History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts - citizen hylbom blog

102 HISTORY OF MIDDLESEX COUNTY.
David C. Scobey, classical teacher (Dartmouth
College), 1843-1850; died in Lowell, while in
service, March 1, 1850.
Ephraim W. Young, teacher of sciences (Har-
vard University), 1849-1856; for several years
clerk of the house of rei^resentatives, Wisconsin.
Jonathan Kimball, classical teacher 1849-1852,
and sub-principal 1852 - 1857; now superintendent
of schools in Chelsea, Mass.
John J. Colton, teacher of sciences (Amherst
port, Mass.
James 0. Scripture, classical teacher (Dartmouth
College), 1860-1863; since rector of St. Peter's
Churcli, Salem, deceased.
Joseph H. McDaniels, classical teacher (Har-
vard University), 1865-1868; now professor of
Greek, Hobart'College, N. Y.
Gorham D. Williams, teacher of sciences (Har-
vard University), 1865-1866; attorney-at-law,
Deerfield, Mass.
Levi S. Burbank, teacher of sciences (Westfield
Normal School), 1867-1873; now principal of
Warren Academy, Woburn, Mass.
Edwin H. Lord, teacher of sciences (Bowdoin
College), 1873 to the present time.
The ladies who acted as principals of the female
department, when the two sexes constituted separate
schools, were —
:
Lucy E. Penhallow, 1840-1846.
Susan E. Burdick, 1846 - 1850.
Anne B. Sawyer, 1850-1852.
The present teachers of the school and the
branches of study taught by them arc :
Charles C. Chase, principal, Greek, jiolitical
science, etc.
Edwin H. Lord, natural sciences.
James S. Russell, mathematics.
etc.
—
Bertram Harrison, book-keeping, penmanship.
George F. Willey, music.
Mary A. Webster, Latin, botany, etc.
etc.
Marietta Melvin, German, elocution, etc.
Elizabeth McDaniels, English literature, Latin,
Harriet C. Hovey, Greek, rhetoric, etc.
Cliarlotte E. Draper, astronomy, drawing, etc.
Alice J. Chase, m;itiiematics, natural ])!iilo?ophy,
ITclfii L. 11:1111, French, drawing, etc.
CHURCH HISTORY.
Saturday, March 6, 1824, by invitation from
Kirk Boott, Theodore Edson came to Chelmsford
for the purpose of holding a meeting for public
worship. One hundred and seventy-five years be-
fore, the Eev. John Eliot appeared here for a simi-
lar purpose.
A building had been erected on the land now
occupied by the Green School-house, on Merrimack
College), 1857-1865; now physician, Lowell, Street, designed to serve permanently for a school-
Mass.
house, and temporarily for religious meetings. It
Lloyd W. Hixon, sub-principal (Dartmouth was in the upper room of this building that Mr.
College), 1858-1860; now teacher in Newbury- Edson held his first service Sunday, March 7,
1824. " On this occasion the room was well
filled."
The engagement with Theodore Edson was not
distinctly on sectarian grounds. The division in
the Congregational ranks, which had taken place
some time previous, became irreconcilable, and re-
sulted in the establishment of the Unitarian Con-
giegationalists. The two parties had put forward
tlieir ablest men ; a war of words resounded through-
out the old commonwealth; men took sides, and
the war raged fearfully. It was Cambridge and
Andover hurling thunderbolts at each other ; each
endeavoring to demolish the other's citadel and
spike its cannon. Under these circumstances the
question arose, " Is it best to take either of the
belligerents to build up this new enterprise ?
AVith the cautious prudence which characterized
all their movements, the directors, a majority of
whom were Unitarians at heart, concluded that they
did not want war, but peace and quiet, and Mr.
Edson was invited, not to establish a Protestant
Episcopal Church, but to inaugurate the Merrimack
Religious Society.
Early measures were taken by tiu- directors of
the Merrimack Manufacturing Com])any to pro-
vide for the religious interests of those jxrsons in
their employ; the following ])rinted rules wen-
given to each one, as a part of the contract euterrd
into: —
"All |)ersoiis are ro(]uired to he constant in
attendance upon public worslii]!, cilliei- at the
church in this place, or in some of I lie neighboring-
parishes.
" All are required to pay 37i cents per (|uarlcr
in advance, for the support of ])ublic wur.-hip in
tliis place, which sum shall be paid over lor the
use of such regular society as each may r-hoo.se to
"