Miss M. Emilie McClary taught French, mathematics, and science at Milton’s Nute High School in 1899-1902. She was one of Miss Benson’s successors. (She worked with Nute principals Arthur T. Smith and Arthur D. Wiggin). After her time here, she returned to her hometown of Malone, NY.
Her mother, Mrs. Martin E. McClary (Patience (Ford) McClary), belonged to the Women’s Aid Society of the First Congregational Church of Malone, NY. The Women’s Aid Society published The Malone Cookbook in 1908, likely as a fundraiser. Mrs. McClary was one of its editors.
The cookbook included five recipes submitted by her daughter, Emilie McClary, Milton’s quondam teacher. (Then teaching Latin at Wellesley College).
Cucumber Boats. Pare medium-sized cucumbers and cut through the center lengthwise and scoop out the seeds; place in a pan ice water until ready to serve. Prepare a salad of tomatoes and cucumbers, cut in small cubes, with cream dressing No. 1 and fill boats with the salad just before serving and garnish with nasturtiums – Emilie McClary
Dressing is very much a matter of taste. The Cream Dressing No. 1 mentioned may be found on Page 99 of the Malone Cookbook (in the References below). Nasturtium flowers are edible. They might be used as an edible garnish, as Miss McClary suggests here, or even appear in the salad itself.
Panned Oysters. Place oysters in the dish with a tablespoon of butter and a little salt. Cover closely and light the lamp. Stir occasionally and when the oysters are plump and the gills curled they are ready to serve. One-half cup of thick sweet cream may be poured over them if desired before taking up. – Emilie McClary
Peppermint Drops. One cup of sugar, a very little water, boil until it hairs. Remove from the stove, add a pinch of cream [of] tartar and three drops of oil of peppermint, stir until the mixture begins to whiten. Drop with a spoon on buttered paper. Wintergreen oil may be used instead of the peppermint, and cochineal may be used to color them pink. – Emilie McClary
In the absence of a candy thermometer, the temperature might be tested by dropping a bit in cold water. At 235° F, it should form a soft ball; at 260° F, it should form a hard ball; at 300° F, it should form a brittle strand or “hair.” Therefore, it might be said that the mixture “hairs” at 300° F.
(Similar period recipes sometimes go on to dip the resulting drops in melted chocolate The results would be not unlike commercially available Junior Mint peppermint patties).
Miss McClary’s own alma mater was Wellesley College, from which she received her B.A. with the class of 1899. (She also taught there).
College Candy. Two cups of maple or brown sugar, one-third of a cup of sweet cream, one half pound of English walnuts. Boil the sugar and cream until it forms a ball when dropped in water, stirring constantly. Remove from the stove and add the walnuts chopped fine; stir until the mixture begins to whiten, turn into pans and when cold cut into squares. – Emilie McClary
As seen in the Peppermint Drops recipe just above, a soft ball temperature would be about 235° F (and a hard ball might be expected at about 260° F).
Salted Almonds. Shell the nuts and pour boiling water over them; let them stand in the water a minute or two, then throw them into cold water, and rub between the hands. To every cupful add one even tablespoon of melted butter and let stand a while. Sprinkle with a level teaspoon of salt. Place in a moderately hot oven and bake until brown, stirring occasionally, then place on brown paper. Peanuts may be salted in the same way. – Emilie McClary
Other spices or flavorings might be added (or substituted for some of the salt), in the same manner that baked pumpkin seeds are flavored. For example, Sriracha is popular these days.
These are not Milton recipes, as such, but they are recipes of one of Milton’s early high school teachers. For the most part, the Nute principals and teachers all lived within walking distance of the Nute High School, either on School Street or on “the Farmington road” (now Elm Street). It might be that she served some of these dishes at social gatherings there.
Just imagine if we had also some recipes of Miss Terrill, who taught home economics at the University of Chicago and the University of Vermont.
The Irish Easter Rising began on Easter Monday, April 24, 1916 (one hundred and three years ago).
Padraig H. Pearse, President of the Provisional Government thus proclaimed, read the Proclamation from the steps of the General Post Office (GPO) in Dublin on that Easter Monday morning.
The Irish rebels held strong points in Dublin for five days, against bombardments and infantry assaults by the British Royal Army, before surrendering. The British government executed all seven signatories of the Proclamation by firing squad. (James Connolly, who had been wounded, was shot while tied to a chair). Others as well.
Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ) produced a reading of the proclamation for the April 2016 Centenary (or Centennial). It features various Irish people living all over the world each reading a line or two. (Similar to the annual reading of the American Declaration of Independence by NPR correspondents). You may recognize London, Boston, Sydney, Washington, China, Canada, Moscow, Hollywood, Paris, New York, India, the Netherlands, and other locations among the featured locations. (The background music is Róisín Dubh (or Little Black Rose)).
While the Easter Rising did not succeed in itself, it set the scene for events that did produce the modern Irish Republic.
POBLACHT NA h-EIREANN [Irish Gaelic for People of Ireland]
THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT OF THE IRISH REPUBLIC TO THE PEOPLE OF IRELAND
IRISHMAN AND IRISHWOMEN: In the name of God and of the dead generations from which she receives her old tradition of nationhood, Ireland, through us, summons her children to her flag and strikes for her freedom.
Having organized and trained her manhood through her secret revolutionary organization, the Irish Republican Brotherhood, and through her open military organizations, the Irish Volunteers and the Irish Citizen Army, having patiently perfected her discipline, having resolutely waited for the right moment to reveal itself, she now seizes that moment, and, supported by her exiled children in America and by gallant allies in Europe, but relying in the first on her own strength, she strikes in full confidence of victory.
We declare the right of the people of Ireland to the ownership of Ireland, and to the unfettered control of Irish destinies, to be sovereign and indefeasible. The long usurpation of that right by a foreign people and government has not extinguished the right, nor can it ever be extinguished except by the destruction of the Irish people. In every generation the Irish people have asserted their right to national freedom and sovereignty; six times during the past three hundred years they have asserted it in arms. Standing on that fundamental right and again asserting it in arms in the face of the world, we hereby proclaim the Irish Republic as a Sovereign Independent State. And we pledge our lives and the lives of our comrades-in-arms to the cause of its freedom, of its welfare, and of its exaltation among the nations.
The Irish Republic is entitled to, and hereby claims, the allegiance of every Irishman and Irish woman. The Republic guarantees religious and civil liberty, equal rights and equal opportunities of all its citizens, and declares its resolve to pursue the happiness and prosperity of the whole nation and of all its parts, cherishing all the children of the nation equally, and oblivious of the differences carefully fostered by an alien government, which have divided a minority in the past.
Until our arms have brought the opportune moment for the establishment of a permanent National Government, representative of the whole people of Ireland and elected by the suffrages of all her men and women, the Provisional Government, hereby constituted, will administer the civil and military affairs of the Republic in trust for the people.
We place the cause of the Irish Republic under the protection of the Most High God, Whose blessing we invoke upon our arms, and we pray that no one who serves that cause will dishonour it by cowardice, inhumanity, or rapine. In this supreme hour the Irish nation must, by its valour and discipline and by the readiness of its children to sacrifice themselves for the common good, prove itself worthy of the august destiny to which it is called.
Signed on behalf of the Provisional Government,
THOMAS J. CLARKE SEAN MAC DIERMADA | THOMAS MACDONAGH P.H.PEARSE | EAMONN CEANNT JAMES CONNOLLY | JOSEPH PLUNKETT
Some immediate associates and successors of Miss Sarah L. Benson, a Milton Teacher of 1891-95, were Misses Bertha M. Terrill, Lillian A. McAllister, Anna F. Berry, M. Emilie McClary, and Theodora A. Gerould. This would take us up through the close of the 1913-14 year.
Nute High School Faculty, 1900
Some Nute High School principals in this same period were William K. Norton, Arthur D. Wiggin, Arthur T. Smith, Clarence E. Kelley, and Frank H. Manter. (Subject to additions or revisions). The principal would not have been solely an administrator. They would have been “principal” in its original sense: principal teacher, i.e., the head teacher, who was also administrator.
The various teachers covered here were sometimes called assistant teachers, i.e., assistants to the principal teacher. The Nute High School staff would not have been large initially, likely just the principal and an assistant teacher or two. Separately, there was the library, although it shared the same building, and its librarian (initially, Rev. Frank Haley). And the building had also a janitor.
(Milton Mills had its own high school as late as 1905. William McCue was one of its teachers).
Miss Bertha M. Terrill – 1895-96
Bertha Mary Terrill was born in Morristown, VT, December 11, 1870, daughter of Newton A. and Mary S. (Cheney) Stevens.
Newton Terrill, a farmer, aged fifty-seven years (b. VT), headed a Morristown, VT, household at the time of the Tenth (1880) Federal Census. His household included his wife Mary S. Terrill, keeping house, aged fifty-seven years (b. VT), his children, Flora M. Terrill, teaching school, aged twenty-four years (b. VT), Herbert M. Terrill, at school, aged twenty-one years, Charles D. Terrill, works on farm, aged eighteen years (b. VT), George H. Terrill, works on farm, aged sixteen years, Bertha M. Terrill, aged nine years, and Z. Weld Terrill, aged six years, and his servant, Clara O. Bromwich, a houseworker, aged twenty-two years (b. VT).
CADY’S FALLS FANCIES. Miss Bertha Terrill is attending school at Morrisville (Argus and Patriot (Montpelier, VT), September 9, 1885).
UNDERHILL CENTRE. Miss Bertha Terrill goes to work this week at the White Mountains (Cambridge Transcript (Cambridge, VT), July 20, 1887).
UNDERHILL UTTERINGS. Bertha Terrill is home from the White Mountains (Argus and Patriot (Montpelier, VT) October 5, 1887).
LOCAL TOWN ITEMS. Underhill Center. Miss Rosa Gilbert of Burlington visited her friend, Bertha Terrill, last week (Cambridge Transcript (Cambridge, VT), May 15, 1889).
Miss Terrill attended the St. Johnsbury Academy prior to going to Mount Holyoke College.
LOCAL NEWS. Morrisville. Bertha Terrill is at home from St. Johnsbury academy during Christmas vacation (Morrisville News and Record, December 25, 1890).
CADY’S FALLS FANCIES. Miss Bertha Terrill is home on her vacation from St. Johnsbury Academy (Argus and Patriot (Montpelier, VT), July 1, 1891).
CADY’S FALLS. Misses Flora and Bertha Terrill are in a German family at Derry, N.H., to study that language (Morrisville News and Citizen, August 3, 1893).
Miss Terrill would have been somewhat the worse for wear when she first arrived for Nute High School’s 1895-96 academic year:
Morrisville. G.H. Terrill’s horse was frightened by some pigs near J. Merriam’s last Sunday afternoon and kicked the front end of the buggy to pieces, injuring Mr. Terrill slightly, and seriously injuring his sister, Miss Bertha Terrill and a little son of Chas. Terrill of Massachusetts, who is visiting them, and cutting the horse quite badly about the legs (Cambridge Transcript, [Friday,] September 5, 1895).
Miss Terrill taught for a single year at Nute High School before moving on to teach Greek at the Abbot Academy in Andover, MA.
St. Johnsbury Local News. Miss Bertha Terrill, Academy ’91, now teacher of Greek in Abbot Academy, spent several days in town last week, the guest of Miss Caroline Ely and Mrs. Jonas Brooks (St. Johnsbury Republican, December 21, 1898).
St. Johnsbury Local News. Miss Bertha Terrill, St. J.A. ’91, now a teacher in Abbot Academy, Andover, Mass., passed through here Wednesday on the way to her home in Morrisville (St. Johnsbury, Republican (St. Johnsbury, VT), June 28, 1899).
Bertha M. Terrill, a teacher, aged twenty-nine years (b. VT), resided at the Abbot Academy, on School Street in Andover, MA, at the time of the Twelfth (1900) Federal Census. Principal Emily A. Means, aged forty-nine years (b. MA), headed the enumeration. There were two matrons, a librarian, eight teachers (including Miss Terrill), a laundress, two assistant laundresses, a cook, four waitresses, an assistant janitor, and one hundred twenty-five boarding students residing at the academy. (Only the assistant janitor was not female).
VALUE OF FOOD PRODUCTS. Miss Terrlll’s Interesting Paper Before Motherhood Club. Miss Bertha M. Terrill of the department of home economics in the Hartford School of’ Religious Pedagogy read a paper on “The Value of Food Products,” before the Motherhood Club in Grand Army Hall yesterday afternoon. Mrs. Harry E. Peabody, the president, presided, and there was a large attendance. Miss Terrill told how to acquire knowledge of the constituent parts of various foods and said that food might be divided into two parts or kinds, that which is useful for building up the tissues of the body and that which is necessary to supply the body’s demand. There are four constituent parts in all food, proteins, fats, carbohydrates and mineral salts. Miss Terrill told of Professor Atwater’s experiments in food, and said that the maxim that the best is the cheapest does not always apply to food. She urged that housekeepers used an intelligent guidance so that they may be able to select the most economical food and said that education in values is sadly needed by all classes of people. When opportunity was given for questions, one member of the club told of a doctor and her husband who had no kitchen but lived on fruits and nuts. Miss Terrill, on the meat question, said that she felt inclined to agree with Mrs. Richards that Americans are “meat drunk” (Hartford Courant, December 8, 1903).
Miss Terrill wrote a paper, thesis, or book on Household Management in or around 1901, which was published as a Lesson Paper by the American School of Household Economics in Chicago, IL, in 1905. It credited her as being a professor of Home Economics in the Hartford School of Religious Pedagogy, and author of US Government Bulletins.
She appeared under the heading “Fellows Appointed for the Year 1907-08” in the University of Chicago’s Annual Register.
Bertha M. Terrill (in 1909)
BERTHA MARY TERRILL, A.B., Household Administration. Student, Mount Holyoke College, 1891-5; Teacher, Nute High School, Milton, N.H., 1895-6; Teacher of Greek, Abbot Academy, Andover, Mass., 1896-1900; Student, Harvard Summer School, 1900; Fellow, School of Housekeeping, 1900-1; Teacher, Home Economics, School of Religious Pedagogy, Hartford, Conn., 1901; Fellow in Household Administration, University of Chicago, 1907-8 (University of Chicago, 1907).
Sarah A. Boynton, a widow, living on her own income, aged seventy-three years (b. MA), headed a Chittenden, VT, household at the time of the Thirteenth (1910) Federal Census. Her household included her daughter, May A. Boynton, aged forty-three years (b. NH), and her lodgers, Helen B. Shattuck, a university librarian, aged thirty-two years (b. NH), and Bertha M. Terrill, a university teacher, aged thirty-nine years (b. VT). They resided on North Prospect Street.
Bertha M. Terrill, a university instructor, aged forty-nine years (b. VT), headed a Chittenden, VT, household at the time of the Fourteenth (1920) Federal Census. Her household included her lodger, Alice Blundell, a university assistant instructor, aged twenty-nine years (b. IA). They resided on Pearl Street.
Bertha M. Terrill died in Burlington, VT, December 22, 1968 aged ninety-eight years.
Dr. Bertha Terrill Of UVM Faculty Dies. BURLINGTON (UPI) – Services will be held Thursday for Dr. Bertha M. Terrill, 98, first woman faculty member of the University of Vermont. Miss Terrill, a native of Morristown, died Monday following a short illness. She retired in 1940 after teaching home economics at the university for 31 years. In 1910, one year following her appointment to the College of Arts and Sciences, Miss Terrill became the first adviser of women, an office which preceded the office of dean of women. She received her college education at Mt. Holyoke in Massachusetts and a doctor’s degree at the University of Chicago (Bennington Banner, December 24, 1968).
The Delta Kappa Gamma sorority established the Bertha Terrill Scholarship in her memory. The University of Vermont has a building – The Bertha M. Terrill Home Economics Building – named after her.
Miss Lillian A. McAllister – 1896-99
Lillian Angela McAllister was born in Moriah, NY, October 28, 1874, daughter of Rev. Dr. William C. and Angela M. (Bronson) McAllister.
NEWBURY CENTER. Miss Lillian McAllister, daughter of Rev. N.C. McAllister of Manchester, N.H., was highly complimented a short time ago by being tendered a position at Columbia University. Miss McAllister was a graduate from Vassar college last June, and is now instructor in French and mathematics in the Nute Endowed High School in Milton, Mass. She has recently been invited to become an assistant in the astronomical observatory of Columbia University, New York City. Naturally Miss McAllister feels highly complimented as the invitation came entirely unsought through the recommendation of the Faculty at Vassar. Her record as a student was such that she was selected out of quite a number. She has just become adjusted to her present surroundings and finds them very agreeable and feeling a moral obligation to the school where she is now employed, Miss McAllister has decided to remain m Milton (United Opinion (Bradford, VT), February 23, 1897).
THE TATTLER. Miss Lillian McAllister has declined an invitation to become an assistant in the observatory of Columbia university. Miss McAllister graduated in June from Vassar and is now teaching French and mathematics in the Nute Endowed High school in Milton, N.H. (Springfield Recorder (Springfield, VT). April 16, 1897).
Lillian Angela McAllester’s biography in a Vassar College catalog had her teaching in Milton, NH, 1896-99, and Gloucester, MA, from 1899.
Teachers … To fill these vacancies the [Gloucester School] Board, after much time and expense, has secured the services of Miss Lillian McAllester, of the Nute High School, Milton, N.H., Vassar ’95, for the French department; Miss Ida C. Gleason, principal of the Tewksbury, Mass., High School, for the commercial work; and Mr. Walter G. Whitman, of Goddard Seminary, Barre, Vt., Tufts ’98, for the line of science (Gloucester School Report, 1900).
According to the Gloucester City Directory of 1900, Lillian McAllister taught French, Algebra, and English at the Gloucester High School. The High School curriculum included English, German, Greek, Latin; Civics, History; Literature; Astronomy, Botany, Chemistry, Geology, Physics; Algebra, Arithmetic, Geometry, Mathematics; Bookkeeping; Commercial Law; Stenography, Typewriting; Drawing, Music; Gymnastics, and Physical Education.
William C. McAllester, a [Baptist] clergyman, aged fifty-one years (b. NY), headed a Randolph, MA, household at the time of the Twelfth (1900) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of twenty-six years), Angela M. McAllester, aged forty-nine years (b. NY), and his children, Lillian McAllester, a school teacher, aged twenty-five years (b. NY), Ralph W. McAllester, a student, aged twenty-two years (b, NY), and Grace E. McAllester, at school, aged fourteen years (b. NY).
Fitz E. Riggs, living on his own income, aged sixty years (b. MA), headed a Gloucester, MA, household at the time of the Thirteenth (1910) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Annie E. Riggs, aged fifty-six years (b. Canada), and his lodgers, Lillian A. McAllester, a high school teacher, aged thirty-five years (b. NY), and Maud Burroughs, a high school teacher, aged thirty-one years (b. MA).
Lillian A. McAllester applied for a US Passport in Gloucester, MA, April 5, 1910. She stated that she had been born in Moriah, NY, October 28, 1874, and was aged thirty-five years. She resided (at 53 Summer Street) in Gloucester, MA, where she followed the occupation of teacher. She was 5′ 4″ tall. She had light hair, an oblong face with a high forehead, a regular chin, and a light complexion. She had blue eyes, a medium nose, and a regular, medium mouth.
Miss Lillian McAllister was a teacher in Gloucester, MA, in May 1919 (Fitchburg Sentinel, May 19, 1919).
George H. Newell, a private practice dentist, aged sixty-one years (b. NH), headed a Gloucester, MA, household at the time of the Fourteenth (1920) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Carrie A. Newell, aged sixty-one years (b. MA), his daughter, Katherine Newell, a violin teacher, aged twenty-seven years (b. MA), and his lodgers, Lillian A, McAllester, a high school teacher, aged forty-five years (b. NY), and Marion Bailey, a high school teacher, aged twenty-three years (b. MA). They resided on Hovey Street.
Lillian A. McAllester, of 53 Summer Street, Gloucester, MA, aged fifty-three years (b. Moriah, NY), steamed from Cherbourg, France, August 17, 1928, on board the S.S. Dresden, arriving in New York, NY, August 27, 1928.
Lillian McAllister, a public school teacher, aged fifty-five years (b. NY), headed a Gloucester, MA, household at the time of the Fifteenth (1930) Federal Census. She shared a two-family dwelling (at 53 Summer Street) with the household of her landlord, Kilby W. Shute, a bank cashier, aged sixty-one years (b. MA). The property was valued at $5,000; McAllister paid $25 per month in rent. She had no radio set.
Lillian McAllister, of 53 Summer Street, Gloucester, MA, aged fifty-eight years (b. Moriah, NY), steamed from Liverpool, England, August 25, 1932, on board the S.S. Georgic, arriving in New York, NY, September 2, 1932.
Lillian McAllister, a high school teacher, aged sixty-five years (b. NY), headed a Gloucester, MA, household at the time of the Sixteenth (1940) Federal Census. She had resided in the same house in 1930.
Lillian A. McAllester died in 1959.
Miss Anna F. Berry – 1899-12
Anna Florentine Berry was born in Candia, NH, March 22, 1878, daughter of Edward S. and Florentina (Elkins) Berry.
Anna Florentine Berry took a more difficult four-year Classical course at Concord High School. She graduated with the class of 1891. (She would have been thirteen years of age). Anna Florentine Berry (of Concord, NH) received her B.A. degree from Radcliffe College, in Cambridge, MA, in June 1896. She was one of thirty-nine students to do so.
Anna F. Berry (Detail from Radcliffe Class Photo of 1896)
Anna F. Berry, of the Radcliffe class of 1896, taught in the Orleans, MA, high school in 1896.
The Milton section of the Dover Directory of 1901 listed Miss Anna F. Berry, a teacher, Nute High School, as having a house on School street.
The Milton section of the Dover Directory of 1905 listed Mrs. Florantine Berry, widow, as having a house at 5 School street. Miss Anna F. Berry, a teacher, Nute High School, also had the same address.
Florentine Berry, no occupation given, aged fifty-five years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Thirteen (1910) Census. Her household included her daughter Anna F. Berry, a [Hampton] high school teacher, aged thirty-three years (b. NH). They appeared in the enumeration next to the household of A. Annette Gerould, whose daughter was also a high school teacher.
Anna F. Berry was an assistant teacher at the Manchester High School, in Manchester, NH, in the 1912-13, 1913-14, and 1914-15 academic years. She had a salary of $950 (Manchester Town Report). Anna F. Berry, a teacher at the Manchester High School (515 Beech street), resided at 443 Amherst street in Manchester, NH, in 1916 (Manchester Directory, 1916).
Anna’s mother, Florentine (Elkins) Berry, died in Concord, NH, in 1918.
Arthur Cunningham, a shoe machine operative, aged sixty years (b. MA), headed a Weymouth, MA, household at the time of the Fourteenth (1920) Census. His household included his wife, Alice A. Cunningham, aged fifty-eight years (b. MA), and his boarder, Anna F. Smith, a public school teacher, aged twenty-five years (b. NH). [Aged forty-two years]. The resided at 70 Middle Street.
Anna F. Berry, of Weymouth, MA, sold land in Hampton, NH, to Pauline F. Pierce, of Malden, MA, for $1 (Portsmouth Herald, August 11, 1923). Anna F. Berry, of 70 Middle Street, East Weymouth, MA, Tel. WEV, 285-W, taught French at the Weymouth High School in 1920.
Anna F. Berry (in 1924)
Anna Florentine Berry applied for a US Passport in Norfolk County, MA, April 30, 1924. She stated that she had been born in Candia, NH, March 22, 1878, and was aged forty-six years. She resided (at 70 Middle Street) in East Weymouth, MA, where she followed the occupation of teacher. She was 5′ 3″ tall. She had brown hair, an oval face with a medium forehead, a round chin, and a dark complexion. She had brown eyes, a roman nose, and a medium mouth.
Anna F. Berry, of 70 Middle Street, East Weymouth, MA, aged forty-six years (b. Candia, NH), steamed from Cherbourg, France, August 23, 1924, on board the S.S. George Washington, arriving in New York, NY, August 31, 1928.
Wesley P. Beckford, an electrician, aged forty years (b. MA), headed a Weymouth, MA, household at the time of the Fifteenth (1930) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Ada M. Beckford, aged thirty-six years (b. MA), Elizabeth L. Beckford, aged nine years (b. MA), and John W. Beckford, aged four years (b. MA), his father, Edwin S. Beckford, aged eighty-six years (b. NH), and his lodger, Anna F. Berry, aged forty four years (b. NH). [Aged fifty-two years]. They resided on Commercial Street. They had no radio set.
WEYMOUTH. Miss Anna Berry of East Weymouth, a teacher in the High School, will spend the remainder of the Summer visiting in Maine and New Hampshire (Boston Globe, July 14, 1932).
IN MEMORIUM. ANNA FLORENTINE BERRY. Since the last issue of the PURPLE AND GOLD, we have learned of the death on April, 1940, of Anna Florentine Berry. She was a graduate of Radcliffe and came to Nute where she served for several years. A refined and educated woman, her life was centered in her work and the care of her mother. As Freshmen, we rather in awe of her, but as Seniors we both loved and respected her. – Contributed by a Former Pupil (Nute High School Yearbook, 1941).
Miss M. Emilie McClary – 1899-1902
Maude Emilie McClary was born in Malone, NY, June 15, 1877, daughter of Martin E. and Patience (Ford) McClary.
Maude Emilie McClary, b. June 15, 1877. Attended public schools in Malone, graduated 1894; private school, New York City, 1894-95; graduated Wellesley College, 1899. Teacher in Milton, Vt. [N.H.], 1899-1902; in Malone, N.Y., 1902-05; in Columbia University, 1905-06; taught Latin in Wellesley College, 3 years, and one year at the Putnam School at Poughkeepsie, N.Y. She m. Aug. 2, 1910, Willard Dana Woodbury, of Allston, Mass. Children: 1. Jean McClary, b. June 15, 1911. 2. Willard Dana, b. July 5, 1913.
Maude Emilie McClary, class of 1899, was a managing editor of the Wellesley Magazine (Wellesley Magazine, December 10, 1898). Wellesley College conferred a B.A. degree upon Maude Emilie McClary, of Malone, NY, in 1899.
M. Emilie McClary taught at Nute High School 1899-1902. After leaving Milton, she returned for a time to her hometown of Malone, NY. (And, apparently, back to being Maude E., rather than M. Emilie).
Martin E. McClary, a lawyer, aged fifty-one years, headed a Malone, NY, household at the time of the New York State Census of 1905. His household included his wife, Patience F. McClary, housework, aged forty-eight years, his children, Maude E. McClary, a teacher, aged twenty-seven years, Nelson F. McClary, a civil engineer, aged twenty-five years, and Arthur E. McClary, at school (9½), aged twenty-one years, his mother-in-law, Amanda P. Ford, aged seventy-nine years, and his servant, Alice E. Redmond, a servant, aged twenty-six years.
NORTHERN NEW YORK. A Home Wedding and Church Marriage in Malone on Tuesday. Malone, N.Y., Aug. 8. On Tuesday at one o’clock, at the home of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. M.E. McClary, on Terrace avenue, occurred the marriage of their daughter, Maud E., to Willard D. Woodbury, the Rev. J.A. Macintosh, pastor of the Congregational Church, officiating. The wedding was a very pretty one, the arrangements being exquisite in detail. A reception and an elaborate luncheon followed the wedding ceremony. Mr. and Mrs. Woodbury left at 8:30 o’clock for Montreal, bound for the city of Quebec, and a trip up the Saguenay river. Mrs. Woodbury is the daughter of M.E. McClary. senior member of the law firm of McClary, Allen & McClary of Malone. The wedding gifts to the bride were many and beautiful. Among those from out of town who were present were Mr. and Mrs. J.F. Woodbury, R.L. Woodbury, Miss Helen H. Woodbury and Mrs. H.B. Stratton of Boston, Mrs. H.C. McClary, Miss Ella McClary and Mrs. N.A. McClary of Chicago, Ill., W.C. Tudbury of Utica, Mrs. Alice Stevens of Washington, D.C, Miss Mary J. Way of Brooklyn and Dr. and Mrs. John W. Kissane of Norwood. The bride is a graduate of Franklin Academy and of Wellesley College and has been a teacher for several years (Burlington Free Press, August 4, 1910).
Willard Woodbury, a building contractor, aged thirty-five years (b. MA), headed a Boston, MA, household at the time of the Fourteenth (1920) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Emily Woodbury, aged forty-two years (b. VT [SIC]), and his children, Jane Woodbury, aged four [actually, eight] years (b. MA), and Willard Woodbury, Jr., aged six years (b. MA). They shared a rented two-family dwelling at 74 Ashland Street, with the household of Joseph Keefe, a blower and furnace estimator, aged forty-nine years (b. MA).
Emily M. (McClary) Woodbury died in Boston, MA, December 21, 1960.
WOODBURY. In Jamaica Plain, Dec. 21, Emily M., wife of Willard D. of 22 Woodbourne rd., mother of Jean M. Johnstone of Ontario, Canada, and W. Dana Woodbury of Stockton, Calif. Funeral from St. John’s Episcopal Church, Jamaica Plain. Tuesday. Dec. 27, at 2 p.m. (Boston Globe, December 24, 1960).
Miss Theodora A. Gerould – 1903-14
Theodora Annette “Nettie” Gerould was born in Watertown, MA, April 16, 1879, daughter of Lyman P. and Augusta A. (Darling) Gerould. Her father was superintendent of the gas works there. He died in 1899.
A. Annette Gerould, no occupation, aged seventy-eight years (b. MA), headed a Northampton, MA, household at the time of the Twelfth (1900) Federal Census. Her household included her daughters, Ella H. Gerould, a trained nurse, aged forty-one years (b. MA), and Theodora A. Gerould, at school, aged forty-one years (b. MA). [Theodora was actually aged twenty-one years]. They lived on Franklin Street. Northampton is known as the Five College Town. Theodora was attending Smith College [Class of 1903].
Theodora A. Gerould has accepted the position as teacher of history and English in the Nute High School of Milton, New Hampshire. Her address is P.O. Box 145, Milton, Stafford County, New Hampshire (Smith College, 1903).
The Milton section of the Dover Directory of 1905 listed A. Annette Gerould, widow of L.P.G, as having a house at 18 Farm. [Farmington] rd. Theodora A. Gerould, a teacher, Nute High School, boarded there.
A. Annette Gerould, no occupation, aged seventy-eight years (b. MA), headed a Milton household at the time of the Thirteenth (1910) Federal Census. Her household included her daughter, Theodora A. Gerould, a high school teacher, aged thirty-one years (b. MA), and her servant, Bessie M. Laskey, a private family servant, aged nineteen years (b. NH). They appeared in the enumeration next to the household of Florence Berry, whose daughter was also a high school teacher.
The Smith College Catalog for 1910 listed Theodora Annette Gerould, B.A., Class of 1903, as an asst. teacher at the Milton, N.H., high school. Her address was Box 180, Milton, N.H. (Smith College, 1911).
The Milton section of the Dover Directory of 1912 listed A. Annette Gerould, widow of Lyman P., as having a house at 2 Kimball, corner of So. Main. Ella H. Gerould, a trained nurse, resided in the home of Mrs. A.A.G., 2 Kimball, and Theodora A. Gerould, a teacher, Nute High School, boarded there.
The Smith College Catalog for 1915 listed Theodora Annette Gerould, B.A., Class of 1903, as having been an asst. teacher at the Milton, N.H., high school, 1903-14, and a teacher in Swampscott, Mass, from 1914. Her address was 281 Lynn Shore Drive, Lynn. (Smith College, 1916).
The Lynn Directory of 1915 listed Mrs. A. Annette Gerould as having a house at 281 Lynn Shore drive, suite 2. Ella H. Gerould boarded there, as did Theodora A. Gerould, a teacher (Swampscott).
Theodora Gerould attended the annual alumni dinner of the Nute Club of Boston in at least the years 1917 and 1918.
Theatre owner A. Paul Keith died in 1918. His will devised legacies to a wide circle of relatives and friend. Among the legatees were Ella Gerould, Theodora Gerould, and Harriet Gerould of Lynn, in the amount of $5,000 (Boston Globe, November 2, 1918).
The Lynn Directory of 1919 listed Mrs. A. Annette Gerould as having died Jan. 12, 1918. Ella H. Gerould boarded at 281 Lynn Shore drive, suite 2, as did Theodora A. Gerould.
Theodora Gerould who has been busy repairing and restoring the quaint old farmhouse on her poultry farm writes that she is ready to qualify as master painter and paper hanger. Fanny Clement must look to her laurels (Smith College, 1920).
Ella H. Gerould, no occupation given, aged seventy-one years (b. MA), headed a Bedford, MA, household at the time of the Fifteenth (1930) Federal Census. Her household included her sister, Theodora A. Gerould, aged fifty-one years (b. MA). Ella H. Gerould owned the house, which was valued at $7,000. They did not have a radio set.
Theodora Gerould, no occupation given, aged sixty years (b. MA), headed a Bedford, MA, household at the time of the Sixteenth (1940) Federal Census. Her household included her partner [sister], Ella H. Gerould, aged eighty years (b. MA). The house was valued at $5,000. They resided at 32 North Road, which was the same house that they had occupied ten years earlier. Ella Harriet Gerould died in Bedford, MA, in 1941.
Theodora A. Gerould, of Westmore, NH, died in Bellows Falls, VT, April 6, 1964, aged eighty-four years
Smith College. (1911). Catalog of the Officers, Graduates and Non-Graduates of Smith College, Northampton, Mass., 1875-1910. Published by Smith College Alumnae Association: Northhampton, MA
Smith College. (1916). Smith College Bulletin, 1875-1915. Published by Smith College Alumnae Association: Northhampton, MA
We encountered previously Miss Sophia Cushing, a Milton Teacher of 1796-05. Here we have a biographical sketch of a Milton teacher of nearly one hundred years later.
Sarah Louise Benson was born in Troy, NY, April 25, 1865, daughter of Frederick W. and Frances L. (Seabury) Benson. Her mother died several days later, April 28, 1865.
Asa G. Luce, a store [owner], aged thirty-three years (b. Rensselaer), headed a Troy, NY, household at the time of the Second (1865) New York Census (June 21, 1865). His household included his wife, Sarah E. Luce, aged thirty-one years (b. Herkimer), his son, Edgar P. Luce, aged six years (b. Rensselaer), but also Frederick W. Benson, a store keeper, widower, aged thirty-four years (b. MA), and Sarah L. Benson, aged one month (b. Rensselaer). Asa G. Luce was a druggist and his store would have been a drug store.
Sarah’s widowed father married (2nd) in Troy, NY, December 8, 1865, Ann L. Fields. She was born in Michigan, April 8, 1837, daughter of Reuben Fields.
Frederic Benson, a retail grocer, aged forty-three years (b. MA), headed a Troy, NY, household at the time of the Ninth (1870) Federal Census. His household included Anna Benson, keeps house, aged thirty-five years (b. MI), Sarah Benson, aged five years (b. NY), and Walter Benson, aged six months (b. NY). (We hear no more of baby Walter). Frederic Benson had personal estate valued at $4,000.
Sarah’s father, Frederick W. Benson, died in Troy, NY, February 8, 1872. His widow, Ann L. Benson, and John P. Wight received appointments as joint administrators of his estate, February 19, 1872.
Ann L. Benson moved the family east from Troy, NY, to Brattleboro, VT, a distance of about 75 miles, in 1873.
Brattleboro, VT
Sarah attended Brattleboro’s District No. 4 (Centreville) School, i.e., a one-room schoolhouse. She appears in the following account of the Fall 1875 term as one of those students that had been absent, but never tardy. (Note the number of students taught by Miss Warriner: forty-two).
Local Intelligence. Brattleboro. The fall term of the school in district No. 4, (Centreville) taught by Miss F.M. Warriner, closed Nov. 12th. Whole number of pupils 42. The pupils having neither absent nor tardy marks during the term were Ida Strickland, Florence Tenney, Fannie Timson, Myra Timson, Eva Wheeler, Ida Wheeler, Henry Knight, Ira Knight, Frank Fisher, Charles Newton, Willie Alden, Clarence Shepardson, Charles Abbott and Bertie Knight. Not absent, Charles Brown, Walter Matthews, Willie Matthews, John Gaines and Frank Dunklee. Not tardy, Lizzie Franklin, Nellie Strong, Laura Cook, Grace Fisher, Sarah Benson, George Fisher, Charles Cook, Charles Fisher, Bertie Howard, Osmand Loomis, Vcssie Miner, Bertie Fisher and Roy Cook (Vermont Phoenix (Brattleboro, VT), November 26, 1875).
Ann L. Benson, keeping house, aged forty-three years (b. MI), headed a Brattleboro, VT, household at the time of the Tenth (1880) Federal Census. Her household included her [step-]daughter, Sarah L. Benson, at school, aged fifteen years (b. NY), her son, Oscar Benson, aged eight years (b. NY), and her boarders, Nellie Scott, a teacher, aged twenty-one years (b. NH), Hiland Burdick, works in machine shop, aged forty years (b. VT), John O’Brien, works in machine shop, aged twenty-one years (b. MA), and Fred Fowler, works in machine shop, aged twenty-four years (b. NY).
Sarah Benson graduated from Brattleboro High School with the Class of 1882 (Vermont Phoenix (Brattleboro, VT), June 29, 1907).
Smith College, Northampton, MA
Sarah Louise Benson, of West Brattleboro, VT, attended Smith College, in Northampton, MA. She would have begun her studies there in September 1884. She graduated in June 1888. Smith College was then relatively new: her class was only the tenth one.
SMITII COLLEGE. Colonel T.W. Higginson. the Orator of the Day, with Governor Ames Present. NORTHAMPTON, April 20. The tenth Smith College commencement passed off very successfully. Social Hall was crowded, and Governor Ames and staff, Mayor Hill, George W. Cable and others were on the platform. Governor Ames made a brief, but telling speech, and then Colonel Thomas W. Higginson was introduced as the orator of the day. He spoke about the advantages of the literary profession, and held the close attention of his audience for two hours. His oration was the ablest heard here for many years.
Miss Julia H. Mulliver of the class of ’79, was given the degree of Ph.D., and Miss Elizabeth Blanchard, principal of Mt. Holyoke Seminary. the degree of M.A.
Smith College
The following are the graduates; Caroline Sprague Austin, Nashua; Kate Clarence Bailey. Claremont. N.H.; Minnie May Bartlett, Attleboro; Sarah Louise Benson, West Brattleboro, Vt.; Daisy Luana Blaisdel. Chicopee Falls: Harriette Holland Boardman, St. Paul, Minn; Adeline Brown, San Francisco; Grace Alice Burrington. Coleraln; Anna Louise Carter. New Hartford, Conn.; Jennie Chamberlain, Ames, Ia.; Mabelle Chase, Hudson; Cornella Chapelle Church. Norwich, Conn.; Mary Frances I)e Voil. Glen’s Falls, N.Y.; Harriet Parkes Doty, Holyoke; Anna Williams Edwards. Northampton; Mary Elizabeth Everett, Dover; Anna Warren Gardiner, Haverhill; Lora E. Guild, Enosburg, Vt.; Fanny Pearson Hardy, Brewer, Me.: Anna Dora Hawker. Northampton; Louise Akerly Husted, Brooklyn, N.Y.; Caroline Cogswell Jameson, Mills; Anna Prindie Kellogg, Northampton; Jane Downes Kelly, Providence, R.I.; Leila Mantha Kennedy, Syracuse, N.Y.; Florence Leonard, Philadelphia, Penn; Helen Stoddard Lincoln, Northampton; Mary Caroline Lord, Hudson, O.; Frances Pease Lyman. Easthampton; May Louise Nicholls, Holliston: Grace Sophronia Packard. Providence, R.I.; Lizzie Southgate Parker, Claremont. N.H.: Martha E. Black, Altoona, Penn.; Mary Palmer Raynor, Springfield; Alice Robinson, Brooklyn, N.Y.; Harriet Chapin See, Northampton; Rachel Sherrison. Syracuse. N.Y.; Alice Thomas Skilton, New Haven, Conn; Alice May Sykes, New Haven. Conn.; Mary Frances Thompson, Northampton; Susie Helen Twitchell, Keene. N.H.; Adelaide Brainerd Ventres, Bloomfield, N.J.; Ellen Long Wentworth, Exeter, N.H.; Grace Churchyard, Buffalo, N.Y.; Lilian Dubois, Hudson, N.Y.; Miriam McGregor Dwight, Hadley; Isabel Eaton, Washington, D.C.; Jennie Sarah Wilcox, Seneca Falls, N.Y.; Jennie Laurie Storrs, Lebanon, N.H.; Mary Esther Cobb, Florence; Mae Appleton Shute, Palmer.
Graduates of the School of Art: Harriet Eliza Duguld, Syracuse, N.Y.; Helena Cherry Evans, Easthampton; Anna Ellen Schreuder, Syracuse, N.Y.; Margaret Olive Whitney, Orleans. N.Y. (Boston Globe, June 21, 1888).
Glenwood Classical Seminary, W. Brattleboro, VT
The Glenwood Classical Seminary was a ladies’ boarding school. It opened in West Brattleboro, VT, in 1860. Professor Henry H. Shaw replaced long-time principal Professor Hiram Orcutt in 1881.
Glenwood Classical Seminary, WEST BRATTLEBORO, VT. HAS three well-prepared courses of study. Pupils completing either will receive diplomas. The best facilities for music on organ or piano, with a daily class in vocal. Drawing and painting by a teacher of large experience. No pains will be spared to make every department thorough and complete. The spring term, of 12 weeks, begins March 22. Terms low; good rooms for self-boarding. For particulars address the principal, H.H. SHAW, West Brattleboro, Feb. 22, 1882 (Vermont Phoenix (Brattleboro, VT), March 22, 1882).
Miss Sarah L. Benson took on the role of preceptress, i.e. assistant principal, at the Glenwood Classical Seminary, in 1889.
West Brattleboro. Miss Sarah L. Benson is preceptress at Glenwood Seminary (Vermont Phoenix (Brattleboro, VT), December 20, 1889).
Glenwood Classical Seminary
Glenwood Seminary’s 1891 graduation marked also its tenth year under Professor Henry H. Shaw.
… During this time classes have been graduated each year and the school has been under the personal care of Mr. Shaw. For the past two years he has been ably assisted by Miss Sarah Benson (Vermont Phoenix (Brattleboro, VT), June 12, 1891).
Nute High School, Milton, NH
Milton’s Nute High School opened its doors for the first time in September 1891, with Miss Sarah L. Benson as one of its original teachers.
PERSONAL. Miss Sarah L. Benson returned this week to Milton, N.H., where she is a teacher in the Nute High school (Vermont Phoenix (Brattleboro, VT), January 1, 1892).
PERSONAL. Miss Sarah L. Benson, a teacher in the Nute High school at Milton, N.H., has returned to Brattleboro for the summer vacation (Vermont Phoenix (Brattleboro, VT), July 1, 1892).
NORTH HEATH. Miss Sarah S. Benson from Brattleboro, who is employed at school keeping at Milton N.H., is taking her vacation of a few weeks with her many friends in this vicinity (Deerfield Valley Times (Wilmington, VT), August 19, 1892).
PERSONAL. Among the Christmas visitors in town were Fred Colburn, Nicholas Baker, Joseph Perry and Maurice Austin of Springfield, Mass.; J.C. Bowler and Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Bowler and family of Boston; T.J. Doolin of South Framingham, Mass.; Hattie Jones of Boston; John and Patrick Bowler of New Haven, Conn.; Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Carey and Patrick Ferriter, the telegraph operator, of New York; Alfred Warren of Florence. Mass.; Samuel Kirkland of Boston and Theodore Kirkland; Elmer Munroe of Worcester, Mass.; Will Smith of Colgate university; Miss Sarah Benson of the Nute High school, Milton, N.H.; Ina Freeman of Watertown, N.Y. ; William Cursor of St. Albans; [Miss Sarah L. Benson’s half-brother,] O.F. Benson of New York: Charles Chapin of Boston: Mr. and Mrs. M.F. Sears of Holyoke; Thomas Scars of Coventry, Conn.; Lieut. Col. and Mrs. James Lillis of Rutland; Evelyn Merritt of Bridgewatcr, Mass. (Vermont Phoenix (Brattleboro, VT), December 30, 1892).
Sarah L. Benson left Nute High School at the conclusion of the 1894-95 academic year. (Bertha M. Terrill, who taught there in 1895-96, may have replaced her). Benson left in order to take up a course of studies at the Framingham Normal School.
Framingham Normal School, Framingham, MA
PERSONAL. Miss Sarah Benson, who has been a teacher in the Nute High school at Milton, N.H, for several years, has gone to Framingham, Mass., where she will take a special one year’s course in the normal school (Vermont Phoenix (Brattleboro, VT), September 13, 1895).
PERSONAL. Miss Sarah Benson returned yesterday to Framingham, Mass., normal school, where she Is taking an advanced course in pedagogics (Vermont Phoenix (Brattleboro, VT), January 3, 1896).
She graduated from the special one-year course at the Framingham Normal School, in Framingham, MA, in June 1896. She was one of seven students that earned Advanced and Special honors (Boston Post, June 25, 1896).
PERSONAL. Miss Sarah Benson attended the 28th annual reunion of the Benson family at Conway, Mass., Wednesday (Vermont Phoenix (Brattleboro, VT), July 3, 1896).
PERSONAL. Miss Sarah L, Benson has recently taken a situation as teacher in the Free Academy at Norwich, Conn, (Vermont Phoenix, September 18, 1896).
PERSONAL. Miss Sarah Benson of South Framingham, Mass., is visiting her mother in Centreville (Vermont Phoenix (Brattleboro, VT), April 2, 1897).
Norwich Free Academy, Norwich, CT
Norwich Free Academy. The Norwich Free Academy, of which Dr. Hubert P. Keep is principal, has issued its thirty-ninth annual catalogue. The pamphlet contains a history of the growth of the institution, the founding of which was a result of Dr. John P. Gallien’s educational movement in 1846. Grateful acknowledgment is made of the generosity of William A. Slater. The school began as a preparatory institution but has greatly broadened. The book contains a description of the Slater memorial building and the Slater museum and an outline of the work in the normal school, model schools, kindergarten and art school. There are 48 seniors, 58 first middles, 71 second middles, 106 junior, 3 graduates; total 284. In the normal school there are 21 pupils and in the art school 58 (Hartford Courant, April 2, 1895).
PERSONAL. Miss Sarah Benson has returned to her position as teacher in the Normal school at Norwich, Conn. (Vermont Phoenix (Brattleboro, VT), September 17, 1897).
PERSONAL. Miss Sarah Benson, who has been at home a large part of the winter on account of ill health, returned this week to her duties as teacher in the Norwich, Conn., academy (Vermont Phoenix (Brattleboro, VT), April 22, 1898).
PERSONAL. Miss Sarah L. Benson, of the Norwich. Conn., Free academy, after spending 10 days at her home, left yesterday for a stay at Old Orchard, Me., and the White mountains (Vermont Phoenix (Brattleboro, VT), July 14, 1898).
PERSONAL. Miss Sarah L. Benson of Brattleboro and C.O. Stockman of Troy, N.Y., are guests at Geo. W. Mandigo’s (Vermont Phoenix (Brattleboro, VT), September 1, 1899).
PERSONAL. Miss Sarah L. Benson, now a teacher in the Norwich, Conn., free academy, is spending the Christmas vacation with her mother, her brother, Oscar F. Benson, spent Sunday and New Year’s at home (Vermont Phoenix (Brattleboro, VT), January 5, 1900).
Sarah L. Benson, a boarder, aged thirty-four years (b. NY), resided in the New London, CT, household of Sarah D. Palmer, aged seventy-two years (b. CT), at the time of the Twelfth (1900) Federal Census. Palmer kept a boarding-house. Her daughter, Elizabeth D. Palmer, aged thirty-seven years, was a teacher of domestic science. Another boarder, Mary A. Emerson, aged thirty-four years (b. VT), was also a school teacher.
Ware High School, Ware, MA
PERSONAL. Miss Sarah L. Benson went Saturday to Ware, Mass., where she is to teach history in the High school (Vermont Phoenix (Brattleboro, VT), September 7, 1900).
BRATTLEBORO PERSONAL. Oscar F. Benson and Miss Sarah Benson are spending the vacation season with their mother on Western avenue (Vermont Phoenix (Brattleboro, VT), August 14, 1903).
European Tour
Sarah Louise Benson applied for a US passport in Brattleboro, Windham, VT, August 9, 1905. At that time, she described herself as a teacher, aged forty years. She was 4′ 8″ tall. She had light brown hair, a round face with a high forehead, a square chin, and a light complexion. She had blue eyes (with a scar near one of them), a short nose (with large nostrils), full lips, and two moles.
PERSONAL. Miss Sarah L. Benson will leave tomorrow for Boston and will sail from that city next Tuesday on the Saxonia of the Cunard line to spend a year in Europe for travel and study. She will probably be in Oxford, England, a considerable portion of this time (Vermont Phoenix (Brattleboro, VT), September 8, 1905).
Among other sights, Sarah witnessed the April 7, 1906 eruption of the Mount Vesuvius volcano.
Vesuvius Eruption of 1906
LOCAL OVERFLOW. Miss Sarah Benson, who is spending several months in travel in Europe, writes her mother of the glimpse which she and a traveling companion obtained of the great eruption of Vesuvius. The reports being favorable, they made the journey from Rome to Naples, but the conditions were such and the alarm was so great in Naples that they returned immediately. At a distance of 20 or 30 miles from Vesuvius everything was covered with fine white ashes, and the depth of the ashes increased to several inches as the train proceeded. All birds and animals had disappeared. When 40 miles from the mountain the horizon was that of an angry, black thunder storm. A few miles nearer the blue sky disappeared and the effect was lurid and terrifying. “It was like our oft quoted ‘yellow day,’ only ten times worse. It was as if a gray pall hung over everything, while the cloud of dust and ashes above us was fringed with reddish yellow.” “Once in a while we saw a farmer with head protected by umbrella or some broad covering looking over his desolate fields. At one shrine three women were praying, two prostrate on their faces” (Vermont Phoenix, May 11, 1906).
The “Yellow Day” to which she referred was September 6, 1881. The noontime twilight and yellow sky experienced in New England on that day resulted from the Michigan Thumb Fire of September 5, 1881.
BRATTLEBORO PERSONAL. Miss Sarah Benson with Miss Cora Green and Miss Sadie Winchester as guests, went Wednesday to Camp Ellis, Maine, where she has a cottage (Vermont Phoenix (Brattleboro, VT), August 3, 1906).
WEST BRATTLEBORO. Miss Sadie E. Winchester, who has been a guest of Miss Sarah Benson at Camp Ellis, Me., returned Tuesday (Vermont Phoenix (Brattleboro, VT), August 17, 1906).
Nichols Academy, Dudley, MA
EDUCATIONAL INTELLIGENCE. MASSACHUSETTS. DUDLEY. Nichols Academy opened September 10. Miss Marcia Smith and Miss Sarah Benson have been re-engaged for the coming year. The academy buildings including the inn and library are soon to be equipped with electric lights (Journal of Education, September 19, 1907).
PERSONALS. Miss Sadie Benson returned to Dudley, Mass., Monday to resume her position as teacher in Nichols academy (Brattleboro Reformer, December 6, 1907).
Brattleboro Local. PERSONALS. Miss Sarah Benson came Saturday to spend several weeks with her mother, Mrs. Ann L. Benson. Miss Benson closed her school at Nichols academy. in Dudley, Mass., last week, and went to Northampton to attend her class reunion at Smith college. On her return home she was accompanied by Miss Jane Hunt, of Granby, Mass, who will spend several days with her (Vermont Phoenix (Brattleboro, VT), June 26, 1908).
PERSONALS. Miss Sarah Benson went Monday to Old Orchard, Me., to open her cottage for the season. She was accompanied by her mother, Mrs. A.L. Benson, and Miss Florence Edwards, who will spend a month there (Brattleboro Reformer, July 10, 1908).
PERSONALS. Miss Sarah Benson has closed her cottage at Old Orchard and is visiting at the home of her mother, Mrs. A.L. Benson (Brattleboro Reformer, September 4, 1908).
HURT BY HIGH SCHOOLS. Academy About to Close After Ninety Years of Existence. Dudley, Mass., June 10. — A career of ninety years seems about to be closed for Nichols academy here. They have announced that because of the dwindling in the number of pupils the academy will not open next year. The use of the buildings has been tendered to the town. The trustees place the cause for the decadence of the once powerful preparatory school to the gradual encroachment of public high schools into its territory. The academy was opened in 1819. It reached the height of its career thirty years ago, when 150 pupils were cared for. Today there are but eight (Portsmouth Herald, June 10, 1909).
Adams High School, Adams, MA
WINDHAM COUNTY. BRATTLEBORO. Miss Sarah L. Benson of Brattleboro has been appointed assistant in the English department of the high school in Adams, Mass. Miss Benson is a graduate of Smith college and is a successful teacher (Vermont Journal (Windsor, VT), May 1, 1909).
Catherine M. Phillips, living on her own income, aged seventy-eight years (b. NY), headed an Adam, MA, household at the time of the Thirteenth (1910) Federal Census. Her household included her daughters, Helen Phillips, aged forty-one years (b. MA), and Susan Phillips, a public school teacher, aged thirty-nine years (b. MA); her son-in-law, Peter P. Smith, post-master, aged thirty-seven years (b. MA), her daughter [his wife], Sarah Smith, aged thirty-seven years (b. MA), her grandchildren, Catherine Smith, aged six years (b. MA), and T. Stanley Smith, aged two years; and her boarder, Sarah Benson, a public school teacher, aged forty-three years (b. NY). They resided on Crandall Street.
Miss Sarah L. Brown presented a paper entitled Oxford: Town & Gown before the Brattleboro Woman’s Club, April 13, 1910. Her talk was one of many speeches, talks, concerts, and other events presented over a season that ran from November 1909 through April 1910 (Brattleboro Reformer, September 17, 1909).
LOCAL OVERFLOW. At the next regular meeting of the Brattleboro Woman’s club Wednesday, Miss Sarah L. Benson will speak on personal experiences of Oxford, town and gown. At the close of the program the ways and means committee will conduct a sale of home cookery (Vermont Phoenix (Brattleboro, VT), April 8, 1910).
BRATTLEBORO PERSONAL. Mrs. F.W. Benson and Miss Sarah L. Benson went Saturday to their cottage at Old Orchard, Me., where they will spend the summer. Oscar L. Benson and family went to his cottage there Monday, and Mr. and Mrs. W.C. Mitchell will join them Saturday for a few weeks’ stay (Vermont Phoenix (Brattleboro, VT), July 15, 1910).
BRATTLEBORO PERSONAL. Miss Sarah Benson, who had been at Old Orchard, Maine, for the summer vacation, came Wednesday to the home of her mother, Mrs. Ann Benson, and left Monday to resume her work as teacher In North Adams (Vermont Phoenix (Brattleboro, VT), September 8, 1911).
BRATTLEBORO PERSONAL. Miss Sarah Benson has been at home this week from Adams, Mass., where she is a teacher in the public schools (Vermont Phoenix (Brattleboro, VT), March 1, 1912).
BRATTLEBORO PERSONAL. Sarah Benson, the teacher, has returned from Adams, Mass. (Vermont Phoenix (Brattleboro, VT), June 28, 1912).
PERSONAL. Miss Sarah Benson has gone to Ware, Mass., to visit a few days before returning to her duties as teacher in Adams, Mass. (Brattleboro Daily Reformer, May 3, 1913).
Lynn, MA
PERSONAL. Miss Sarah Benson, teacher in the high school in Lynn, Mass., is at her home on Oak street for the week-end (Brattleboro Daily Reformer, March 27, 1915).
Sarah L. Benson served on a Boston Playwriter’s Club arrangements committee for a production of three one-act War Relief plays in April 1917. (Her fellow New London boarder of 1900, now Dr. Mary A. Emerson of Boston University, served as the Director) (Boston Globe, April 18, 1917).
Sarah’s stepmother, Ann L. (Fields) Benson, died in Windham, VT, January 6, 1918.
Mrs. Benson Dies. Mrs. Ann Louise Benson, 80, mother of President Oscar F. Benson, of the Valley Fair association, died Sunday noon at her home in Brattleboro. She had been confined to her room for six weeks because of infirmities incident to her advanced age. Mrs. Benson was one of the principal contributors to the support of the Universalist church and was active along various lines of benevolent endeavor. She was a native of Seneca, Mich. She spent her childhood in Troy, N.Y., where she married Frederick W. Benson, a prosperous grocer, who died in 1872. In 1873 she went to Brattleboro. Besides her son she leaves a daughter, Miss Sarah L. Benson, teacher in the classical school in Lynn, Mass. Burial will be in Troy (Rutland News, January 7, 1918).
NUTE CLUB OF BOSTON HAS THIRD ANNUAL DINNER. The third annual meeting and banquet of the Nute Club of Boston, auxiliary to the Nute High School at Milton, N.H., was held last evening at the Thorndike with 50 guests present. Mrs. H.S. Coles presided. Miss Gertrude M. Getchell sang and Mrs. J.J. Buckley played several piano selections. The speakers were: Prof. Clarence E. Kelley of Harvard University, formerly of the Nute High School; Miss Sarah L. Benson, Arthur Barbour of Camp Devens and W.H. Langley of the Charlestown Navy Yard; Miss Mabel Wilbur, Miss Elinor Osborne and Miss Theodora Geraulds. The following officers were elected: Mrs. H. Wilson Ross of Newton, president; Lawrence C. Hayes of the American Expeditionary Forces, now in France, and Mrs. Arthur Thad Smith, vice presidents; Miss Susan P. Haley, Milton, NH., secretary; Arthur D. Brackett, treasurer, and Mrs. Helen M. Cole, Joseph I,. Keller and Walter E. Looney, executive committee (Boston Globe, February 23, 1918).
Alumnae Notes. Class News. 1887. Sarah Benson is teaching in the Lynn Classical High School. Her address is 60 Baltimore St., Lynn, Mass. (Smith College, 1919).
Mary K. Tripp, a widow, aged forty-eight years (b. NY), headed a Lynn, MA, household at the time of the Fourteenth (1920) Federal Census. Her household included her mother, Anne M. Kunhardt, a widow, aged seventy-eight years (b. Germany), her housekeeper, Sophie L. Sanford, a private family housekeeper, aged fifty-seven years (b. Canada), and her lodger, Sarah L. Benson, a high school teacher, aged fifty-four years (b. NY). They resided at 11 Baltimore Street.
NUTE HIGH SCHOOL CLUB OF BOSTON MEETS AND DINES. The annual reunion and banquet of the Nute High School Club of Boston, composed of graduates and pupils of the Nute High School at Milton, N.H., took place last night at the Thorndike. Among the 40 guests was Miss Sarah L. Benson of the faculty. Arthur T. Smith was toastmaster. The officers elected are: Mrs. Ora L. Smith of Winchester, president; Lawrence Hayes, Milton. N.H., vice president; Arthur D. Brackett, treasurer, and Miss Susan P. Haley of Rochester, N.H., secretary (Boston Globe, February 21, 1920).
Study Club Hears Miss Sarah Benson An unusually enjoyable meeting was held Saturday afternoon of the Adams Study club at the home of Mrs. Alma Deming of Columbia street. A large number were present and Miss Sarah L. Benson delighted her audience with several stories and verses of her own writing. Miss Benson who was formerly a teacher in Adams High school is now teaching in one of the Lynn schools (North Adams Transcript, October 29, 1923).
[Smith College Class of] 1888. Sarah Benson’s new address is the Chesterfield, 12-1 W. Baltimore St., Lynn, Mass. (Smith Alumnae Quarterly, 1929).
Sarah L. Benson, a high school teacher, aged sixty years, headed a Lynn, MA, household at the time of the Fifteenth (1930) Federal Census. She resided in a rented apartment at 12 West Baltimore Street.
Sarah taught at the Lynn Classical High School (rather than Lynn English High School). She was a Lynn librarian in 1935. Both the high school and the city library were close to her residences in Baltimore Street and West Baltimore Street.
Sarah removed to Biddeford, ME, circa 1936-37.
Biddeford, ME
Josephine M. Andrews, aged eighty-seven years (b. ME), headed a Biddeford, ME, household at the time of the Sixteenth (1940) Federal Census. Her household included her daughter, Hazel M. Andrews, aged forty-eight years (b. ME), and her lodger, Sarah L. Benson, aged seventy-four years (b. NY). In answer to a question, Sarah L. Benson had resided in Lynn, MA, on April 1, 1935. She had attended college, through a fifth or subsequent year.
Miss Sarah L. Benson died in the Biddeford, ME, home of Miss Hazel M. Andrews (see 1940 census above) on Sunday morning, October 11, 1953, aged eighty-eight years, five months, and sixteen days.
Obituary. Miss Sarah Benson. Miss Sarah Louise Benson died yesterday in Biddeford, Me., at the age of 92. A native of Troy, Miss Benson at one time taught in the schools of this city. Miss Benson was the daughter of the late Frederick W. Benson and Sarah F. Seabury. Funeral services will be held tomorrow at 2 from the Gardiner Earl Memorial Chapel, Oakwood Cemetery. Interment will be in Oakwood Cemetery (Troy Record, October 12, 1953).
Plan Funeral of Miss Benson. Funeral services for Miss Sarah Benson, 87, a member of former well known Troy family who died Sunday, will be held today, at 2 p.m. at the Earl Chapel in Oakwood Cemetery with Rev. Frederick E. Thalman, rector of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, officiating. Interment will be in Oakwood. Miss Benson died at Biddeford, Maine, where she has resided for last 16 years. She was born in Troy, April 25, 1865, daughter of the late Frederick Warren and Sarah [SIC] Seabury Benson. She was a direct descendent of Bishop Samuel Seabury, first Episcopal bishop in the United States. She left Troy as a girl and was graduated from Brattleboro, Vt., High School in 1884, and from Smith College in 1888. She received her graduate degree from Oxford University in 1906. Miss Benson taught school at Milton, N.H., Norwich, Conn., and Adams and Lynn, Mass. She is survived by a half-brother, Oscar Frederick Benson, and a niece, Mrs. Edmund T. Manley, both of Longmeadow, Mass (Troy Record, October 13, 1953).
Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote the Concord Hymn for the July 4, 1837 dedication of an 1836 monument at the Concord Old North Bridge battle site.
In the early hours of Wednesday, April 19, 1775, British soldiers came across the water from Boston to Charlestown (“two if by sea”) and then on towards Concord, where they intended to seize the colonists’ guns. They first encountered opposition on Lexington Green, which they brushed aside. From there, they marched on towards neighboring Concord.
The Concord militia there opposed the British crossing at Concord’s Old North Bridge, firing the “shot heard round the world.”
Concord Hymn, by Ralph Waldo Emerson
By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world.
The foe long since in silence slept; Alike the conqueror silent sleeps; And Time the ruined bridge has swept Down the dark stream which seaward creeps.
On this green bank, by this soft stream, We set to-day a votive stone; That memory may their deed redeem, When, like our sires, our sons are gone.
Spirit, that made those heroes dare, To die, and leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and thee.
The British did cross over, but did not get that for which they came. During their retreat from Concord back to Charlestown, ever-increasing swarms of militiamen attacked them.
Two British soldiers of the Fourth Regiment of Foot are buried near the bridge (another in downtown Concord). James Russell Lowell wrote their epitaph:
They came three thousand miles and died, To keep the past upon its throne. Unheard beyond the ocean tide, Their English mother made her moan.
New Hampshire militiamen marched too on news of this British incursion. (The Old North Bridge is 87.5 miles (one hour and twenty minutes by car) from Milton’s Emma Ramsey Center).
Due to the distances involved, most New Hampshire militiamen would have arrived after the pursuit engagement that so damaged the retreating British column. Many of them stayed on for the Siege of Boston that ensued.
References:
National Park Service. (2019). Minute Man National Historical Park. Retrieved from www.nps.gov/mima/index.htm
In this year, we encounter several Milton residents advertising for used furniture and equipment, ice being very much a question, Charles Griffin having a close call, N.B. Thayer & Co. advertising for shoe workers, and the destruction of the Milton Baptist Church building.
Elijah T. Libbey, a jeweler, aged thirty-three years (b. ME), headed a Milton Mills household at the time of the Tenth (1880) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Ida A. Libbey, keeping house, aged twenty-six years (b. ME), and his son, Aubrey D. Libbey, at school, aged eight years (b. ME).
FURNITURE, ETC. WANTED – A good second-hand roll-top desk (cabinet); parties having same can find purchaser by enclosing cut and stating price. Address E.T. LIBBEY, Milton Mills, N.H. (Boston Globe, January 7, 1890).
E.T. Libbey appeared as a Milton Mills jewelry merchant in the Milton business directories of 1880, 1881, 1882, 1884, 1887, 1889, 1892, 1894, 1898, and 1901. He was also sold confections in and after 1894. He received $604.87 in compensation for being Milton Mills postmaster in 1901.
Elijah T. Libby, a jeweler, died in Milton Mills, NH, in which he had been resident for forty-four years, November 19, 1918. aged seventy-two years and one day. Ida R. (Eastman) Libby died in Milton Mills, April 5, 1930.
Frank James Bartlett was born in Charlestown, MA, April 16, 1853, son of Nelson and Maria M. (Morrill) Bartlett.
Nelson Bartlett, ice business, aged fifty-four years (b. Canada), headed a Boston, MA, household at the time of the Tenth (1880) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Maria M. [(Morrill)] Bartlett, keeping house, aged fifty-one years (b. Canada), his son, Frank J. Bartlett, ice business, aged twenty-seven years (b. MA), his daughter-in-law, Lillie M. [(Kendall)] Bartlett, at home, aged nineteen years (b. LA), and his servants, Katie Dunn, aged twenty-two years (b. MA), and Sarah Parsons, aged twenty-four years (b. England).
Gathering in the Harvest. MALDEN. Feb. 9. – Frank J. Bartlett of the Boston Ice Company, who is superintending the cutting of the annual supply for the Boston market at Milton. N.H., states that they have already cut about 20,000 tons, the ice being about 14 inches thick and of excellent quality. About 200 men are employed in harvesting the crop, which will be shipped to Boston by rail. The Boston Ice Company is building several new houses, which they will fill with ice if the weather keeps cool. They have sent a number of men to Alton Bay, N.H. on Lake Winnepesaukee, where they expect to cut about 10,000 tons. Supt. Bartlett states that last year they used about 175,000 tons In Boston alone, and he thinks that it will be impossible to obtain more than 60,000 or 75,000 tons this season unless the weather should suddenly grow cold and continue so for six or seven weeks (Boston Globe, February 10, 1890).
Frank J. Bartlett, an ice dealer, aged forty-seven years (b. MA), headed a Malden, MA, household at the time of the Twelfth (1900) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Lillie Bartlett, aged thirty-nine years (b. LA); his children, Helen M. Bartlett, at school, aged nineteen years (b. MA), Nelson Bartlett, at school, aged seventeen years (b. MA), Howard Bartlett, at school, aged sixteen years (b. MA), Margarita Bartlett, at school, aged thirteen years (b. MA), and Randolph Bartlett, at school, aged seven years (b. MA); and his servants, Augusta Ackeburg, a servant, aged thirty-three years (b. Sweden), and Susanna Johnson, a servant, aged thirty-one years (b. Sweden).
Frank J. Bartlett died in Malden, MA, July 1, 1936. Lillie M. (Kendall) Bartlett died in Westwood, MA, October 4, 1937.
Someone in Milton Mills wanted to buy a “detective” camera. Such a camera would have been hand-held, smaller and less conspicuous than a professional box camera and tripod.
WANTED. WANTED – To buy a second-hand detective camera; must be in a good condition and at a low price. X.G.W., Milton Mills, N.H. (Boston Globe, February 20, 1890).
Hmm. G.W.
The following article speaks to regional ice prospects, but mentions Milton’s ice harvest near the end of the first paragraph.
THE ICE QUESTION is just now of intense interest to all of this part of the world. In southern New England none has been cut as yet. In central New England none of any amount has been cut, although we have heard of some farmers and dairymen who have stored a summer’s supply of ice from four to six inches in thickness. Northern New England has an abundance and in available locations in Maine and New Hampshire thousands of tons are being cut and stored in houses or stacked till such time as cars can be obtained to transport it, for at present the railroads are inadequate to the demands upon them. A syndicate of New York capitalists is negotiating for the erection of ice houses and storing large quantities of ice in Nova Scotia to ship for consumption during the summer. In the cities and large towns, there will probably be enough ice next summer – but at a high price. The situation, however, is one of much concern to dairymen and creameries. The lakes and ponds where there is ice present very busy sights; men and teams are in demand at large wages, and excited speculators are gambling on the future. Nearly 100 carloads of ice are shipped from Laconia, N.H., daily to Boston over the Concord and Montreal road, besides what is being put into houses and stacked for further delivery. 175,000 tons had been cut in Milton N.H. One Boston company had cut 6500 tons on Lake Winnipesaukee and another has 3000 tons at Waterloo, Me. Spruce lumber has advanced 2000 per thousand feet on the Kennebec. [N.E. Farmer of March 18]
Perhaps never before has there been such a winter, take it altogether, throughout much of the country. It seems almost strange that with the little very cold weather here the ice should be so good. But this is only where there are still bodies of water. If the ice from some of our lakes and ponds could be made available where there is none, it would at such a time be of the greatest importance to such places. Of course it can be and is transported long distances, but it must cost a good sum wherever delivered.
As probably you will be informed by your local correspondent, a considerable amount Is being cut, stored and shipped south from Enosburgh Falls. For a quiet place considerable excitement prevails over this newly developed industry, and as much as possible is being made out of this exigency.
If this feature of the ice business could be depended upon from year to year, then it would be of sufficient importance to develop It, but perhaps another winter there will be plenty further south and no demand for the northern article.
So in this case it will be well to “make hay when the sun shines,” but perhaps in the meantime something of a more permanent character may be evolved, and a new industry developed up here, where ice is nearly always plenty and cheap in winter. (St. Albans Daily Messenger, March 14, 1890).
Clutched the Pulley and Saved Himself. Mr. Charles Griffin, while engaged in adjusting one of the large pulleys at the leather board mill, Milton, N.H., came near losing his life. He was inside the pulley, and, the gate not shutting tight,, his weight on the front side caused the shaft to start, and his only chance for safety was to clutch the arms of the pulley and revolve with it. It was a desperate move, but he did so, and for two or three minutes rode as fast as a man often has an opportunity of doing. Oscar Hueston discovered the situation and stopped the machinery. Griffin was released from his danger unharmed. – Cor. Boston Herald (Sterling Daily Gazette (Sterling, IL), June 26, 1890)
The N.B. Thayer & Co. shoe manufacturers mentioned in 1885 set up a shoe manufactory in Milton in the aftermath of the Milton Mills Shoe Strike of 1889
MALE HELP WANTED. WANTED, McKay channeler; also competent man to take charge of small stock room, on misses’ and children’s work; must understand fitting from the side. N.B. THAYER, & CO., Milton, N.H. (Boston Globe, September 17, 1890).
The exceedingly unfortunate Elgin J. Burns died in a horrible elevator accident in Boston, MA, on Thursday, October 30, 1890, aged twenty-seven years and two days. (Yes, two days after his birthday).
Summary of News. Elgin Burns, 26 years old, went from Milton. N.H., to be the janitor of an apartment house on Marlboro street, Boston. Last Thursday morning, while looking down into the elevator well through a window, he had his head cut off (Argus & Patriot (Montpelier, VT), November 5, 1890).
He was born in Milford, NH, in October 1863, son of Jason T. and Eliza (Hutchinson) Burns. He was single. (It may just be that the newspaper reporter or typesetter mistook or confused Milford and Milton).
The Milton Baptist Church building was totally consumed by fire in December 1890. The parsonage remained standing,
MILTON. The fire fiend made its appearance in our village, last Friday night, and totally destroyed the Freewill Baptist church. Flames were discovered issuing from the front windows about 11:30. A large crowd collected but the fire had secured so strong a hold that it was impossible to save anything from the building. The attention of the engine company was directed to the parsonage, and aide by the coating of snow and ice on the roof, that escaped destruction. Rev. Mr. Manter and family occupied the house and the larger portion of their furniture was removed until the immediate danger was over, when willing hands speedily returned them. The cause of the fire is unknown. There had been no fire in the furnace since the previous Sunday, and for the meeting that evening there was but a light wood fire, which was practically out when the house was left. The loss will not be far from $4,000, and there was no insurance on the building or contents. Much credit is due the members of the fire department for their labors, and the thanks of Mr. Manter and his family are exten[d]ed to all who assisted them on the occasion. The Baptist society have accepted the offer of Burley & Usher and will hold their regular Sunday services in the packing room of the shoe factory, commencing next Sunday (Farmington News, [Friday,] December 12, 1890).
The Eleventh (1890) Federal Census was largely destroyed in two fires. Many “Special” detail schedules burned at the Department of the Interior in March 1896. Much of the general population portion of the census burned in a fire at the Department of Commerce building on January 10, 1921. Surviving records were destroyed by the Federal government in 1934 [!]. Very little remains of the 1890 census.
One of the very few portions to survive these fires and intentional destruction was the 1890 Civil War Veterans’ Special detail schedules. (The Home number, Family number, and Post Office information refer to the corresponding, but now missing, general population schedules).
Extracted here are the six pages (75 entries) of Civil War veterans residing in Milton. Milton’s Civil War participation would not be limited to these names. One would have to survive the war, as well as the intervening 25 years, and be still resident in Milton, in order to have been enumerated in this list.
Men who served from other places and moved to Milton during the post-war years would appear also in this list. Milton men who had moved to other places would not appear in this list.
The local Grand Army of the Republic [G.A.R.] veterans’ post 89 was named after Eli Wentworth of Milton, who died in Millville, MS, while serving in the Sixth NH Regiment.
Eli Wentworth, son of Ichabod H. Wentworth, was born in Milton, February 19, 1821, and died July 18, 1863, at Millville, Mississippi. He was quartermaster of the Sixth New Hampshire Regiment of Volunteers in the civil war, and died in the service, and his body was brought to Milton for interment. He lived at Milton, New Hampshire, and was a prominent citizen. He was a manufacturer of boots and shoes. He represented his district in the state legislature four years and the state senate. He was an active and influential Republican. He was a prominent member of the Baptist church and superintendent of its Sunday school. He married July 23, 1843, Mehitable Jane Howe, daughter of Jonathan Howe. After his death she lived at South Milton. Children: Clara Anna, born November 26, 1844; married May 26, 1865, Daniel S. Burley (see Burley); Charles Walker, born April 21, 1853; resides with his sister (Cutter, 1908).
These are the men and women who would have belonged to the Eli Wentworth Post, G.A.R. [Grand Army of the Republic] and the Woman’s Relief Corps [G.A.R. Auxiliary], in the Societies section of the business directories of 1898, 1901, and 1904.
Eleventh Census of the United States
SPECIAL SCHEDULE
SURVIVING SOLDIERS, SAILORS, AND MARINES, AND WIDOWS, ETC.
Persons who served in the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps of the United States during the war of the rebellion (who are survivors), and widows of such persons, in Milton, County of Strafford, State of NH., enumerated in June, 1890. Bard B. Plummer, Enumerator.
[Column Headings:] From Schedule No. 1, Home No., Family No.; Names of Surviving Soldiers, Sailors, Marines, and Widows; Rank; Company; Name of Regiment or Vessel; Date of Enlistment; Date of Discharge; Length of Service; Post Office Address; Disability Incurred; Remarks
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4,4; Downs, John H.; private; D; 5th N.H. Inf.; 14 Aug. 1863; 5 June 1865; 1, 10, 11; Milton, N.H.
The Milton Board of Selectmen (BOS) have posted their agenda for a BOS meeting to be held Monday, April 15.
The BOS meeting is scheduled to begin with a Non-Public session beginning at 5:30 PM. That agenda has one Non-Public item classed as 91-A3 II (a).
91-A:3 II (a) The dismissal, promotion, or compensation of any public employee or the disciplining of such employee, or the investigation of any charges against him or her, unless the employee affected (1) has a right to a meeting and (2) requests that the meeting be open, in which case the request shall be granted.
This would be the third meeting of the Town year that begins with a secret meeting about hiring or raises. The new BOS has already hired people at amounts that approach the difference between the proposed budget, which was rejected, and the default budget, with which they are supposedly working.
If this Town were floundering financially, which it is, and sought out professional advice, which likely it will not, it would be advised first to just stop spending.
The BOS intend to adjourn their Non-Public BOS session at approximately (*) 6:00 PM, when they intend to return to Public session.
The Public portion of the agenda has New Business, Old Business, Other Business, and some housekeeping items.
Under New Business are scheduled seven agenda items: 1) Swearing in Milton Police Officer, 2) Discussion and Potential Approval of 2019 Mileage Rate Reimbursement, 3) Request for Yard Sale on Town Property (Richard Lover), 4) RSA 79-E Application Process, 5) Request to Remove Properties From List of Auctioned Town Properties (Larry Brown), 6) Town Administrator Selection Process Status Update, and 7) Discussion Regarding Street Parking located at Former Rays Marina Location.
Swearing in of New Police Officer. Here we find one of the reasons for last week’s secret meeting. This would be the second new police officer within two weeks. Our “Thin Blue Line” seems to be putting on some weight.
On his deathbed, the Roman Emperor Septimius Severus advised his sons: “Be harmonious, enrich the soldiers, scorn everyone else.”
Discussion and Potential Approval of 2019 Mileage Rate Reimbursement. One imagines that future reimbursements will be larger than before and that the BOS will approve that increase.
Request for Yard Sale on Town Property (Richard Lover). A likely approval for what sounds like a neighborhood yard sale.
RSA 79-E Application Process. “RSA 79-E is a property tax relief program that seeks to encourage investment in town centers and to rehabilitate under-utilized buildings within these areas. The application process is made to the governing body by property owners desiring to make improvements that meet 79-E guidelines as well as the public benefit test. In return, the governing body may provide tax relief at a pre-rehabilitation value for a finite period.”
The “investment” is to be made through the mechanism of most taxpayers paying yet higher taxes, so that those in the designated area of interest may pay lower ones. That is the encouragement. Note the caveat of guidelines and public benefit tests. Our wise overlords will decide whether a particular proposed use is within their guidelines and constitutes a public benefit. This is not how the free market works. (See PawSox Put One Over the Fence, the Milton Mills Shoe Strike of 1889, and Milton and the Knowledge Problem).
Request to Remove Properties From List of Auctioned Town Properties (Larry Brown). One supposes that Mr. Brown will attempt to throw a “Hail Larry” pass to save the Blue House. We know already that Chairman Thibeault would smile on this.
At a prior meeting the Chairman actually said that it would be a less preferable for a family – with children – to occupy that space. Yes, he said that out loud, in a public meeting, on video. (Shaking my head).
But what of the rest of the board? They might stick to their guns, or they might fall in line to spend our quarter-million dollars on yet another shiny “attraction”? Remember the chain of reasoning: we take your tax money for an “attraction,” which might encourage people to stop here, which might encourage them to spend money here, which might encourage businesses, which might help with the taxes (businesses not having any children).
Note that the only definite link in this chain of possibilities is the first one: taking your money for another round of SimCity games.
Town Administrator Selection Process Status Update. If they are determined to take on yet another salary, just start the secret 91-A3 II (a) and 91-A3 II (b) meetings already.
Discussion Regarding Street Parking located at Former Ray’s Marina Location. It seems like we have done this before, several times. Perhaps our State or Town overlords have waived something.
Under Old Business are scheduled four items: 8) Approval and Signing of Adjusted Board of Selectmen By-Laws, 9) Follow Up Discussion & Potential Decision of RFP for Legal Services, 10) Follow Up Discussion & Potential Decision of Board/Committee Vacancies, and 11) Follow Up Discussion on Town Issued Email Addresses.
Approval and Signing of Adjusted Board of Selectmen By-Laws. “Adjusted” would be the key word, but adjusted in what manner?
Follow Up Discussion & Potential Decision of RFP for Legal Services. Are we expecting more lawsuits?
Follow Up Discussion & Potential Decision of Board/Committee Vacancies. Question: Is it still democracy when the BOS appoints the boards and committees? Maybe second-hand democracy: 1) a majority of a minority of the electorate chose the selectmen, and 2) a majority of those minority-majority selectmen choose the board and committee members. Presumably, they will then act in our interests, rather than that of those that appointed them.
Follow Up Discussion on Town Issued E-mail Addresses. Private sector entities provide these on a first day of employment, if not before. The Milton Town government likes to talk about it first, talk about it at length. We would not want to rush into anything.
Other Business That May Come Before the Board has no scheduled items.
Finally, there will be the approval of prior minutes (from the BOS meeting of April 1 and the Workshop meeting of April 3, 2019), the expenditure report, Public Comments “Pertaining to Topics Discussed,” Town Administrator comments, and BOS comments.
In this year, we encounter two Vermont ladies seeking work, a dreadful child, some horse trading, a grocery bankruptcy, the Carricabe paper mill restarting, and a Gloucester ice shortage being supplied at Milton.
Here we find two Vermont ladies seeking work as “factory girls” in Milton. It might be that they were drawn by the Varney & Lane factory opening in Milton Mills at this time.
TUNBRIDGE. Miss Carrie Drew and Della Corliss have gone to Milton, N.H. to work in a shop ((Randolph, VT) Herald and News, January 2, 1889).
Della Corliss, at least, did not remain here. (Perhaps because of the strike). She went on to Massachusetts. She returned to her North Tunbridge, VT, home “for a while,” in August 1893, due to the financial Panic of 1893.
Several are coming here [North Tunbridge] from Massachusetts, on account of the shutting down of the factories (Randolph Herald & News, August 10, 1893).
Curious Condensations was this Pennsylvania paper’s standard heading for out-of-the-ordinary stories, of which this nationally-copied article was just one.
CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. A mischievous youngster in Milton, N.H., saturated the tail of the family dog with kerosene and then applied a match. The dog ran off frantically, and, rubbing against a haystack, $150 worth of property was burned (Pittsburgh Dispatch, February 21, 1889).
Curious indeed, but “mischievous” hardly tells the tale. Horrible or monstrous would be more like it.
HORSE GOSSIP. Points from Track and Stable About Noted Flyers and Drivers. H.H. Berry, Milton Mills, N.H., has sold to F.H. Smith, Cambridge, Mass., the horse Forestwood, by Redwood, dam by Coupon (Burlington Free Press, May 3, 1889).
Hiram Hussey Berry was born in Milton, NH, in October 1853, son of Jonathan and Eliza W. (Hussey) Berry.
Hiram H. Berry, a farmer, aged twenty-six years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Tenth (1880) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Mary J. [(Hanson)] Berry, keeping house, aged twenty-nine years (b. NH).
Milton horses are mentioned occasionally in accounts of agricultural fairs and stake races.
They Are Trotting at Saco. Saco. Me., June 19. The June races of the Saco Driving Association began this afternoon. Out of the 13 entries in the 2.50 class there were five starters. The bay gelding Barney L., owned by P.H. Lennon of Portland, won; bay mare Misfortune, owned by M. Leonard of Providence, was second; Kate R. of Biddeford was third; Blacksmith of Rochester was fourth; Iron Age of Milton Mills was distanced. Best time 2.40. There were five starters in the 2.35 class. Harry D. of Dover. N.H., won in three straight heats; Frank A. of Cornish second; Kite of Portland third; Gray Bunker of Portland fourth; Fannie W. of Falmouth fifth. Time 2.39. 2.36¾, 2.40. Tomorrow afternoon the 2.40 and 2.26 classes will be trotted (Boston Globe, June 20, 1889).
The following troubled Milton Mills grocery business (Pettingell & Brown) was not listed in any of the Milton business directories. There may have been a good reason for that. One of its partners at least, Henry A. Pettingell, seems to have been a peddler.
Henry Augustus Pettingell was born in Dedham, MA, January 13, 1854. son of Augustus T. and Sarah D. (Snell) Pettingell. He married in West Roxbury, MA, September 15, 1875, Phebe Bartlett Bailey Vinal.
Henry Pettingill, a dry goods peddler, aged twenty-six years (b. MA), headed a Dedham, MA, household at the time of the Tenth (1880) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Phoebe Pettingill, keeps house, aged twenty-eight years (b. MA), and his daughter, Mary D. Pettingill, aged three years (b. MA). Phoebe Pettingill was suffering from the “disability” of being “pregnant.” (Their second child, Theodore T. Pettingill, would be born in August).
A peddler (or pedler or pedlar), as opposed to a storekeeper, would travel about the countryside in his wagon. (The guests at the Milton Mills Hotel in 1860 were nearly all pedlers). Here follow several contemporary advertisements for such rigs as they would have used.
PEDLAR’S TEAM – Bay French horse, good pattern, excellent worker, 8 years old, weighs about 1000 pounds, stands without tying, and is free from tricks, with light Concord express wagon, made for a pedler, without boxes, and harness (Boston Post, 1880).
FOR SALE. Light express wagon, suitable for grocery or pedler. 818 Shawmut av. (Boston Globe, November 18, 1889).
Daughter Mary D. Pettingell died in Weymouth, MA, October 6, 1886, which suggests that the family still lived in Norfolk County as late as that. However, the fourth child, Ralph D. Pettingell, was born in Acton, ME, August 8, 1889.
Pettingell’s partner, Mr. Brown, has not been identified. Their business was probably active in Milton Mills and vicinity between about 1887 and 1889. Mr. Pettingell resided in Acton, ME.
Business Troubles. Firms Forced to Assign Under Stress of Financial Storms. Pettingill & Brown, grocers, Milton Mills, N.H., have failed. They owe $4500; assets $2100 (Boston Globe, May 7, 1889).
PRESSED FOR TIME AND MONEY. Financial Embarrassments of Firms and Individuals. Pettengill & Brown of Milton Mills write THE GLOBE that the report of their failure is false (Boston Globe, May 9, 1889).
Nevertheless,
BUSINESS TROUBLES. Financial Difficulties Reported in Various Trades. The Boston creditors of H.A. Pettingell of the firm of Pettingell & Brown, grocers, Milton Mills, N.H., held a meeting in this city yesterday at the New England Furniture Exchange. The committee reported the liabilities as $4180. Assets, varied and uncertain. Mr. Pettingell made an offer of 25 cents on a dollar, and the committee recommended its acceptance. All present signed the composition paper (Boston Globe, June 6, 1889).
Henry Pettingell and family were back in Dedham by the time of the Twelfth (1900) Federal Census, in which his occupation was given as grocery clerk. He died in Dedham, MA, in 1927.
John M. Carricabe’s Milton paper mill was running night and day in November 1888. After which it appears to have shut down for several months.
NEW ENGLAND NEWS. The paper mill at Carricabe’s works, Milton, N.H, will start again soon, after having been shut down several months (Londonderry Sifter (South Londonderry, VT), June 27, 1889).
A thumbnail sketch of Mr. Carricabe appeared in our last – Milton in the News – 1888 – to which one might refer for further details. He would be “remembered as the pioneer of the leather-board industry” (Nickelson, 1921).
Here we learn of yet another ice company, the Fernwood Lake Ice Company of West Gloucester, MA, obtaining a supply of ice at Milton.
ICE SCARCE IN GLOUCESTER. Dealers Obliged to Get Their Supply In New Hampshire. Gloucester, Nov. 15. There is a scarcity of ice in Gloucester. It is estimated that over 25,000 tons are taken from here each year by the fishing fleet and fresh fish houses, and at least 10,000 tons more are purchased in various parts of the maritime provinces. The demand is increasing and the sales this year have been greater than ever before. The Fernwood Lake Ice Company, with a house at West Gloucester having a capacity of 40,000 tons, has about 100 tons of ice in stock and are supplying their trade with ice from Milton, N.H. Inquiry at the office of Nathaniel Webster, who, with the Fernwood company, furnish the entire supply of the town, shows that Mr. Webster’s stock on hand is about 1000 tons, 300 of which is thick ice. This is the first time since the Fernwood company has been in business that the stocks have been so low. Within a few weeks it is probable that there will not be a pound of Cape Ann ice remaining unsold (Boston Globe, November 16, 1889).
The Kimball Brothers did not take up the proffered free Milton Mills factory in November 1888. The Varney & Lane company set up there instead.
MALE HELP WANTED. CUTTERS wanted on grain and gl. grain piece work, at VARNEY & LANE’S, Milton Mills, N.H.; also 3 good closers-on; come ready for work (Boston Globe, May 30, 1889).
Charles Wesley Varney was born in North Berwick, ME, July 30, 1838, son of Calvin and Eliza (Nowell) Varney.
He married Ellen N. Lane. She was born in Exeter, NH, November 17, 1840, daughter of Elbridge G. and Elizabeth M. (Moses) Lane.
Charles W. Varney, a shoe manufacturer, aged forty-one years (b. MA [SIC]), headed a Lynn, MA, household at the time of the Tenth (1880) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Ellen N. Varney, at home, aged thirty-eight years (b. NH); his children, Louise N. Varney, at school, aged sixteen years (b. NH), Lucia D. Varney, at school, aged thirteen years (b. NH), Fred L. Varney, at school, aged nine years (b. MA), Ada M. Varney, at school, aged six years (b. MA), and Ralph W. Varney, at home, aged ten months (b. A); his brother-in-law, Elbridge G. Lane, a clerk in store, aged thirty years (b. NH); his boarder, Ida Lane, at home, aged twenty-eight years (b. ME); and his servants, Sarah Willey, a servant, aged sixty-five years (b. NH), and Maggie Healey, a servant, aged twenty years (b. Ireland). They resided at 7 Commercial Street in Lynn, MA.
In this year, we encounter the sale of a Milton Mills fish market, Rev. C.E. Hurd’s call to the Milton Mills Free-Will Baptist Church, the death of Lewis W. Nute, the Carracabe paper mills running full steam, an unfortunate drowning death, and the first “encouraging” offer of a free mill building.
Milton Mills had two fish markets. After all, it was a lively place. The one offered for sale here had the option also of team of horses, which would presumably be used to pick up the fish and oysters at the Union railroad station.
FISH AND OYSTER MARKET for sale, in a lively town in N.H.; doing good business; will sell with or without team; good reasons for selling; will sell cheap. “F.J.W.,” box 232, Milton Mills, N.H. (Boston Globe, March 9, 1888).
The advertiser used pseudonymous initials, but this was likely E. Trefethen.
E. Trefethen appeared as a Milton Mills fish merchant in the Milton business directories of 1880, 1881, 1882, 1884, and 1887, but not thereafter. The competing fish store, run by John F. “Frank” Archibald, continued.
Rev. Charles E. Hurd took up the pulpit of the Milton Mills Baptist Church in this year.
He was born in Gilmanton, NH, May 1, 1838, son of Caleb and Judith C. (Allen) Hurd. He married in Gilmanton, NH, February 25, 1859, Anna A. Drake. She was born in Chichester, NH, December 28, 1843, daughter of Josiah W. and Eunice D. (Lake) Drake.
He enlisted in Company D of the 4th NH Regiment, September 13, 1861, and remained with them until mustered out, August 23, 1865.
Religious Intelligence. Rev. C.E. Hurd of North Tunbridge has accepted a call to the Free Baptist church at Milton Mills, N.H. (Burlington Free Press, April 9, 1888).
He would go next to Limerick, ME, in 1890. Anna A. (Drake) Hurd died in Windsor, VT, May 21, 1908. He died in Windsor, VT, January 26, 1911.
Milton’s famous benefactor, Lewis W. Nute, was born in West Milton, NH, February 17, 1820, son of Ezekiel and Dorcas (Worster) Nute.
Lewis Worster Nute was a namesake for his maternal uncle, Lewis Worster, who was born in Milton, NH, April 4, 1815, and died there as an infant, December 18, 1815. Another maternal uncle, Isaac Worster, Jr., was an early and ardent Milton abolitionist. His maternal grandfather, Isaac Worster, was a proprietor of the Milton Social Library.
Lewis W. Nute
It was said of him that he was “… not highly favored as regards educational privileges, being permitted to attend school only about six weeks each winter. He was so studious, however, and made such use of the limited opportunities offered that at the age of nineteen he engaged in teaching, continuing that occupation during two terms” (Hurd, 1882).
He died on what is now the Nute Ridge Road, in West Milton, NH, October 20, 1888, aged sixty-eight years, nine months, and three days.
LEWIS W. NUTE DEAD. Boston’s Big Leather Dealer Expires at His Home. Dover, N.H., Sept. 5. Lewis W. Nute died this morning at the homestead at Milton. When a young man Mr. Nute went to Boston to work for the leather firm of Potter & Co. He worked there several years, when be was taken sick and nearly died. When he recovered he found all his bills paid and he was a silent partner in the firm. He was considered the best judge of leather in Boston. Shortly afterwards the name of the firm was changed to Nute, Potter, White, & Bailey. He stayed with them some years then sold out and went into business for himself with an office in Boston and manufactory in Natick, and five years ago he started the shop in Dover (Boston Globe, September 5, 1888).
TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY, ETC. The late Lewis Nute, of Milton, N.H., left $25,000 for building a schoolhouse at that place, and $100,000 as a permanent fund for maintaining the school, in addition to numerous other public bequests (Baltimore Sun, November 6, 1888).
John M. Carrecabe was born in France, in October 1838, son of John M. and Rose Carrecabe.
John M. Carracabe, a morocco dresser, aged twenty-seven years, married in Lynn, MA, June 29, 1872, Louisa Potter, aged eighteen years, both of Lynn. She was born in Nova Scotia, in 1854, daughter of Polonius and Ellen M. Potter.
John M. Carracabe, a junk dealer, aged thirty-six years (b. France), headed a Lynn, MA, household at the time of the Tenth (1880) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Annie L. Carracabe, keeping house, aged twenty-five years (b. Nova Scotia), his children, John A. Carracabe, aged five years (b. MA), Mary E. Carracabe, aged three years (b. MA), Arthur M. Carracabe, aged two years, and <blank> Carracabe, aged one month, and his servant, Hannah Cahill, a domestic servant, aged fifteen years (b. Ireland). They resided on High Rock Avenue.
NEW ENGLAND NEWS. The Carricabe paper works in Milton, N.H., are being run day and night (Essex County Herald, November 2, 1888).
The Carricabe paper mill would suspend production for some months in early 1889.
John M. Carracabe, a leather dealer, aged sixty-one years (b. France), headed a Lynn, MA, household at the time of the Twelfth (1900) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Annie L. Carracabe, aged forty-five years (b. Canada (Fr.)), his children, Mary E. Carracabe, aged twenty-three years, Espert W. Carracabe, a clerk, aged twenty years, Sabrina J. Carracabe, at school, aged eighteen years, and Annie L. Carracabe, at school, aged sixteen years, and his brother-in-law, Frederick Potter, a shoe stock fitter, aged nineteen years (b. MA). They resided at 324 Western Avenue.
John M. Carrecabe died in Lynn, MA, in 1918. In 1921, he was “remembered as the pioneer of the leather-board industry” (Nickelson, 1921). Annie L. (Potter) Carrecabe died in 1934.
Robert L. Knight was born in Milton, NH, in 1848, son of Stephen H. and Louisa (Clarey) Knight. He married in Rochester, NH, December 28, 1867, Marilla M. Leighton. She was born in Lebanon, ME, July 18, 1849, daughter of Lewis L. and Lucinda J. (Jones) Leighton.
Robert Knight, works on shoes, aged thirty-two years (b. NH), headed a Milton (“Milton 3-Ponds Village”) household at the time of the Tenth (1880) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Marilla Knight, keeping house, aged thirty-one years (b. ME), and his children, Wilbur C. Knight, at school, aged nine years (b. NH), and Addie F. Knight, at school, aged five years (b. NH). They shared a two-family dwelling with the household of Adelbert Leighton, works on shoes, aged twenty-eight years (b. NH). His household included his wife, Mary P. Leighton, keeping house, aged twenty-eight years (b. MA), and his parents, Lewis L. Leighton, runs pegging machine, aged fifty-four years (b. NH), and Lucinda J. Leighton, keeping house, aged fifty-eight years (b. ME). The census taker enumerated their dwelling between those of Daniel Jenness, a farmer, aged seventy-four years (b. NH), and Stephen Twombly, works on shoes, aged forty years (b. NH).
NEW ENGLAND NEWS. Robert L. Knight of Milton, N.H.. a shoemaker, left his home recently to visit Great Falls. His body was found in the river about 200 feet north of the bridge. There were no marks of violence on the body, and nothing in its appearance to indicate foul play. It is quite evident that he accidentally fell into the river and was drowned (Londonderry Sifter (South Londonderry, VT), November 22, 1888).
Marilla M. (Leighton) Knight married (2nd) in Dover, NH, September 28, 1898, Jeremiah Mahoney, she of Milton and he of Dover. They were living in Salem, MA, in 1900.
The Kimball Brothers company had factories in Lynn and Haverhill, MA, as well as Gardiner, ME. (They were one of the Lynn factories against whom the Lynn Knights of Labor initiated a shoe strike in 1885).
NEW ENGLAND NEWS. Kimball Bros., among the oldest and best known of Haverhill, Mass., shoe manufacturers, contemplate moving a portion of their business, at least, to Milton, N.H., and have under consideration the offer of a three-story factory building there. If they make the change it will effect a great saving in the amount of wages, rent, taxes, power, etc., and would probably ultimate in the removal of their entire business from Haverhill (Londonderry Sifter (South Londonderry, VT), November 22, 1888).
The Kimball Brothers firm did not end up moving their entire business to Milton, nor even a portion of it. It would be the Varney & Lane company that moved a portion of their business to Milton Mills in the following year. (They were offered the additional inducement of ten years without taxation). (See also the Milton Mills Shoe Strike of 1889).
Hurd, D. Hamilton. (1882). History of Strafford County, New Hampshire. J.W. Lewis & Co.: Philadelphia, PA
Luce & Bridge. Twenty Thousand Rich New Englanders: A List of Taxpayers who Were Assessed in 1888 to Pay a Tax of One Hundred Dollars or More. Retrieved from books.google.com/books?id=aAkPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA10
PERSONAL. Miss Sarah L. Benson, a teacher in the Nute High school at Milton, N.H., has returned to Brattleboro for the summer vacation (Vermont Phoenix (Brattleboro, VT), July 1, 1892).
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