The Granite monthly, a New Hampshire magazine, devoted to literature, history, and state progress . the con-sent of the preceptor or trustees. The articles regulating the price oftuition were changed from time totime but no other important change certained, owing to the imperfectcondition of the records of the insti-tution, but some of them were as fol-lows : John Logan, John Noyes, Brough-ton Wright, Levi Jackson, DanielHardy, Jonathan Hartwell, AsaKeyes, Isaac McConike, Otis Hutch-ins (four years), Elisha Plumb,Thomas Hardy (seven years), GeorgeFreeman, John Walker, Jolm Golds-burv, H. C. Wh
The Granite monthly, a New Hampshire magazine, devoted to literature, history, and state progress . the con-sent of the preceptor or trustees. The articles regulating the price oftuition were changed from time totime but no other important change certained, owing to the imperfectcondition of the records of the insti-tution, but some of them were as fol-lows : John Logan, John Noyes, Brough-ton Wright, Levi Jackson, DanielHardy, Jonathan Hartwell, AsaKeyes, Isaac McConike, Otis Hutch-ins (four years), Elisha Plumb,Thomas Hardy (seven years), GeorgeFreeman, John Walker, Jolm Golds-burv, H. C. Wheeler, John Chamber-lain, Josiah I\I. Fairfield, Edward , Oliver M. Smith, James , Charles L. Strong (six 6 Old of Cheshire County years), John F. Butler, Samuel , E. M. Wright, AlphonsoWood, Nathan Kendall, George This was the first academy estab-lished in southwestern New Hamp-shire, twenty-two years before Kim-ball Union Academy at Meriden, andtwenty-three years before Miss Cath-erine Fiskes Seminary at Keene, andabout thirty years before the acad-. Otis Hutchins emies of Alstead and Walpole, andforty years before Marlow, Jaffreyand Swanzey. For some thirty yearsof its existence this parent academyof Cheshire County was second onlyin the state to Phillips Exeter Acad-emy. Students were numerous in itspalmy days. For over a third of acentury it was sufficient to have beena student of the academy, even for ashort time, to obtain the reputationof being a scholar. Most of thescholars in southwestern New Hamp-shire, and Windham County, Ver-mont, flocked to this school. Some came from Massachusetts, and eventhe southern states. Many became more or less distin-guished in the various professionsand vocations of life. Among themmay be mentioned: Rev. Hosea Bal-lon of Richmond, Russel and Sebas-tian Streeter of Swanzey, and Willis, pioneers in Universal-ism; Horace Wells of Westmoreland,,one of four who claimed the discoveryof ang
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