The Granite monthly, a New Hampshire magazine, devoted to literature, history, and state progress . Rev. S. H. McCollester. D. D. two schoolrooms on the first floor anda hall on the second, where selectschools were kept until the academywas established. Mr. Wm. G. Field,a lawyer in town, kept a selectschool several years in this building. Ebenezer Swan was the first maleteacher in town. MELVILLE ACADEMY Melville Academy, in the town ofJaffrey, was incorporated in David C. Chamberlain The grantees were Asa Parker, LukeHowe and John Fox. It was namedfor Jonas M. Melville, who gave lib-era
The Granite monthly, a New Hampshire magazine, devoted to literature, history, and state progress . Rev. S. H. McCollester. D. D. two schoolrooms on the first floor anda hall on the second, where selectschools were kept until the academywas established. Mr. Wm. G. Field,a lawyer in town, kept a selectschool several years in this building. Ebenezer Swan was the first maleteacher in town. MELVILLE ACADEMY Melville Academy, in the town ofJaffrey, was incorporated in David C. Chamberlain The grantees were Asa Parker, LukeHowe and John Fox. It was namedfor Jonas M. Melville, who gave lib-erally in aid of the enterprise. In1833 the building was erected, whichis now the district school. Theschool was opened in fall of 1833, thefirst principal being Horace Herrick;assistant, Aurelia Townsend. Otherteachers were Roswell P. Hitchcock,Wm. Eaton, Harry Brickett, CharlesCutter, David C. Chamberlain andSarah French. It continued till theestablishment of the Conant Free(now high) school. David C. Chamberlain graduated atAmherst College in 1844, taught inPelham, Mass., and Fitzwilliam, : was principal of Melville Acad-emy from 1845 to 1857, when he re-moved to Winchendon, Mass., andtaught the high school there eightyears, returning to East Jaffrey, Old Academies of Cheshire County 13 where he died iu 1897. He was al-ways much interested in the schools
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