few years after 
 she opened a private school in her house for the younger 
 children of the village, teaching them largely after the 
 kindergarten method. After a year and a half of this 
 service, she was induced to take the principalship of 
 
144 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 the Academy, and held this office from April, 1889, to 
 November, 1890. Miss Mary Ellen Curtis was happi- 
 ly chosen by her as assistant, while her own husband 
 lectured to the school two days each week upon Chem- 
 istry, Geology and Philosophy. Mrs. Sweeny was an 
 enthusiastic teacher, and had the happy faculty of inter- 
 esting her students and enlisting their sympathies in 
 the work. Since making her home in Kingston, N. H., 
 she has been largely engaged in church, missionary, and 
 literary work. For several years she has been a corre- 
 spondent of the Exeter Neivs Letter. With restored 
 health and pleasant surroundings, she has every reason 
 to hope for many years of usefulness and rational en- 
 joyment. During her academic service in Hanover, a 
 commemorative exercise was held, July 10, 1889, con- 
 sisting of a Word of Greeting by the assistant teacher, 
 Mary E. Curtis, the reading of Rev. Mr. Dyer's Dedica- 
 tory Address by Mr. J. G. Knight, singing of the origi- 
 nal dedicatory hymns, and a carefully prepared History 
 of the Academy by Dr. Henry L. Sweeny. I recollect 
 also a Bryant Day celebration as a most inspiring occa- 
 sion, when the students in their performances showed a 
 fine appreciation of Nature's great poet. 
 
 Miss Evangeline Hathaway (1890 — 92), daughter of 
 Rev. James Hathaway, was born in Jackson, Me., Jan. 
 21, 1869, but spent her earliest years in Bangor. She 
 was fitted for college in a private school at Portland, 
 was graduated from Wellesley in 1890, began teaching 
 at the Academy the winter term of 1890, and ended 
 June 24, 1892. In a letter received from her she says : 
 " The Academy always will be dear to me because it 
 was my first school, and because I feel that I came into 
 
HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADFMY 
 
 45 
 
 closer sympathy with my students than I have ever 
 clone since." After leaving Hanover she became for 
 two years principal of the Somerset High School, and 
 then went abroad for a year and studied at Oxford, 
 England. After her return she taught for a time in 
 New Bedford, and subsequently in Boston in Volkemann 
 Preparatory School for Boys. Her present address is 
 Woodfords, Me. I think Miss H. gave several public 
 
 MISS EVANGELINE HATHAWAY. 
 
 entertainments in the Academy, but the one I most dis- 
 tinctly recollect was given in the Odd Fellows Hall the 
 evening of June 20, 1892, and consisted in the per- 
 formance of a Farce, "Wanted — A Male Cook," 
 and a Play called a ** Rainy Evening," written by Mrs. 
 Dr. French of Hanover; the proceeds of which en- 
 tertainment were to be devoted to repairs for the 
 Academy. 
 
146 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 The following named misses took part in the play : 
 Ella Groce, Lottie and Annie Whiting, Florence Barker, 
 Annie Bryant, Bertha Hatch, Lottie Turner, Lucy 
 Litchfield, Edith Waterman. The performers of the 
 Farce were Chester Turner, Byron Merrill, Ernest 
 Howard, and Newton Litchfield. 
 
 The last graduating exercises of Hanover Academy 
 took place on the evening of June 26, 1891, in Odd 
 Fellows Hall. The two graduates, Mary Ellen Clapp 
 and Bertha Louise Buttrick, both of Norwell, had for 
 their class motto: "Onward and Upward." The princi- 
 pal exercises of the occasion consisted in Singing, by 
 Miss Bertha Barker, an invited guest from Wellesley, 
 and by Mr. John E. Burgess; Reading by Miss Florence 
 Barker ; Recitation by Rudolph W. Sweeny and James 
 C. Waterman; and Essays by Misses Clapp and But- 
 trick, the respective subjects of which were: "Life, its 
 Successes and Failures," and, "Moral and L'ltellectual 
 Development.", Diplomas were presented by Rev. D. 
 B. Ford, and prayer was offered and benediction pro- 
 nounced by Rey. F. S. Harraden, Rector of St. Andrew's 
 Church. 
 
 We here subjoin a list of names (not hitherto men- 
 tioned) of those who attended school during the last 
 years of the Academy's life, and more especially during 
 the administration of the two last-named teachers. 
 
 Florence S. Barker, Lucy Barrieau, Annie Bryant, 
 Mary E. Clapp, Catherine Christy, Fred Capel, Anna 
 M. Davenport, Nettie Damon, Charles Gassett, Fred 
 Gillett, Edward Goodrich, Ella B. Groce, Parker Hill, 
 Oliver Hatch, Charles Howland, Ernest Howard, 
 Joseph R. Hatch, Hester Howland, Bertha J. Hatch, 
 Mabel M. Howland, Hattie Johnson, Teresa Kent, 
 
HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. I47 
 
 Newton Litchfield, Harvey LeFurgy, Lucy E. Litch- 
 field, Ida Lord, Louis McMillan, Byron H. Merrill, 
 Essie Magoun, Rudolph W. Sweeny, Francis B. Syl- 
 vester, Lottie F. Turner, Lucy Turner, Elliot Turner, 
 Charles Torrance, Chester W. Turner, James C. 
 Waterman, Bessie Wild, Ellen Wild, Edith Waterman, 
 Mildred Waterman, Lottie Whiting, Annie Whiting, 
 Maud Whiting, John Whyman, William Whyman. 
 
PART IV. 
 MISCELLANEA. 
 
 For the sake of convenient reference we give here a 
 list of the Academy Teachers with approximate dates 
 of their teachino-. 
 
 Rev. Cal\ 
 
 Zephaniah a. Bates . . 
 Horace H. Rolfe . . 
 Rev. Cyrus Holme.s 
 Ethan Allen . . . 
 Rev. Calvln Wolcott 
 John P. Washburn . , 
 Dr. Ira Warren . . , 
 Thomas F. Whtie . 
 Herman Bourn . . 
 Hannah W. Johnson 
 
 IN Chaddock I 808- 1 
 
 1828 
 
 1829 
 
 1830 
 
 1S30 
 
 1831 
 
 1S32 
 
 >S33 
 1S34-7 
 1837-8 
 
 18' 
 
 Josiah Fuller and Sm.ster 1838-9 
 Rev. Cyrus Holmes . 18408 
 Mary F. Taggard . . 1847-51 
 Charles Hitchcock . 1848-9 
 George T. Wolco rr . . 1849 
 Martin P. McLauthlin 1850-4 
 George Conaxt and Wife, 1854-5 
 Frederic O. Harstow 1855-6 
 
 Charles A. Reed 
 Samuel G. Stone 
 Peleg T. Keene . . 
 Arthur S. Lake . . 
 Isaiah Dole . . . 
 John P. Apthorp 
 Peter L. Woodhury 
 Ebenezer B. Gay 
 John P. Thorndykk . 
 Josephine McRoy 
 J.vMES W. McDonald 
 Roland H.vmmond . 
 Rev. T. I). P. Stone . 
 John G. Knight 
 Frank W. Urett 
 Andrew P. Averill 
 Ellen J. Sweeny . . 
 
 1856-60 
 1860-1 
 T861-4 
 1864-5 
 
 • 1S65 
 1865-6 
 1866-7 
 
 . 1867 
 1867-8 
 
 1869-70 
 1870-1 
 
 . 1871 
 
 1871-5 
 
 1875-82 
 
 1S82-8 
 
 1888-9 
 
 1889-90 
 
 Evangeline Hathaway 1890-: 
 
 Of the above teachers the following were College or 
 Seminary graduates : 
 
 From Dartmouth: Calvin Chaddock, H. H. Rolfe, 
 Peter L. Woodbury, A. S. Lake, Charles Hitchcock.* 
 
 *Mr. Holmes, though not a graduate, was a student for some 
 time at Dartmouth, and his daughter has in her possession letters 
 written to him b\' his distinguished classmate, Hon. Salmon P. 
 ■Chase, who graduated in 182(>. 
 
HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 1 49 
 
 From Brown University: Ethan Allen, Herman 
 Bourn, George T. Wolcott, Frederic O. Barstow. 
 
 From Amherst : T. D. P. Stone, J. P. Apthorp, Chas. 
 A. Reed, S. G. Stone. 
 
 From Harvard : Zephaniah A. Bates, A. P. Averill. 
 
 From Bozvdoin: Isaiah Dole, J. W. McDonald. 
 
 From Tnfts : Roland Hammond. 
 
 From Phillips Andover Academy: Calvin Wolcott, 
 M. P. McLauthlin. 
 
 From Wesleyan University: J. G. Knight. 
 
 From Mi. Holyoke : Ellen J. Sweeny. 
 
 From Wellesley : Evangeline Hathaway. 
 
 From Framingham Normal School : Josephine Mc- 
 
 Roy. 
 
 From Bridgewater Normal School : F. W. Brett. 
 
 ACADEMY TRUSTEES, 1 828. 
 
 Alexander Wood, Horatio Gushing, John B. Barstow, 
 Col. Samuel Tolman, Jr., and Horace Collamore. 
 
 ACADEMY TRUSTEES, 1852— 61. 
 
 Samuel Salmond, Rev. Samuel Cutler, Rev. Abel G. 
 Duncan, Dr. Alfred C. Garratt, Seth Barker, Capt. 
 Elijah Barstow, Robert Sylvester, Melzar Hatch, Isaac 
 H. Haskins, Rev. Joel Mann, Stephen Josselyn, Rev. 
 Joseph Freeman, Rev. James Aiken, Thomas H. C. 
 Barstow. 
 
 ACADEMY DIRECTORS (subsequent to incorporation). 
 
 Rev. Samuel Cutler, Rev. Joseph Freeman, Elijah 
 Barstow, Isaac H. Haskins, Lemuel C. Waterman, T. 
 H. C. Barstow, Nathaniel Barstow, Edward F. Wood, 
 Dr. Woodbridge R. Howes, Benjamin B. Torrey, Isaac 
 M. Wilder, Edmund O. Sylvester, Warren Wright, Rev. 
 
ISO 
 
 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 Dr. William H. Brooks, Rudolphus C. Waterman, D. B. 
 Ford, Rev. Frank S. Harraden,J. Williams Beal, Joseph 
 S. Sylvester. (Several of these have also served as clerks 
 and as treasurers). 
 
 Three of the above enumerated Directors, Messrs. 
 Cutler, Brooks and Ford have served as Presidents of 
 the Board, said Board ever consisting of six members 
 elected by the Proprietors. 
 
 REV. SAMUEL CUTLER 
 
 No history of Hanover Academy can pass over in 
 silence the name of Rev. Samuel Cutler, who for a 
 score of years served as President of the Board. He 
 was the son of Samuel and Lydia (Prout) Cutler, and 
 was born in Newburyport, May 12, 1805, and in early 
 life was engaged in business in Portland, Me., and in 
 Boston. In 1836, at the age of 29, he began to prepare 
 for the ministry, and was settled over St. Andrew's 
 
HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. I5I 
 
 Church at Hanover Corners for some thirty years, from 
 Nov., 1841, to March, 1872. He then removed to Bos- 
 ton where he died July 17, 1880. His remains now rest 
 in our Hanover Cemetery. 
 
 During his stay in Hanover occurred the great trouble 
 and sorrow of the nation's life in its civil war, and also 
 the very serious trouble in the life of the Academy, 
 whose interests ever lay closely on his mind and heart, 
 and to whose welfare he gave in unstinted measure his 
 time and thought and care. Mr. Cutler was a man in 
 whose character and conduct there was nothing light or 
 frivolous. Life, right, and dut)^ were with him very 
 serious matters. While always polite and affable, he, I 
 think, never could have been jovial in society or as a 
 companion. His regard for real attainments and solid 
 worth made him averse to all pretence and show and in- 
 sincerity. From a course which seemed right to his 
 conscientious convictions nothing could deter him or 
 turn him aside. Evidence of this may be seen in the 
 partial change of his ecclesiastical relations which in 
 his later years he felt it his duty to make, yet at a cost 
 whose greatness cannot easily be imagined. 
 
 Amid his multifarious labors he found time to write 
 a number of small volumes, several of which, were pub- 
 lished by the American Tract Society. Perhaps the 
 most noted of these is the one entitled "The Name 
 above Every Name." 
 
 The above portrait of Rev. Air. Cutler was paid for by 
 the Dorcas Society of St. Andrew's Church. 
 
 Another revered and greatly beloved name, which 
 Hanover and its Academy will ever delight to honor, is 
 that of Rev. William Henry Brooks, S. T. D. He 
 
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 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 was born in Baltimore, Jan. ii, 1831. After graduat- 
 ing from the Episcopal Theological Seminary in Va. he 
 was ordained in the historic Christ Church in Alex- 
 andria of which Washington had been Vestryman. He 
 served in the pastorates of Newark, Del., Lenox, Mass., 
 Brockport, N. Y., Plymouth and Webster, and then 
 came to Hanover as Rev. Mr. Cutler's successor in the 
 Spring of 1872. Here he remained until the Autumn 
 
 REV. WILLIAM HENRY BROOKS. 
 
 of 1888 when he removed to Boston. He is now and 
 has been for some 34 years the honored Secretary of the 
 Mass. Diocesan Convention. For some 16 years he 
 served a,s President of the Academy Board of Direc- 
 tors and to this service gave much of time and thought. 
 Dr. Brooks was deservedly popular with his fellow citi- 
 zens, being highly esteemed both for his solid attain- 
 
HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 1 53 
 
 ments and his social qualities. More than once he was 
 chosen representative to our State Legislature. Though 
 he may be called a Southerner by birth and ties of kin- 
 dred, he was always a Union man, and he took especial 
 interest in the raising of the soldiers' monument; and 
 perhaps the proudest day of his life was when he served 
 as President of the Day at its dedication. The pam- 
 phlet which he subsequently prepared, giving a full ac- 
 count of the interesting exercises of that occasion, is 
 itself a worthy monument of his devotion to the high- 
 est interests of his town and country. 
 
 Alumni who have studied Medicine. 
 
 Joseph E. Corlew, Daniel C. Otis, Francis Collamore, 
 George A. Collamore, Joshua James Ellis, Frederic O. 
 Barstovv, Flavel S. Thomas, Marcus Ames, Charles P. 
 French, Clarence L. Howes, Henry L. Sweeny, Benja- 
 min P. Rarstow, L. Vernon Briggs.* 
 
 Joseph E. Corlew, while attending the Academy, 
 lived with his parents in the "Wild Cat" district of So. 
 Scituate, near Studley Hill, in a house which is now torn 
 down. He obtained the degree of M. D. from Harvard 
 University in 1842 and practised first in Wiscasset, Me. 
 then in Millbury, Mass., and finally in So. Weymouth, 
 where he died in 1864. Some of his Academy school- 
 mates who were most intimately acquainted with him, 
 deemed him a man of ready, popular, and almost bril- 
 liant talents. His son, Joseph T. Corlew, is also one of 
 our Academy Alumni and has taught in our public 
 schools. 
 
 *This and other lists which follow have reference mainly to the 
 later history of the Academy. 
 
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 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY 
 
 Daniel C. Otis, was born in So. Scituate in 1826, 
 studied in Hanover Academy under Mr. Holmes, and 
 subsequently at the Tremont Medical School. Boston. 
 After obtaining his diploma he settled in Providence 
 and died there at the age of 32. He was never married. 
 
 Francis Collamoke, 
 son of Horace and Laura 
 (Briggs) Col lam ore, and a 
 descendant of the distin- 
 guished Dr. Jeremiah Hall, 
 was born in N. Pembroke, 
 Dec. 7, 1825. After leav- 
 ing the Academy and 
 teaching for a time, he be- 
 gan the study of medicine 
 with his uncle, Dr. An- 
 thony Collamore, and in 
 1847 graduated from the 
 medical department of 
 Dartmouth College. His 
 subsequent life has been 
 spent in his native town 
 where he has practised his profession and also has filled 
 many important town offices, having been town-clerk for 
 twelve years, a member of the School Committee for ov- 
 er thirty years, also Town Treasurer, and Treasurer of 
 the Marshfield Agricultural Society. He has also had 
 much to do in the settling of estates. In 1881 he was a 
 member of the State Legislature. Probably no one in 
 Pembroke is better versed in its history than he, and his 
 historical writings should erelong be made to see the 
 light of day. It is an interesting circumstance that his 
 father before him was also an Academy student, a pupil 
 of "Parson Chaddock." 
 
 FRANCIS COLLAMORE. 
 
HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 155 
 
 We may add that a daughter of his, Fiorina M. Colla- 
 more, one of our Academy girjs, has likewise served 
 several years as a member of the School Committee in 
 Pembroke. 
 
 In this connection I may speak of Leandek Colla- 
 MORE, a brother of Dr. Francis Collamore, who studied 
 at the Academy under Mr. Holmes, and at Phillips Exe- 
 ter Academy, and was graduated at Dartmouth College 
 in 1856. It is my impression that he had the law in 
 view, but in the exciting times of the Kansas crusade 
 and " border ruffianism " he went to Lawrence, and after 
 residing there some eighteen months, died on Sept. 9, 
 1859, aged 26 years. 
 
 It is an interesting circumstance that a cousin of his, 
 George W. Collamore, for a time Mayor of Lawrence, 
 was smothered to death in his own well wherein his wife 
 concealed him during the raid led on by Quantrell, who 
 searched the premises for him in vain, but set his house 
 on fire. 
 
 George A. Collamore, son of Dr. Anthony and 
 Caroline (Hatch) Collamore, was born in Pembroke, 
 November 9, 1833, graduated from Dartmouth in 1854, 
 tauo-ht in Virofinia, studied medicine at Dartmouth Col- 
 lege and Harvard University Medical School, graduatmg 
 from this last mentioned school in 1859. He served as 
 surgeon in our Civil War, and is now a practising physi- 
 cian in Toledo, Ohio. I may state that several sisters 
 of his have attended the Academy, the names of whom 
 are given under the head of school teachers. The 
 Academy has always been remarkably well patronized 
 by the Collamore families of North Pembroke. 
 
 Joshua James Ellis was born in Boston, September 
 13, 1826, but while an Academy student he made his 
 
156 
 
 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY 
 
 home in North Marshfield at the house of a relative, 
 Daniel Phillips, Esq. H-e was a bright and good-looking 
 boy, and must in very early life have often been placed 
 upon a table or other platform to speak his little pieces 
 — so self-possessed and so pleasing was he as a speaker in 
 our Academy days and in after years. He was gradu- 
 ated at Brown University in 1847, and at Harvard 
 Medical school in 1852. In 1847—8, he taught a pri- 
 vate school in Newport, R I., where he married, in 
 1852, a daughter of Rev. Dr. John O. Choules. After 
 practising as a physician in Bristol, R. I., 1854 — 62, he 
 became assistant surgeon in Mass. Volunteers, 1862 — 63. 
 He died at Newport, March 17, 1863. 
 
 Flavel Shurtleff 
 Thomas was born in Han- 
 son, September 7, 1852, 
 and on leaving its town 
 schools studied at Han- 
 over Academy, Phillips 
 Andover Academy, Har- 
 vard University, and about 
 a dozen other of the high- 
 er institutions of our land. 
 He obtained his M. D. 
 from Harvard in 1874, 
 and after practising a few 
 months in Ithaca, N. Y., 
 he returned to Hanson, 
 where he has resided ever 
 FLAVELL SHURTLEFF THOMAS. siucc. lu 1 879 hc married 
 Caroline M. Smith, and has two children, Perry Shurtleff 
 and Saba Drew. In 1892 he received the degree of 
 L.L. D. from Shurtleft College. 
 
 To enumerate all the 
 
HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMV. I 57 
 
 works he has written and all the honorary titles he has 
 received would, I think, even in diamond type, more 
 than fill up one of these pages, and hence, for a full 
 account of these things and of the offices he has filled, 
 we must refer our readers to his biography, which is 
 found in the '* History of Plymouth County," and in the 
 Plymouth County *' Biographical Review." Of our 
 Academic students we may say that many have done 
 nobly, but thou, at least in certain lines, hast excelled 
 them all. 
 
 Charles P. French, son of Dr. John O. French, for- 
 merly a practising physician in this village, studied at 
 the Dartmouth Medical school, and was settled ni Dux- 
 bury, Truro and Pembroke, but is now retired from 
 practice. 
 
 Clarence L. Howes, son of Dr. Woodbridire R. 
 Howes, who was for many years a popular and success- 
 ful physician in this place* was born at Mattapoisett, 
 March 24, ICS48, fitted for college in our Academy under 
 Mr. Lake, and graduated from Amherst in 1869. After 
 teaching in Pembroke, in Spencertown Academy, Aus- 
 terlitz, N. V., and in the High School of Rockland, he 
 entered the Institute of Technolog)- in Boston, and 
 graduated therefrom in 1873 with the degree of B. S. 
 He then engaged in civil engineering and surveying till 
 1876, when he began the study of medicine and at 
 the same time taught for one year in the P^liot Gram- 
 mar and Boston Latin schools. Afterward he attended 
 medical lectures at Dartmouth colleoe and at the Lono^ 
 Island College Hospital, where, in 1878, he received the 
 degree of M. D. In the same year, October 3, he was 
 married to Mary O. Hapgood of Worcester, and since 
 then has resided in Hanover. He has had two children, 
 
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 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY 
 
 a son and a daughter — the latter alone surviving. For 
 nearly a score of years he has served as Chairman of 
 the School Committee. 
 
 _^ , Henry L. Sweeny, the 
 
 eldest son of Edward M. 
 and Lucy (Thaxter) Swee- 
 ny, was born in Bridge- 
 water, Apr. 3, 1858. At 
 an early age his parents 
 moved to Hanson near the 
 tack manufactory of Ezra 
 Phillips and Sons, in 
 whose employ his father 
 has been connected from 
 that time to the present. 
 In 1870 they again moved 
 to the George Curtis place 
 in Hanover where ihey 
 still reside. On the open- 
 HENRY L. SWEENY. iug of thc railroad to Hau- 
 
 over Corners in 1868 he began to attend the Academy 
 and continued there under the tuition of Miss McRoy, 
 Mr. McDonald and Rev. Mr. Stone. In the last year of 
 his attendance he served as Mr. Stone's assistant. In 
 January, 1875, he entered Adams Academy at Quincy 
 and graduated there in 1878. Soon after entering Har- 
 vard College he was obliged to leave on account of poor 
 health. In 1879 he entered the Harvard Medical 
 School from which he graduated in 1882. He first be- 
 gan to practise in Kingston N. H.^for a short time, then 
 for about a year in the city of Boston, after which, in 
 1883, he came to Hanover, taking for the first winter 
 the practice of the late Dr. John O. French while the 
 
HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 159 
 
 latter was in Florida. He remained in Hanover until 
 1890 when he returned to Kingston, N. H., where he 
 still resides. Dr. Sweeny has served as member of the 
 School Board and as Town Clerk, for three years each, 
 is now a Justice of the Peace, a member of the local 
 Board of Health, and County physician for Rockingham 
 County. He is also a member of the New Hampshire 
 Medical Society, the New Hampshire Associated Boards 
 of Health, and of the American Medical Association. 
 
 In 1884 Dr. Sweeny, as we have already stated, mar- 
 ried Ellen Josephine Towle, who afterwards became 
 Principal of Hanover Academy, and during her term of 
 service he was assistant in the school. Thus at two 
 different periods he has served 'as assistant teacher in 
 
 the Academy "in which 
 he has passed many 
 pleasant and happy days, 
 and nonecotdd regret the 
 piassing away of the old 
 institution more than 
 he." 
 
 Benjamin Parker 
 Barstou', was born in 
 Duxbury, Aug. 31, i860, 
 entered Hanover Acad- 
 emy in 1876 and gradu- 
 ated from Boston Univer- 
 sity School of Medicine 
 June, 1882. He was first 
 settled in Exeter, N. H., 
 
 BENJAMIN PARKER BARSTOW. aud lU I884 CaUlC tO 
 
 Kingston where he has lived and practised ever since. 
 His practice, I believe, is after the Homoeopathic 
 
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 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 method. In June, i88s, he married Helen B. Steele of 
 Epsom, N. H., and has two children. 
 
 We may state that Mr. 
 L. Vernon Briggs, who 
 amid multifarious cares 
 and duties has for some 
 years past paid consider- 
 able attention to the heal- 
 ing art, is now taking at 
 Dartmouth College a 
 thorough course of medi- 
 cal instruction. In Acad- 
 emy matters and in Town 
 matters he has ever mani- 
 fested a deep interest, 
 and his printed volumes 
 of Ship-building Records, 
 of Church Records, of 
 L. VERNON BRIGGS. Ccmctcry Records, and 
 
 of Town Records, are a monument to his indefatigable 
 industry and j^ublic spirit. For many years he was 
 President of our Alumni Association. For the many 
 other offices he has held or still holds, the reader 
 is referred to his "Church and Cemetery Records," 
 PP- 54» 55- 
 
 Our readers must be given to understand that in some 
 of the above biographical notices we have not told and 
 could not bear to tell the whole truth. From more than 
 one instance of a seriously marred life comes espe- 
 cially the solemn warning not to touch, nor taste, nor 
 handle. 
 
HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. l6l 
 
 Alumni who have Become Lawyers. 
 
 George M. Reed, Franklin E. Felton, Charles Hitch- 
 cock, Edward G. Stetson, Charles F. Phillips, John S. 
 Crosby, William P. Duncan, Walter R. Torrey. 
 
 Geo. Milton Reed, brother of the teacher, Charles 
 A. Reed, was born in Weymouth, Jan. 8, 1840, fitted for 
 college in Weymouth and Hanover, graduated from 
 Amherst in 1862, taught school in 1862 — 3, and then 
 studied in the Harvard Law School. He resides in 
 Boston, and since 1871 has been Law reporter of de- 
 cisions of the Courts for the Boston Daily Advertiser. 
 
 Franklin PZliot Felton, half brother of President 
 Felton of Harvard College, was graduated from Hnr- 
 vard in 185 i, was subsequently made A. M. without fur- 
 ther study, and in 1853 received the degree of LL. B. 
 His last known address was Baltimore, Maryland. 
 
 Edward Gray Stetson, son of Rev. Caleb Stetson 
 of So. Scituate, formerly of Medford, graduated from Cam- 
 bridge College in 1853, and subsequently from Harvard 
 Law School. After graduation he received from his 
 college the degree of A. M. without further study, and 
 in 1868 the degree of LL. B. P^or nearly 30 years past 
 he has been practising law in San Francisco, Cal. 
 
 Charles P'ollen Phillips, son of Ezra Phillips, 
 was born in Hanson, April 21, 1846, and died Jan. 30, 
 1885. After graduating from the Boston University 
 Law School, June, 1873, he acted for a short time as 
 Assistant Register of Probate for Middlesex County 
 till his health failed him. Besides going to the South 
 in the Winter of 1874, he twice made a visit to Europe. 
 
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 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY 
 
 William Paley Duncan, son of Rev. Abel G. Dun- 
 can*, was born April i, 1831, studied at Williston Sem- 
 inarv and at Amlierst College, spent the early part of 
 
 his life in teaching in 
 Maine, Michigan, and 
 Massachusetts, and af- 
 ter admission to the bar 
 opened an office in Bos- 
 ton. He married Abbie 
 F. Crane, of Freetown, 
 and has had three chil- 
 dren, two of whom, John 
 F. and Payson Williston, 
 are living. Mr. Duncan, 
 like his honored father, 
 has the poetic genius, 
 but ill health does not 
 now allow him to take 
 any lofty or long flights 
 WILLIAM p. DUNCAN ^^ith hls Pcgasus. We* 
 
 have already given a specimen of his verse in a pre- 
 vious page, and he has kindly consented to furnish for 
 our work a few closing lines. Our readers will find in 
 the Pamphlet of the Soldiers' Monument, page 82, a 
 touching tribute by him to the " Unknown " ones of our 
 buried soldiers in the sunnv South. 
 
 *Rev. Mr. Duncan, a man of distinguished ability and genius, 
 and helper of all educational work, was for many years an honored 
 Director of Hanover Academy. He came to Hanover Aug., 1833, 
 as pastor of the Centre Church, resigned his pastorate April. 1854, 
 and died in Hanover April 23, 1874. For some six years he repre- 
 sented the Town in our State Legislature His two daughters, 
 Laura J. King, of North Adams, and Lucia A. Dean, of Taunton, 
 have both deceased. These are the " tall daughters " whom Miss 
 Taggard mentions as among her pupils. 
 
HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 163 
 
 Walter R. Torrey was born in So. Scitiiate, April 
 I, 1864, studied at the Academy under Mr. Knight, and 
 subsequently attended the Bryant and Stratton school, 
 
 and Boston University. 
 He studied law with Judge 
 Hosea Kingman and at 
 Boston University Law 
 School, was admitted to 
 the Bar June, 1896, and is 
 now associated with Judge 
 Kingman in practice. In 
 his vocation he has been 
 very successful, and has 
 recently won the most im- 
 portant cases ever tried in 
 Plymouth County, known 
 as the ''Hull Official Bri- 
 bery Cases." His princi- 
 pal business is in this 
 County, and in the cities 
 of Boston and New York. At present he is counsel for 
 the towns of Scituate and Hull, and is interested in the 
 management of several large trust estates and corpora- 
 tions. He has also been largely engaged in real estate 
 and mercantile transactions in this State and in New 
 Jersey. While his home is in Norwell, he has a sum- 
 mer residence at North Scituate Beach, a beautiful 
 place near the '' Glades," which he has done very much 
 to develop, having built there himself more than twenty 
 houses. In 1895 his town gave him a majority vote for 
 Representative. He confesses to have amassed already 
 quite a fortune, and, if he keeps on financially as he has 
 begun, he bids fair to become our Alumni Rockefeller. 
 
 \/VALTER R. TORREY 
 
164 
 
 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 He married Helen H., only daughter of Hon. Ebenezer 
 T. Fogg, late deceased, and has one son, Wendell. 
 
 I may state that several of the Torrey name and 
 khidred who were once members of our Academy have 
 likewise been remarkably successful in business. 
 
 Mr. Barry, on page 98 of his History of Hanover, 
 makes mention of Isaiah Wing, a native of Hanover, 
 who, according to report, was one of Mr. Chaddock's 
 pupils after he was a married man. Subsequently he 
 studied law, and after practising here for a time moved 
 to Cincinnati, O., where he died. 
 
 Alumni who have entered the Ministry. 
 
 Marcus Ames, William 
 
 REV. MARCUS AMES. 
 
 lege of Physicians and S 
 
 Henry Stetson, D. B. Ford, 
 Frederic O. Barstow, 
 George A. Litchfield, 
 David P. Hatch, Wil- 
 li.'.m C. Litchfield, James 
 C. Church, t^rnest A. 
 Thomas. 
 
 Marcus Ames, son of 
 Azel and Mercy (Hatch) 
 Ames, was born in 
 Marshfield, Feb. 26, 
 1828, studied at Phil- 
 lips Andover Academy, 
 being the valedictorian 
 of his class, also at Wil- 
 liams College, in Har- 
 vard Medical School, 
 and in New York Col- 
 
 urgeons, graduating in 1853, 
 
HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 165 
 
 After studying Theology with Rev. Erastiis Dickinson, 
 Colchester, Ct., he was ordained at Paterson, N. J., 
 June 28, 1854. In May i, 1856, he was installed at 
 Westminster, and was dismissed therefrom June 9, 
 1859. In 1859 — '62 he served as acting pastor at North 
 Chelsea, now Revere, and from 1862 to 1875 he was 
 Superintendent and Chaplain of the Industrial school 
 for girls in Lancaster. In the years 1875 — '^^ ^^ sup- 
 plied churches in Shirley, Orange and Lancaster. In 
 1879 — 86 he was Chaplain of State Institutions at Cran- 
 ston, R. I. He then became acting pastor at Thomp- 
 son, Ct., until his death at Pepperell, Dec. 11,1887. 
 He was married, Oct. 15, 1853 to Jane A.Vanderburgh, 
 Syracuse, N. Y., and left two children, Dr. Herman V. 
 Ames, now of the University of Pennsylvania, and a 
 daughter, Ella E. Ames, of Philadelphia, one son hav- 
 ing deceased. 
 
 Rev. Mr. Ames was especially interested in reform 
 work. An obituary notice from the Providencey(y;/;7/<?/ 
 of Dec. 29, 1887, states that *' he had a tender heart 
 toward the criminal classes. While he abhorred the 
 crimes they had committed, he was, nevertheless, a firm 
 believer in the possibility of iheir reformation under the 
 inspiration and power of the Gospel." It was his en- 
 deavor to make Reform schools truly reformatory rather 
 than penal, and in those schools of which he had charge 
 many wayward ones were inspired to lead a better life. 
 He was also greatly interested in mission work, and 
 was, indeed, in early life appointed missionary physician 
 to the Gabboon Mission, Africa, but his wife's health 
 proving inadequate, the plan had to be abandoned. Be- 
 sides his annual Reports as Superintendent of the 
 Schools, he was the author of several addresses on Tem- 
 
l66 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 perance and Reform. In his theology, he was strongly 
 Calvinistic, and as a preacher he was brilliant, fervent 
 and impressive. In his drawing power as a man and 
 speaker he may be called magnetic. His obituary closes 
 with these words : " He was a broad man of strong 
 sympathies, keen perceptions and indomitable will ; pure 
 minded and sweet-spirited, he lived to bless tlie world, 
 and, dymg, left a void that cannot readily be filled." 
 
 William Henry Stetson, of South Scituate, was 
 born in Boston, Nov. 14, 1820, and died in Providence, 
 March 13, 1897. After leaving the Academy and teach- 
 ing school for a time, he took a four years' course in the 
 Methodist Biblical Institute at Concord, N. H. He 
 spent some 45 years in the Gospel ministry, serving 
 parishes in the Norwich, New Bedford and Providence 
 Districts, which were regarded as above the ordinary 
 rank. In 1874 — yy he was Presiding Elder of the Nor- 
 wich District, and in 1877 — 79 of the New Bedford Dis- 
 trict. In Falmouth, the place of his first settlement, he 
 was married on May 9, 1853, to Miss Lucy F. Nye, who 
 with one son and three daughters survives him. 
 
 Geo. a, Litchfield, a student of the Academy 
 under Mr. Conant, afterward studied for two years at 
 Brown University, leaving there in 1862, when the war 
 broke out. He was settled over the Baptist Church in 
 Winchendon five years when he resigned on account of 
 ill-health and has never since taken a pastorate. When 
 he, with his sister Ophelia, attended the Academy, his 
 parents lived in this village, but while a student in Col- 
 lege they resided, I think, in Brookfield. tlis present 
 residence is Wollaston. 
 
HISTOKV OF HANOVER ACADEMY 
 
 167 
 
 REV. D. P. HATCH. 
 
 On returning 
 
 David P. Hatch was 
 born in "the two-miles," 
 Marshfield, Oct. 16, 1856. 
 After studying at the 
 Academy he took the 
 course at Phillips Andover 
 Academy, and subsequent- 
 ly graduated from Am- 
 herst College in 1883, and 
 from Hartford Theologi- 
 cal Seminary in 1886. He 
 was ordained and installed 
 in Rockland, Me., July i, 
 1886, and remained there 
 until May, 1895, and then 
 took a three months' tour 
 in the Fall of 1895, he was 
 Maine Missionary Society, 
 
 m ii^urope 
 
 chosen Secretary of the 
 
 which office he still holds. 
 
 His present address is Portland, Me. In Oct. 27, 1886, 
 he married Miss Caroline, daughter of Professor Patton, 
 of Washington, D. C, who died Jan. 19, 1893, and in 
 Jan. 9, 1895 he was married again to Miss Cora E. 
 Johnson, of Williamstown, Mass. His only child, born 
 Dec. II, 1895, lived but about two years. 
 
 (I would here speak a word as to the character and 
 worth of Mr. Hatch's mother, who attended the Acade- 
 my for awhile with myself. She was a ladylike, cultured 
 Christian woman, a woman of talent, who could write 
 poetry or could write sermons, which last, however, I 
 was not permitted to see. In my estimation she was in 
 every way a superior woman. I trust that among our 
 
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 IIISTORV OF HANOVER ACADEMY 
 
 numerous Alumnae, there 
 is many an Almira Little 
 (previously mentioned) and 
 many an Ann S. Dwelley, 
 who are the choice ones 
 of earth and heaven, and 
 whose names, though un- 
 recorded on the printed 
 page, yet deserve to be no- 
 ticed quite as much as 
 many that will be men- 
 tioned in this work.) 
 
 Mr. James C. Church, 
 of So. Scituate, after 
 teaching some time in our 
 
 ANN S, DWELLEV (HATCH). j^^,^,.^ ^^^^^|^_ gj^,^,;^^ j^^ 
 
 Canton, N. Y., to be a Universalist minister, and was 
 first settled in Maine. Afterward he joined the Con- 
 gregational denomination, but its year book no longer 
 bears his name in the list of preachers. He is now en- 
 gaged in business in Boston. 
 
 William C. Litchfield was born in So. Scituate, 
 near "Studley Hill," March 31, 1840, and after attend- 
 ing the Academy in 1852 — 53 and 1856 — 57, prepared 
 under private instruction to enter Meadville Theological 
 Seminary in 1861. The Civil War breaking out, he 
 sought to enlist in the i8th Mass. Regt., Co. G., but 
 failed to pass examination. In 1864, however, he enlisted 
 in Co. E., 1st Heavy Artillery, and served until the close 
 of the war. During the years 1877 — y^ he served as 
 Selectman, and in 1878 — 79 was Representative from 
 the District embracing the towns of So. Scituate, Scit- 
 
HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY 
 
 169 
 
 uate, and Cohasset. 
 After reading- Theol- 
 ogy under direction 
 of Prof. F. H. Hedge, 
 of Cambridge, he was 
 ordained at Hobart, 
 Ind., in May, 1879, ^ 
 minister of the Uni- 
 tarian denomination. 
 His settlements have 
 been in Gardner, Ber- 
 lin and Middleboro, 
 in which latter place 
 he now resides. In 
 Sept., 1894, a severe 
 illness rendered him 
 unable longer to as- 
 sume the duties of a 
 REV. WM. c. LITCHFIELD. Settled pastor. In 
 
 the recent State election Mr. Litchfield was chosen 
 Republican Representative from Middleboro for 1899. 
 
 Ernest A. Thomas, of Marshfield has for some time 
 been supplying the Baptist Church in Three Rivers, but 
 I believe he has never been ordained. His present 
 address is Roxbury District, Boston. 
 
 Alumni who, according to my recollection, have grad- 
 uated FROM Colleges and Seminaries.* 
 
 J. J. Ellis, D. B. Ford, F. O. Barstow, from Brown ; 
 Geo. M. Reed, C. L. Howes, D. P. Hatch, from Am- 
 
 *It is, of course, understood that all the College graduates men- 
 tioned did not receive their entire fitting at Hanover Academy, 
 though many did so. Some certainly studied elsewhere, while 
 they took their start from here. 
 
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 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 herst ; Geo. R. Dwelley, Franklin E. Felton, Edward 
 G. Stetson, from Harvard ; C. Hitchcock, George A. 
 Collamore, Leander Collamore, from Dartmouth ; Har- 
 ry T. Watkins from Colby ; F. S. Thomas, from 
 Harvard Medical School ; W. P. Brooks, from Massa- 
 chusetts Agricultural College ; Frank Baker and 
 Charles B. Phillips from West Point ; J. W. Beal from 
 Institute of Technology ; H. L. Sweeny, from Adams 
 Academy ; VVm. H. Stetson from Concord Methodist 
 Biblical Institute ; Edward Southworth, Emily E. Syl- 
 vester, Martha W. Sylvester, Grace F. Hatch, Grace 
 L. Russell, from Bridgewater Normal School ; Emma 
 Barstow, Angela B. Ford, Edith G. Ford, from Wheaton 
 Female Seminary ; Fiorina M. Collamore from Thayer 
 
 Academy. 
 
 As many of the above 
 names have been no- 
 ticed elsewhere, we shall 
 only speak of two or 
 three farther. 
 
 Prof. William Penn 
 Brooks was born in So. 
 Scituate, Nov. 19, 185 1. 
 At about the age of 
 fourteen he attended 
 the "Assinippi Insti- 
 tute," and on its closing 
 he came to the Acad- 
 emy. After teaching in 
 several of our Hanover 
 PROF. WM. PENN BROOKS. schools and in Rock- 
 
 land, he entcre:! the Massachusetts Agricultural Col- 
 lege at Amherst, and graduated therefrom in 1875 with 
 the de<2:ree of B. Sc. 
 
HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. I /I 
 
 In the following year he was a post-graduate student 
 in Chemistry, Botany and the Languages. In 1877 — ^^ 
 we find him professor of Agriculture in the Imperial 
 College of Agriculture in Sapporo, Japan, and for sev- 
 eral years he was acting President of that college. 
 Since 1889 he has served as Professor of Agriculture at 
 Amherst, and as Agriculturalist for the Hatch Experi- 
 ment Station. One year, 1896 — 7, he spent in Europe, 
 in travel and study, and in the latter year received the 
 degree of Ph. D. from the University of Halle- Wit- 
 tenberg, Germany. In March 28, 1882, he was married 
 to Eva Bancroft Hall, and has two children, Rachel Ban- 
 croft, born Jan., 1884, and Sumner Cushing, born Aug., 
 1888. 
 
 Frank Baker, son of Geo. Martin Baker, of Marsh- 
 field, graduated at West Point in 1872, as No. 5 in a 
 class of 57 members. Commissioned as 2d Lieut. 13th 
 Regt. of Infantry, Instructor at the Military Academy 
 and with Regiments in Wyoming, Louisiana, Missis- 
 sippi and Georgia. First Lieut. 13th Infantry, Nov. i, 
 1874. Transferred to Ordnance Dept of the Army as 
 1st Lieut., April, 18, 1879. Served at Arsenals in Rock 
 Island, 111., Benicia, Cal., Philadelphia, Pa., and Water- 
 town, Mass. Capt. Ordnance Dept. 1886, and now In- 
 spector of Ordnance U. S. A., at Providence, R. I. His 
 brother George Baker, has served for several years as 
 one of the Selectmen of Marshfield, and was a member 
 of the Legislature in 1882. 
 
 In Mr. J. Williams Beal we recognize a skilled 
 Architect, not imported from abroad, but born and bred 
 among us. There was in his make-up as a boy a con- 
 siderable amount of play, but any excessiveness of this 
 
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 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY 
 
 quality he in due time suppressed, and with great per- 
 sistency of purpose took a full course of technological 
 instruction, and became thereby one of our most widely 
 known, accomplished and successful Architects. In 
 Hanover he will probably be best and longest remem- 
 bered as the designer of its beautiful Soldiers' Monu- 
 ment. Mr. Real early took to himself in life's partner- 
 ship an Academy girl, Mary W. Howes, only daughter 
 of our long beloved village physician, Dr. Woodbridge 
 R. Howes, late deceased, and he is now blessed with a 
 fine family of children. 
 
 Another Academy student who has likewise dis- 
 tinguished himself in the business of Architecture, En- 
 gineering, Surveying, Draughting, is Willard Kent, 
 
 of Marshfield, who at- 
 tended the Academy 
 under Mr. Keene's in- 
 struction. He has now 
 offices at Woonsocket 
 and at Narragansett 
 Pier, R. I. 
 
 George Russell 
 
 DwELLEY, after leaving 
 
 the Academy, prepared 
 
 for college at Andover, 
 
 and graduated from 
 
 Harvard University, 
 
 class of 1853. After 
 
 teaching a few years in 
 
 the Rockland High 
 
 GEO. R. DWELLEY. School aud many years 
 
 in the High School at Watertown, he went West, 
 
 and served three or four years as Bookkeeper for a Cop- 
 
HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. I 73 
 
 per Mining Company at Lake Superior. Returning to 
 Boston he became Treasurer of the Mechanics Savings 
 Bank, and was also appointed as its receiver. He then 
 took up his school work in Watertown, and has served 
 as teacher or School Superintendent there over a score 
 of years. His present address is Arlington Heights. 
 
 We reprint the following verses by Mr. Dwelley as 
 we find them in a local sheet of recent date. The last 
 lines, though true as a general thing, do not wholly do 
 away with the regret which we feel at the Academy's 
 demise: 
 
 A TRIBUTE TO THE HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 Suggested by the announcement that tlie Academy building Avas 
 
 to be sold. 
 
 In the v^iews of the fathers the schoolhouse came next 
 To food, clothing and shelter; church, parson and text. 
 And those schools were the best in their scale of esteem, 
 Which gave ot sound knowledge the cream of the cream. 
 Hence academies flourished; and each little town 
 Had its Liliput college for jacket and gown, 
 Where the boy could his faculties freely unfold. 
 And the girl bud and bloom into beauty of soul; 
 And where guidance of masters made easy of reach 
 Both strength for the spirit and grace for the speech. 
 
 Our Hanover folk, in their guesses at truth, 
 
 Deemed the best none too good for their innocent youth, 
 
 So, with foresight of students to come by the score. 
 
 They built in their faith one academy more. 
 
 What a blessing it was! And what blessing it brought 
 
 To the many it raised to new levels of thought! 
 
 What friendships it fostered! They live till to-day 
 
 In that kingdom within us which knows not decay ; 
 
 How its influence grew, as its graduates spread. 
 
 Making life more worth living, and death the less dread ! 
 
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 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 " Let by-gones be by-gones," may moralists preach, 
 
 r^ut the lesson is heartless their sermon would teach; 
 
 For there's little at anchor. Time sweeps most away, 
 
 And change succeeds change like the scenes in a play. 
 
 Ere a century passed, as a wreck on the shore 
 
 Lay the school that we cherished — its usefulness o'er. 
 
 While we tenderly mourn for the '' day that is dead," 
 
 We rejoice that a brighter has dawned in its stead ; 
 
 And, with love for what has been, as optimists feel 
 
 That the Hiijh School serves better the whole common weal 
 
 It will not, I trust, be deemed invidious if I mention 
 a few of our Alumni who have become distinguished as 
 business men and as honored and useful citizens. 
 
 Samuel Tolman, Jr., 
 Son of Col. Samuel Tol- 
 man, born in So. Scituate 
 in 1820, was a student in 
 the Academy with myself, 
 and was, indeed, in some 
 studies a classmate, espec- 
 ially in the languages. He 
 and Francis Collamore, 
 Daniel C. Otis and myself 
 studied Virgil together un- 
 der Mr. Holmes who kind- 
 ly permitted us to get our 
 lessons in an ante-room or 
 lobby, where, by a division 
 of labor— each one look- 
 mg out in the dictionary 
 the meaning of different words— we,could thereby make 
 much more rapid progress than when studying alone. 
 So enthusiastic were we at times in our studies {?) that 
 the teacher was occasionally obliged to repress our en- 
 
 SAMUEL TOLMAN, JR. 
 
HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 175 
 
 thusiasm either by speaking' to us or by having our door 
 set open so that he could take a distant observation. 
 Mr. Tolman at one time thought of going to college, and 
 probably would have done so but for considerations of 
 health. For many years he was a Selectman in his na- 
 tive town, also a member of the school committee, and 
 an honored Representative in General Court. But he is 
 perhaps best remembered now for '' his active interest 
 in whatever pertained to the welfare and comfort of 
 the brave men who went forth from that town to suffer 
 and die that the Union might be preserved." I may add 
 that the above portrait of Mr. Tolman was paid for by 
 the Sabbath school of the Congregational church at 
 Hanover Corners, of which school he was for a long- 
 time the Superintendent. His death occurred Nov. 2^, 
 
 1894. His younger broth- 
 er, James T. Tolman, 
 whom I also knew as an 
 Academy student under 
 Mr. Holmes, died Jan. 
 29, 1896. 
 
 Perhaps no one among 
 us was ever more respect- 
 ed in life and lamented 
 in death than Mr. Cal- 
 vin T. Phillips of So. 
 Hanover. In character 
 and action he was almost 
 an ideal man and citizen. 
 For a time he was a most 
 valued member of our Pub- 
 lic Library Committee. 
 
 )2, consisting of 
 
 CALVIN T. PHILLIPS. 
 
 The report of that committee in 
 
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 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY 
 
 Rev, Melvin S. Nash and Mrs. D. B. Ford, has this 
 tribute to his worth : " Himself a large and thoughtful 
 reader of our best books, and greatly interested in 
 our current literature, as also in the history of the 
 past, he naturally felt a deep interest in this Li- 
 brary, and when chosen on its committee he sought both 
 as a matter of duty and of pleasure in every possible 
 way to promote its interests As mem- 
 bers of the Library Committee we feel that in his re- 
 moval from us we have sustained a loss which is well 
 nigh irreparable." He was born in Hanson, March 3, 
 1836, married on October 31, 1865, to Maria E. Josse- 
 lyn, and died Jan. 15, 1892. 
 
 Mr. Morrill A. Phil- 
 lips, another of our Acad- 
 emy boys, born in Han- 
 son, Feb. 27, 1844, and 
 now one of our most en- 
 terprising, useful and hon- 
 ored citizens, has been 
 chosen to fill his brother's 
 place as one of the Li- 
 brary trustees. He is a 
 leading member of the 
 large tack manufacturing 
 firm of Ezra l^hillips and 
 Sons, to which his de- 
 ceased brother also be- 
 longed. Mr. Phillips mar- 
 ried Sophia R. Simmons, 
 formerly a teacher in our public schools, and now (in 
 1898) chosen on our school committee. From their 
 family of student daughters, I suspect the interests of 
 
 MORRIlL a PHILLIPS. 
 
HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 177 
 
 education in future years will not be allowed to suffer. 
 
 Of William Carver 
 Bates, of his great in- 
 terest in the welfare of 
 the Academy, and of 
 some of his public ad- 
 dresses and labors, we 
 have already made brief 
 mention. He was born 
 in Hanover, May 25, 
 i838,aLtended the Acad- 
 emy in 1852 — 54, mar- 
 ried on April 14, 1863, 
 an Academy pupil, Miss 
 Emma Barstow, resides 
 in Newton, of which 
 city he is a prominent 
 citizen, and of whose 
 and 
 
 is now engaged in 
 
 Wl LLIAM CARVER BATES. 
 
 Council he has been a member 
 mercantile business in Boston. 
 
 Mr. Bates is largely interested m historical research, 
 and has written many papers for literary, historical and 
 genealogical societies, and for clubs of divers names, 
 and has been a frequent speaker in our patriotic and 
 civic gatherings. He has several times visited the 
 West Indies, and has shown much descriptive talent in 
 his " Rambles in the Tropics," and in his account of 
 *' Venezuela and British Guiana." 
 
 Enlisted in the war. May i, 1861, he was taken pris- 
 oner at Bull Run, July 21, and was ten months in rebel 
 prisons, at Richmond, New Orleans, and Salisbury, N. 
 C, an account of which was published in the New Eng- 
 land Magazine for April, 1895. After regaining his 
 
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 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 freedom he edited and published a little work entitled 
 *' The S'tars and Stripes in Rebellion," (now in our Pub- 
 lic library) which consists of a series of papers written 
 by Federal prisoners to while away the time while re- 
 
 siding in different rebel prisons. 
 
 As a man of large 
 business talent we may 
 mention the name of 
 Eugene H. Clapp, de- 
 ceased, who was for 
 about three years con- 
 nected with the Acade- 
 my. He was born in 
 the adjoining town of 
 S. Scituate, Oct. ii, 
 1843. He started the 
 great rubber manufac- 
 turing plant in our vil- 
 lage which now gives 
 employment to a very 
 large number of hands. 
 He also was connected 
 with many other business enterprises, and was more- 
 over specially interested in the great cause of temper- 
 ance, and remembered that cause in his will. I think 
 he was head of the Sons of Temperance of the United 
 States, and was more than once urged to become a pro- 
 hibition candidate for high office in this State. A 
 biographical sketch of him is given in the Temperance 
 Record for Feb., 1889, and in the Plymouth County 
 Biographical Review. He was twice married and has 
 had several children. His brother, George A. Clapp, 
 who now stands at the head of the manufacturing Co., 
 
 EUGENE H, CLAPP, 
 
HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 179 
 
 though not an Academy Alumnus, yet took for his wife 
 an Academy girl and school teacher, Abbie A. Stetson, 
 of Pembroke, and now resides in So. Hanover. 
 
 Frederic VV. Clapp, of So. Scituate, a cousin of the 
 above, was for some years a partner in the rubber busi- 
 ness. After amassing great wealth by a ten years' 
 residence abroad, he returned to the United States and 
 bought an estate in Framingham where he lived until 
 his death in 1879. He served for some time as Repre- 
 sentative to General Court, from Framingham. In 1868 
 he married Mary A. Lew^s, and has left several children. 
 Frank A. Clapp, a brother of Frederic, vvas born in 
 So. Scituate, Nov. 5, 1839, married Juletta, daughter of 
 Mr. Robert Sylvester, of this village, lives in Wakefield, 
 and has two children. He was for two years, 1880 and 
 1 88 1, a Representative from Boston. 
 
 Luther Briggs, son of 
 Luther and Susanna (Stet- 
 son) Briggs, and brother 
 of our poetess, Mrs. Che- 
 ney, was born in Pembroke, 
 July 24, 1822. In 1832 — 33 
 he attended the excellent 
 private School of Mrs. Char- 
 lotte S. Wade, before men- 
 tioned. During the sum- 
 mers of 1834 — 5 — 7, he 
 studied at the Academy, 
 then under the tuition of 
 Mr. White. In the mean- 
 time he was pursuing his 
 studies at Scituate Harbor 
 LUTHER BRIGGS. uudcr thc dircctiou of Mr. 
 
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 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 Washburn, a former Academy teacher, and subsequent- 
 ly also at Bridgewater, under the tuition of Hon. John 
 A. Shaw, who at a later date became Superintendent of 
 Schools in New Orleans, where he had Jefferson Davis 
 as one of his pupils. One* winter Mr. Briggs taught a 
 public school in Duxbury. For two summers he was 
 employed on Government works at Forts Warren and 
 Independence in Boston Harbor. Soon afterward he 
 commenced business as ''Architect, Civil Fngineer and 
 Surveyor," and has had an office in Boston for more 
 than fifty years. During this time he has designed 
 many public and private buildings for this and foreign 
 countries, and has also been engaged in laying out 
 estates, surveying railroads, and in designing and erect- 
 inof beacons in Boston Harbor and on the Massachusetts 
 coast. In the spring of 1894 he visited England and 
 most of the principal cities of Europe. 
 
 In July 7, 1847, he was 
 married to Adeline, 
 daughter of Horace Col- 
 lamore, Esq., (of whose 
 helpful aid in my writ- 
 ing I have already made 
 mention, and whose 
 portrait I am happy here 
 to present,) and on July 
 7, 1897, they celebrated 
 their golden anniversa- 
 ry. They reside in Ne- 
 ponset, near Boston, and 
 have no children. I 
 wish to add in regard to 
 Mrs. Briggs that in all 
 ADELINE BRIGGS. hcr Icttcrs to uic shc in- 
 
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HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY 
 
 i8t 
 
 variably speaks well of her different teachers, and so I 
 judge her to have been a model scholar, and I am sorry 
 that I could not elsewhere give a picture of herself as 
 an Academy pupil. Of her sister, Julia Collamore, who 
 attended the Academy at the same time with myself, I 
 have the most pleasant recollections. I think she passed 
 away in compaiatively early life. 
 
 Horace Collamore, 
 Esq., father of Adeline, 
 Julia, Dr. Francis and Le- 
 ander, already named, was 
 son of Capt. Enoch Colla- 
 more, who inarched to the 
 Lexington alarm, and was 
 born in Scituate, now Nor- 
 well, Nov. 4, 1 79 1, the 
 youngest of eight children 
 who survived infancy. 
 With a view to profes- 
 sional life he became a 
 pupil of Hanover Acade- 
 my under the instruction 
 of Rev. Mr. Chaddock, 
 studying the languages 
 Diverted, however, from this 
 purpose by divers circumstances, he engaged in 1812 in 
 the crockery and glass business in Boston, in which 
 business he continued nine years, till failing health com- 
 pelled him to retire to the country. In Sept. 20, 18 14, 
 he married Laura Briggs of Pembroke, and they lived 
 to celebrate their golden wedding. In 1821 he became 
 a resident of Pembroke, and thenceforth devoted his 
 
 HORACE COLLAMORE. 
 
 and hiirher mathematics 
 
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 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY 
 
 time to farming, keeping a country store, etc. He was 
 a member of the Plymouth County Agricultural Society 
 from its start, its supervisor for several years, and one 
 of its Vice Presidents. He wrote a good hand with a 
 facile pen, and often contributed valuable articles to the 
 leading agricultural journals of the day. He was Bri- 
 gade Major and Inspector of the ist Brigade, 5th 
 Division of the Massachusetts Militia. For a consider- 
 able period he was Postmaster of Pembroke, and for 
 several years was Justice of the Peace and of the Quo- 
 rum. In 1 841 and '42 he was Representative to the 
 General Court, and in 1853 was chosen Senator from 
 the Plymouth District. Eleven children were born to 
 him, ten of whom, five sons and five daughters, lived to 
 maturity, and all of them received their education in 
 large part at Hanover Academy, in which Institution 
 he took a deep interest, and of which he was for many 
 
 years a Trustee. He died 
 Aug. 27, 1867. The above 
 photograph was taken 
 when he was 73 years old. 
 Horace Lorenzo Col- 
 LAMORE, eldest son of Hor- 
 ace Collamore, Esq., was 
 born in Boston, Dec. 8, 
 1 8 16, but removed with his 
 parents to Pembroke in 
 1821. He attended the 
 " Plymouth County Sem- 
 inary," established by Mrs. 
 Charlotte S. Wade, of 
 whom we have previously 
 spoken, and became a stu- 
 dent of Hanover Academy 
 
 HORACE L. COLLAMORE' 
 
HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 183 
 
 under the tuition of Mr. Rolfe, Rev. Mr. Wolcott, 
 and Dr. Ira Warren. Subsequently he attended the 
 Bridgewater Academy under the instruction of the dis- 
 tinguished educator, John A. Shaw. In our Academy 
 he had for his classmates Frederick Jacobs, John Curtis, 
 the founder of our Free Library, William H. Whitman, 
 clerk of Plymouth County Court, William Paley Allen, 
 son of Rev. Morrill Allen, and his cousin, Andrew F. 
 Collamore, of whose sad fate mention will be made on 
 a subsequent page. After leaving school he spent a few 
 years in Boston, and then took up his residence in 
 Kingston, where he managed a country store, served as 
 Postmaster, and held various town offices. In 1861 he 
 returned to Boston, and engaged for some 19 years in 
 the Auction and Commission business. He was a deep 
 thinker and a well-read man, was quiet and unassuming 
 in manner, and made friends wherever he went. He 
 was a member of the Mt. Lebanon Lodge of Freemasons 
 for more than thirty years, and was known as one of the 
 few remaining, pronounced, Jacksonian Democrats of 
 the old school. On the tariff and the finance he was 
 regarded as an able authority, and in defence of his 
 political principles he used both voice and pen until 
 about the period of his death, which latter event oc- 
 curred on June 9, 1897. In Jan. 31, 1843, ^^ married 
 Lydia, daughter of David and Lydia (Foster) Beal, of 
 Kingston, and has left as survivors a daughter and two 
 grandchildren. 
 
 Isaac Oilman Stetson, one of our Academy stu- 
 dents, was the son of Isaac O. and Emily (Josselyn) 
 Stetson, and was born Aug 7, 1826. In 1846 he mar- 
 ried an Academy girl and school teacher, Jane Reed 
 Oldham, who was born Oct. 31, 1825, and died April 2, 
 
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 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADFMY. 
 
 1892. Mr. Stetson died most suddenly Aug. 17, 1897, 
 aged nearly 72 years. For 18 years he was a Selectman, 
 Assessor and Overseer of the town of Hanover, and was 
 serving in those offices at the time of his death. For 
 many years he was a store keeper and Postmaster in 
 So. Hanover, and in 1885 was elected to our State Leg- 
 islature. He was highly esteemed as a neighbor, a citi- 
 zen, a town officer, and an efficient business man, and 
 was especially noted in all these positions for his great 
 geniality of manner and spirit. His associates in office 
 have borne public testimony to their ''appreciation of his 
 worth as an officer, his integrity as a citizen, and his 
 agreeable companionship as a co-worker;" and the town 
 has also placed on record its testimony to his high 
 character, to his worth as a man and to the value of his 
 labors as a faithful official. " A friend, genial and 
 
 true, his pleasant face was 
 a mirror, reflecting the 
 emotions of a warm, sym- 
 pathetic heart." 
 
 Hon. Jedediah 
 DwELLEY, a younger 
 brother of George R. 
 Dwell ey, was born in 
 Hanover, Feb. 28, 1834, 
 and studied for a time in 
 the Academy under the 
 administration of Mr. 
 McLauthlin. When 
 but twenty-five years of 
 age he was chosen Se- 
 lectman, and served in 
 For some twelve years 
 
 HON. JEDEDIAH DWELLEY. 
 
 that capacity for thirty years 
 
HISTOKV OF HAJsOVER ACADEMY 
 
 185 
 
 he was also a member of the School Committee. In 
 1865 he was chosen Representative to General Court, 
 and in 1873 and '74 he served as Senator. For nine or 
 ten years he was special County Commissioner, and is 
 now (1898) serving his twenty-second year as County 
 Commissioner, being in length of service the senior 
 County Commissioner in the Commonwealth. He was 
 Chairman of the Selectmen during the war (being the 
 youngest chairman in the State), and has ever taken a 
 deep interest in tb.e welfare of the soldiers. And this 
 same interest he has ever manifested in all that con- 
 cerns the welfare of the town both by his official life 
 and as a private citizen, and no one has better deserved 
 to be honored as a father of the town than he. Speak- 
 ing, however, of himself he says : "If it can be truth- 
 fully said that I have 
 loved mercy and dealt 
 justly, personally, this 
 would seem to me great- 
 er honor than to recount 
 my years of official ser- 
 vice." 
 
 Benjamin Bar stow 
 
 ToRREV, son of Capt. 
 
 Haviland and Salome 
 
 (Barstow) Torrey, was 
 
 born in Pembroke, Nov. 
 
 22, 1837. He attended 
 
 Hanover Academy when 
 
 under the tuition of 
 
 BENJAMIN BARSTOW TORREY. Mcssrs. McLauthHn and 
 
 Conant, and also the " University Grammar School" of 
 
 Providence, R. I. On August 25, 1858, he entered the 
 
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 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY 
 
 service of the Boston and Providence Railroad Company, 
 and since 1867 has been Treasurer of that Corporation. 
 In 1864 he was elected a member of the " New England 
 Historic, Genealogical Society " of Boston, and has been 
 its Treasurer since 1870. Our readers will perchance 
 remember that he was, by his uncle, John Barstow, 
 made a Trustee of the fund which he gave to the Acad- 
 emy. In 1865 he was married to Abby Vose Bent of 
 Milton, who died September, 1897, leaving no children. 
 He now resides in Boston, and the well-known " Broad 
 Oak " mansion, (see I^arry's History, p. 227) built by 
 his grandfather. Col. John B. Barstow, but since owned 
 and for a time occupied by himself, now stands empty. 
 I trust the time will come when he will again become 
 its occu]:»ant. 
 
 Lemuel Cushing Water- 
 man was for many years a 
 director and clerk of the 
 Hanover Academy Corpo- 
 ration. In examining its 
 Records I have always 
 found it a pleasure to look 
 at and to read his neat, 
 plain, beautiful handwrit- 
 ing. He was born in So. 
 Scituate, near Church Hill, 
 July 14, 1814, and finished 
 his education in the Acad- 
 emy in his eighteenth year. 
 After a short term of busi- 
 ness in Boston his health 
 LEMUEL c. WATERMAN. ^^.^^^^^ ^^^^ thereafter 
 
 for several years he engaged in school keeping in 
 
HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 187 
 
 places not far from home. Subsequently he was em- 
 ployed in the tack and nail factory of Mr. Samuel Sal- 
 mond on the third herring- brook, and finally attained 
 the position of Superintendent of the works. After- 
 ward he commenced the manufacture of tacks and nails at 
 Project Dale, Hanover. In his later years he had the care 
 and settlement of the large estate left by George Curtis. 
 For many vears he was a Selectman and a member of 
 the School Committee of his native town, and in 1858 
 he represented the towns of So. Scituate and Hanover 
 in the Legislature. His death occurred in March 11, 
 1889. 
 
 RuDOLPHus C. Water- 
 man, eldest son of Lemuel 
 C. and Elizabeth B. (Good- 
 ing) Waterman, was born 
 in So. Scituate, June 16, 
 1840, and attended school 
 at the Academy under the 
 tuition of Frederic O. Bars- 
 tow and Charles A. Reed. 
 In 1858 he went to Boston 
 and was there engaged in 
 the wholesale drug and 
 paint business with 
 Messrs. Bird & Co. until 
 1862 when he enlisted for 
 RUDOLPHUS c. WATERMAN. ^tic war ill thc 44th Mass. 
 
 Vols. After his return, he engaged in the tack manu- 
 facturing business of his father, which is now carried 
 on at Project Dale, Hanover, by himself and members 
 of his family. In 1866 he took for his wife M. Adele 
 
1 88 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 Tomlinson of Boston, who died Jan. 27, 1895, aged 52 
 years, leaving two sons, William R. and Harry dishing 
 Waterman, — an only daughter, Lillian Adele, aged six 
 years, having died previously. In 1880 he served as 
 Selectman of Hanover, and in 1882 was a member of 
 the Legislature. For many years Mr. Waterman has 
 been a director of the Academy, and has succeeded to 
 his father as Clerk of the Corporation. Mr. W. is 
 rightly numbered as one of our most worthy and 
 honored citizens. 
 
 Mr. Edmund O. Sylvester, eldest son of Mr. Mi- 
 chael Sylvester, was for many years either a Treasurer 
 or a Director of Hanover Academy. When in an earlier 
 page of my first manuscript I wrote of the forty-three 
 original stockholders of the present Academic property, 
 his name was mentioned as one of the then surviving 
 five, but this name must now be put in the list of the 
 starred. His death occurred on Sunday morning, April 
 17, 1898. He married for his first wife, Mary, and for 
 his second wife, Eliza S., daughters of Samuel Salmond, 
 and he leaves, besides the widow, five sons and one 
 daughter, the wife of Rev. F. S. Harraden, to mourn 
 his loss.* A man of large business enterprise, he for 
 many years carried on the tack business at the Tiffany 
 factory under the firm name of Samuel Salmond & Son, 
 while at the same time he cultivated a large farm at 
 
 * While these pages were pass.ing through the press, the youngest 
 son, Francis Baldwin Sylvester, was taken from earth after a brief 
 illness, March 2, 1899. 
 
 I may here add that only a few days after this, March 28, "my 
 venerable neighbor friend," (referred to in the Preface), Mr. Robert 
 Sylvester, uncle to the above Mr. Edmund, likewise passed away 
 at the age of 93 years, 5 months. This leaves only two "surviving 
 grantees, Martin P. McLauthlin of Maiden and Robert E. Dwelley 
 of Hanover. 
 
HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY 
 
 home. His beautified homestead estate, on the east 
 side of Washington street, a part of which was once a 
 rocky pasture, bears witness to his enterprise and his 
 taste for the beautiful. He was a man of great wealth, 
 yet liberal withal, and he seldom refused to help a needy 
 applicant who was known to be worthy. 
 
 George F. Stetson, of Han- 
 son, born April ii, 1833, served 
 many years on the School Com- 
 mittee of Hanson, a part of the 
 time as Chairman, was for six 
 years, through and after the 
 Civil War, U. S. Assistant As- 
 sessor of Internal Revenue for 
 the towns of Hanson, and Han- 
 over, was Representative for 
 Hanson, Halifax and Plympton 
 in 1 86 1 and '62, also for Han- 
 son, Pembroke, Halifax and 
 Marshfield in 1879 and 1883. 
 In the Legislature he took a 
 G. F. STETSON. vcry active part in favor of pro- 
 
 hibitory legislation. In 1879 he made a minority re- 
 port from the liquor committee, proposing the substitu- 
 tion of prohibition for license, and sustained the same 
 in a speech which was complimented on the spot by no 
 less a man than Judge Russell. At the close of that 
 session, Gov. Talbot presented him with the pen with 
 which he signed the Civil Damage (temperance) Bill. 
 In 1883, as House Chairman of the Joint Standing Com- 
 mittee on the Liquor Law he presented and advocated 
 in the House a proposition for Constitutional Prohibi- 
 
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 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 tion, the first speech of that kind which was ever made 
 in the Massachusetts Legislature. Judging from his 
 official action in the cause of temperance, one may 
 properly conclude that he never applied " hot and re- 
 bellious liquors in his blood," either in youth or age, 
 even as he would forbid to others any like application. 
 
 Mr. Stetson, on December 
 3, 1 86 1, took for his wife an 
 Academy girl, Dorothy Brown 
 Dyer, daughter of Hervey 
 and Ruth (Reed) Dyer. She 
 was born March 29, 1835, 
 and died June 2, 1884 leav- 
 ing two children, Florence 
 D. (Josselyn) born April 26, 
 1874, and George H., born 
 April 14, 1878. "She was a 
 most capable, diligent and 
 successful teacher, teaching 
 almost constantly in Pem- 
 broke and Hanson from the 
 time she left the Academy 
 MRS. STETSON. uutll hcr marriage. Though 
 
 declining to accept the position, she was the first female 
 elected to serve upon the School Committee of Han- 
 son." As I was wholly unacquainted with this devoted 
 and faithful teacher, it gives me great pleasure to have 
 seen her portrait and to have it printed, and I trust that 
 many others will be equally pleased. Both parties were 
 about thirty-five years of age when their pictures were 
 taken. 
 
 We are glad to record the fact that Mr. John Curtis 
 who founded our Hanover Free Library, and recently 
 
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192 
 
 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 gave to the town ;^4000 as a Library Fund, and hopes 
 to do still more for that cause in the future, was an Acad- 
 emy student. He was born in No. Hanover, on Curtis 
 street, July 10, 18 17 (not 18 16 as in Barry), and in early 
 life attended the common schools for a few months in win- 
 ter. The teachers, who were mainly from the vicinity, 
 had but a smattering of education, and generally re- 
 
 MR. JOHN CURTIS. 
 
 sumed their customary employments when the school 
 term was over. Lessons were learned and recited by 
 rote from the text books, and unaccompanied with any 
 explanation. Fortunately the school was taught one 
 winter by a student, afterwards a teacher, of the Wes- 
 leyan Academy of Wilbraham, who was a good scholar 
 and in sympathy with progress, but who was withal very 
 
HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. I93 
 
 unpopular in the '' deestrict." By him the parents of 
 Mr. Curtis were persuaded to let their son go to Wil- 
 braham for one year. On returning from the Wesleyan 
 Academy he attended our Hanover Academy in 1833 — 4 
 under the tuition of Mr. Washburn and Ira Warren.* 
 
 While attending school here he, according to the cus- 
 tom of those days, was obliged to walk both ways, tak- 
 ing his noon lunch with him. "To revive my memory," 
 he says, " I have been over the same route on foot when 
 nearly an octogenarian — thanks to sound health." Upon 
 leaving the Academy he went to Boston alone to find 
 
 *Mr. Curtis writes me that his most intimate friend in the Acad- 
 emy and subsequently in Boston, was Andrew Fuller Collamore, 
 son of Deacon John Collamore, of Assinippi, to whom we have 
 previously made reference. Mis tragic end on the steamer Atlan- 
 tic, Nov. 25, IHid, is thus noticed in a certain publication lately 
 received : " Mr. Andrew Collamore, a young business man of this 
 city, who was widely known and esteemed in business and social 
 circles, was journeying to New York to be married on Thanksgiv- 
 ing evening. On that fearful night the cold, icy waves of Long 
 Island Sound embraced the ardent lover, and shrouded in grief the 
 life of a beautiful and devoted young lady." 
 
 This new and elegant steamer struck on a reef of rock a few 
 miles out from New London, in a fearful gale and snow storm, and 
 was totally lost with upward of fifty passengers. This sad wreck, 
 and the still sadder burning of the steamer Lexington on the same 
 Long Island Sound on Jan. 13, 18-40, when one hundred and fifty- 
 six persons, many of them of great eminence, were burned or 
 drowned, can never be forgotten by our people 
 
 To the above paragraphs I must now add the fearful loss which 
 hasjust taken place (Nov. 27, 1898), of probably over 170 persons, 
 constituting the entire company of the passengers and crew of the 
 steamer Portland, which \vas driven on the shore of Cape Cod by 
 the most terrific blizzard that was ever known in these parts, and by 
 which, indeed, a large portion of our New England coast has been 
 visited with wreckage, desolation and death. Let us be thankful 
 for the assurance of prophecy that there shall be no more 
 
 SEA. 
 
194 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 some sort of position. Witli very flattering certificates 
 of his character and abilities from Rev. Mr. Dunbar, of 
 the No. Hanover Baptist church, and from his Wilbra- 
 ham teacher, he obtained a situation with a clothing 
 and tailoring firm, agreeing to stay with them until 
 twenty-one years of age for ^50 a year and his board. 
 The contract was faithfully kept, and in consequence 
 the firm helped him to set up in the clothing busi- 
 ness for himself in his twenty-first year ; and he con- 
 tinued in that business on the same spot, 6 and 8 North 
 street, for nearly forty years, and then relinquished it 
 to his nephew, Walter C. Brooks, another Hanover 
 boy, now at 15 Milk street, which is Mr. Curtis' P. O. 
 address. 
 
 Mr. Curtis' father early took Mr. Garrison's paper, 
 " The Liberator, and Mr. C. was always deeply inter- 
 ested in the anti-slavery question. ''About ten years 
 ago I was invited," he says, "to attend a 'materializing 
 seance' of the Spiritualists, and was so convinced of its 
 stupendous fraud, I became interested in exposing the 
 swindle. The result was that I published a pamphlet," 
 etc. This, I think, was entitled '' Some Account of the 
 Vampires of Onset, Past and Present." He says : 
 " All that happened in Boston I know to be true, for I 
 was in it as a leading actor." 
 
 Mr. Curtis has one artist daughter, Alice M., who 
 has been recently travelling in Europe. 
 
 In addition to the full-page portrait of Mr. Curtis I 
 desired a smaller picture taken in his earlier years, the 
 choice of course being left to himself and family. The 
 one presented above, taken from an old-fashioned minia- 
 ture, was selected, probably, from an artistic point of 
 view. Personally I should have preferred a portrait 
 
HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 95 
 
 from a photograph in my possession which looks more 
 as. I used to know him when a business man. 
 
 
 HON. STEPHEN N. GIFFORD. 
 
 The most honored name, perhaps, that has ever been 
 connected with Hanover Academy is that of Hon. Ste- 
 phen Nye Gifford. He was born in Pembroke, July 21, 
 181 5, and died at his home in Duxbury, April 18, 1886, 
 He was left fatherless at the early age of ten, the family 
 were in humble and straitened circumstances, and he in 
 his early youth engaged in shoemaking in the house 
 now occupied by Conductor Charles E. Collamore, 
 in Brickkiln street, No. Pembroke. 1 have been' 
 told that a neighbor friend of his, Susan S. (Briggs) 
 Smith, greatly interested herself in the boy's welfare, 
 and encouraged him to attend the Academy ; and in 
 this way, through many difficulties, he started on a long 
 
196 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 career of eminent usefulness and honor. After study- 
 ing for a time in Bridgewater — paying his way by work- 
 ing at his trade out of school hours — he began teaching 
 in the common schools (one term or more in- Centre 
 Hanover), and after some years established a private 
 school in Duxbury. In 1850 he was chosen Represen- 
 tative, and the next year he was appointed inspector in 
 the Boston Custom House. After serving for brief 
 periods as State Auditor and as Assistant Clerk in the 
 Senate and House, he in 1858 was chosen Clerk of the 
 Senate, and held this office nearly twenty-nine years, 
 until the time of his death, a continuance in that office 
 which is unparalleled in the history of the Common- 
 wealth. In 1882, March 10, after twenty-four years of 
 this service, a "Complimentary Dinner" was given to 
 him by the Senate in the United States Hotel, Boston, 
 " in honor of the faithful service of a true man who for 
 many years has adorned the trust reposed in him, by 
 every quality which should distinguish the public ser- 
 vice, and by every grace of character which can attach 
 him to his associates." His printed Memorial speaks 
 of him as "A modest, unassuming, genial, kindly gen- 
 tleman," who for " more than twenty-eight years has 
 stood at his post of duty, the manly, the faithful, the 
 dignified, the kind-hearted, aye, the big-hearted Clerk of 
 the Massachusetts Senate." The amount of clerical 
 labor which he performed, and of assistance which he 
 unassumingly rendered in successive years to new Sen- 
 ators and to new Speakers cannot easily be described or 
 conceived. 
 
 It seems altogether congruous that in connection with 
 the preceding account of Mr. Gifford I should here give 
 some notice of his early patroness and benefactor to 
 
HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY 
 
 197 
 
 whom he, at about the time the complimentary dinner 
 was given him, wrote these words : " You especially 
 were the first one who encouraged me to think that I 
 was anything." Susan Stetson Briggs, eldest daughter of 
 Luther and Susan (Stetson) Briggs, and sister of Luther 
 Briggs, and Augusta (Briggs) Cheney, already named, 
 was born July 26, 181 3. She was a pupil of Mr. Holmes 
 in the district school of No. Pembroke, and began her 
 studies at the Academy under Mr. Rolfe. In April 5, 
 
 MRS. SMiTH 
 
 1838, she was married by Rev. Morrill Allen to Na- 
 thaniel Smith, grandson of Rev. Thomas Smith, the 
 second minister of Pembroke, and on April 5, 1888 they 
 celebrated their golden wedding. They had two chil- 
 dren, Susan Augusta Smith, for a time an assistant 
 teacher at the Academy, and Moses Bass Smith. He 
 studied at the Academy, and was a youth of great prom- 
 
190 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 ise, but lost his life April 5, 1861, in a shipwreck off 
 Hatteras Inlet. Mr. Nathaniel Smith died March 25, 
 1890. The widow and daughter still reside in the pleas- 
 ant old family homestead. 
 
 Alumni who have taught School. 
 
 It is impossible for any one, unless possessed of om- 
 niscience, to give all the names of our Academy students 
 (and there is quite a host of them) who have become 
 teachers. I have however sought, at the request of 
 some, to furnish a list of our Alumni and Alumnae who 
 have, chiefly within my own recollection, taught in our 
 public schools and higher seminaries. Of course it is 
 understood that other Academy students who have 
 never taught may be quite the equals in talent and 
 scholarship of those who did teach. Some of this lat- 
 ter class, indeed, only taught in the lower schools and 
 but for a short time. 
 
 I am painfully aware that this list and other lists which 
 precede and follow are very imperfect, containing some 
 names which should be omitted, and omitting many 
 names which should be inserted. If my friends will 
 kindly send me any additions or corrections to any of 
 these lists, I will see that they are inserted in a page of 
 Addenda et Corrigenda in some future copies of this 
 work. 
 
 Names of Male TeacJiers — William P. Allen, Stephen 
 N. Gifford, Luther Briggs, Lemuel C. Waterman, Geo. 
 R. Dwelley, Joshua J. Ellis, Francis Collamore, Lean- 
 der Collamore, Geo. A. Collamore, Andrew T. Magoun, 
 Charles Hitchcock, William H. Stetson, Geo. M. Reed, 
 David A. Josselyn, Benjamin B. Torrey, Franklin Ja- 
 cobs, William P. Duncan, John S. Crosby, Frederic O. 
 
HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. I99 
 
 l^arstovv, Calvin T. Phillips, Clarence L. Howes, John 
 P. Thorndyke, William P. Brooks, Charles B. Phillips, 
 Joseph T. Corlew, Edward Soiithworth, Daniel K. Stet- 
 son, Samuel S. Knapp, James C. Church. Harry T. 
 Watkins. 
 
 Names of Female TeacJiers — Nancy W. Col] am ore 
 (Mitchell), Lavina A. Hatch, Mary B. Oldham (Perry), 
 Jane R. Oldham (Stetson), Aurelia Hall (Bonney), Ann 
 S. Dwelley (Hatch), Susan Magoun (Sherman), Adeline 
 Collamore (Briggs), Augusta Briggs (Cheney), Lydia 
 W. Collamore (Richardson), Lucinda Hatch (Oakman), 
 Julia Collamore (Stodder), Sophia Clark (Holmes), 
 Addie M. Stockbridge (Potter), Elizabeth A. Stock- 
 bridge (Allen), L. Elmina Curtis (Jacobs), Laura J. 
 Duncan (King), Lucia A. Duncan (Dean), Amelia A. 
 Stockbridge (Gardner), Sophia A. Holmes (Hatch), 
 Lucy E. Boynton (Cromack), Mary A. Oldham, Mary 
 Clark, Priscilla Clark (Eells), P^mma Barstow (Bates), 
 Hannah E. Brooks (Oakman), Lucy Vinal (Stetson), 
 Mary Collamore (Ford), Sarah Collamore (Hitchcock), 
 Helena M. T. Eells (Howland), Carolire D. Collamore 
 (Loving), Arabella Collamore (Perrow), Sarah Hitch- 
 cock, Louisa Clark (Alden), Susanna F. Sylvester 
 (Lapham), Juletta Sylvester (Clapp), Sarah E. Sylvester 
 (Allen), Lydia Sylvester (Fuller), Huldah D. Freeman 
 (Thrasher), Mary D. A. Hatch (Simonds), Susan P. 
 Hatch (Perkins), Lucy A. Barstow (Waterman), Eliza- 
 beth T. Waterman (Sylvester), Clara H. Mann (Bon- 
 ney), Laura F. Mann (White), Fiorina Mann, Helen M. 
 Josselyn (Howland), Mary E. Barstow, EttaH. Barstow, 
 Tryphena Whiting, Cynthia Whiting (Whiting), Sophia 
 B. Loring (Taylor), Betsy H. Whiting (Whiting), Ellen 
 
200 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 C. Gardner (Church), Mary L. Eells, Huldah B. Dwel- 
 ley, Esther S. Magoun (Hazeltine), Nancy T. Magoun 
 (Beale), Anna Tolman, Fidelia L. Rowland (Barker), 
 Mary P. Howland, Abby C. Donnell, Nancy C. Donnell, 
 Rebecca J. Joyce (Josselyn), Polly B. Talbot (Knapp), 
 Charlotte S. Gardner (Briggs), Ruth W. Stetson (Da- 
 mon), Bessie H. Stetson (Josselyn), Susan J. Turner 
 (Phinney), Addie W. Turner (Nash), P^liza M. Church 
 (Billings), Lucy H. Chamberlain (Turner), Ophelia 
 Litchfield (Rice), Florence V. Rogers (French), Ruth- 
 etta M. Sylvester, Emily E. Sylvester, Martha W. Syl- 
 vester (Turner), Angela B. Ford (Brock), Helen P. 
 Barker (Chamberlain), Lydia W. Collamore (Sampson), 
 Abbie C. Hatch, PLlla J. Thomas (Paine), Abbie A. 
 Stetson (Clapp), Eunice P. Simmons, Emma L. Stod- 
 dard (Packard), Hannah B. Hart (Pratt), P>ancis Tur- 
 ner (Harlow), Charlotte E. Winslow (Barnard), Ruth 
 Magoun (Magoun), Susan M. Magoun (Chamberlain,) 
 Lizzie Paulding, Anna P. Alden (Kingman), Grace L. 
 Russell, Grace F. Hatch (Dana), Susan D. Stone, 
 Elizabeth G. Stone, Harriet L. Garratt, Harriet P. 
 Leach (Waterhouse), Dorothy B. Dyer (Stetson), Pris- 
 cie C. Eells, Wealthy M. Magoun (Hall), Laura Barker 
 (Little), Caroline T. Southworth (Prouty), Mary C. 
 Tolman (Sheldon), Agnes Sherman, Alberta White 
 (Hewson), Maria W. Tolman, Emma H. Torrey (Bates), 
 Henrietta Collamore, Nellie D. Collamore, Mary E. 
 Clapp, Anna M. Pratt (Upham), Mary E. Curtis, Ber- 
 tha L. Buttrick (Whiting), Jennie M. Currell (Cole- 
 man), Mary A. Hunt, Annie N. Little. 
 
 Of those who have taught the longest we recall the 
 following names : Mary E. Barstow, Mary L. Eells, the 
 Whiting Sisters, Mary P. Howland, Anna Tolman, 
 Edward Southworth. 
 
history of hanover academy. 20i 
 
 Something Further Respecting the Alumni Fund. 
 
 On pages 122 — 124, some account is given of the 
 raising and disposition of the Alumni Fund, and the 
 statement was there made that the small balance re- 
 maining in the hands of the Trustees would probably 
 be given to the Town for the Public Library. Accord- 
 ingly the said Trustees have since conveyed to the town 
 -of Hanover the sum of $270 as a permanent fund for 
 said Library, with the understanding that the income 
 of said Fund should be used only for the purchase of 
 books of permanent value (avoiding ephemeral works 
 of light fiction) and that all books purchased from said 
 fund should be thus inscribed : 
 
 " Purchased from the income of the Hanover Acade- 
 my Alumni Fund, conveyed to the Trustees of the Han- 
 over P>ee Library, April I, 1899, by the Trustees of 
 said Fund, William Carver Bates and David B. Ford." 
 
 There has recently been placed in my hands a list of 
 those who subscribed to the Alumni Fund. I have al- 
 ready mentioned two persons. Rev. Samuel Cutler and 
 Mrs. Albert Smith, who gave $100 each. Others who 
 gave $100 apiece are : 
 
 George Curtis, Fliza Salmond, Joseph Smith, and 
 Edmund O. Sylvester. James R. Smith of New York 
 city gave $50 ; William Carver Bates, Benjamin B. Tor- 
 rey, Herbert Torrey, Isaac M. Wilder, Martin P. 
 McLauthlin, Mrs. Gardner, Eugene H. Clapp, Lemuel 
 C. Waterman, Rudolphus C. Waterman, and Mrs. Hora- 
 tio Bigelow, gave $10 each ; Isaac Wilder, Robert Bar- 
 stow, Morrill A. Phillips, Mrs. Farnham, Sarah E. 
 Gushing, Irenaeus L. Waterman, and George Briggs 
 gave ^5 each ; Benjamin Barstow and Warren I. Wright 
 
202 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 gave ^3 each, and Mary Barstow ;^i.25. It will be no- 
 ticed that of the first six donors above mentioned, who 
 gave the largest sums, only one, E. Q. Sylvester, was 
 an Academy Alumnus, and that all are now deceased. 
 It is probable that, of the Alumni proper who gave to 
 the Fund, only about half are now living. We may 
 properly state that the movement for this fund was 
 inaugurated (not in i860, as the types have it on page 
 122, but in 1869), and carried on to a successful issue 
 largely through the efforts of William Carver Bates. 
 
 Our Fallen Heroes. 
 
 " The muffled drum's sad roll has beat 
 
 The soldiers' last tattoo; 
 No more on life's parade shall meet 
 
 That brave and fallen few." 
 
 Died in the Service. 
 
 Joseph Eells Wilder, of Hanover enlisted* in Co. 
 D., 31st Regt. Infantry, Nov. 20, 1861, while a student 
 in Amherst College, class of 1863. He served three 
 
 *Enlisted, as used in these notices, means generally the same as 
 enrolled or mustered in. The dates I have tnken mainly from the 
 " Records of the Massachusetts Volunteers," Vols. 1, 11. It will be 
 seen that a large proportion of our students enlisted in what may 
 be termed the " Old Colony Regiment," the iSth, made up largely 
 by enlistments from Plymouth County. This justly famed Regi- 
 ment " shared in the battles on the Peninsula, and was engaged 
 at the second Bull Run, Shepherdstown, Fredericksburg, Chancel- 
 lorsville, Gettysburg, Rappahannock Station, Wilderness, Spott- 
 sylvania. Cold Harbor, Petersburg, and Weldon Rail Road. The 
 casualties were numerous, and the regiment suffered severely — the 
 killed and wounded numbering nearly two hundred and fiftj." 
 The historian says that to Hanover, among other towns, " is due 
 the origin of this notably excellent Regiment." 
 
HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY 
 
 203 
 
 years and re-enlisted Quarter Master Sergeant, Feb- 
 ruary II, 1864, and was killed while in charge of wagon 
 train on the Red River' Expedition under Gen. Banks, 
 at Sabine Cross Roads, La., April 8, 1864, aged 25 
 years. In laying aside his cherished studies and 
 professional aims at his country's call, few men have 
 made a greater sacrifice than he. It is from him that 
 the Post No. 83 G. A. R. of Hanover is worthily named, 
 
 JOSEPH EELLS WILDER. 
 
 and it is at the expense of this Post that the above 
 picture is inserted. 
 
 " Wilder in his unknown grave sleeps well — fallen 
 nobly, fighting for his country's cause. Ne'er beat a 
 nobler heart, none had a truer friend — his was a glo- 
 rious death, the brave, noble heart is still — beneath the 
 •cypress he sleeps, the murmur of the Red River his 
 •only requiem." — Tribute of C. C. Holmes, Newberne, 
 J 876. 
 
204 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 LoAMMi B. Sylvester, of Hanover, enlisted for three- 
 years, Feb. 27, 1862, in Reg. 2, Inf. Co. I., was wounded 
 in the battle of Cedar Mountain, Va., Aug 9, 1862, and 
 died in Alexandria, Sept. 7, 1862, aged 31 years. 
 
 Benjamin Curtis, of Hanover, enlisted August 6, 
 1862, in 1 2th Regiment, Company G, and was killed at 
 Antietam, Md., September 17, 1862, aged 22 years. 
 *'A thoughtful young man, independent, impulsive and 
 honest, a good scholar and a true friend." — Hon. Jed- 
 ediah Dwelley. 
 
 Henry Currell, of Scituate, enlisted August 14, 
 1862, in 39th Infantry, Company C, and died in Ander- 
 sonville Prison, Georgia, September 14, 1864.* 
 
 Nathaniel Walter Winslow, of S. Scituate, aged 22 
 years, enlisted August 5, 1862, in Regiment 18, Com- 
 pany G, and was killed in Shepardstown, Va., Septem- 
 ber 20, 1862, while swimming across a river. 
 
 William C. Oakman, of Marshfield, aged 31, enlisted 
 August 19, 1862, in Regiment 35, Company C, and died 
 on exchange boat October 6, 1864, of wounds received 
 in Poplar Spring Church, Va., September 30, 1864. 
 
 JosiAH Stoddard, Jr., of So. Scituate, aged 23, en- 
 listed from Marshfield August 20, 1862, and died in 
 Stuart's Hospital, Baltimore, November 19, 1862. 
 
 Calvin S. Magoun, of Pembroke, born November 14, 
 1839; enlisted October 9, 1861, in Regiment 23, Com- 
 
 * Of those from Plymouth County who joined this regiment a 
 large proportion were from the towns of Hingham, Scituate and 
 S. Scituate. The last year of its history was marked by heavy 
 losses in killed, wounded and prisoners. The 39th was present at 
 the surrender of Gen. Lee at Appomatox, Sunday, April 9, 18G5. 
 
HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 205 
 
 pany A. Discharged for disability June i, 1862. He 
 was in the Burnside's Expedition and was at the taking 
 of Roanoke Island and of Newbern, where he was taken 
 sick. After spending some time in the hospital he was 
 given a furlough and sought to return home, but died 
 June 19, 1862, of typhoid pneumonia, in the cars on 
 the Norwich train, between New York and Boston. 
 
 " On Fame's eternal camping ground 
 
 Their silent tents are spread, 
 And Glorv guards with solemn round 
 
 The bivouac of the dead." 
 
 Other of Our Enlisted Alumni. 
 
 Joseph F. Stetson, of Hanover, aged 21, enlisted in 
 Regt. 18, Co. G., Aug. 24, 1861, re-enlisted Jan. i, 1864, 
 Regt. 32, Co. M. Sergt. 
 
 George F. Stetson, of So. Scituate, aged 25, en- 
 listed Aug. 5, 1861, Regt. 18, Co. G., re-enlisted Jan. 2, 
 1864, transferred Oct. 26, 1864, to 32d Inf. Co. L. Corp. 
 
 Edward Southworth, of So. Scituate, aged 24, en- 
 listed July 31, 1862, Regt. 1 8th, Co. G., discharged 
 Sept. 21, 1863, order War Department to receive an 
 appointment as Second Lieutenant in the 2d Regt, U. 
 S. colored troops. Promoted to First Lieut. Oct 6, 
 1864, and to Regimental Quartermaster, April 14, 1865, 
 was honorably discharged Aug., 1865, on account of 
 injuries received while in the service. He was in the 
 battles of Antietam, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Chan- 
 cellorsville and Gettysburg. 
 
 George H. Clapp, of So. Scituate, aged 21, enlisted 
 in Regt. i8th Co. G., July 31, 1862, re-enlisted Feb. 9, 
 1864, transferred Oct. 26, 1864, to 32d Inf. Co. C. 
 
206 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 Charles Tolman, of So. Scituate, aged 19, enlisted 
 Regt. i8th, Co. G., Aug. 5, 1862, discharged Jan. 10, 
 1863, through disability. 
 
 Lebbeus Stockbridge, of Hanover, aged 35, enlisted 
 in Regt. 2d, Co. K., May 25, 1861 ; promoted Sergeant 
 Major, Nov. i, 1862. 
 
 George C. Dwellev, of Hanover, aged 22, enlisted 
 in Regt. 4th, Co. I., May 22, 1861, for three months, re- 
 enlisted Aug. 2, 1862, in Regt. 12th, Co. G., for three 
 years. Transferred Sept i, 1863 to V. R. C. (Veteran 
 Reserve Corps.) 
 
 William H. Bates, of Hanover, aged 25, enlisted 
 Aug. 20, 1862, Regt. 38th, Co. K., Corp. Discharged 
 July 9, 1863, for disability. 
 
 Melzar C. Bailey, of Hanover, aged 23, enlisted 3d 
 Regt. of Cavalry, Co. D., Sept. 6, 1862, re-enlisted Aug. 
 9, 1864, I St Battalion Heavy Artillery, Co. E. 
 
 Cyrus C. Holmes, of Hanover, aged 24, enlisted Regt. 
 i8th, Co. G., Aug. 24, 1 861, Sergt. Discharged Oct. 
 23, 1863, for disability, having been wounded in second 
 battle of Bull Run. 
 
 Robert S. Church, of Hanover, aged 20, enlisted 
 for 9 months, Sept. 12, 1862, Regt. 43d, Co. G. Elected 
 Capt. Military Co., District No. 62, Jan. 16, 1865. 
 
 William Carver Bates, aged 22, enlisted May i, 
 1861, for three months, Regt, 5, Co. G.. taken prisoner 
 July 21, 1 86 1, exchanged 1862. 
 
 Thomas B. Holmes, aged 17, enlisted Sept 21, 1861,, 
 in Regt. 24th, Co. E., musician. 
 
HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 207 
 
 Thomas D. Brooks, of Hanover, aged 21, enlisted 
 Aug. ID, 1864, 1st Batt. Heavy Artillery, Co. E. 
 
 George B. Oldham, of Hanover, aged 23, enlisted 
 August 20, 1862, in Regiment 38, Company K; pro- 
 moted Sergeant, February, 1864. 
 
 Oren T. Whiting, of Hanover, aged 28, enlisted 
 September 23, 1862, in Regiment 3, Company A, for 
 three months. Re-enlisted for three years August 9, 
 1864, in 1st Battery, Heavy Artillery, Company E. 
 Corp. 
 
 Nathaniel Cushing of Hanover, aged 18, enlisted 
 February i, 1864, 4th Regiment of Cavalry, Com- 
 pany K. 
 
 George W. Whiting, of Pembroke, aged 22, enlisted 
 September 2, 1862, in Regiment 39, Company G ; dis- 
 charged for disability February 8, 1864. 
 
 Frank T. Whiting, of Pembroke, aged 21, enlisted 
 September 2, 1862, in Regiment 39, Company G. 
 
 William C. Litchfield, of So. Scituate, aged 24, en- 
 listed August 10, 1864, ist Battalion, Heavy Artillery, 
 Company E. 
 
 Augustus Jacobs, of So. Scituate, aged 21, enlisted 
 September 12, 1862, Regiment 44, Company D, for 
 nine months. 
 
 F-^lisha W. Lapham, of So. Scituate, aged 18, en- 
 listed Aug. 24, 1 86 1, Regt. 18, Co. G. Discharged for 
 disability Oct. 25, 1862. 
 
 Abner L. Stetson, of So. Scituate, aged 18, enlisted 
 Aug. 4, 1862, Regt. 1 8th, Co. G., discharged for disa- 
 bility, March 9, 1863. 
 
208 HISTORY OF HAxNOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 Albert W. Curtis, of Pembroke, aged 21, enlisted 
 Aug 24, 1861, Regt. i8th, Co. G., re-enlisted Jan. 2, 
 1864, Corp. Transferred Oct. 26, 1864, to Regt. 32d,. 
 Infantry, Co. I, 
 
 John F. Hatch, of Marshfield, aged 18, enlisted 
 Sept. 12, 1862, Regt. 43d, Co. F., for 9 months. 
 
 Edward R. Church, of Pembroke, aged 25, enlisted 
 Sept. 23, 1862, in Regt. 4th, Co. I, for 3 months, Corp. 
 (This company saw very hard service in Louisiana.) 
 
 Elisha F. Coleman, of So. Scituate, aged 19, enlisted 
 Nov. 14, 1861, in Regt. 32, Co. A. Discharged March 
 2, 1863, for disability. 
 
 JuDSON EwELL, of Marshficld, enlisted Jan. 27, 1862, 
 in Co. G. Second District of Columbia Volunteers. He 
 was in the' battle of Antietam, and was promoted to the 
 rank of Sergeant. 
 
 Rudolph C. Waterman, of Scituate, aged 22, enlisted 
 Sept. 12, 1862, in Regt. 44, Co. D., for 9 months, Corp. 
 
 Horace S. Tower, of Hanover, aged 18, enlisted 
 Feb. 18, 1864, in 4th Regt. of Cavalry, Co. L. Corp. 
 
 James L. Hunt, aged 33, enlisted Regt. 35, Co. H, 
 Aug. 19, 1862. Discharged May 11, 1865, for disability. 
 
 Charles B. Phillips, of Marshfield, a graduate at 
 West Point, saw some service in the field. 
 
 George Baker, of Marshfield, aged 30, enlisted 
 March 30, 1863, Regt. 54, Co. C. 
 
 Frank Baker, whom we have previously noticed^ 
 served with his Regiment, (the 13th Infantry) in va- 
 rious parts of the United States. In 1879 he was trans- 
 ferred to the Ordnance Department of the army. 
 
HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 2O9 
 
 Frederick W. Clapp, in service from Sept., 1862 
 until July, 1863, Regt. 43d, Co. G. 
 
 John Corthell, enlisted Aug. 7, 1862, Regt. 39th, 
 Co. G., and was discharged at the end of the war, Ju ne 
 8, 1865. 
 
 George H, Sampson was high private, U. S. Vols. 
 
 Edwin J. Chandler, enlisted 1862 — 6^^ I think, from 
 Duxbury. 
 
 George A. Collamore, AI. D., served in the war as 
 surgeon of looth Regt., Ohio Volunteers. 
 
 Entered the Navy. 
 
 Haviland Barstow, Gustavus Percival, Robert S. Tal- 
 bot, Zephaniah Talbot, Henry H. Collamore, Robert E. 
 Barstow, Edward P. Stetson.* 
 
 The following poetical tribute to the Soldiers and 
 Sailors who enlisted and who fell in the war for the 
 preservation of the Union was written by Mrs. Rev. 
 Cyrus W. Allen for the Grand Army Fair, October 
 16 — 18, 1877, which was held to procure the Soldiers' 
 Monument in Hanover. We subjoin it here because in 
 the main it is appropriate to this section of our work, 
 and because we deem it worthy to be placed on perma- 
 nent historic record. 
 
 *Some acount of Haviland Barstow is given by "William C Bates 
 in the Soldiers' Memorial. Henry H. Collamore was in the Navy 
 from January 10, 1863 to Sept 19, 186.5, at first as Acting Master's 
 Mate, the last year as Acting Ensign. 
 
210 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 MRS. C. W, ALLEN. 
 
 Hark ! heard ye not the tliunder loud, 
 Echo along our southern shore ? 
 
 Saw ye the lightning in the cloud ? 
 Heard ye the sullen ocean's roar ? 
 
 Surely a tempest must be near ! 
 
 Seek shelter from the coming storm ; 
 God keep jour wives and children dear, 
 
 Secure amid the dread alarm ! 
 
 But look ! the sky is clear and bright, 
 The gentle breezes softly blow ; 
 
 No cloud obscures the sun's fair light, 
 All nature smiles beneath its glow. 
 
 What means this rumbling from afar '^ 
 What trouble does this noise portend ? 
 
 It means the approach of civil war 
 
 Where men with brother men contend. 
 
 From East to West, from North to South, 
 The electric wire the news conveys ; 
 
 The message goes from mouth to mouth — 
 " Fort Sumter's taken ! rouse ye braves !' 
 
HISTORY OF HANOVFR ACADEMY. 211 
 
 Could we sit tamely by, and see 
 
 The flag our fathers gave in trust 
 To proudly wave o'er land and sea 
 
 Lie low and trailing in the dust ? 
 
 Could we sit by and see the States, 
 
 United once, asunder torn ? 
 The chains that bound our fellow men 
 
 Made still more grievous to be borne ? 
 
 For months the South had been employed 
 
 Arming themselves to meet this hour ; 
 And aided by the rebel Floyd 
 
 Were ready to assert their power. 
 
 In vain our Lincoln, good and wise, 
 
 The folly of their course exposed ; 
 In vain all terms of compromise, 
 
 In Congress, Crittenden proposed. 
 
 * Let us alone," their leaders cried, 
 
 " We'll stand alone," they loudly boast ; 
 And added with a scornful pride 
 
 " We'll take your forts upon our coast." 
 
 Then burst upon our startled ear 
 
 The booming cannon's loud report ; 
 On every side the guns we hear 
 
 Firing against the fated fort. 
 
 The little famished loyal band 
 
 Fought bravely to defend their flag, 
 How could they see the Stars and Stripes 
 
 Supplanted by the rebel rag ! 
 
 All honor to the noble few 
 
 Who held the fort so long and well ! 
 To them the victor's crown is due 
 
 Unconqiiered, though their fortress fell. 
 
 " Fort Sumter's taken 1" At the word 
 
 The people rose with sudden start, 
 All party feuds were laid aside, 
 
 Hand joined with hand and heart with heart. 
 
212 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 And when the summons issued forth 
 From Washington for arms and men, 
 
 It found the people of the North 
 
 Prepared to meet the summons then. 
 
 The old Bay State, with eager zeal 
 As ever, foremost for the right. 
 
 Sent forth her armies to the field 
 For freedom and for truth to fight. 
 
 What other State upon its page 
 Such record as our own can show 
 
 Of Statesmen true, of soldiers brave 
 
 To Union pledged, come weal, come woe ? 
 
 The noble men of long ago 
 
 Are treasured in our memory yet ; 
 
 What soldiers who have faced the foe 
 Sumner or Andrew can forget ? 
 
 The fountain that poured forth its flood 
 At Lexington in days of yore, 
 
 Is still as pure, and gave its blood 
 To cleanse the streets of Baltimore. 
 
 Our own fair town of Pilgrim stock 
 Was not a whit behind the rest ; 
 
 Unflinching as her Plymouth Rock, 
 She gave her bravest and her best. 
 
 From every rank, from every lot 
 
 Her men were marshalled for the .strife ; 
 
 From mansion proud, from humble cot, 
 They came to save the nation's life. 
 
 They left their homes, a noble band 
 In health and youthful vigor strong. 
 
 To save from death their native land. 
 Maintain the right, put down the wrong. 
 
 Though firm and fearless, who can tell 
 The anguish of the parting hour ? 
 
 When called to say the last farewell 
 To meet, perchance, on earth no more. 
 
HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY 213 
 
 Then rose to Heaven the earnest prayer 
 
 That God their loved ones would defend, 
 Would guard them with his tender care, 
 
 And keep them safely to the end. 
 
 Then came the real " tug of war," 
 
 The daily drill in fort and camp, 
 The toilsome march to scenes afar, 
 
 The sentry's lonely midnight tramp. 
 
 The battlefield, the scanty fare, 
 
 The dreadful work of shot and shell, 
 The sickening swamp, the tainted air, 
 
 The nurse's ward, the prison cell. 
 
 Not those alone who risked their lives 
 
 In mountain gorge or Southern plain, 
 But mothers, sisters, daughters, wives 
 
 Had their full share of grief and pain. 
 
 The waiting for the Daily News, 
 
 To read of battles lost or won, 
 Dreading its columns to peruse 
 
 Lest they report some loved one gone. 
 
 What sorrows brings the message brief ! 
 
 The awful waste of human life ; 
 The gentle maiden's untold grief. 
 
 The childless home, the widowed wife. 
 
 The God of battles was their trust, 
 
 What need had they to be afraid.^ 
 God on their side, their cause was just, 
 
 On him their fainting hearts were stayed. 
 
 He heard in Heaven the bitter cries 
 
 Of those in bonds— He saw their pain; 
 There needed some great sacrifice 
 
 To purge the nation from its stain. 
 
 The victory's won ! The war is o'er ! 
 
 All honor to the soldiers brave ! 
 United vStates we stand once more, 
 
 Land of the free, without a slave. 
 
214 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 Four million slaves, as cattle driven, 
 Now walk erect as freemen bold, 
 
 Their chains are broke, their bonds are riven, 
 No more can they be bought or sold. 
 
 The Flag that for a hundred years 
 Has been an emblem of the free 
 
 Now floats again o'er every State 
 
 O'er North and South, from sea to sea. 
 
 But where are those, so stout of heart, 
 Wholeft us when the war begun .^ 
 
 Those who so nobly bore their part 
 
 Where are they now the victory's won ? 
 
 Go, read the Records of your town ! 
 
 What's written 'gainst each soldier's name, 
 Of suffering borne, of actions done, 
 
 Should place it on the roll of fame. 
 
 The mournful Record says of o;ie, 
 
 " At Sabine Cross Roads he was killed," 
 
 Of others, " Died at Baton Rouge," 
 
 For them with grief our hearts are filled. 
 
 Cane River, Richmond, Antietam 
 The Wilderness and New Orleans, 
 
 The Hospital, the Prison van 
 
 And Petersburg saw parting scenes. 
 
 Point Lookout, Alexandria 
 
 And Morgan's Bend sad tales can tell 
 
 Of those our friends and comrades true 
 Who in the cause of Freedom fell. 
 
 And some upon the ocean wave 
 
 The Record says, laid down their lives, 
 
 The seaman as the soldier brave 
 Offered a willing sacrifice. 
 
 . The rebel gunboat Merrimac 
 
 Found men who by their flag would stand, 
 When by its murderous attack. 
 
 The Congress sunk, and Cumberland. 
 
HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 215 
 
 Full well that father knew his son 
 
 As he in pride and sorrow said, 
 When told the flag was taken down, 
 
 ■'It must be, then, that Joe is dead."* 
 
 Such was the stuff that made our men 
 
 Invincible on land and sea. 
 That made our country what it is, 
 
 " Land of the Brave, Home of the Free." 
 
 A debt of gratitude we owe 
 
 To those who died that we might live ; 
 How can we our affection show ? 
 
 What tribute to their memory give ? 
 
 By us they'll never be forgot, 
 
 But7£;t' shall soon have passed away, 
 Others will rise who knew them not ; 
 
 Then let us our sad tribute pay. 
 
 To them a Monument we'll raise 
 
 That shall endure when we are gone 
 To tell their deeds in notes of praise 
 
 To generations yet unborn. 
 
 The" Boston Monument " will stand 
 
 An honor to the city's heart. 
 The glow of'pride that filled the land 
 
 Will never from our breasts depart. 
 
 We would in our more humble way 
 
 The example follow Boston set, 
 And raise'a monument to say 
 
 0/(r Heroes we will ne'er forget. 
 
 * The fullest and most authentic account of the destruction of the 
 '• Congress," which I have seen, is that by Frederick H. Curtis, who 
 was a Hanover boy and a gunner of that vessel. This account is 
 given by another Hanover citizen, Frank S. Alger, in the New England 
 Magazine for February, 1899. I scarcely need say that the father of Jo- 
 seph B. Smith, the Captain of the Congress, was Admiral Joseph Smith 
 who was a native of Hanover. 
 
2l6 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 Consult the Record book once more ; 
 
 What says it of the remnant left ? 
 " Disabled, wounded, sick and sore, 
 
 Of health and all its joys bereft." 
 For blessings which we dearly prize 
 
 Our soldiers we can ne'er repay, 
 But let us do what in us lies 
 
 To prove our love without delay. 
 Oh, let us rear within our State 
 
 A home for those who need our care. 
 Amid our own beloved scenes, 
 
 Our hills and vales, our native air. 
 
 The homesick soldier needs to rest 
 
 Where he can meet the friends he loves. 
 May he with such a home be blest 
 
 And never more be forced to rove. 
 And now the Olive Branch of peace 
 
 Waves o'er our land from shore to shore, 
 May strife and all contention cease, 
 
 And wars and fightings be no more. 
 'Y\\t patriot spirit has not fled, 
 
 We love our country and her laws. 
 In memory of our honored dead 
 
 We pledge ourselves to freedom's cause. 
 May Justice, Temperance, Truth and Love 
 
 O'er all our land have perfect sway, 
 May He who rules in Heaven above 
 
 Lead every heart in wisdom's way. 
 Then shall the land that gave us birth 
 
 By righteousness exalted be 
 Among the nations of the earth — 
 
 "Land of the Brave, Home of the Free." 
 
history of hanover academy. 21/ 
 
 Conclusion. 
 
 It is with feelings of sadness that we have to say the 
 Hanover Academy is now permanently closed. The 
 property is indeed leased to the town for school pur- 
 poses, and we trust it will be so used in the future, but 
 it will never be Hanover Academy. The founders of 
 this Academy and those who contributed towards the 
 erection of our beautiful building never expected or 
 dreamed of such a result as this. Let us listen again 
 to some words from the dedication address of Rev. Mr. 
 Dyer. '' Your work," he says, " contemplates blessing 
 not one neighborhood only, but many. The structure 
 you have reared is substantial. You expect the feet of 
 more than one generation of youths will cross its thresh- 
 old to obtain instruction within its consecrated walls. 
 And doubtless, long after most of you who have been 
 deeply interested and actively engaged in its erection 
 shall have been gathered to your fathers, this noble edi- 
 fice, standing where you have reared it, and proffering 
 the advantages of an Academic education to all, will 
 welcome to its halls a multitude of those who shall 
 come after you on the journey of life. Your children's 
 children will eat the fruit of the tree you have planted, 
 and sit down under its shadow with great delight. And 
 this institution, so cherished by you who have furnished 
 to learning this beautiful asylum, will exert on this com- 
 munity its enlightening, elevating, refining influences, 
 possibly till tJiey themselves shall cease to be any longer 
 interested in all that is done under the sun. ... As 
 friends of Education and lovers of our race, we cannot 
 help casting our eye down the long vista of the future 
 to contemplate the blessings which will flow from this 
 humble seat of learning to generations yet unborn." 
 
2l8 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 But it may be asked if the blessings thus contem- 
 plated and hoped for will not be secured if this property 
 shall forever be devoted, as we hope it may be, to pub- 
 lic school uses.* Doubtless this would be so in part, 
 but no public school in its influence can exactly fill the 
 place of an Academy. For a student to leave the pub- 
 lic school for a private school of a high grade where he 
 or his parents or guardians would have to pay money, is 
 a much more important step than to leave one common 
 school for another, even though the latter be of a higher 
 grade. Such a step has been to many even in our com- 
 munity a turning point for life, inasmuch as it supposes 
 or will naturally beget a purpose and determination to 
 study by putting forth some special efforc and at some 
 personal cost. And then the personnel of such private 
 school and the esprit de corps of such school companion- 
 ship are naturally of a higher kind, and are different in 
 quality and degree from what our public schools com- 
 monly or naturally yield. Such private schools and 
 academies, pervaded as generally in the past with a 
 Christian spirit and influence, have thus done a great 
 and blessed work in the world. Professor Cecil F. P. 
 Bancroft, who has just finished a quarter centennial as 
 Principal of Phillips Andover Academv, says: ''The 
 
 * We understand that the Salmond heirs, who own nearly half 
 the Academic property are willing, in order that the same be not 
 wholly diverted from its original school purposes, to donate their 
 share to the town for a permanant public school. It is also thought 
 that several other stockholders are willing to dispose of their part 
 of the property in a similar manner. Should this plan be carried 
 out, I should favor the suggestion which has been made that this 
 should be called the "Salmond School." We should then have 
 two schools in town, this and the new "Curtis School" on Main St., 
 which would be worthily named. 
 
HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 2I9 
 
 Academies are now doing for the whole country, es- 
 pecially for territory not reached by the public high 
 school, and for individuals in all parts of the land, a 
 work which no other agency has been found to do equal- 
 ly well. An Academy, protected from political, pa- 
 rental and local interference, does its work for boys and 
 girls separated to a studious life, wdth a singleness of re- 
 sponsibility for the entire time and the entire nurture 
 of the pupils which a public school cannot and ought 
 not to assume, and develops an independence of charac- 
 ter which is the best preparation for a successful career. 
 Most of the Academies were planted under religious 
 motives and the note of Christian character is domi- 
 nant." 
 
 But times have changed. ''High schools" are now 
 established in almost every tow^n, and Normal schools 
 in many of our counties, and thus private schools and 
 academies, unless amply funded, must naturally suffer 
 and decline and cease to be. An Academy can now 
 live and flourish only as it has an endowment well nigh 
 equal to that of an ordinary college. We have a few, 
 and only a few, of such secondary schools at present in 
 our Commonwealth, while most of our old and even 
 once flourishing academies are now things of the past. 
 But these academies did not all die easily; at least Han- 
 over Academy did not. Since my connection with it in 
 its decline and decease, I have found that its branches 
 overshadowed the land, and that its roots extended to 
 the remotest States of the Union. Again and again, 
 yea, often have I been surprised at receiving letters 
 from the most distant States asking for information, 
 circulars and catalogues. With a comparatively slight 
 endowment, such as I have repeatedly sought to gain, 
 
220 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 
 
 Hanover Academy, with its amazing vitality, might be 
 in a flourishing condition not only to this day but for 
 many years to come. I should be glad to think that 
 this Academy might possibly be revived. Some Acad- 
 emies are being thus reopened, like that at Milton, 
 which has just celebrated its centennial. It was closed 
 in 1866 when the Milton High School was established, 
 but in 1884 it was reopened and now has a list of 135 
 pupils. And President Eliot of Harvard University 
 said at this celebration that " this revival of academies 
 has gone on in many other parts of New England, and 
 that the academy was never so strong in our country as 
 it is to-day." But as J have said, most of our acade- 
 mies are things of the past, and will not appear again, 
 though their influence will never cease to be. Let us 
 be thankful for their past existence, and for the great 
 and good work which they accomplished in their gener- 
 ation. Let us also be thankful that our humble Hano- 
 ver Academy has no slight share in this great and 
 good work accomplished. 
 
 William P. Duncan, Esq., " a former pupil," under 
 date of Cambridge, Sept. i, 1898, sends us the following 
 lines on 
 
 The Passing of Hanover Academy, 
 
 When we were young, when we were young, 
 
 Impatient of the years, 
 We did not care in youth so fair, 
 
 To trace life's hopes and fears. 
 Now we are old, now we are old, 
 
 Our memory scans the past, 
 And days of yore, we live them o'er, 
 
 Too beautiful to last. 
 
HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 221 
 
 The classic school in grove so cool, 
 
 In rural town of old, 
 In thought we greet, again we meet 
 
 Our playmates gay and bold. 
 How doth it seem but as a dream 
 
 Or " weavers' shuttle " swift, 
 The passing on of time agone 
 
 As lightning through the rift. 
 
 Now we are old, now we are old, 
 
 The school has ceased to be. 
 Our hearts will burn, oft as we turn 
 
 In retrospection free. 
 Yet now farewell ! We break the spell 
 
 Of memory fond and true ; 
 Sweet classic shades ! our vision fades, 
 
 We sadly say adieu. 
 
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