. History of the "Old High School" on School Street, Springfield, Massachusetts, from 1828 to 1840 : with a personal history of the teachers : also, the names of 265 pupils, with their history in part : with portraits and a sketch of the building. ssachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company fromFeb., 1873, to Feb., 1886; also president of the Five CentsSavings Bank and a director in the Massachusetts MutualLife Lisurance Company. John B. Stebbins, Springfield, Mass.—Clerk in Hart-ford, Conn., one year, until 1833, then clerk for HomerFoot & Co. until Jan. i, 1839. He then went to New York,where


. History of the "Old High School" on School Street, Springfield, Massachusetts, from 1828 to 1840 : with a personal history of the teachers : also, the names of 265 pupils, with their history in part : with portraits and a sketch of the building. ssachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company fromFeb., 1873, to Feb., 1886; also president of the Five CentsSavings Bank and a director in the Massachusetts MutualLife Lisurance Company. John B. Stebbins, Springfield, Mass.—Clerk in Hart-ford, Conn., one year, until 1833, then clerk for HomerFoot & Co. until Jan. i, 1839. He then went to New York,where he remained until August, when he returned toSpringfield and entered the service of Homer Foot & a partner in 1842 and continued until 1885, hav-ing been clerk and partner fifty-two years, and a partnerforty-four years. An alderman from Ward One in 1853 ;member of the school committee from Ward Six in 1865 to1869 and 1873. Was president of the Holyoke WaterPower Company, from 1886 to Jan., 1890. A director inthe City Library Association, Ludlow Manufacturing Com-pany, and the City National Bank, and the courteouspresident and trustee of Springfields favorite financialinstitution, the Springfield Institution for JOHN B. STEBBINS. OLD HIGH SCHOOL. 39 Charles W. Chapin, Springfield, Mass.—Went toIllinois in 1841 and engaged in farming. In 1844 went toPhiladelphia, engaged in the mercantile marine shippingthere and in New York until 1852; was in the service ofthe Springfield Gas Light Company three years; From1855 until 1875 he was in the coal business. William Rice, Springfield, Mass.—From 1841 to 1857engaged in the work of the ministry, New England Confer-ence Methodist Episcopal Church; 1875 to 1882, trusteeof Wesleyan University ; member of the MassachusettsBoard of Education ; 1873 to 1882 chaplain HampdenCounty House of Correction. Member of the School Com-mittee from 1865 to 1882; vice-president of the Five CentsSavings Bank, and the esteemed librar


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