The Granite monthly, a New Hampshire magazine, devoted to literature, history, and state progress . )inson. He was succeeded in thefollowing years by Rev. S. H. MeCol-lester, Dr. Geo. I. Cutler and term was held usually in the falland the school existed for six or sevenyears. Mr. McCollester taught therea fall and two spring terms, having inthe fall more than a hundred stud- ents, the larger part of them beingteachers, or those who were fittingthemselves for that calling. Althoughthe school did not exist many years,it accomplished an excellent work. Rev. Josiah L. Seward, D. D.
The Granite monthly, a New Hampshire magazine, devoted to literature, history, and state progress . )inson. He was succeeded in thefollowing years by Rev. S. H. MeCol-lester, Dr. Geo. I. Cutler and term was held usually in the falland the school existed for six or sevenyears. Mr. McCollester taught therea fall and two spring terms, having inthe fall more than a hundred stud- ents, the larger part of them beingteachers, or those who were fittingthemselves for that calling. Althoughthe school did not exist many years,it accomplished an excellent work. Rev. Josiah L. Seward, D. D., ofKeene, was a student at the ValleySeminary. He was the first principalof the Conant Free High School inJaffrey, the first term of whichopened in the fall of 1870 in the old^Melville Academy building. Another Valley Seminary studentwas Orrin W. Cook, the veteran ac-countant of Springfield, Mass. MT. CAESAR SEMINARY About 1840 the Universalists ofCheshire County began to discuss theadvisability of establishing an insti-tution of higher education, represent-ative of their faith, in the Mt. Caesar Seminary This sentiment culminated in a callfor a county convention to considerthe subject. The towns having Uni-versal ist societies elected delegates,consisting of clergymen and laymen,numbering in all sixteen. This con-vention voted to locate the seminaryin the town that would subscribe the Old Academies of Cheshire County 17 most funds for the raised the full amount re-quired, and the convention voted tolocate in that town. This body elected a board of trus-tees as follows: Hon. Elijah Carpen-
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