Mailing List:2006-12-11 02, Extracts from Schools and Teachers of Dedham, by Adrian Brisee
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From: adrian brisee <abrisee -at- yahoo.com> Subject: [WHITNEY] Extracts from Schools and Teachers of Dedham Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 18:53:54 -0800 (PST) The Schools and Teachers of Dedham, Massachusetts by Carlos Slafter , Dedham Transcript Press 1905. Page 70: Jeremiah Whitney was paid for teaching in Dedham 1764-5. In what precinct is unknown. A Jere Whitney, son of Nathan and Mary (Holman) born April 1, 1727, is the only one of that name in the Whitney genealogy who could have been the teacher. Page 92: A new schoolhouse was built in Dedham Village in 1801. It was a brick structure of two stories, standing on the site of the original school and watch house, and cost $1540; for which payment was made to Isreal Fairbanks, Jr. The first master in the new schoolhouse in 1800-1, was John Whitney, who graduated Dartmouth College in 1797. He was the son of Ezra and Mercy (Morse) Whitney of Douglas, Mass. Afflicted with mental disease he became a "wanderer," and is suppose to have died in Georgetown, Ky., Feb., 1824. Page 103: Pliny Whitney taught at West Dedham in the winter of 1813-14. He was the son of Samuel and Thankful (Wilder) Whitney, born Nov. 13, 1787; married Caroline Dean at Mt. Vernon, N.H., Oct. 23, 1823 and resided in Milford, N.H. Page 128: Esther Mann Whitney, for sixty dollars, taught the Second Middle School twenty weeks and boarded herself, in the summer of 1830. She was the daughter of Col. Moses and Nancy (Mann) Whitney of Wrethham, and began her work as a teacher with much promise in her native town. For twelve or fourteen years her teaching was of the nature of a kindergarten. She taught a select private school for young children in Troy, New York, and many of her pupils are now persons of worth and distinction. She never married. One of her contemporaries writes: "I remember her as a very attractive woman, of whom the young were very fond. It was only a year ago that she died; so that she lived to a good old age." Her last days were spent in Greenwich, Rhode Island. Page 137: In the winter of 1836-7 the Westfield School was instructed by Mr. John Angier Whitney. He was of Natick, son of George and Esther (Morse) Whitney, born Dec. 17, 1817. He was educated at the Teachers' Seminary, Andover, Mass. He had taught the Centre School in Northboro; also in Plymouth, 1835. In 1836 he married Emily A. Walker; in 1852, Elizabeth Thomson of Natick; their children are seven sons and two daughters. His occupation is farming on the paternal acres in Natick, in which town he has been Collector of Taxes, Highway Surveyor and School Committee. For several years between 1850 and 1860 he resided in Dedham. Page 141: In the summer of 1838 the Clapboardtrees School was in charge of Lydia Ann Wyatt Whitney, daughter of Benjamin and Rachel N. (Spooner) Whitney of Hudson, New York, born August 7, 1807. From 1811 to 1820, she was a pupil in the schools of Dorchester, Mass., the next five years in Uxbridge, where at that time there was a very popular Academy. She taught schools in many places, Dorchester, Milton, Uxbridge, and Marlboro, Mass.; Brewer, West Corinth and Levant, Me.; Slaterville, R.I., and Ogdensburg, N.Y. Her school in Dorchester was private, continued from 1825 to 1835, being one year an infant school, an institution very popular at that time. In Brewer, Me., 1835-6 she had a school of 103 pupils of all ages from four to sixteen, and no assistant. In Milton, Mass., 1837, she taught five months a school of 95 pupils. Miss Whitney's life of teaching, always successful, continued more than fifty years. She never married because "the right one never came." Her last residence was in Framingham, Mass. Page 165: The master's assistant in the First Middle School from 1844 to 1846 was Harriette Whitney of Attleboro who graduated in Sept. 1841, at the Lexington (now Framingham) State Normal School, of which the Rev. Samuel J. May was the Principal. Miss Whitney was the daughter of Martin and Nancy (Orne) Whitney, born in North Attleboro, Nov. 23, 1816. After studying at Wrentham Academy she taught in her native town and in Pawtucket, R.I.; but her highest enjoyment of educational work was in Dedham, after a Normal (con't page 166) training and the wise suggestions of Mr. May enabled her to direct her efforts more wisely. She was married to Otis Stanley of North Attleboro, Jan. 6, 1847. Mrs Stanley carried her high estimate of education into her new home; and at great self-sacrifice procured for her children its best possible advantages, securing for her only son the privileges of a full course of study at Brown University. Mrs. Stanley died at North Attleboro, Feb. 13, 1867, leaving a son and a daughter. Page 249: From 1873 to 1875 the Master of the Ames School was Frederick Eugene Whitney, who had previously taught in Farmington, Vienna, Mt. Vernon and Waldoboro, Maine. Leaving Dedham he taught in the Mayhew and Eliot Schools (con't page 250) of Boston, and in the Government University, Tokio, Japan, up to 1881. He is the son of George Washington and Vidette (Haines) Whitney, born in Farmington, Me., Nov. 26, 1850. His education was obtained at Farmington Academy, State Normal School of the same place; Waterville Classical Institute, class of '69; Bowdoin College, class of 1873, and the Law School of Washington University, St. Louis, Mo., class of 1882. He was married at Oakland, Cal., March, 1884, to Edith Adams; and since 1882 has practiced law in that city, serving as County Commisioner of Alameda Co., 12 years, and holding various other positions of honor and trust in the City, County, and State. Page 260: In Sept. 1882. Janet Graham Hutchins began to teach in the Ames School, and continued about eight months when she was elected to a good position in the Oliver School of Lawrence; in 1884 she was made assistant principal of the Lawrence Training School; in 1887 she became principal of the Normal Practice School in Lewiston, Maine, and filled the place creditably till July, 1889. She is the daughter of George H. and Mary (Chisholm) Hutchins, born in Dedham, and a graduate of the four years course at the High School, and of an advanced course, the regular course of two and a half years with French and German added, at the Bridgewater State Normal. On Sept. 26, 1889, she was married to John O. Whitney of Barryville, N.Y., and went to reside in Illinois, and in 1893 removed to Saginaw, Mich., but in 1898 they returned to Dedham which was their residence Jan. 12, 1904. --------------------------------- Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta.
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