History and description of New EnglandNew Hampshire . from 1788 to1838, a period of fifty years, since which, Gideon L. Soule has servedhis twenty years. Among its trustees have been Hon. John Phillips,the foitnder, Samuel Phillips, John Pickering, John Taylor Smith, and Daniel Webster. Among its instructors hav<!been Rev. Doctors Daniel Dana, Abiel Abbot, and Joseph S. Buck-minster, James Walker, president of Harvard College, Nathan Lord,president of Dartmouth College, Hon. Alexander H. Everett, AsherWare, jttdge of the district court of the United States in Maine, andNatha
History and description of New EnglandNew Hampshire . from 1788 to1838, a period of fifty years, since which, Gideon L. Soule has servedhis twenty years. Among its trustees have been Hon. John Phillips,the foitnder, Samuel Phillips, John Pickering, John Taylor Smith, and Daniel Webster. Among its instructors hav<!been Rev. Doctors Daniel Dana, Abiel Abbot, and Joseph S. Buck-minster, James Walker, president of Harvard College, Nathan Lord,president of Dartmouth College, Hon. Alexander H. Everett, AsherWare, jttdge of the district court of the United States in Maine, andNathan Hale, the veteran editor of the Boston Daily Advertiser. More particularity lias been given to tlie churches here, and a mention of the lonir-est pastorates has been made, for the reason that their history has been so intimately con-nected with tlie civil affairs of the toivn. NEW UAMPSIIIRE TOWX OF KXETER. 491 Among it:^ pupils, besides most of those above mentioned, are foundthe iiamis of Lewis Cass, secretary of state of tiie United States; the. Philliiis Acailc: late Leverett Saltonstall, representative in congress from Massachusetts;Edward Everett, the sciiolar, orator, and statesman of world-wide repu-tation: Jolm G. Palfrey, ex-member of congress, and distinguished asan author; John A. Dix, ex-senator of the United States from New\ork; Jared Sparks, the historian; Joseph G. CoggsweU, of theAstor library; George Bancroft, the historian; Richard llildretli,tlie historian ; the late Thomas W. Dorr, of Rhode Island memory;Charles Paine, ex-governor of Vermont; John P. Hale, senator incongress from New Hampshire; Alpheus Felch, ex-governor ofMichigan and senator in congress; James H. Duncan, representativein congress from Massachusetts; John P. Cushing of Watertown, andthe late Theodore Lyman of Boston, Mass. Sucli a galaxy of naujesas appear upon the catalogue of this institution will not, perliajjs, befound in coimeetion with any other academy on this continent. Tlie soil
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