The Granite monthly : a magazine of literature, history and state progress . presented by six churches, be-sides the two Quaker meeting-houses before alluded to. TwoBaptist churches and one Episcopalare situated at East Weare. Thelatter, but recently erected, wasfounded by the Rev. Edward , of St. Pauls School, Con-cord. Arthur AV. Peaslee—brother ofRobert J., of Manchester—has been ing services there duringthe summer, and its doorsare opened weekly for Sun-day-school exercises. Thisschool was established in1S66, and for the first eightyears was superintended byDr. C. O. Ballou, now ar
The Granite monthly : a magazine of literature, history and state progress . presented by six churches, be-sides the two Quaker meeting-houses before alluded to. TwoBaptist churches and one Episcopalare situated at East Weare. Thelatter, but recently erected, wasfounded by the Rev. Edward , of St. Pauls School, Con-cord. Arthur AV. Peaslee—brother ofRobert J., of Manchester—has been ing services there duringthe summer, and its doorsare opened weekly for Sun-day-school exercises. Thisschool was established in1S66, and for the first eightyears was superintended byDr. C. O. Ballou, now aresident of Providence, R. he left town in 1873,Mrs. Loretta Foster, wid-ow of the Rev. FrederickFoster, a former pastor of the church,accepted his position. She remainedsuperintendent of the school until herdeath in 1S92, and the influence ofher pure and noble life will be feltfor many years to come. Her son,Frederick F. Foster, is a prolificwriter of fiction and a contributor tosome of the best known periodicals ofthe country. This school has not been closed a. supplying the pulpit dur-ing the summer months,and has also held services at River-dale. He has not yet taken orders, George Simons &c SoNorth Weare. Sunday for nearly thirtyyears,— a somewhat re-markable record,—and its library con-sists of nearly one thousand volumes. being at the present time a student On the death of Mrs. Foster, the workin St. Johns Episcopal College, at was taken up and since carried on by Mrs. Eunice H. Chase, a sister ofthe noted temperance advocate, Thompson, and a woman of Cambridge, Mass. Of the Universalist church atWeare Centre there is at the presenttime no settled pastor. Rev*. W. , of Manchester, holds even- strong character and broad intelli-gence. Mrs. Chase is the owner of . A SKETCH OF WE A RE. 345 a grocery and drv-sroods store atNorth Weare, and is noted for thestrict integrity of her business tran-sactions. The Rev. W. S. Randall is at the-presen
Size: 2265px × 1103px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1870, bookpublisherconco, bookyear1877
