. Norwich University, 1819-1911; her history, her graduates, her roll of honor . , 1843; Harriet Martin, born January 22, 1843, resides in Salem; FannyHunt, born February 26, 1845, resides in Salem. JAMES FRANKLIN WILLIS. James F. Willis, son of James and Rachael (Patterson) Willis, was born inEnfield, N. H., July 20, 1808, and died in London, Ohio, February 22, 1874. His father was a prosperousmerchant and business man in En-field, N. H. He attended theschools of his town and entered theAcademy in 1821, graduating in1825. He accompanied the corps ofcadets on a imarch from Norwich,Vt., to Conc
. Norwich University, 1819-1911; her history, her graduates, her roll of honor . , 1843; Harriet Martin, born January 22, 1843, resides in Salem; FannyHunt, born February 26, 1845, resides in Salem. JAMES FRANKLIN WILLIS. James F. Willis, son of James and Rachael (Patterson) Willis, was born inEnfield, N. H., July 20, 1808, and died in London, Ohio, February 22, 1874. His father was a prosperousmerchant and business man in En-field, N. H. He attended theschools of his town and entered theAcademy in 1821, graduating in1825. He accompanied the corps ofcadets on a imarch from Norwich,Vt., to Concord, N. H., in June,1822. The corps were royally enter-tained by his father at his home in *Enfield. | He removed to Mt. Sterling, ,Ohio, in 1837, and engaged in themer- icantile business until 1860, when hepurchased a farm near YankeetownFayette County, Oliio. In 1S54, heSold his farm and removed to Lon-don, Ohio, where he resided until hisdeath. He was married in May, 1831,to Triphena Tinsdale Willis, a nativeof Hanover, N. H., who died Decem-ber 10, 1878. Two children were. James Franklin Willis. born to them: Irving Franklin, born April 29, 1832, died December 7,1881; Julia Frances, born Sejitember 18, 1845, married and died in Chicago,III, in 1906. PROF. EBENEZER BANCROFT WILLLSTON, A. M. Ebenezer B. Williston, son of Rev. David Howe and Susan (Bancroft)Williston, was born in Tunbridge, Vt., in 1801, and died in Norwich, Vt.,December 27, 1827. He attended Dartmouth College; for some time, and on the founding of theAcademy in 1819, he; was engaged as instructor in the Greek and Latinlanguages, at the same time carrying on his studies at the Academy. TheUniversity of Vermont gave him the degree of A. B. in 1823. He was professorof the Latin and CJreek languages at tlie Academy from 1820 to health forced him to spend most of the last nine; years of his life in theSouth, where he was for some time president of Jefferson College, published an edition
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