History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts - citizen hylbom blog

assistants, and E. D. Sanborn was writing-master.
Mr. Joseph P. Peabody is the present incumbent.
Greeti School. — Prior to ISil all the grammar
school scholars (except those attending the Irish
school) were obliged to go to the North or South
grammar schools. The rapid increase of popula-
tion near the central point between these two
seemed a sufficient reason for the erection of an-
other house, and in 1841 a location was selected
on Middle Street. A large two-story brick house
was built to accommodate a grammar and a primary
school. The grammar school was opened
about, the middle of the year, with Samuel C. Pratt
principal, assisted by Nelson H. Morse, H. Amanda
Fox, and Nancy H. Green. C. H. Farnsworth was
the writing-master. Mr. Morse remained till 181('>,
when he was appointed principal of the Franklin
.School. Albert L. Fisk is the present incumbent.
Colbiirn School. — The increase of population
on Gorham, Church, and Lawrence streets, and the
large attendance at the Edson School, led the com-
mittee to ask the city council for another school-
house, and recommended that it be located on
Lawrence Street. The request was granted, the
house built and finished, and dedicated December
13, 1848. The school was opened at the commencement
of the winter term under the tuition
of Mr. Aaron Walker, Jr., who had been principal
of the Green School, but for several years preceding
1848 had been teaching at Charlestown. The pres-
ent master is Albert L. Bacheller.
Varnum School. — February 3, 1851, that part
of Dracut called Centralville was set off from Dra-
cut to Lowell. This district had more than five
hundred children, for whom the school committee
were at once called upon to make provision. The
school-houses in the district were the old academy
on Chestnut Street and the brick school-house on
Tremont Street. These were put in good repair;
a grammar school was immediately opened in the
upper room of the academy building, and a primary
school was commenced in the lower room of the
same building. Another primary school was opened
in the old brick school-house, and a third on Fourth
Street. The grammar school was named in honor
of General Joseph Varnum. A. W. Boardman, a
graduate from Harvard College, was elected principal,
and Elizabeth Calef assistant. Mr. Boardman
remained till the spring of 1853, when he resigned.
He was succeeded by Mr. D. P. Galloupe, who for
many years had been principal of one of the grammar
schools in Salem. December 7, 1857, the
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new brick school-house on ^lyrtle Street was occu-
pied by the Varnum School. In 1878 Mr. Gal-
loupe, after a service of twenty-five years, resigned,
and was succeeded by Mr. Arthur K. Whitcomb,
who had been previously engaged in the editorial
departments of the Courier and the Citizen}
High School. — Ixy 1831 the High School held
its sessions in a small house near the Free Chapel,
on Middlesex Street; then in the lower story of
the Free Chapel ; then in the present Edson School-
house; then in Concert Hall, on Merrimack Street;
then in the Bartlett Grammar School-house, near
the North Common ; then in the attic of St. Mary's
Church, on Lowell Street ; then back to the Free
Chapel; and finally, in 1840, in the building erected
for the High School on Kirk Street. This build-
ing, as remodelled in 1867, accommodates three
hundred and thirty pupils, in seven different rooms.
The teachers connected with this school from
its commencement are as follows : —
Thomas M. Clark, principal (Yale College),
1831 - 1833; is now bishop of Rhode Island.
Nicholas Hoppin, principal (Brown University),
1833 - 1834 ; till recently rector of Christ Church,
Cambridge, Mass.
William Hall, principal (Amherst College),
1834-1835 ;
died in Pittsburg, Pa.
Franklin Forbes, principal (Amherst College),
1835 - 1836, also 1842 - 1845; now agent of Lan-
caster Mills, Clinton, Mass.
Moody Currier, principal (Dartmouth College),
1836 - 1841 ; now cashier of Amoskeag Bank,
Manchester, N. H.
Nehemiah Cleaveland, principal (Bowdoin Col-
lege) , 1841 - 1842 ; subsequently teacher in Brook-
lyn, N. Y., now resides in Westport, Conn.
Charles C. Chase, principal (Dartmouth Col-
lege), since 1845.
James S. Russell, teacher of mathematics (Brown
University), 1835-1839, also from 1840 to the
present time.
John W. Browne, classical teacher (Harvard
University), 1841 ; subsequently attorney-at-law,
Boston, deceased.
George B. Jewett, classical teacher (Amherst
College) ; subsequently tutor in Amherst College,
and pastor of church in Nashua; now resides in
Salem, Mass.
1 Musie-teachers : Isaac N. Jletoalf fiom 1849 to 1857
Lyman Heath 1849; B. F. Baker 1848-1849; and George F.
Willey from 1866 to the present time.
Writing-masters for all the schools : C. H. Farnsworth from
1860 to 1864 ; Bertram Harrison from 1865 to the present time.
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