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g^U of 
Mrs. Nancy Thomas 




STANFORD UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES 



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HISTORY 



OF 



Hanover Academy 



HY 



REV. D. B. FORD 



Author of " New Kngland's Struggles for Religious Liberty," etc. 



BOSTON 

II. M. HIGIIT, PRINTER 

319 Washington Street 

1899 



Price.1 fifty cents ; sixty cents by matt 



With great pleasure 

do I dedicate this volume 

to my friend 

by whose munificence 

I am enabled to publish this woik 

at a price which is less than cost 



PREKACE. 

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 by 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 



6 PREPACK. 

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, hig;;edly-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 h ive 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. V., Hon. Charles A. Reed of 
Taunton, Mr. George Conantof 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 interesting letters relating 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 
P^ngland Historic, Genealogical Society, i8 Somerset 
street, Boston. 



PREFACE. 7 

Some of ouV 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 will 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, we 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 my 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 tliis 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, 1898. 



*A11 the portraits in this work, with one exception, are from the Suffolk Engraving 
Company of Boston. 



PART 1. 

HANOVER ACADEMY, 1808- 18. 

Its First Building 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, buthe 
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, i8i2, 
aged 88,) was born in Brookfield, 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 Kmmons 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 23, 181 8. 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 alar^e 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 were 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 was spading 
his garden, having sought in vain permission of his mas- 
ter to buy himself, besought Mr. C. to intercede for 
him, which 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 wife 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 w^as 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, caYxY^xv^\vvK\ \}^>\'^ 
till be was obliged to lay him do>wn, and \\\^xv \.q>oV\Xv^ 



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, libenezer Nye Chaddock, was 
living, and where she herself died, and was placed in a 
tomb with a sister, Mrs. Eli Haskell. 

Mr. Barry 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 T)f 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 171 2. First Ameri- 
can edition revisL^d and corrected by Rev. Calvin Chad- 
dock of Hanover, Mass., 1809," ^^^^ ^ 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, 1852. 
Mr. M. Parris McLauthlin, — 

Dear Sir : It would afford me much pleasure to attend the dedi- 
catory services at the opening of your new Academy, agreeablj' 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, 1812, 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, with 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, ^^Ltcetne iniki, extre, O dotnineF'' 

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, my 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 vears a woithv 
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, bv 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 possesse<i 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 afflicted — 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. I 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 
1821, 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 ^^ 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 PLliza 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 OV IIANOVKR ACADEMY. 

and (luring 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, ICsq., for his lawyer. In the complaint 
the plaintiff avers that he was 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 greatly 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, /^r 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 thjy 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- 



I8 IIISTOKV or HANOVER ACADEMY. 

bcr him with tiratitiidt; far liis patient and earnest efforts 
for the im proven) ent of the younp;." lispecially may we 
be th:inlvful that iis a pioneer he started an influence in 
favor of ht,^hi.'r eihic.itinn which has spread far and 
wide, anti which has already lasted nearly a hundretl 
years. Mad it not been for him, Hanover might have 
had a far different edncatiimal history. 

I am S'lrry to learn that no likeness of Mr. Chaddock 
is now in existence — "the hirgc-sixcd paintin;;;" 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 
tine 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 
" ill my prime." She 
writes that she was 
christened SallyThatch- 
Miss CHADDOCK. cr Chaddock, but, as she 

thinks Sara tlie i>rcttier name, she is now so called by 
her friends. She says that she has no talent for wrlt- 
,ing (?), and that all the talent she has is dramatic, which 
she inherited from her father. Her friends speak of her 
as being an excellent reader. 

1 sometimes fancy that the existence and influence of 
Hanover Academy, as conducted by Mr. Chaddock and 




HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. I9 

his successors, had 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 Quincy 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 III>TOKV or IIANnVKK ACADKMV. 

Listly m.i'ch fnrtli tlu* cliildrcn, and lookini^ bravely 
on 1) )tli coiir).uHos who hid spoken, they shout forth 
thus : 

■ I I*rt';ifior. at our i:f>untr\ 's caH. 
Wo promiM* to t*\rfl ynu aU.* " 

In connection with i\ reference to the influence of Mr. 
Child lock, it should he slated tliat his descendants have 
ever mmifested a deej) interest in the welfare of the 
Academy. I lis (luii;lUer, Roxana, wife of Hon. Albert 
Smitli, WHS a i^enerous donor to its funds ; and his 
<;rand(hui'^^liter, Mrs. Annie L. (Smith) Higelow, late de- 
ceased, often rememl)ered the needs of the students. 
Inde.'d, nearly all the scholarsliips which have been 
granted to the students have come as gifts cither from 
Mrs. Bi^elow or from Mrs. hLliza Salmond. 

After Mr. (.'haddock's dep irtiire the school rapidly de- 
clined. It is thouL^dit 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 b\)ur Corners. In 
early times it was utilized by Mr. ICphraim 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 unahle to run. 



HISTORY 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. 




PART II. 

HANOVER ACADEMY, 1828-^1. 

Its Second Building and its Teachers. 

This second buildin^i; was erected in 1828, ten years 
after Mr. Chaddock's leaving Hanover, and it stood on 
the east side of Hroadway Street, about midway between 
the dwelling of J. Williams Real 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 by, 
greatly favored and helped on the movement, and that 
possibly his feelings were somewhat 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 ACADEMY. 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. Harry's 
History, in shares of 1^25 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 I^ells, 
Ephraim Stetson, Dr. Ezekiel Gushing, Rev. Calvin 
Wolcott, Sarah Gardner (Wolcott ?), Robert KcUs, 
Asaph Magoun, Horace Collamore, Esq., Gen. A. W. 
Oldham, Capt. Tilden Crooker, Benjamin C. Pratt, 
Ethan A. Stetson, Capt. William Josselyn, Eli Stetson, 
Joseph S. Bates, Horatio Gushing, P^sq., Isaac Magoun, 
Col. John B. Barstow, Capt. Thomas Waterman, Capt. 
Nathaniel Barstow, John G. Stockbridge, George Bailey, 
Dr. Joseph Studley, Justus Whiting, Thomas Damon, 
Benjamin Mann, Esq., Lemuel Dwelley, (Col.) Samuel 
Tolman, Jr., Elias W. Pratt, Luther Rowland (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 some 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 IirsTOKV OF HANOVER ACADEMV. 

earlier teachers. Several of them, as it would seem, 
taught but for a short time.* 

The first teacher, Zephaniaii Ames Bates (1828), 
(not Hass, as in l^arry's History), was the son of Joshua 
and Bcthiah (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 Rolfk (1829), son of Rev. Wil- 
liam and Judith (Hazletine) l^olfe, was born at Groton, 
July 24, 1800, graduated at Dartmouth College, 1824, 
and died in Charleston, S. C, February 24, 1 831. 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 teaching, as given in 
Rev. Mr. Barry'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 many, 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 with her mother, Mrs. I^ouisa Barry, in New- 
Jtonville. 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 
^he had the happy faculty of adapting herself to all ages, she was 



HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 2$ 

Passing by the name of Rev. Cyrus Holmes (1830) 
of whom vve 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., $0.10; total $1.60. Received payment." 
Mr. Allen was born in Londonderry, Vt., 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 long time a resi- 
dent of this place, serving as rector of St. Andrew's 



greatly beloved by all her scholars. Iler 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 Ilingham, 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 (ISOO — 4) the Academy was 
obliged to have several different male teachers. For a pan o! t!u- time 
her school was quite large, and she had one of her gradunic pupils. 
Miss Judith S. Cook, now living in Boston, for an as^istaiu. to 
whom Mrs. Wade left the charge of the sciiool. antl who finally 
went to New Bedford to be her assistant there. Certain ;\ this 
school should not be overlooked in summing up the education;!! in- 
fluences which have left their stamp on the minds of this com- 
munity. 



26 HISTORY 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 Eh'zabeth 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, IClijah 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 Quincy, 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 Quincy 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/ 

prime 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 Broadwav 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 OF ITANOVER ACADEMV. 

8. 1809, and died in Harnstable, April 14, 1886. After 
leavin<; 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 Hridgewater, Sandwich, and several 
other towns, especially on the Cape. In Sandwich, in 
1835, ^^^ 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 X. Hinckley, of Barnstable, who still 
survives. In his later years he was engaged in the in- 
surance business in Harnstable. 

Dr. Ira Warrkn (1833), was born in Canada, 1805, 
studied for a time in Brown University, taught school 
at Queen Anne'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 



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 (1834— 37) son of Abiel 
and Joanna (Fuller) White, was born in Halifax, July 
29, 1810, died in Cumberland, Md., December 26, 1S64. 
He was of Pilgrim descent, his maternal ancestor being 
Deacon and Doctor Samuel Fuller, 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 HISTORV 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 harmlessness 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(i836-37) 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 Hermanims^ 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 Boston, 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. Recently 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 MISTOKV OF HANOVKK ACADKMV. 

I'rancis Cnllaniorc, Augustus Collaniorc, Theodore Col- 
l.mioro. Robert Harstow, Joseph B. Harstow, Joseph 
Dwc'lov. Henry Hates, William Josselyne. James Tol- 
man, 'r()i)ias ( ). (lardner, John A. Smith, James R. 
Smith. Joseph I^ Sylvester, Belcher Magoon, Luther 
Studley. John I). Twiggs, (ieorge W. TLels, Andrew I. 
Spra'4ne, Siira/i /:'. Iuxrstou\ Priscilla B, Sviit/i^ Austin 
Dyer, Robert Dwelly. Jonathan Oldham, Thomas H. 
Soule, Henry C\ \\';iin\vri<;ht, John \\. l^arstow, Horace 
Stetso!!, Mlea/er Josslyne, Asa C. Hammond, Charles 
I. unburn, Robert Salmon. Aldcn Brings 3d, Benjamin 
Mlliot. 

Miss Hannah \\\ Johnson (1837), vvasfor two terms 
a eontemporary teacher with Mr. Bourn at the Acad- 
eni}'. In her second term, ending in September, she 
had 25 young lady students. Among the scholars of 
Miss Johnson, as also of Miss l^^uller at a later period, 
I notice the names of Lvdia K. and Elizabeth T. Bar. 
stow, of Provi lence, daughters of John Barstow, Esq., 
who many years afterward established a fund for the 
Hanover Aca lemv. l^^rom the accounts q;iven of Miss 
Johnson by her pupils, I should judge her to have been 
an excellent teacher. The closing words of the valedic- 
tory address, s{)oken by Miss Adeline Coll am ore, 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 schemes 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 
with 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. Tha 
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 \V. Collamorc, Cclia Percival, Lydia K. 
Harstow, l^lizabcth T. Harstow, Helen Smith, Louisa 
Clark, Sarah Hitchcock, Polly B. Talbot, Judith Ham- 
mond, M iry Stetson, Susan Turner (of Pembroke). 

JosiAH Fuller (1838-39) the son of Robert and Rho- 
da (French) I^\iller. 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 III, who was a fast friend of the 
missionaries. I am told that he there married Marga- 
ret Mills of Natick, Mass., who w^ent 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, who died in California. He became 
interested in the California mires 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 (;//<? 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. Dwelley, 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 K. 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 1831, 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 onlj 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 inSTOKV Of HANtiVKR ACAUKMV. 

without his sotjking, he was ekctoil as Representative 
to our Legislature for 1848-9. I had just made abegin- 
ning in Latin umicr Mr. Fuller, hut it was under Mr. 
Holmes' tuition that I mainly received my fitting for 
college. 

Mr. Holmes was a unique |>ersoiiality. Coming into 
the school room the first morning, and in marked con- 
trast with hts immediate predecessor, he seemed to us 




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- 
ratas for instructive teaching. VJ\l\\ V\s v^tvc^ w -a. 



HISTORY OF JKANOVER 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 was 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 reading Young's Night Thoughts without 
pondering the subject under consideration." 

Mr. Holmes also had but little use for the rattan. 
With his tongue 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 my 
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 you (in Greek hemeis or 
humeis). Perhaps, as being a little uncertain, I pronounced the 
word somewhat indistinctly; whereupon I was asked: *'What 
kind o{ mets (mice) Ford?'* "He-meis," was n\y Te^\'5^ ^\v\Ocv '»«^'6> 
correct. 



38 msTORV 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 i)()em 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 Wayhmd and of other distinguished teachers, but. I 
never lost my regard and respect for Mr. Holmes.* With 

♦Well do I recollect the dav when a lad, making m_v first visit to 
Providence, ls4l, before theii* were anv railroads in Plvmouth 
county (the " Old Cohniy" being opened in 1S4C and the "Han- 
over Branch" in IS(JS) 1 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 years accomplished, especially in the way 
of literary elTort— all too meagerly and imperfectly — maybe learned 
in part from the following sketch of his public life as given sub- 
stantially in the Historical C^atalogue of Brown University' : 

David Barnes Ford, A. B. 184r> (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 Chrysostom, translated in con- 
junction with Alvah Hovey, 1854; Sfndies on the Baptismal Ques- 
tion with Review of J. W. Dale, 1879; Centennial History of First 
Baptist Church, Marshfield, 1888; Commentary on 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; Neiv England's Struggles for Religious Liberty, 
1896; The Meetings of the Warren Association in the Old Colony, 
189G; Contributor to the Christian Review, BlbUotUeca Sacra, and 
^th *;r periodica. Is . 



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 ^^s 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 7\)rrey, Bailey H. 
Hitchcock, Robert S. Curtis, Joseph Barstow, Freder- 
ic O. Barstow, James Turner. Elisha Stetson, James 
R. Smith, Edmund Q. Sylvester, Edward Barstow, Rob- 
ert Barstow, Joshua Fuller, Joshua J. Ellis, Charles 
Brooks, William Clark, Franklin E. Felton, Cyrus Mor- 
ton, John 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 
during 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 oi our Kc^.^^x«^ "sXva.- 



40 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 

dents, especially as I can think of very many whom I 
would delight to mention. 

After the precedinu^ paragraph was in type I received 
from Mr. Holmes' daughter, Sophia A., wife of Mr. 
l^mmons 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. 

I^^lizabeth T. Waterman, Samuel G. Cutler, Albert B. 
Hovvland, John 1^. Bates, Henry Clark, Mary Pratt, 
Lucy S. Dyer, Betsey S. Magoun, Mary Collamore, Eliz- 
abeth C. Sturtevant, Chloe S. Perry, Jared Gardner, 
Priscilla L^ells, Helena M. PLells, 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. Dvvelley, William P. Duncan, 
Dorothy B. Dyer, Frederick Hatch, Henry Hersey, 
Louisa P2. 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. W^ood, Lydia C. Waterman, Joseph 



HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 4I 

K. Wilder, Isaac Wilder, Thomas B. Waterman, William 
C. Oakman, Jr. 

Mr. Holmes, as we have said, died Aug i6, 1849. We 
subjoin a Song by an unknown writer, "Respectfully 
Dedicated to the Memory of the late Rev. Cyrus 
Holmes," which was sun<^ to the tune of **Long, Long 
Ago," at the Academy Exhibition, Oct. 12, 1849: 

•' Kind was the heart which in svmpathv 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 delii^ht, 
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 vvhen you stand by his grave, 

He has gone home — has gone home. 
Bright is his crown in the home 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 you muse on the past. 

He has gone home — has gone home. 
Joy that his sufferings are ended at last, 

And he's gone home — he's gone home. 
Let each memento 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- 



43 HISTOKV OK HAKOVEK ACADEMY, 

cock dl the West Parish o( I'embroke, now Hanson, 
while his maternal great-grandfather was Dr. Jeremiah 
Hall, who bought what was afterwards known as the 
Horace Collamore place in North Pembroke about 
174K, and who was a distinguished physician in his day 
— a surgeon in the French and Indian war, 1758,3 
member of the Provincial Congress in 1774, and a col- 




one! in the Revolutionary War. Mr. Hitchcock, the 
son of Charles and Abigail Little (Hall) Hitchcock, 
was born in Hanson, April 4, 1837 (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 iSsi, read law with Ron. "DameV 'ftVv^.de.U, at 



HISTORY OF HANOVER 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 ]\3l\^ \«^, \^'ZT , 



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 Quincy, 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, ^^ 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 /;/ /o/o 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 
Eno:land more ao^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 

hcici bought it. "The orchard," \\e sa^s,'''\s» oxv^ oi \.Vv^ 



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 increasilig 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 up to 
a higheV school. 

In the Autumn of 1847, Miss 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 Mr. 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 Institution. 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 ex\s.\.^xvc^ vcvXX\^ 



46 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 

Autumn of 1S47, under the auspices of four residents 
of Hanover 'Four Corners/ each having one or more 
dau<;hters 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 bo.x-stove occupied the centre, a 
stiifiiiifig 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 l)ut 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 .?] having 
driven over from his Marshfield residence — the Sab- 
bath school, the Wednesday evenmg services. . . . 
Of the boys' school below, .Mr. Wolcott, and then Mr. 
AfcLauthlin, was Trincipal. George ^. T)>n^\\^>3, ^ ^\i- 



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 W. 
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 E. 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, \%«j^, v4\^^tv\v^ 



4S 



SIclKY Ul-- IIANOVEK ACADKH 



1 his brother. Under his tui- 
i(i ;i very hi^h ck-grcc of pros- 



cnj;aj,'0(l in l)iisin 
tioii tho .W-v-Wm 
pcrity. 

On April lo, iS(j'), Mr, Ahl.ciuthlin married Klizabeth 
I'case \'iiicciit, si.vi)ii-l daii^htt-r of the Hon, Ambrose 
and Susan (I'arker) Vincent of New Hedfor.i,and settled 
upon liis lather's lioniestead In E, Bridgewater, where 




all his children, six in number, were born. He now re- 
sides in Maiden, where his wife died Nov. 22, 1890, 
leaving five children. Kesides 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, 
j8//, died April 23d, 1896, being al tVe t\vt\e, 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 1^375, 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 limes. ' ' What a pity I ' sa\d V\e \ ' V\^o^^ 0^^ 



50 HISTORY OI" HANOVKR 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 knowledj^e 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, 1852-92. 

Its Third Building and its Teachers.* 




•For the above picture I am indebted lo Mr. A.. V.. Fo6&otN<t4- 
im, publisher of the Rockland and Hanover T>\tec.\ot\ . 



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. Donnell, 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 Torrey and Luther Howland, who were original stockholders 
in the old Academy. Of these same grantees three only are now 
living, Robert S/1 vaster, Robert E. DweUey , and "NV.V .M.cV.^>\\.VvUu. 



HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 53 

George Curtis, Warren Wright, Joseph B. Fobes, Ed- 
mund Q. 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 Torrey 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 acre 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 sa\d ^latvV^^?* 1>3l\X}cv^x 



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 mcmner 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 right 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. T"h^i^ vj^'& ^^\d \q»- 



HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 55 

Nathan Dwelley for six-ninths of the old Academy, 
$300, and to Samuel Salmond, Haviland Torrey, and J. B. 
Barstpvv, who each owned one-ninth, iSiSO. A bell cost- 
ing $138, was given by Mary Salmond, 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 1 10 
shares, at $2$ par 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 Melzar 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 Mr. 
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, 1851), the 
Trustees passed the following Resolve : 

'*As a benefactor and a practical advocate of education he was 
deservedly esteemed by 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. Coiiant, in a 
letter recently received, says, "Had it not been for his (Mr. Sal- 
mond*8) help, his influence, and his willing, earnest daughter, I 
hard)jr think the new Academy would have been buWV." 




'&Hiti^ 0Almffrui^. 



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 Kpiscopiil, 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, Hrass 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 CorcvrcvlUee to pre- 



HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. $9 

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 IVayer, by Rev. A. (j. Duncan. 

HYMN. 
Bv Miss Lucy S. Delano. 

Why meet we here, a happv band.^ 

Within these new-raised walls, 
Erected by the artists' hand, 

WhoRC touch the forest falls. 

WeVe come to dedicate a shrine, 

To fill with richest lore; 
Where truth and purity 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. SamueV CmXX^x. 



6o HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 

HYMN. 
By Rev. E. Porter Dyer. 

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 Academy. 

Then hail the day which 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 we 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 the rich reward, 

Who reared this classic dome, 
That 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*, 



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Not for fields with carnage gory. 
Won from foes in deadly hate, 

But for peaceful 
Fruits, that now we dedicate. 

Thanks we give, and seek Thy blessing 

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! the hope of Freedom'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. 

Benediction. 

We here subjoin Mr. Dyer's Address, which, accord- 
ing to the Records, was published 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 of this occasion 
a becoming charm. 

But I stand before you with a heart 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, 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 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 
they 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 pTe;\v)i^\c^^ \)cv^ 



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 \i "we exYvaws.! a\\ o\3lx ^wer^ies 



HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 65 

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 exercise, 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 "long 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 
memorv. And the more he treasures there the more 
does he strengthen memory and increase its capacity. 

Now, to direct the curiosity and fvx \.\v^ ^X.\.^^\\a<^w ^V 



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 J'^ducation 
as a distinct science this seems to be one of its funda- 
mental principles, 77^., to preoccupy the mind as early as 
possible with that which shall be of the greatest service 
in riper years. 

It is recorded of Agcsilaus, 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 i/jferences from given premises. To^\sca'^vVcv^ 



68 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 lulucation. 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. You 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 he 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, thai it may become a xvwt^^\^ xvcA. 



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 fulfil 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 doWars, to^w^ctd^ the erection 



HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 7 1 

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 department 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 V\app^ \?> \.\vaX^^<^^^ 



T2 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 yonrs. 

The following account of the Dedicatory Exercises 
taken from the Hinghani 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 Frost] 
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- 
\iated 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 
jrear. 



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 hy the cordial unanimity ol maT\^ o\.\v^x^ vcv\.^\- 



74 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 

estcd, 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 bj, 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. McLautYvYm, ?iTvdle.wder 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,* KImina 
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 Smith,* 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, PrisciJJa EJJis, Henry Hunt, A.x\dT^v4 Yici^\^\v\^ 



y6 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, Ccrena Pocorney, Joseph C. Stockbridge, Sarah 
J. Stetbon, Cordelia Sherman, Frances Turner, Joanna 
Taylor, Lucy Vinal, Kilhorn Whitman, Edward Whit- 
man, Orcii T. Whiting, Thomas Whiting, Cynthia 
Whiting, Tryphi;na Whiting, Ellen A. Wood.* 




Mr, GEOUor: Conant, Principal, and Mrs. Mary Anne 
Friend Conant, Assistant Teacher, (1854-55), began 
their first term March 13, [854. 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 PrecepUeas vjas 5,\\en not only 



HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. Ty 

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 Institution 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 night we decided 
there the desti/i/ of nations, and no nation su^ered ^\. o>3k\ \\^w^% , 



yS 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 (luting 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, Kdwin 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 j(!222. 
Of this sum Mr. Salmond' paid j^ioo, Messrs. Robert 
Sylvester, George Curtis, and John Gushing paid $10 
each, Michael Sylvester and Elijah Barstow, $$ each, a 
lect^ire by Mr. Conant netted $6.60. The proceeds of 
an Exhibition, held Nov. 27-28, 1854, were $63.36 ; and 

though proud Albion's Queen had good cause to protest against 
the cruel murder of the King's English. — CC. 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, Eells, 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 — 



tt 



Composition writing is very tough, 

I have written two lines and that's enough." 



*M!8S Sylvester subsequently married Mr. Israel II. Macomber, 
of Marshfield, and Miss Josselyn became the wife of Judge John H. 
Boult, an Amherst ^r^aduate, and now resides m OaiV\^tvd,C2i\. 



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 teachin<; service began in 1843 and ended in 1892. 
Since the latter date he has been largely engaged in 
pcdestrianism, 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 dishing, Roswell Dear- 
born dishing, Nathaniel Cushing, Edwin Josselyn 
Chandler, Charles Henry Eells, Judson Ewell, Cyrus 
Collamore Holmes, Luther Wright Holmes, George 
Stephen Josselyn, Joseph Fobes Knapp, Charles Albert 
Kimball, George Allen Litchfield, Edwin Richard Litch- 
field, John Cushing 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, FLbenezer Copeland Waterman, 
Henry Whitman, Peter Salmond Whitman, Joseph 
Eells Wilder, Nathaniel Walter Winslow, Henry Alex- 
ander Wood, William W. Weyer. 

Helen Pauline Barker, Lucy Abby Barstow, Grace 
Foster Barstow, Mary Elizabeth Barstow, Caroline 
Louisa Barry, Elizabeth 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. .01 \\v^^^, X^^n^ 



$2 HISTORV OF HANOVKR ACADEMY. 

camo from Pembroke, thirteen from S. Scituate, forty- 
thiee bjlon.L^ed in Hanover, and the rest were from 
other places. 

A Mr. Barrett, who does not seem to have been fortu- 
nate enou^di to leave even the initials of his given name 
behind him, was next chosen Principal. He began 
scho;)l Sept. 5, 1S55 with only twenty scholars, and after 
keeping two days, asked the j^rivilege to stand as a 
candidate for teaclier of a high school inadistant place. 
The Trustees not granting his request, he somewhat 
abruptly took his leave. The scholars on assembling at 
the school one niornini'- as usual, found themselves un- 
expectediy without a teacher. 

It was thou'jht 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. J^'ortunatelv for the institution, after a few 
days (;f that gentleman's imperfect service, Mr. F. O. 
Harstow was secured as Principal, and he entered on his 
duties the thirteenth of September. 

P^REDERiCK (3lxev l^ARSTow, ( 1 855-6), 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 and 1858 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, i8gy. He has three daw^\\\.^x?> V\Vvc\%,, -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 




Francisco. In 1869 he returnod to Mast^achiisetts and 
had charge of Trinity Church, Weymouth, Nov., i86g. 
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 Francisco, and in 1880 became rectov oi'i.'L,'?^Xe.\''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. Brooks, Charles W. Bar- 
stow, Henry H. CoUamore, Eugene H. Clapp, 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 (i8s6-*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 CouncU, and oi \.\ve ^•ai'^^. "Le^isla- 



HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 85 

ture {1881), and city solicitor since 1880. In June 27, 
1871, 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 
wie 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 




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 



86 HISTORV 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 instruction — 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. Ford, 
Samuel Tolman, Jr., 

E. Q. 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 
remarJcs 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. 87 

was delivered in the Academy Hall before the -'Philo- 
mathean Society" by William Carver Bates, Msq., 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 In per. 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 these within the limit of future possi- 
bilities .^ 

In the following year, 1859, the I^hilomathean Society 
on the forenoon of Nov. 25th again held their meeting 
and listened to an address by Cyrus Collamore Holmes, 
Ksq. 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 doinsrs of the latter occasion have been liilv chronicled in 
the Pamphlet of Dr. William llenrj 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 oOOO 
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. 



88 HISTORY OF HANOVEK ACADEMY. 

ciition 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, afeslival, as it 
was hoped to be, "of 
most happy memory." 

Our Ahimni Poetess, 
Mrs. Augusta (Briggs) 
Cheney of Worcester 
has kindly sent me the 
firstof 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. occaslon. 

To dear old IViends in front, and flank, and rear. 

On all, and every side. I make m v bow. 
A half fledged poet feels exceeding queer 

As all wlio've had experience v.Ill allow. 
So I stand here, with mingled hope, and fear, 

Dreading the sentence jou may chance beBlow, 
Like one, who waits the verdict of his life. 
Or asks some doubtful maid, to be his wife. 




■ritic. 



yiith liis wondrous sight. 
re, and microscopic eje 



Perhaps i 

With line, and squ; 
May weigh each line, and verse that I may write. 

And errors in my rhyme or rhythm tnay descry. 
No matter! I'll admit their plebian parentage. 



HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 89 

And all his irritating powers defv ; 
And still be calm, though no applause is shown, 
And as their merits, claim their faults my 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 manj^ well-remen»bered 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 remembrance rise. 

And it seems but a day, since I with book in hand. 

Made my debut upon this very stand. 

No. not the same! 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 w^/cf, as some man s rjifc. 



<;0 ni>TOKV OF hanovkr acadkmv. 

IJuttiinc. and ihaPLjo. have \vroiij»ht their work upon 
Tho^t' Mil rrv «4i()up*<. aiul all tlieir dreams are flown, 

And youth's short davs ami fancies free are jrone. 

And uiuili we dreamed of then, wcbince have sadl\ known : 

Some few remain to walk life's paths alor.e, 
Wc pit V them far more than those \\ ho own 

Til. It thev have halved their pains 

.\ni\ doubled |')Vs, hy matrimonial chains. 

M.ini.iue. and chani^e, and deatli. havechanged our youthful band 
\n^\ many cberislieti forms we miss within these walls. 

Many loved tones, and kindly jjrasp of iiands. 
Sad memory to our mind recalls. 

And t'ate. refuses to unite the broken strands, 
Which Time hns in our chain of life let fall ; 

Uut sadness ever mingles in our cup of joy, 

And purest metals, mixed with base alloy. 

\'et still thoui^h not unmituil'ul of the sober past 
O'er what has been, why should we sit and croon .'' 

( )i' I'et rospect ive views forever cast .^ 

U ntnindf'ul of the high, and priceless boon , 

Of iViends. ami tViendship, which longyears may last, 
Xo I let us lalher h.)[)e tor.liappiness at future day, 
Than sigh for buried hopes long passed away. 

Our schoolgirl days may nevermore return, 

Xo more we dieatU; as once in days gone bv, 
Yet still within our hearts, shall ever burn 

The love enkindled bv their mcmorv, 
And every heai i shall be a sacred urn. 

Sealed with a tear, hidden from outward eve. 
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, 0'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, 
L 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. F>eeman, 
S. E. Sylvester, E. F. Haskins, 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 Co\\oc\u^, e?\\^^ "0^^ 



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. F*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, 1 believe, since been opened to any other 
alumni orators.* Possibly the address of the afore- 
mentioned orator 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 rhe 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. 19, 1861, 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 for 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 we work on 
men's immortal minds, — if we imbue them with high 
principles, with the just fear of God and of their fellow- 
tnen, — 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. VJ^ ?»^^ lxc^\xv \\\.^ 



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 ^^s 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 13esse, 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 £;ave 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 Rlizabeth Barstow, Charlotte K. Brackett. 
Laura A. Brewster, George H. Clapj), I^lisha F. Cole- 
man, Albert F. Curtis, Benjamin Curtis, Otis Cushing, 
John S. Crosby, Joseph T. Corlew, H. (j. Crossley, Mary 
CoUamore, Lucy IL Chamberlain, George F. Damon, 
G. F. Dwelley, Charles F. Dwelley, George Dana 
Doten, Franklin Thomas Doten, Mercy A. Doane, 
Lydia A. Damon, Sarah ^L Damon, IL M. Dunbar, 
Abbie C. Donnell, Jennie 1-5. Don n ell, James J. Ford, 
Farle B. Ford, William A. Farrar, Charles P. French, 
Willis H. Freeman, Huldah D. T^reeman, Louisa A. 
Farrar, Henry IL Gardner, Flhridge ICvcrett Gardner, 
Charlotte S. Gardner, Thomas 1-5. Holmes, John Hunt, 
John F. Hatch, h^lizabeth A. Ilollis, I^sther Foster 
Haskins, Fidelia L. Howiand, Mary P. Howland, Abbie 
Caroline Hatch, Mary D. A. Hatch, Aurelia Hall, 
Henry Herbert Jossclyn, Augustus Jacobs, Helen ]\L 
Josselyn, Louisa C. Jossclyn, Joanna Jossclyn, Harriet 
P. Leach, George W. Mann, I^^lorcncc I^lla Mann, 
Julia M. Monroe, Rowena Orcutt, John Q. Pratt, George 
M. Reed, William A. Robbins, i^lorcnce W Rogers, 
Mary W. Robbins, Phebc N. Robbins, Irene M. Rose, 
Abner L. Stetson, George E. Stockbridge, Joshua 
Adams Stetson, John O. Stetson, Susan J. Stetson, F. 

A. Stockbridge, Su^an R. Stetson, Flizabeth Stock- 
bridge, Juletta Sylvester, Caroline T. Southworth, A. 
J. Sampson, J. P. Thorndike, Helen M. Thomas, Susan 
J. Turner, Mary C. Tolman, Rudolph us C. Waterman, 
F. T. Whiting, George Whiting, Warren Irving Wright, 
Irenaeus L. Waterman, Charles T. Wiiitman, Betsey 
H. Whiting, Lucinda M Wdder, Emily Waters, William 

B. Young. 

On the date last mentioned, Sami3E\. G.'S'vo^yA^'^^^- 



96 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 

6i), 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 
P21ijah 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. 11 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 
Stein way 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 1 1, 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 up 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 Barstow, read to 
the school the following 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 Priu- 
cipaJ oi 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 taug\\t m out "PxibWc ?>c\voo\%. 



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 6y 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. Bales. 



ICX) 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 affirmative, for incorporation, twenty-nine votes, 
representing eighty-two shares. Total in the negative, 
two votes, representing 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 
were 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. Q. Sylvester and Dr. Free- 
man Foster $15 each, Rev. Samuel Cutler and Isaac 



HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. lOl 

H. Haskins $io each. Dr. Joseph B. Fobes, Rev. 
Joseph Freeman, Elijati Barstow and T. H. C. Barstow 
^5 each, Nathaniel Barstow, $3, and Dr. John O. 
French JS2. ' Received also S3.93 from sale of Mr. 
Stone's share. And thus the whole bill of expense for 
law-suit and damages, amounting to nearly 1S200, 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 ^ long and able School Report, covering 
twenty-four printed pages. 

Mr. John S. Crosby, of 
vhom mention has been 
made, is a descendant of 
Simon Crosby, an early em- 
grant to the Massachu- 
setts Colony, and was born 
in Waldo County, Maine, 
Jan. 13, 1842. Inearlylife 
he came Co Massachusetts, 
studied in our Academy 
nd 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. jty as a teacher 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 ■wa.s cailAt'i '^^'^x 




I02 HISTORV 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 emeute 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 \u tl^.wo\^x. 1\\ 



104 HISTORY OF IIAKOVER ACADEMY. 

his Second or Fall term he had thirty-five scholars. 
His pro;;ramme for the Spring term, Feb. 24, 1S62, 
announces Edward Southworth as Assistant, and Susan 
A. Smith of N. Pembroke as teacher 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 al the end of the Spring term, 1864, 




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 studied 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. P'rench, Henry 
B. Holmes, Israel Hatch, Edward HasAdtv^^'SwOci^^^'a.'^* 



io6 



HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMy. 



Joyce, Wesley W. Kender, James Kent, George W. 
Lewis, Sarah F. Mcrritt, Urban PercivaJ, Grace H. 
Phillips, Annie M. Polden, Isabella J. Pratt, Charles F. 
Randall. Carrie K. Randall, William Henry Savage, 
Horace M. Stetson, Kdward Shepherd, William Ste- 
phens, I'Mward Southworth, Sidney Soule, Melvin W. 
Stetson, Lorenzo S. Sherman. Herman Sturtevant, 
John F. Savage, Kmma L. Stoddard, Emma B. Stock- 
brid;;e, Waldo Tildcii, 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. 

Edwakd South 
WORTH, for a time Mr. 
Keene's assistant 
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 SOUTHWORTH. pointed Principal of the 

Coddington Grammar School, Quincy, in 1866; teacher 
in the Dwight School, Boston, Sept. 1S67, sub-master in 
the Rice Schou], Sept. 1869, and m i%7?. iJa?. a^^ointed 




HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 10/ 

master of the Mather School, which position he now 
holds. In Dec. 2, 1859 ^^^ ^^^ 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. Southworth. 

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. — AU together once again. 

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 Praver . Miss L. E. Stockbridge 

Declamations. — 

Earlj^ Rising YiVcv^T^ '^wx^'t^'s. 

Peace to the West .... E.dvjax^O.'&^xw'a.x^ 



io8 



HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 



The Sword of Bunker Hill .... Daniel H. Welch 

Dra.ma. — Counterplot 

Mrs. Vilmont (a widow of decaved fortune) Susie A. Smith 

Lizzie S. Salmond 

. Joseph T. Corlew 

Charles T. Whitman 



Sophia (her daughter) 

Allan \ . 

> her sons 



Henry 

The Magistrate 
Eveline (an orphan heiress) 
Matilda (her friend) 
Viola (a servant). 
Declamations. — 

Upward! Onward! 
Our Country 

Tableau. —Day and Nij^ht 

Reading. Revolutionary Story 
Music. There's a Sigh in the Heart. 
Dialogue. Discretion the Better Part of Valor. 

General Feathers ..... 

Corporal Blunt ..... 

Captain Wary ..... 

Private Gore .... 

Declamation. Words for the Hour 
Music. Welcome to May. 
Dialogue. Juvenile Rebellion 

Blushrose 

Mintdrop 

Silvertop 



George W. Barnard 

Lizzie £. Stockbridge 

. *Annie E. Eells 



. H. A. Thorndike 

Edward Haskins 

r Abbie C Donnell 

\ Emma B. Stockbridge 

Lizzie S. Salmond 



. J. T Corlew 

E. G. Barnard 

Emery Burgess 

Charles T. Whitman 

Edward Ring 



Amaranth 

Cantelope 

Major Spindle 

General Slaslier 

Orator Splurge 

Citizen Topple 

Sergeant Muddle 

Corporal Tipkins 
Declamations. 

Crowning Glory 

The Polish Boy 
Music. Battle Cry of Freedom. 



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 

Edward Ring 

H. A. Thorndike 

. Emery Burgess 
Joseph T. Corlew 



Mr. Keenes term of service irv Raivovet was distin- 



H15TOKV OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 



109 



guished by gifts made to tfie Academy fund by John 

Barstow, Esq., of Providence. Tlie 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, 1 have for that pur- 
pose deposited with my much esteemed and trustworthy 




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, m TtusI, a.?j il'^^^.o^ 



I lO HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 

a " Permanent Fund," the income derived therefrom is 
to bo 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 Ikanches that may be taught, — meaning there- 
by such as are not usually furnished by Teachers or 
Scholars. 

For Trustees of this '* Permanent Fund" I hereby 
appoint the Treasurer of the Corporation, ex officio, 
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;0f Mr. B irstow's generous gift passed the follow- 
ing : 

'• 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 th e 
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 snjaller 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, Jolin 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 madt \.o VVi^ Kc-a^^^xw^ . 



113 HISTORV OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 

he taught in Titicut, North Middleboro, Acaciemy, for 
its trustees "recommend him as a worthy young man 
and an accomplished and efficient teacher." My neigh- 
bor, Dr. Clarence I.. 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 




Loudon, N. H. Having received a louder call here- 
signed at Hanover April 1865, and went to Thotnaston, 
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 Winsted 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. 1 13 

business. In Thoniaston, 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 following Mr. Lake's resignation 
seems to have been omitted. 



* I find from the Records that the Academy Treasurer at about 
this time received $825 from a "gymnastic class" for the. vx%^ ^< 
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 Amherst 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, 1819. 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, in St. 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 
Hanov^er (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. timQ upon a comparaUve ^r3.rtvtwar 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 bofn 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 1 861, he taught for a brief space in 
Conway Academy (186 1-2) and in Myricksville near 
Taunton. "Overcome by a wave of patriotism" in 1862,. 
he enlisted for the war in the loth Mass. Battery Light 
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 ever 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 tinx.e." Following a brother to Florida he engaged 
somewhat unsuccessfully in orange giomxx^, ^'si^^ ^\\.^ 



I l6 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 yet 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. II7 

remaining in Hanover, and he fears that his good friends 
here would be disconcerted by such 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. 

P*or 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. Hartlett, 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. Eells, Abbie Estes, Avis 
Ford, Agnes H. Freeman, Justus Gardner, Briggs Gul- 
liver, Clarence L. Howes, Jennie B. Horsey, Susan P. 
Hatch, Beulah S. Holmes, Charles Josselyn, Isaac 
Keene, Abbie Kilbritb, Maria Leonard, John J. McFar- 
land, Herbert K. 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>ank 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 poox A.Yvcv?,'^'^'^^* 



Il8 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 
jive 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. F. 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 thespringof 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. 1 19 

"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 was 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 during 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 1 '* 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* xec^tY^vVj ^s^-s^Vi- 



120 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 

lished a small monthly paper, called The Flint Mes- 
senger, "an exponent of 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 J^. Collamore, Francis Collamore, 
George N. Curtis, Abntr 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. 

Fannie H. Barstow, Clara M. Chase, Lizzie O. Gush- 
ing, Annie Church, M. Jennie Currell, Alice H. Curtis, 
Nancie C. Donnell, Nellie H. P'ord, Sarah J. Flavell, 
Mary E. Plavell, 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 IIAKOVEB ACADEMY. 121 

Sylvesier, Grace Tliorndike, Mary I'. Tower, Mary S. 
Turner, Kmma H. Torrey, E!la J. Thomas. 

Josephine McRoy ( 1 869--70), of Saxonvilie. was 
bOrn in Framingham Jan. 28, 1850 and was graduated 
from the Saxonviile High School in 1865 and from the 
Framingham Normal School in Jan. 1869, and is now 
the wife of Mr. Israi'l Hatch, an Aliimnus of the 




Academy, and for some time past a member of the 
School Committee of Norwell. She, as sole Principal, 
began teaching in the Academy March i, 1869, for 
Ssoo peryear, the first recorded instanceof an Academy 
teacher's receiving a staled salary. In Jnly 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 scholara and w V«.\ ^.tLca^Ni. 



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 F*embroke, 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. Edmund Q. 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, Feb. 22, i86g, tickets to which may be had of the 



HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADtlMV. 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 now deceased, 
[S. Gardner Cutler, died Feb. 12, 1869], will give jf 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 giooo 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 Fund 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 fur\d caxv x\o \ox\^<ct\ \i^ >\^^^ ^.^^^^ 



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-gley." 

Owing to the depression of stocks, the railroad in- 
vestment proved a sorry one, realizing a loss of 1^912. 
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).* "It 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 probably 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 (^r 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 breath 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 efficient and popular agent of 
the Massachusetts Board of Education, and resides in 
Stoneham. 

The following names of new scholars may be regarded 
in general as belonging to Mr. McDonald. 

Thomas J. Brooks, Hattie S. Briggs, Sarah R. 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. 'Nl^y.^oww^^A'i^^^^ . 



126 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 

Phillips, Edwin P. Phillips, Frank Silver, Arthur 
Sturtevant, Edward P. Sweeny, Sasie Sylvester, Emma 
L. Savage, Ellen B. Stetson, Emma A. Stetson, F'lorence 
D. Sweeny, Bella Thomas, Walter I. Underwood, Ella 
J. Vinall, Fred White. 

Roland Hammond (1871), was born in Mattapoisett, 
P'eb. 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, 1871, 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, *8i and '82. 
In Brockton he was also on the school committee in 
1886, '87 and '88y and was Justice of the Peace from 
1881 to '88 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 

jV. Capellf Fannie M. Cudworth, HatU^ ColUmore^ 



HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 12/ 

Fiorina M. CoUamore, Lydia CoUamore, 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 Purceil, 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 Dwight Porter Stone (1871-74), 
son of Rev. Timothy Stone, and named in part from his 
uncle. President Ebenezer Porter of Andover Theologi- 
cal 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 
Female 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 18;^ 1-2, and taught somelVm^ on^x vVx^^^^-^o^^ 



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 l)y 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 bis stay in Hanover an addition was made to 
the philosophical apparatus to the amount of over 1^150, 
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 1 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 recoid V\\e\x ?>^t\?»^ o( the 



HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 



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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 
I time to write several works 
I for publication. His death 
■ occurred in Albany, N. Y., 
I April II, 18S7. 

Towards the last of Mr. 
Stone's teaching here, in 
1874, Mrs, Cheney deliv- 
ered the following spicy 
poem at the Alumni Re- 
AUGusTA BHiGus (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 
And offerings gave, of seni 
I thouglit it well to-nifiht, t 
And in rude doggerel now 
For you all know, I have a 
Which prompts me o£l in n 
Expressing thus the wish, ^ 
That this our galherine ui; 



mental rhymes, 
I change the str 

irthful veintos 



I30 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 

And looking 'round, I see on many a face 

Glances annihilating time and space, 

For a;;ed 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 slyly 'twas perverted, 

And every bone and sinew we exerted 

By nimble use of our extremist pedals. 

As champion athletes to obtain a medal: 

A swinger stationed was, at either end, 

The rope was big, and hardl 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 jast the age to feel sucVv words most Vetw, 



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 huadred 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 iVv^Vt NQt^\\av^ 
And in our midst have slyly b-d,\Ud \vooVs 



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. Though 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 ¥!l\^\v ?)e\voo\ ^Vv^xe, Ke 



HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. I33 

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- 




mittee of Hanover. In 1869 he 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 th'wv iVL-c^e. "YVia^^-t 



134 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 

Shows" (planned originally by Rev. Dr. Brooks), that 
of 1876 realizing 1^70.24, while those of the two follow- 
ing years netted 1^52.22. From the same records I 
learn that Mr. Knight kept an evening school in 1878 
in the Academy, which netted 1^25, and that 1^45 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 programliies 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 clear 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 erey 
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. I3S 

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 followinj]^ 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. 

Addie Alden, Benjamin P. Barstow, Mary E. Baker, 
Chester Barker, Walter Barnard, Lizzie B. Barker, 
Annie W. Bates, Everett E. Corthell, Lucy B. Clark, 
Carrie E. 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 s^enerally sought to avoid the frequent repetition of names, 
and so I have chiefly made mention of uetu 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 many will wonder, 
smile, or frown, to see their names, if perchance I have these right, 
so far 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 vu^€,eK. 



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, Emily E. Sylvester, 
Martha W. Sylvester, Agnes Sherman, Grace Stetson, 
Etta M. Stetson, Martin Simmons, Lydia D. Stetson, 
Susie Simmons, A, V, 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. Winslow, Lina White, Harry Winslow. 




Frank Wallace Brett (1882 — 88), born in Hing- 
ham, May 14, i86r, was graduated from the Hingham 



HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. I37 

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 
$750 a year, and in the last year amounted to 1^925. 
During his administration, (in 1886) a great work was 
done in repairing and fitting up the Academy at an ex- 
pense of over 1^500, for the payment of which 1^150 was 
received from Mrs. Bigelow, $100 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 Leone), born 
August 9, 1887, ^^^ I^oy 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 ot C\Q.^\Cix\\5>x\ 



138 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 

Latinity), and two of these, referring to the years 1886 
and 1887, required each 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 that 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. 1 39 

and purpose. Brothers, sisters, teachers, friends, robust, 
victorious, weary or disheartened, beginners, or just 
ending life*s dramaj one and all, I bid you welcome, yea, 
thrice welcome, on this festal day." 
The closing part was as follows : 

** But, fellow Alumni, 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. 
Vet, 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, 
- By 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- 
ino^* 

Graduating Exercises, June 17, 1887, at 10 a.m. 

Salutatory — "Aims," .... Ernest Alonzo Thomas 

Reading — "Piece of Calico," .... NKoX-a.^v^^x-^-a^^'^ 



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," ... I. M. Fernald 
Valedictory— "Education and Learning," . Mary Ellen Curtis 

Presentation of Diplomas. 
Dinner — Basket Collation. 



Alumni 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 
charge of a new large 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-reniembered 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, Frederic S. 
Smith, Sarah E. Snell, Delia A. Studley, Nellie Sim- 
mons, Fannie W. Stetson, Flora E, Smith, S. Eliza 
Snell, Fred S. Smith, Mertie C. Simmons, William W. 
Sylvester, William Turner, Nellie Tower, Jennie Tower, 
Henry Tolman, Sadie E. Tolman, Ernest A. Thomas, 
Herbert C. Tolman, Burton 1.. TYvoxcva.^, ^Lxwwx*^ ^ 



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. 

Andrew Preston Averill (1888 — '89), was born in 
Middleton, 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 w^s 
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 weeVs. 



HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 



143 



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 irom Mt. Holyoke Sem- 
inary. 

Immediately upon graduating she became Precep- 
tress of the Seminary in Doylcstown, Pa. Subsequent- 




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 ta\te \.\ie ■^t'wvtix-^-A^x'^ 'aV 



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 News 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 1 iee\ \.\va.\. \ c'^\cv^\w\.<^ 



HISTORY OF HANOVEK ACADEMY. 



145 



closer sympathy with my students than I have ever 
done 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 




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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 K. 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 Intellectual 
Development." Diplomas Avere presented by Rev. D. 
B. Ford, and prayer was offered and benediction pro- 
nounced by Rev. 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 JoV\x\?»ow, 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 teaching. 



Rev. Calv 

Zephaniah a. Batf.s . 
Horace H. Rolfe . . 
Rev. Cyrus Holmes 
Ethan Allen . . . 
Rev. CyfLViN Wolcott 
John P. Washburn . . 
Dr. Ira Warren . . . 
Thomas F. White . . 
Herman Bourn . . . 
Hannah W. Johnson . 
JosiAH Fuller AND Sister 183S-9 



Rev. Cyrus Holmes 
Mary F. Taggard . . 
Charlks Hitchcock 
George T. WoLC(rrT 
Martin P. McLauthlin 
George COnant andWife,i854-5 
Frederic O. Harstow 1855-6 



IN Chaddock 1808-18. 

1828 Charlfis a. Reed 
Samuel G. Stone 
Peleg T. Keene . . 
Arthur S. Lake . . 
Isaiah Dole . . . 
John P. Apthorp 
Pfiter L. Woodbury 
Ebenkzer B. Gay 
John P. Thorndyke . 
Josephine McRoy 
James W. McDonald 
KoLANi) Hammond . 
Kev. T. D. p. Stone. 
John G. Knight 
Frank W. Hretf 
Andrew P. Averill 
Ellen J. Sweeny . . 
Evangeline Hathaway 



1829 
1830 
1830 

1831 
1832 

»833 
1834-7 
1837-8 

1837 



18408 
1847-51 

1848-9 
. 1849 

1850-^ 



1856-60 
1860-1 
1861-4 

1864-S 
. 1865 

1865-6 

1866-7 
. 1867 

1867-8 
1869-70 

1870-1 
. 187 1 

1871-5 
1875-82 

1S82-8 

1888.9 
1889-90 

1890-2 



Of the above teachers the following were College or 
Seminary f^^raduates : 

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 by his distinguished classmate, Hon. Salmon P. 
•Chase, who graduated in 182G. 



HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. I49 

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 Botvdoin : 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 Mt, Holyoke : Ellen J. Sweeny. 

From Wellesley : Evangeline Hathaway. 

From Framingham Normal School : Josephine Mc- 
Roy. 

From Bridgezvater Normal ScJiool : F. W. Brett. 

ACADEMY TRUSTEES, 1828. 

Alexander Wood, Horatio Gushing, John B. Barstow,. 
Col. Samuel Tolman, Jr., and Horace Collamore. 

ACADEMY TRUSTEES, I 852 — 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 Q. Sylvester, 'W^k.xx^xvNNVv^x.^^^^. 



ISO 



HISTORV OF HAKOVER 1 



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. 
Cutier, Brooks and Ford have served as Presidents of 
the Board, said lioard ever consisting of six members 
elected by the Proprietors, 




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 setUed o^et 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 duty 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. ICvidence 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. Mr. 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 Rroo¥.s, S. T. B. W^ 



IS2 



HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMV. 



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 



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& 



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 as 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- 
zeas, being highly esteemed both toi; h\s ?,olkl 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. 
Barstow, Flavel S. Thomas, Marcus Ames, Charles P. 
French, Clarence L. Howes, Henry L. Sweeny, Benja- 
min P. Barstow, 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 Hsts which follow have reference mainly to the 
later history of the Academy. 



1 54 



lUSTCJKV OK HANOVK, 



Damkl C. Otis, was born in So. Scitiiale in 1S26, 
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, 
Fkancis Collamoke, 
son of Horace and Laura 
(Brings) Collaniore, and a 
descendant of the distin- 
fiiiishc<l Dr. Jeremiah Hal!, 
was born in N. Pembroke, 
Dec. 7. 1825, Afler leav- 
ing the Academy and 
teaching for a time, he be- 
gan the study of medicine 
with his uncle. Dr. An- 
tliony Collamore, and in 
1847 graduated from the 
medical <le|)artment 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 shoidd erelong be made to see the 
light of day. It is an interesting circumstance that his 
father before him was also an Kcadeuvj ?,wdtut., a pupil 
of "Parson Chaddock." 




HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 1 55 

We may add that a daughter of his, Fiorina M. Colla- 
more, one of our Academy girls, has likewise served 
several years as a member of the School Committee in 
Pembroke. 

In this connection I may speak of Leander Colla- 
MORE, a brother of Dr. Francis CoUamore, 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, 
taught in Virginia, studied medicine at Dartmouth Col- 
lege and Harvard University Medical School, graduating 
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 ?>\.v\A^x\\. V^ x^-aA^V-v^ 



IS6 HISTOHY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 

home in North Marshfield at the house of a relative, 
Daniel Phillips, Esq. He 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 Urown 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, Philtips 
Andover Academy, Har- 
vard University, andabout 
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. slncc. In 1 879 he 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 CoWege, To e.Ti\iR\e,Ya.te all the 




HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. I 5/ 

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 in Dux- 
bury, Truro and Pembroke, but is now retired from 
practice. 

Clarence L. Howes, son of Dr. Woodbridge R. 
Howes, who was for many years a popular and success- 
ful physician in this place, was born at Mattapoisett, 
March 24, 1848, 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. Y., and in the High School of Rockland, he 
entered the Institute of Technology 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 Eliot Gram- 
mar and Boston Latin schools. Afterward he attended 
medical lectures at Dartmouth college and at the Long 
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 Vvas \\?id\.N^Ci O^^^x^^, 



15° 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. 

Henkv L. Sweeny, the 
eldest son of Edward M. 
and Lucy (Thaxtei) 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 they 
still reside. On the open- 
MENRY L. SWEENY, ing of thc railroad to Han- 

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 1S78. 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 
1 8S3, he came to Hanover, taking for the first winter 
the practice of the late Dr. John O. Yitni^ "Nhile the 




HtSTORY OF HANOVER ACADHMV. I 59 

latter was in Florida. He remained in Hanover until 
1890 when he returned to Kingston, N. H,, where he 
still resi:les. Dr. Sweeny has served as member of the 
School Baard 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 Hoards 
of Health, and of the American Medical Association. 

In 1884 Dr. Sweeny, as we have already stated, mar- - 
ried Ellen Jose|)liine 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 nonecould regret the 
passinfj away of the old 
institution more than 
he." 

Henjamin Pakker 
Harstow, was born in 
Du\bury, 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 P:xeter, N, H., 
and in 1884 came to 
Kingston where he ii:is lived and practised ever since. 
His practice, I believe, is after the HQ■K\CR.<^'iJ■a^^^^'i 




l6o HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 

method. In June, 1885, he married Helen B. Steele of 
Epsom, N. H., and has two children. 



We may state that Mr. 
L. Vernon Brigcs, who 
amid multifarious cares 
^^^_ and duties has for some 

^r^^ years past paid consider- 

^^^^^^^ able attention to theheal- 

^^MV^ ing art, is now taking at 

^^B^K^ Dartmouth College a 

.^^^P thorough course of medi- 

jrf^^^T ^^ cal instruction. In Acad- 

^" ' ^B^- 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 
RNON BBiGGs. Cemetery Records, and 

Records, are a monument to his indefatigable 
ublic spirit. For many years he was 
ini Association. For the many 
held or still holds, the reader 



€>^ 



of To 

industry and 

President of ou 

other offices he 

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, jj^raduated 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 Eliot Felton, half brother of President 
Felton of Harvard College, was graduated from Har- 
vard in 185 1, 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. For nearly 30 years past 
he has been practising law in San Francisco, Cal. 

Charles Follen 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 V^ inter oi 18^4^ he twice made ?LV\?;\\.\.Ci^>^\^"^^. 



l62 



HISTOKY OF HANOVER ACAIIEMY, 



William Palkv Dl-xcan, son of Rev. Abel G. Dun- 
can*, was born April i, 1831, studied at Williston Sem- 
inary and at Amherst 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 
with his Pegasus. 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. 




lan of distinguiehed j 



•Rev. Mr. Duni 

and helper of all educational work, was for manvvears an honored 
IJirector of Hanover Academv. lie came to Hanover Aug., 1833, 
as pastor of the Centre Church, resigned his pastorale April. 1854, 
and died tn Hanover April 23, 1ST4. For some six years he repre- 
sented the Town in our Stale Legislature Hie two daughters, 
Laura J. King, of North Adams, and Lucia A. Dean, of Taunton, 
fiave both deceased. These are the " taU daugluers" whom Miss 
Taggard mentions as amongher pupiU. 



HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 163 

Walter R. Torrey was born in So. Scituate, April 
I, 1864, studied at the Academy under Mr. Knight, and 
suhsequently atlencied the Bryant and Stratton school, 

and Boston University. 

He stndied 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 
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, be bids fair to become out Mu'ci«v\'?>.(iO«.^\.^«. 




of Boston and New York, 



164 



HISTOKY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 



He married Helen H., only daughter of Hon. Ehenezer 
T. Fogg, late deceased, and has one son, Wendell. 

I may state that several of the Torrey name and 
kindred who were once members of our Academy have 
likewise been remarkably successful in business. 

Mr. Harry, 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, an 1 after practising here for a time moved 
to Cincinnati, O., where he died. 

Alumni who have entered the Ministry. 

Marcus Ames, William Henry Stetson, D. B. Ford, 

Frederic O. Barstow, 
George A. Litchfield, 
David P. Hatch, Wil- 
li:im C. Litchfield,James 
C. Church, Ernest 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, 

REV. MARCUS AMES. i . -vt at i i^ i 

and m New York Col- 
lege of Physicians and SuY^eoT\s>, ^xadw-actltK^ in 1853. 




HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. l6S 

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. I^ ^^59 — ^2 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 — '88 he 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 Providenceyi?//;;/^/ 
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 their 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 orv Tew.- 



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 the world, 
and, dying, 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 — TJ he was Presiding Klder 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. His present 
residence is Wollaston. 




H7!!T0KV OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 16/ 

DAvrD P. Hatch was 
born in "the two-miles," 
Marshfield, Oct. i6, 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., Juiy 1, 
1^86, and remained there 
until May, 1895, and then 
took a three months' tour 
in Europe. On returning in the Fall of 1895, be was 
chosen Secretary of the Maine Missionary Society, 
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 Williams town, Mass. His only child, born 
Dec. 1 1, 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 amotv^oii.': 



illSTOUV OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 

numerous Alumjise. 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 
public schools, studied in 
Canton. N. Y., to be a Universalist minister, and was_. 
first settled in Maine. Afterwaid he joined the Con- 
gregational denomination, but its yearbook 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 Hiil," 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 iSth Mass, Regt,, Co. G., but 
failed to pass examination. In 1864, however, he enlisted 
in Co. E., ist Heavy Artillery, and served until the close 
of the war. During the years 1877 — 78 he served as 
Selectman, and in 1878 — 79 was Representative from 
the District embracing the towns of So, Scituate, Scit- 




;T0KV of HANOVER ACADEMY. 169 

ua(e, and Cohasset. 
After reading Theol- 
ogy under direction 
of Prof. F. H. Hedge, 
of Cambridge, he was 
ordained at Hobart, 
Ind., in May, 1879. a 
minister of the Uni- 
tarian denomination. 
His settlements have 
been in Gardner, Ber- 
lin and Middleboro, 
in which tatter place 
he now resides. In 
Sept., 1894,3 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 1859. 

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, utiderelood that all the CoUege Kraduates men- 
tioned did not receive their entire fitting at Hanover Academy, 
though many did 60, Some certainly studied elsewhere, while 
they took their start from here. 




I70 



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; Wm. H. Stetson from Concord Methodist 
Biblical Institute ; Kdward 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 

^Hb only speak of two or 

• ^. ^H three farther. 

f _ ^f%f Prof. William Penn 

J^L ^^^^^ Brooks was born in So, 

^^B^^^ Scituate, Nov. 19, 1851. 

^a^^^r ^^^ At about the age of 

^^^^f^^^^^^Bl fourteen he attended 

i^H^^P^^^^^^r the " Assinippi 

^^^ ^^^^^ tute," and on its closing 

^ he came to the Acad- 

emy. After teaching in 

" several of our Hanover 

PROF. WW. PENN BROOKS, schools and in Rock- 

land, he entere:! the Massachusetts Agricultural Col- 
Jeg^e at Amherst, and graduated therefrom in 1875 with 
the degree of B. Sc. 



HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMV. I71 

In the following year he was a post-graduate student 
in Chemistry, Botany and the Languages. In 1877 — SS 
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 eiLe^^^\N^T\^'$i% ^'s. n^x^ 



172 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. Beal 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 decoased, 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. Fj. DWELLEv. School aud many years 

in the High School at Watenown, he went West, 

and served three or four years as BociV.V«ft^« \qt ■a.^t.'^ 




HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMV. 1 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 bv the announcement that the Academj building was 

to be sold. 

In the views 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 srave ot sound knowled^re 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 freelj unfold, 
And the girl bud and bloom into beautv of soul; 
And where guidance of masters made easv of reach 
Botli 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 Aea\\v \\v^\t^^ ^x^-a^^X 



HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 



■Ull 



'-gones be by-gor 



raiist: 



n would teach ; 
For there's little at anclior. Time sweeps most awnv, 
And change succeeds change like the scenes in a play. 
Ere a centurv paBsed, as a wreck on the shore 
L:iy the school that we cherished— its usefulness o'er. 
While we tenderly mourn for the - day that is dead." 
We rejoice thai a brighter has dawned in its stead; 
And. with love for what has been, as optimists feet 
That the High School serves better the wl 



It will not, I trust, be deemed invidious if I mention 
a few of our Alumni who have become distinguished as 
business tnen and as honored and useful citizens. 

Samuel Tolman, Jr., 
Son of Col. Samuel Tol- 
man, born in So. Scituate 
in 1S20, 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 togetberun- 
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- 
ing 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 oWig.ed to x^-^te?,^ -avK en- 




HISTORV OF HANOVER ACADEMV. 



i;s 



thusiasm either by speaking to us or by having our door 
set open so that he could lake a distant observation. 
Mr. Tolman at one time thought of going tocollege, 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 chat 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. 27, 
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 idea! man and citizen. 
For a time he was a most 
valued memberof our Pub- 
lic Library Committee. 
The report of that committee m l?.^^, coti^v&'Cto^ 'A. 




176 HISTORY OF HANOVEK ACADEMV. 

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- 
Lij-s, another otoiir Acad- 
emy boys, born in Han- 
son, Feb. 27, 1S44, 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 Phillips and 
Sons, to which his de- 
ceased brother also be- 
longed. Mr, Phillips mar- 
morrill A PHILLIPS. 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, 1 sus-pecX x'Vve, \t\\.«t^ts, of 




HISTORY OF HANOVEK ACADEMY. I77 

education in future years will not be allowed to suffer. 

Of William Carver 

Bates, of his great in- 
terest in the welfare of 
the Afademy, and of 
some of his public ad- 
dresses and labors, we 
have already made brief 
mention. He was born 
in Hanover, May 25, 
i83S,attended 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 
Council he has been a member, and is now engaged in 
mercantile business in Boston. 

Mr. Bates is largely interested in 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 En% 
land Magazine for April, 1895,. MXct tt^iw^-R^ ^*a 




178 HISTOKV OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 

freedom he edited and published a little work entitled 
" The Stars 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 latent 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. 11, 
1843. He started the 
great rubber manufac- 
turing plant in our vil- 
lage which now gives 
employment to a very 
large number of hands. 
EUGENE H, cLiPP. He also was connected 

with many oiher 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 oi fhe TO'a.vwA'a.ituring Co., 




HrSTORV OF HAXOVEK 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 W. Clapk, 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. Lewis, and has left several children. 
Frank A. Clapp, a brother of Frederic, was 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 
1881, 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 
privateSchoolof 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, al '5.6.i.\i'a-X^ Vi-«\^t 
under xYve A\Te.c'C\o-ft. 'i'v'W^- 




l80 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 Engineer 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- 
ing 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/, i847,he was 
married to Adeline, 
daughter of Horace Col- 

tlamore, Esq., (of whose 
helpful aid in my writ- 
ing I have already made 
mention, and whose 
portrait 1 am happy here 
to present,) and on July 
7, 1S97, they celebrated 
their golden anniversa- 
ry. They reside in Ne- 
[ ponset, near Boston, and 
i have no children. I 
; wish to add in regard to 
M.^?.. UtI^^s that in all 

ADELINE BR100S. \\et Vettet^ ^O TO«.^t''m.- 



HISTORY OF HANOVER 

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 Collaniore, who 
attended the Academy at the same time with myself, I 
have the most pleasant recollections, I think she passed 
away in comparatively early life. 




Horace Collamore, 

Esq., father of Adeline, 
Julia, Dr. Francis and Le- 
ander, already named, was 
son of Capt. Enoch Colla- 
more, who marched to the 
Lexington alarm, and was 
born in Scituate, now Nor- 
well, Nov. 4, 1791, the 
(youngest of eight children 
'who survived infancy. 
|With a view to profes- 
'sional life he became a 
Ipupil of Hanover Acade- 
imy under the instruction 
-of Rev. Mr. Chaddock, 
HORACE coLL*MORE. Studying the languages 

and higher mathematics. 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, 1814, 
he married Laura Briggs of Pembroke, and they lived 
to celebrate their golden wedding. In 1821 he became 
a resident of Pembroke, and thencefottU dvici'.^'k 'wv'*, 



182 ][ISTORV OF HANOVEK ACADEMY. 

timt; to farming, keeping a cmntry store, etc. He was 
a membijr of the I'lymoiitli County Agricultural Society 
from its start, its supervisor for several years, and one 
of its Vice Preside nts. 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 1H41 and '42 be was Representative to the 
General Court, and in 1853 was cho.sen 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 Hani>ver Academy, in which Institution 
he took a deep iiiteiest, aiul of which be was for many 
years a Trustee. He died 
Aug. 27, 1S67. The above 
photograph was taken 
when he was 73 years old. 
Horace Lorenzo Col- 
LAMOKE, eldest son of Hor- 
ace Collamore, Esq., was 
born in Boston, Dec. 8, 
i8i6,but removed with his 
parents to Pembroke in 
[821. He attended the 
" Piymoutli County Sem- 
inary.'" established by Mrs. 
Charlotte S, Wade, of 
whom we have previously 
spoken, and became a stu- 
dent oi Ha-tvoveT K'z.'a.iewv^ 




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. 
CoUamore, 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, he 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 dv^d ^^^vli^ 



184 HISTORV OF HANOVEK ACADFMV. 

1892. Mr. Stetson died most sudden!)' Aug, 17, 1897, 
ageil nearly 72 ye.irs. For 18 years he was aSelectman, 
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 18S5 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 iis testimony to his high 
character, to his worth as a man and to the value of his 



labors 



faithful offici 



"A friend, genial and 
true, his pleasant face was 
a mirror, reflecting the 
emotions of a warm, sym- 
pathetic heart." 

Hon. J edbdi a h 
DwELLEY, a younger 
brother of George R. 
Dwelley, 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- 
HON. jEDEoiAM DWELLEY. IcctmaR, and served in 

(/!.-!( capacity for thirty years. Tqt =,0^^ v«e\Ne. ^je.ws, 




HISTORV OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 185 

he was also a member of the School Committee. In 
18C5 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 the 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- 



Hen;amin Barstow 
ToRREY, son of Capt. 
Haviland and Salome 
(Barslow) Torrey, was 
born in Pembroke, Nov. 
22, 1837. He attended 
flanover Academy when 
under the tuition of 
Messrs. McLauthlin and 
Conant, and also the " University Grammar School" ot 
Providence, R. I. On August 25, \&^?>,Vie eivXett^i ■<Nxe. 




l86 HiSTOKY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 

service- i)t the Boston and i'roviilence 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 1S70. 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, (sec Barry'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 occupant. 

Lemuel Gushing 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 Hillj 
July 14, 1814, and finished 
ills education in the Acad- 
emy in hiseighteenth year. 
After a short term of busi- 
ness in Boston his health 
failed, and thereafter 
for several years he engaged m stVcioV V,eeijing in 




HESTORV OF HAKOVER ACAnEMV. iS^ 

places not far from home. Subsequently he was em- 
ployed in the lack and nail factory of Mr. Samuel Sal- 
mond on the third herrinij 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 Georj;e Curtis, 
For many vL-ars 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 n, 



KunoLfHus C. Water- 
M.\N, eldest son of Lemuel 
C.andKlizabethB. (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 foe 
RUDOLPHus c. w*r&HMAN. the War in the 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 [866 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 Gushing 
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 Academv, 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 passing through the press, the youngest 
son, Francis Baldwin Sylvester, was taken from earth after a brief 
illness, March 2, 189J). 

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. McLauthUu of ^Va\det\ 3Lwd^o>o^\\.^. D^NeUey 

of Hanover, 



HISTORY OP HANOVER ACADEMY. 189 

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 1861 and '62, also for Han- 
son, Pembroke, Halifax and 
Marshficld in 1879 and 1883. 
In the Legislature he took a 
very active part in favor of pro- 
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 CoT\st\\.\Jl\QVi^ ^tQ\&i\- 




;tetson, 
hibitory legislation. 



I9O EMSTORY OF EIANOVKR ACADEMY. 

tifin, thi.- first speech of that kintl which was ever made 
in the Massachusetts Legislature. Judging from his 
official action in the cause of temperance, one may 
properly conchidc that he never applied "hot and re- 
bellions liqnors in his blood," either in youth or age, 
even as he would forbid to others any like application. 

Mr. Stetson, on December 
3, 1861, took for his wife an 
Academygirl, Dorothy Brown 
Dyer, daughter of Hervey 
and Ruth (Reed) Dyer. She 
was born March 2<), 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 
until her 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 faclthaX W'p-, Joun Curtis 
who founded our Hanover ■?«££ l^win-MCi ,'a.\vi \eji««i\-^ 




192 H15TOKY OF HANOVER ACADEMY, 

{jave to the town S4000 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 lO, 1817 (not i8i6as 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- 




sumed their customary employments when the school 
term was over. Lessons were learned and recited by 
rote from the te.xt 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 Wtlbraham, who was a good scholar 
and in sympathy with pTOgress,\)\it'«Vci-«a.s -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. His tragic end on the steamer Atlan- 
tic, Nov. 25, 1846, 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, 1840, 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 was 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 tu^r^ ?>\\k\A. ^^. ^'^ ^^^'^^ 

SEA. 



194 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 

some sort of position. With very flattering certificates 
of his character and abilities from Rev. Mr. Dunbar, of 
the No. Hanover Baptist church, and from his Wil bra- 
ham teach^er, 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 sliouVd \vav^ pxe-l^xx^^ -a. ^<5kxti:git 



HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY, 



from a photograph in my possession which looks more 
as I used to know him when a business man. 




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, 
1815, 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, throug^h many difficullies, \ie ^XatXe^o^sv^X^'R^ 



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 pa\.TOive?»?» awd benefactor to 



HISTORY OF HANOVER ; 



197 



whom he, at about the time the complimentary dinner 
was given him, wrote these words ; " You especially 
were the first one who encoflraged 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, 1813. 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, 



^ 



■-\ 



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 ^cea.t '^'rowi- 



198 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 

jse, 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 Coii'igeiida in some future copies of this 
work. 

Names of Male TeacJieis — 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 

Barstow, Calvin T. Phillips, Clarence L. Howes, John 
P. Thorndyke, William P. Brooks, Charles B. Phillips, 
Joseph T. Corlew, Edward Southworth, Daniel K. Stet- 
son, Samuel S. Knapp, James C. Church, Harry T. 
Watkins. 

Names of Female Teachers — ^^Nancy W. Coll 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), Plmma Barstow (Bates), 
Hannah E. Brooks (Oakman), Lucy Vinal (Stetson), 
Mary Collamore (Ford), Sarah Collamore (Hitchcock), 
Helena M. T. Eells (Howland), Caroline 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, Etta H. 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. Howland (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), Eliza M. Church 
(Billings), Lucy H. Chamberlain (Turner), Ophelia 
Litchfield (Rice), Florence V. Rogers (French), Ruth- 
etta M. Sylvester, PLmily P3. Sylvester, Martha W. Syl- 
vester (Turner), Angela B. Ford (Brock), Helen P. 
Barker (Chamberlain), Lydia W. Collamore (Sampson), 
Abbie C. Hatch, Ella J. Thomas (Paine), Abbie A. 
Stetson (Clapp), Eunice P. Simmons, Emma L. Stod- 
dard (Packard), Hannah B. Hart (Pratt), Francis 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 1^270 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 Free 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 jgioo apiece are : 

George Curtis, Eliza Salmond, Joseph Smith, and 
Edmund Q. 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 j^io each ; Isaac Wilder, Robert Bar- 
stow, Morrill A. Phillips, Mrs. Farnham, Sarah P2. 
Cushing, Irenaeus L. Waterman, and George Briggs 
^ave $5 each ; Benjamin Barstow and Warren I. Wright 



202 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 

gave $3 each, and Mary Barstow ^1.25. 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 FallExV 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., 3Tst Regt. Infantry, Nov. 20, 1861, while a student 
in Amherst College, class of 1863. He served three 

♦Enlisted, as used in these notices, means generallj' the same as 
enrolled or mustered in. The dates I have taken'mainlj* from the 
*' Records of the Massachusetts Volunteers," Vols. 1, 11. It will be 
seen that a large proportion of our students enlisted in what maj' 
be termed the " Old Colony Regiment," the 18th, 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 fifty." 
The historian says that to Hanover, among other towns, ** is due 
the origin of this notably excellent Regiment." 



HANOVER ACADEMY. 203 

years and re-enlisted Quarter Master Sergeant, Feb- 
ruary ! I, 1864, and was killed while in charge of wagon 
train on the Red River F.xpedition 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, 




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, 
1876. 



204 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY, 

LoAMMi H. 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, I866. 



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 Glory 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., rc-enlisted Jan. 2, 
1864, transferred Oct. 26, 1864, to 3 2d Inf. Co. L. Corp. 

Edward Southwoktii, 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, ^^ 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. 1 8th, Co. G., Aug. 5, 1862, discharged Jan. 10, 
1863, through disability. 

Lebbeus Stockbr[dge, 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. 

AIelzar C. Bailey, of Hanover, aged 23, enlisted 3d 
Regt. of Cavalry, Co. D., Sept. 6, 1862, re-enlisted Aug. 
9, 1864, 1st Battalion Heavy Artillery, Co. E. 

Cyrus C. Holmes, of Hanover, aged 24, enlisted Regt. 
i8th, Co. G., Aug. 24, 1861, 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. 10, 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. 

Elisha W. Lapham, of So. Scituate, aged 18, en- 
listed Aug. 24, 1861, 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 HANOVER 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 DepaxtmeivX. oi \.\v^ ^\xk^. 



HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 209 

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, J une 
8, 1865. 

George H. Sampson was high private, U. S. Vols. 

Edwin J. Chandler, enlisted 1862 — 63, 1 think, from 
Duxbury. 

George A. Collamore, M. D., served in the war as 
surgeon of looth Regt., Ohio Volunteers. 

Entered th£ 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. 
' I. 

•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, 1865, at first as Acting Master's 
Mate, the last year as Acting Ensign. 



210 HISTORY OF HANOVEK ACADEMY. 




Hark I heard ye not tlie lliundcr loud. 

Echo along our southern shore ? 
Sa.w ye the lightning in the cloud ! 

Heard ye the sullen ocean's roar ? 

Surely a tempest must be near I 
Seek shelter from the coming storm ; 

God keep your wives and children dear. 
Secure amid the dread alarm I' 

But look I the siy is clear and bright, 
The gentle breezes softly blow ; 

Nocloud obscures (he sun's fair light. 
All nature smiles beneath iis rIow. 

What meant Ihjs rumbling from afar ? 

Whai trouble does this noise portend ? 
It means (he approach of civil war 

Where men with brother men contend. 

From East to West, from Norlh to South, 
The electric wire the news conveys ; 

The message goes from mouth to mouth — 
" Fort Sumter's ta\ien\ xooae ^e\navw\" 



HISTORY OF HANOVER- 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 I 

All honor to the noble few 

Who held the fort so long and well I 
To them the victor's crown is due 

Unconquered^ though their fortress fell. 

'' Fort Sumter's taken I" At the word 

The people rose with sudden start, 
All party feuds were laid aside. 

Hand joined with hand at\d heaul yi\\\i Yvft^xX.. 



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 l^altimore. 

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, 
Thev 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, oiv eailVv tvo 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 I The war is o*er I 

All honor to the soldiers brave I 
United States 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 
0*er North and South, from sea to sea. 

But where are those, so stout of heart, 
Who left 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 I 

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 one^ 

*' 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, 

Tht Congress sunk, at\d C>\mbtTlai\d. 



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. 

But we 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 

Onr 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. 



HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 

Consult (he Record book once more ; 

Whalgays it of the remnant left? 
" Disabled, wounded, sick and sore, 

Of health and ail its joys bereft." 
For blessings which we dearly prize 

Our soldiers we can ne'er repay, 
Hut 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, uurnative air. 
The homesick soldier needs lo rest 

Where he can meet the friends he loves, 
May he with such a home be blesi 

And never more be forced lo ruve. 
And now the Olive Dranch of peace 

Waves o'er our land Irom shore to shore, 
May strife and alt contention cease, 

And wars and fightings be oo more. 
The/<i/rw/s;«Viyhasnot tied, 

ll'i love our counlry 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 llie land that gave us birth 

By righteousness exalted be 
Among the nations of the earlh — 

"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 they 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 generaXXoxv?* ^^\. wc^c^wvr 



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 effort and at some 
personal cost. And then the personnel of such private 
school and the esp7'it 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*'CurtisSchool"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, with 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 town, 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 ^om^Vv\. V^ ^^^^ 



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 jl 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 memojy scans the past. 
And days of yore, we live them o'er. 

Too beautiful to \ast. 



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. 



Later History of the Academy. 



After the Academy had been leased some seven years 
to the town for a public school, it was thought best by 
all parties concerned that the town should take entire 
possession of the property. Most of the orijrinal pro- 
prietors had passed away, but by a dividing up and free 
distribution of shares on the part of those who 
held a large number, a meeting of shareholders, 
amounting in person or by proxy as the law requires to 
"more than two-thirds both in number and interest,*' 
assembled at the Academy building on the evening of 
October i8, 1899, and acting under the counsel of Judge 
B. W. Harris (who was present on that occasion and 
who nearly forty years before officiated as Justice of the 
Peace in organizing the Academy Corporation) unani- 
mously passed the following : 

**Voted,that the real estate of this Corporation and all 
right and interest therein be sold to the town of Han- 
over at a fair valuation, at not less than its assessed 
value, (;^220o) on condition that the property shall be 
used permanently for school purposes, and that the 
school thus kept shall be non-sectarian in character and 
shall be called the Salmond School ; and that the Presi- 
dent for the time being be and hereby is authorized to 
execute a deed of the same in the name of said Hanover 
Academy Corporation." At this meeting 79 shares, 
owned by 74 persons, were represented, all of which 
were cast in the affirmative. 

At the March Meeting in 1900, the town voted to pur- 



224 HISTORY OF HAXOVFIK ACADEMY. 

chase the properly under the above conditions, and 
appropriated $500 for the purchase of the same. The 
a])propriation was made thus small on the assurance by 
the Academy authorities that a large majority of the 
shareholders were willing to give their shares to the 
town for the object and under the conditions named. 

On January 28, I90i,the authorized representative of 
the Academy signed a deed drawn by Judge Harris and 
approved by Judge George W. Kelley of Rockland, 
the counsel of the town committee, which deed on con- 
sideration of the (nominal) sum of ;^2200 paid by the 
town of Hanover, conveyed the Academy property to 
the town for the purpose and under the conditions 

mentioned. 

At the March meeting of the town, 1901, the follow- 
ing vote was passed : 

"Whereas a large majority of the shareholders of the 

Hanover Academy Corporation, being desirous that its 
property should not be wholly diverted from its original 
school purpose, have given their interest in the grounds, 
buildings, and other property of said Corporation to the 
town for the purpose of permanently maintaining a 
school in said locality to be known as the "Salmond 
School," thereby making this valuable property in great 
measure a gift to the town, therefore Resolved : 

"That we, the citizens of Hanover, in town meeting 
assembled, thankfully accept under the conditions 
named this truly liberal gift, and would place on record 
our grateful appreciation of the generosity of the 
Salmond heirs and of the Directors and other stock- 
holders of said Corporation in freely donating to the 
town their share of the Academic property." 

At the same meeting the town also passed a vote of 



HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 225 

thanks to the Academy Alumni for the transference of 
the balance of their fund, S270, to the Trustees of the 
Hanover Free Library. In regard to this fund and its 
disposition, see pp. 122-124, 201. 

Our readers may possibly remember that in the fore- 
going History frequent references were made to the 
munificence of Mr. Salmond, and it was there suggested 
that should the Academy ever be given up for a town 
school, it should bear the honored Salmond name. I 
shall now quote from the ^'Alumni Records" a further 
reference tg this distinguished benefactor. 

''The munificence of Mr. Salmond has been gratify- 
ingly shown toward the Academy when it was established 
in the former building and especially at the erection of 
the new edifice; nor did his interest abate afterwards, 
but was frequently displayed as circumstances offered. 
Asa benefactor and a practical advocate of Education 
he was most deservedly esteemed by this community, 
and his death cannot but be worthy of an appropriate 
notice in these Academic Records. His demise, though 
a public loss, is more particularly a loss to education 
and religion, and whilst this dispensation of Providence 
is a subject of regret to the friends of the Academy, 
they would bear a grateful testimonial to his unfeigned 
liberality." 

On page 11 1 we stated that the two daughters of 
John Barstow, deceased, authorized the Trustees of the 
Barstow Fund to pay it over to the Trustees of the 
Hanover Free Library. The document which they 
signed thus reads : 

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS. 

That whereas we, Lydia K. Barstow and Elizabeth T. Barstow of 
Providence in the State of Rhode Island, sole heirs of John Bdrstow, 



226 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 

late of said Providence, desire to carry out the spirit of a trust instru- 
ment given by our father, the said John Barstow, whereby he gave a 
fund of One thousand dollars to the Hanover Academy, the income of 
which was to be used for the school then maintained by said Academy, 
and whereas said school has been given up and has ceased to exist, and 
said fund by reason of such discontinuance has reverted to us, the 
said heirs — now therefore we hereby give said fund to the Hanover 
Free Library, the income thereof to be used forever for the purchase of 
books, in general accord with said instrument of trust, and we hereby 
authorize the Trustees of said fund, Benjamin B. Torrey and David B. 
Ford, to pay it over to the Trustees of said Library. 

Signed and sealed by our hands this 19th day of December, in the 
year of our Lord, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight. 

Lydia K. Barstow, ' [Seal] 
Klizabkth T. Barstow. [Seal] 

Signed, sealed and delivered in presence \ 
of Theodore Francis Oreen. j 

State of Rhode Lsland, 
Providence, S. C. 

In the city of Providence, in said County, this 19th December, 
1898. Then personally appeared the above named Lydia K. Barstow 
and Elizabeth T. Barstow, and severally acknowledged the above 
instrument to be their free act and deed. 

Before me — Theodore Francis Green, 

Notary Public. 

The trustees of the Barstow fund thought it prudent 
to delay its actual transfer till the Academy property 
was disposed of as a whole. Consequently the share- 
holders at a legal meeting on the evening of February 
22, 1 901, adopted the following vote : 

Whereas the fund of $1000 was given by the late 
John Barstow to the Hanover Academy in part for the 
"furnishing the school from time to time with maps, 
atlases, books of reference, etc.," and whereas said 
fund on account of the discontinuance of the Academy 
has been given by the daughters of said John Barstow 
to the Hanover Free Library, the income thereof to be 



HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 22/ 

used for the purchase of such books as shall be in 
general accord with the original instrument of trust, 

therefore Resolved : 

That we, the shareholders of Hanover Academy Cor- 
poration, hereby confirm the gift of the said Barstow 
heirs to the Hanover Free Library, known as the John 
Curtis Free Library, and we on our part hereby author- 
ize the Trustees of the said Barstow fund to pay over 
said fund and any accumulated interest of the same to 
the John Curtis Free Library, to be kept as a permanent 
investment which shall be known as the '*John Barstow 
Library Fund," the income of which shall be expended 
in the purchase of such books of real worth as shall be 
in general accord with the said instrument of trust." 

In view of the above the following vote was unani- 
mously passed by the town at its subsequent March 
meeting : 

Whereas the shareholders of the Hanover Academy 
Corporation, have by formal vote confirmed the act of 
the heirs of John Barstow whereby the said heirs by a 
legal document conveyed to the town of Hanover for 
the use of the Public Library the fund of ;^iooo, which 
was given by the said John Barstow to the Academy in 
part for the purchase of rare and valuable books, there- 
fore Resolved : 

That we, the citizens of Hanover, in town meeting 

assembled, extend our cordial thanks to the donors of 
the above mentioned property, and we gratefully accept 
the same for the use of the John Curtis Free Library, 
to be held as a permanent investment which shall be 
known as the ''John Barstow Library Fund," the income 
of which shall be used for the purchase of books of 
real and abiding worth. 



228 IIISTOKV OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 

Resolved : That this vote be entered on our town 
Records and that a copy of the same shall be sent to 
Misses Lydia K. and I^lizabeth T. Barstow of Provi- 
dence, dauf^hters of said John Barstow. 

We may here add that in the Town Report for 1892 
mention was made of other drifts from the Misses 
Barstow to our l^iblic Library, especially the **exceed- 
ingly valuable donation" of the Massachusetts and 
Plymouth Colony Records, a work which it is well nigh 

impossible now to obtain. 

PVom the rentage of the AcadtMiiy to the town a sur- 
plus of several hundred dollars was secured to its 
treasury. This with the proceeds of the sale of the 
real estate was disposed of at a legal meeting of the 
shareholders held August 9, 190 1, by a vote substan- 
tially as follows : That a dividend of $25 per share 
($20 on the real estate and $5 on the personal) be 
declared, payable to shareholders and to leual heirs 
making just claims to the same. This vote, by virtue 
of the releases to the town of over 80 shares of the 
Academy corporate stock made a direct gift to the 
town of nearly all its personal property. At a legal 
meeting held Feb. 19, 1902, the shareholders voted to 
refund to the town the amount ($500) which it had 
paid for the Academy, thus making the entire Academy 
property a free gift to the town. At the subsequent 
March meeting the town voted to appropriate this sum 
to the John Curtis P>ee Library as a permanent fund, 
to be called the Hanover Academy Library Fund, the 
income of which is to be used for the purchase of books. 
As this money was originally contributed in the inter- 
ests of education, so we are pleased that the use of it 
will be continued on educational lines for all coming 



HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 229 

time. The Library funds now amount to $5770. Of 
this sum $1770 came directly or indirectly from Han- 
over Academy. 

ADDENDA ET CORRIGENDA. 

Since the publication of our History some three years 
ago, many important changes as connected with the 
Academy have taken place. Some of these changes 
have been already mentioned. Others respecting its 
officers, teachers and Alumni may now be noticed. Our 
beloved, honored and lamented Dr. Brooks, who for 
many years was an Academy Director and President, 
left us on Feb. 19, 1900. Among the earlier Alumnae 
who have been removed by death are Mrs. Adeline 
Briggs and Mrs. Susan S. Smith, their deaths occurring 
respectively on March 14, 1900, and Feb. 3, 1901. Mr. 
John Curtis, the founder of our Free Library, passed 
from earth April 6, 1900. By his request his remains 
were cremated. In his Will he makes a generous bequest 
to the town for a library lot and building. In making 
this gift he uses the following language : "I give and 
bequeath to the town of Hanover in the Commonwealth 
of Massachusetts the sum of fifteen thousand dollars for 
the purchase of a suitable lot of land and the erection 
thereon of a Public Library Building to contain the 
library heretofore given by me to said town of Hanover, 
together with all additional books in public use, which 
building shall be designed by some competent architect, 
and built according to his plans and specifications with 
walls of brick or stone or both combined." We may add 
that a lot for this purpose was purchased by the town 
some years since. 

Three Academy teachers also have passed away : 



230 HISTORY OF HAN0V?:R ACADEMY. 

Mrs. Sweeny, March 19, 1900; Mr. Reed, June 19, 
1900; and lastly, Mr. McLauthlin, June 14, 1901. The 
memory of one teacher who died twenty years since, 
Mr. Charles Hitchcock, has been honored by his widow in 
the recent gift of $200,000 to the University of Chicago, 
for the erection of a Memorial Hall to be called after 
his name. These changes of teachers and alumni re- 
mind us that we began the writing of the Academy 
History none too early. 

We may at this point notice a few omissions and 
mistakes. The name of Dr. Flavel S. Thomas' son on 
page 156 should be Percival and not Perry. On page 
170 it should have been stated that Ruthetta M. Sylves- 
ter graduated from the Girls High School in Boston, 
and on page 199 the names of Eliza H. Corthell 
(Turner), Helen M. Hall (Keith) and Nancy Nye Curtis 
(Hall) should appear in the list of Teachers. The latter 
personage, it will be noticed, was in part named in honor 
of Rev. Mr. Chaddock's wife. 

Amon^the Ministers the names of Otis L.Leonard and 
Ernest Alonzo Thomas, both natives of Marshfield, should 
be mentioned. Mr. Leonard has labored principally as 
an Evangelist and generally in places far remote from 
home. Mr. Thomas, who was recently ordained (Jan. 
23, 1902) to the Baptist ministry, has supplied churches 
in Three Rivers and Spencer, and is now pastor at 
Central Falls, R. I. In the Alumni Records the title of 
"Rev." is given to Augusta R. Damon, and it is stated 
that she was ''settled at E. Cavendish, Vt." As a mat- 
ter of some interest we may state that Helen M. Henry 
of Marshfield, practices the profession of Dentistry, 
having her office in Plymouth. 

J think that most, if not all, the names which here 



HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 23 1 

follow, should be added to our soldier list : Rufus Miles 
Sturtevant, Henry H. Gardner, Augustus F. Elms, 
Henry B. Whitman, John F. Larkum, Elias E. Pratt, 
Marcus F. Ames, and Frederic H. Curtis. Mr. Sturte- 
vant of Co. K, 2nd Mass. Cavalry, was wounded July 6, 
1863, at Aide, Va. Mr. Gardner of So. Scituate enlisted 
Aug. 4, 1862, in Reg. 18, Co. G, and died Dec. 18, 1862, 
of wounds received in the battle of Fredericksburg. 
Mr. Elms of Hanson enlisted May 4, 1861, in 7 Mass. 
Inf., Co. K, and died at Camp Brightwood, D. C, Oct., 

1861, of Typhoid fever. Mr. Whitman, now of So. 
]^raintree, entered the U. S. Vol. service in Summer of 
1863 and served until the close of the war. He was 

<ingaged in the battle of the Wilderness, but for the 
most part was on special detailed duty. Mr. Larkum 
of Hanover, enlisted Aug. 24, 1861, in Reg. 18, Co. G. 
Mr. Pratt, Corp. in Reg. 43, Co. V, enlisted Sept. 2, 

1862. Mr. Ames of Hanson enlisted in Reg. 7, Co. K, 
June 15, 1 86 1. Mr. Curtis of the Navy was in the 
Congress when attacked by the rebel iron-clad Merrimac ; 
see note p. 215. All the above, with one exception, en- 
listed for three years. Under the name of Edward 

Church, p. 208, nine months should be substituted for 
three. 

I trust that the members of the Joseph E. Wilder 

Post, No. 83, G. A. R., not to mention other persons, 
will be pleased to see here the portrait of their Com- 
mander, Horace S. Tower. Mr. Tower was the eldest 
son of John and Nancy (Sylvester) Tower, was born 
in Hanover, May 1 1, 1847, studied in the-Academy under 
Messrs. Keene and Apthorp, served about two years 
(1864-5) in the army, and in 1892 was chosen Commander 
of the Post, which office he still holds. He is now en- 



I>KY OF HANOVEK ACADEMY. 




ga{;ed as agent of the 
New York and Boston 
Despatch Company. 

In 1870 he was mar- 
ried to Helen A. Barker 
of Hanson and both 
himself and wife are 
now connected with the 
Kdiiorship of the North 
River Pioneer, as was 
also his father before 
him. 

We append a few ad- 
ditional names of per- 
sons who, according to 
our best recollection 
H. s. TOWER. and the information 

obtained from others, attended the Academy in earlier 
times, reaching even as far back as Mr. Rolfe or Mr, 
Bates. Somu mistakes here as elsewhere are of course 
to be expected. 

Aaron 1'ratt, Edwin Ingles, I.loyd Morton, Augusta Briggs, Nancy 
N. Curtis, Andrew Turner, Joseph E. Corlew, Jesse D. Bates, George 
W. I.^bdetl, Henry Chapman, Henry Jacobs, Harriet Tilden, Abbie 
Batstow, Joseph Hludley, Michael ford, Jr., Martin Hayward, Joseph 
Ilayward, Horace Koster, David A. Josselyn, Benjamin W. Josaelyn, 
William Paley Alleii, John Curtis, Harvey Ellis. Henry W. Allen, 
Waterman Ellis, Andrew F. Collamore, Freeman M. Josselyn, Joseph 
Oldham. I'eleg Barker, Isaac <i. Stetson, K. Miles Sturtevant, Andrew 
Magoun, l-oammi H. Sylvester, John P. Eells, Mary Ann Palmer.Mary 
T. Stock bridge, Jane Oldham, Susan Magoun, Laura Collamore, Nancy 
Collamore, Ceorge F. Hatch, Kliza Ilobart, Miller Oldham, Horatio 
Josselyn, Jane Cook, Nora Peny. Marcus Ames, Uavld A. Josselyn, 
Olis Josselyn, Caleb Josselyn, Charles H. Mann, Charles Hitchcock, 
George B. Tolman, Winslow Tolman, William Henry James, Daniel C. 
Otis, John Otis, Charles Kogg. George Fred Stetson, Luther Stetson, 
Edward Barstow, Elbridge Kamsdell. 

According to the Academy "Alumni Records," which 
have recently been placed in my hands, the following 
mainly new names mav be added \.o t'fte. dlSerent lists 



HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 233 

of scholars as given in the foregoing History : We can- 
not of course vouch for the accuracy of these names nor 
for their correct placing. 

Undkr Mr. MacLautiilin : Edward Brooks, Adeline Church, Fran- 
cis Chamberlin, George Chamberlin, Eliza M. Church, Elmina Curtis, 
Frederic H. Curtis, James II. Uwelley, Edward Mann, Samuel Hogers, 
George H. Sampson, flenry Stoddard, Betsey Whiting. U N der Mr. Bar- 
stow : Edward J. Bates, Abbje Briggs, Mary A. Hatch, Helen Josselyn, 
Helen M. Josselyn, Herbert Luther. Under Mr. Reed: George F. Bow- 
ker, Henry H. Briggs, Warren Chamberlain, Albert W. Curtis, Thurza 
J.Damon, Augustus F. Elms, Charles T.Garratt, Austin Magoun, Austin 
Mann, John 1*. Sylvester, Horace F. Packard, Rosilla J. Perry, Isabel 
J. Pratt, George F. Stetson, John A. Stetson, Lois A. Stetson, William 
F. Talbot, Charles Tolman, Daniel Welch, Kilborn Whitman. Under 
Mr. S. G. Stonk: Marcus Ames, N. Waldo Bradford, Augusta R. 
Damon, Annie K. Kells, Priscilla C. Kells, Nancy Aurelia Hall, Helen 
M. Ilall, Augusta Little, Eunice Ford, (reorge S. Horton, Eli Josselyn, 
Thomas Keating, C'arrie K. Keith, Helen M. Rose, Otis Leonard, John 
H. Larkum, Abbie Peterson, Mary T. Stetson, Robert Sylvester, 
Samuel B. Thorndike. Under Mr. Keene: Laura A. Barker, Elmer 
J. Bates, Sarah K. Beal, Henry Carver, Henry Chamberlain, Joseph T. 
Corlew, Eliza H. Corthell, Lizzie T. Curtis, Nathaniel II. Gushing, 
Lizzie (). Gushing, Mary B. Davis, Cieorge R. Delano, Julia Evans, 
Charles P. French, Rosa F. Hatch, Emma B. Josselyn, Henry M. 
Josselyn, Laura P. Josselyn, Jennie R. Joyce, Willard Kent, Albert A. 
Larkum, Albert S. (ireene, Esther Magoun, Nancy Magoun, Julia A. 
Mann, Hattie Nash, Sarah E. Pratt, Marion Pearl, Edward Ring, 
Calvin P. Sampson, Oscar S. Sampson, P'annie Simmons, George 
Simmons, Hannah P. Stetson, Ella C. Stetson, William G. Stetson, 
l"lla V. Stetson, l^^ank Stockbridge, Frank H. Talbot, Laura A. Taylor, 
( Trace H. Thorndike, Edward W. Whitman, John F. Whitman, Sallie 
M. Woods. Under Messrs. Lake, Dole, Apthorp, and Wood- 
lU'KV: Fannie II. Baistow, Edwin Beal, J. Wesley Benner, Harriet 
Burgess, Rhoda Chase, Edwin Collamore, Edwin J. Corlew, Elizabeth 
O. Cushing, Katie Dagon, (ieorge Doten, C. T. Doten, Sidney W. 
French, Harriet Hall, Florus Josselyn, Clara Josselyn, Ella H. Josselyn, 
(jilman Josselyn, James M. Jordan, George A. Lapham, Rebecca E. 
Latham, J. Thomas Loring, Allen Mann, James Murphy, Wendell 
Oldham, Mary S. Perry, Mary Phillips, Henry Rose, A. B. Ramsdell, 
Raymond Ripoll, Samuel Roberts, Mary E. Sturtevant, Thomas Tilden. 
Mary P. Tower, Charles E. Turner, (Jeorge White, Julia Young, 
Under Miss Mac Roy: J. Williams Beal, Lizzie Barker, Ellen 
Boylston, Elizabeth Cushing, Ellen Foster, Walter Holmes, Lydia 
Keene, Jennie Moorhead, ICdgar Phillips, Edith Phillips, Herbert 
Stetson, Arthur Sturtevant. Under Messrs. MacDonald and 
Hammond: Mary Baker, Samuel Brooks, William P. Brooks, 
Nellie Henry, James Hunt, Richmond Talbot. 

Whether the Records of the different Alumni Re- 
unions are in existence is uncertain. I feel that if some 
adequate notice of those meeUtv^% q.o>\\^ V-^n^ Xi'SL^^s. 



234 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 

given it would have added much interest to our history, 
I may mention that in the Reunion of 1874, spoken of 
at page 129, Mr. Charles A. Reed gave an address on 
the **Field of the Academy," and that remarks were 
made by Mr. McLauthlin, and a reading was given oa 
the ''Charcoal Man" by S. S. Knapp. According to the 
Records the poem by Mrs. Cheney "was received with 
great applause." The truth of this statement will not 
be doubted by any one who has read the poem. 

We may also state that in June 20, 1888, a Reunion 
was held in Odd Fellows' Hall, Osborne's Orchestra 
and the Ruggles Street Quartette were hired, and 
400 tickets were sold at fifty cents each. Surplus 
above expenses was ;^20, which by vote was used by the 
Treasurer to defray expenses of graduation. "A Social 
Dance" was provided also for the occasion. There 
seems to be now in our modern educational celebrations 
a growing and somewhat intimate connection between 
the head and the heels, a connection which in this line 
of work seems to be neither natural nor necessary. 

I have recently learned that at the Reunion of Nov. 
29, 1867, a poem, entitled The Rainbow, was read by 
Harriet L. Garratt, daughter of Dr. Alfred C. Garratt,. 
who once resided at Hanover Corners. The reader will 
perceive that the poem has a decidedly RazHdow-Bridgo 
(and ship-launching) hue and flavor. 

THE RAINBOW. 

Out from the hot school-room we pass 
Down the avenue over the grass, 
And into the cornfield over the wall, 
An Indian trail through the clover tall : — 
Away to the Rainbow, come one and all ! 
Over the Rainbow, the low foot-bridge 

That curveth from meadow to woodland 
Drawing its length so slowly along, 
We often tripped, with a laugh and song 
To the golden sunset, the goodland. 
But though it glittered a city of light 

And blue was the sky above it. 
We'd stop just this side, on the flowing earth, 

P'or so much we had learned to love it. 
The old rotten bridge bent undet our feet 
And the waters below, looked daiV aivd det^. 



HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 235 

But we didn't care, for a little beyond 

The cranberry vines had flowers 
And the marshy meadows on either side 
Sparkled with color far and wide 

Through the plentiful golden hours ; 
Satchels and pails on the hill were flung 

But sometimes were caught in showers ! 

Then under the bridge, at the further end, 
Our cowardly heads, — with "Heaven defend" — 
Were hid, while the rain or the hail descend. 
Or the traitorous heaven lowers. 

But the clouds would get tired, at last, — we found, 

And breaking away, with a smile around 

Two piers of a bridge let down to the ground 

And arch it high with a happy light 

A Rainbow from God, for this world so bright 
Bridging over the sunset hours. 
Over the wooden Rainbow wet 

We tripped along with ready feet 
And under the Rainbow above us. 

And the air from the violets, laden sweet. 

Came happy our berry-brown faces to greet 
And God and the angels to love us. 

And we whispered a story of long ago — 
When over the Bridge the beautiful snow 
Had sifted its white, but the waters below 
AVere turbid and dark with a ceaseless flow. 

How to town for the doctor, a girl was sent 

And over the Bridge her way she bent, — 
One step aside and her footing lost, 
Into the tide, poor child, she was tossed ! — 

And never was known the story 
Till sometime after, upon the ground 
Where swept by the freshets her form was found 
'Mid rushes, with frost-work hoary. 

Over the Rainbow to see the "launch" 

W e raced one day in October, 
The frost had taken each beautiful thing 

And the fields in russet looked sober. 
But little we cared, in our leather shoes 

Turned up at the toes and hole-y 
For the crisp sharp grass, as over the hill 

Across the ox-yoke, down by the mill 
Or over the ploughed land, which way we will, 

Where the ground is broken and knoUy, — 
In time for the launch, — however we came ! 

When the young thing sprang for the water 
We shouted and waved and called her by name. 

The River's beautiful daughter. 

Over the Rainbow, another day, 



236 HrSTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 

Alone in the quiet October — 
I walked last year, on the well-known way 

And thought of each happy rover, — 
Hut other hands held the fishing rods — 

And the fields in russet looked sober, 
Full many a launch has been there since 

And the bright and strong have been mated — 
With costlier things than India brings 

Is many a barque well-freighted. 

Hut some are sunken beneath the tide 

Hy death the solemn awaited, 
Thus — over the Rainbow, the low foot bridge 

That curveth from meadow to woodland, — 
Slowly and thoughtful, we walked along 
Where once we had tripped with a merry song 

In the sunset that tells of the Goodland — 
Where over the Hridge at the end of our way 
A Rainbow shall span to eternity's day — 

And give back our friends of the woodland. 

After what I have said in the conclusion of the pre- 
ceding History, it seems almost needless to make 
further remarks touching the Academy's demise. It 
has been and is a sore trial to many to see the beloved 
Academy go down after it has had so long and so- 
honored a history. A former teacher in a letter recently 
received thus writes : "I feel with you that we cannot 
allow it to go out of our hands as an Academy. 
With all the wealth in Hanover and vicinity it seems to 
me a disgrace to allow the dear old Institution to go- 
under." And he says that if his investments had proved 
as productive as anticipated, it was his intention to 
start a Fund with $25,000, thinking that with such a 
start at least $25,000 or $50,000 more would be forth- 
coming. But this was not so to be; and the great 
change above described could not well be put off. And 
I cannot but think that the next best thing to preserv- 
ing the Academy was to secure it to the town for all 
time to come as one of its higher seats of learning. 
Those who invested their property in the Academy 
never had a thought or desire to reap any pecuniary- 
advantage from the same either for themselves or their 
posterity. They made their investments here solely 
because of their interest in the higher education of our 



HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 23/ 

youth and in the general welfare of the community, and 
I feel that if they were living they would, under the 
circumstances, heartily approve of the final disposition 
which has been made of their property. 

The existence of Hanover Academy has now ceased, 
and here I must close my imperfect history of the same. 
But may we not well be thankful that the history of its 
wide-spread and lasting influence for good never can be 
fully written ? 

Our readers, we are sure, will be pleased to have a 
closing word from the pen of Mrs. Augusta Briggs 
Cheney for whose poetic effusions our Alumni Reunions 
have been so often indebted. 

The wheels of Time keep moving on 

With never ceasing sway, 
And Hanovkr Academy 

Alas ! has had its day. 

VoY with our modern teaching 

It could not well com])ete, 
And so its various forms and method, 

IJecanie quite obsolete 

The children of the present time 

l.augh at the olden way, 
And wonder how we managed 

To live till present day, 

Knowing so little of the things 

They learn today in schools, 
And yet they generally admit 

'i'heir ])arents are no fools, 

Uut have more general knowledge, 

( )n subjects to impart 
'i'han they have ever learned from books 

i'hey think they know by heart. 

The text books we so highly prized 

Are now no longer sold, 
Except in antiquarian shops 

By merchants grey and old. 

Pupils no longer "Mind by Watts" 

Or "Understand by Locke," 
And "Cowper's Task" and "Pope's Essay" 

KxQ parsed in book store stock. 

Colburn's and Greenleaf*s problems 

Now seem to students queer, 
And dear old Euclid, in contempt, 

Is buried every year. 



238 HISTORY OF HANOVER ACADEMY. 

Well I we must bury in our minds 

All thoughts of sad regret 
And welcome all progressive moves 

Wherever they are met. 

And as the century rolls on 

We may perhaps discover 
(ireat men and women who surpass 

Those in the years passed over. 

And the dear old Academy 

May find by introduction 
( )f all the modern "( )logies^' 

And new forms of instruction, 

The germs of future greatness 

Exceeding those of yore, 
And Presidents and (Governors 

May issue from its door. 

The boys and girls of former years 

Are scattered far and wide 
And many have achieved success 

Which all have viewed with pride. 

And we the veterans of old 

Our days of youth renew, 
Knowing in this Academy 

We learned the most we knew. 

All honor to our public schools. 
Which give with generous hand 

A liberal education 

To all from every land. 

And let us view without regret 

This old door open still 
And welcome those with outstretched hands 

Who come our place to uU. 

And yet it really seems to me — 
I may be wrong, no doubt — 

That many useless things are taught 
And needful things left out. 

Poor little children of today ! 

Daily "the wonder grows" 
That one poor little childish head 

Can carry all it knows. 

As bending down, 'neath load of books, 

I meet them on their way 
To school, with weary step and goggled eyes,. 

— The children of today — 

I often thinks 'twere better far 

To gain the precious lore 
As we did, in our youthful days, 

In Academy of yore. 



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