Sketch of Dunbarton, New Hampshire — John Stuart Mill — John Shaqi
Sketch of Dunbarton, New Hampshire
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There have been several graduates from Normal Schools, Ralph Ireland
and Ethel Jameson from the school at Bridgewater, Mass. The former is
now teaching in Gloucester, Mass., and the latter in Boston, Mass. Ella
and Leannette L. Mills (the latter the daughter of Leroy R. Mills),
graduated from the school at Salem, Mass. Lydia Marshall, now holding
a government position in Washington, D. C., Mary Caldwell (now Mrs.
Aaron C. Barnard), and Lizzie Bunten (now Mrs. James P. Tuttle, of
Manchester), took a partial or whole course at the school at Plymouth,
N. H. Louise Parker and Mary A. Stinson graduated at Kimball Academy,
Meriden, N. H. Many others have been students at McCollom Institute,
Mount Vernon, Pembroke, and other academies, and several have taken the
course at the Concord High School. Among the teachers of the long ago
may be named Antoinette Putnam, Lizzie and Ann Burnham, Jane Stinson,
Nancy Stinson, Sarah and Marianne Parker, and Susan and Margaret
Holmes. The list is too long for further mention.
Among college graduates who made teaching their life work were William
Parker, who died in Winchester, Illinois, in 1865; Caleb Mills, who was
connected with Wabash College, Indiana, from 1833 until his death in
1879. He was greatly interested in the cause of education, and was
known as the father of public schools in Indiana; Joseph Gibson Hoyt,
who was called the most brilliant son Dunbarton ever educated; he
taught several years in Phillips Academy, Exeter, and was Chancellor of
Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, taking charge February 4,
1859; inaugurated October 4, 1859; died November 26, 1862; Charles G.
Burnham, orator at the Centennial, in 1865, who died in Montgomery,
Alabama, in 1866; Mark Bailey, who has taught elocution at Yale since
1855, besides spending some weeks of each year in former times at
Dartmouth, Princeton, and other places. Samuel Burnham, the first
graduate, should have been mentioned earlier. He was principal of the
academy at Derry for many years; William E. Bunten taught in Atkinson,
N. H., Marblehead, Mass., and in New York, where he died in 1897;
Matthew S. McCurdy, grandson and namesake of Deacon McCurdy, is
instructor at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass. Although not a college
student, John, brother of Thomas and James F. Mills, spent many years
in teaching in Ohio and West Virginia; he died in 1879. Among those who
have been both teachers and journalists are Amos Hadley of Concord,
Henry M. Putney, now on the editorial staff of the Manchester _Daily_
and _Weekly Mirror_; William A. (brother of Henry M.) who died some
years ago in Fairmount, Nebraska; and John B. Mills, now at Grand
Rapids, Michigan. George H. Twiss, of Columbus, Ohio, has been a
teacher, superintendent of schools, and proprietor of a bookstore.