. 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. 2 he served as chaplain of the House ofRefuge on Randalls Island, N. Y. He was the editor ofZions IhrahHvom 1872 to 1888, and trustee of WellesleyCollege from 1876 to 1889. He died Ai)ril 19, 1889, aged•jy years. Calei! HoiKixs.—Learned the joiners trade. He builtthe first house in Plain field (now Brightwood) for Lucius In 1835 he went to M
. 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. 2 he served as chaplain of the House ofRefuge on Randalls Island, N. Y. He was the editor ofZions IhrahHvom 1872 to 1888, and trustee of WellesleyCollege from 1876 to 1889. He died Ai)ril 19, 1889, aged•jy years. Calei! HoiKixs.—Learned the joiners trade. He builtthe first house in Plain field (now Brightwood) for Lucius In 1835 he went to Manchester, Conn. In 1837he removed to PLllington, Conn., where he now a builder and contractor for a number of years. In1858 he was elected probate judge, and re-elected for twelveconsecutive years. In 1875, upon the opening of the Con-necticut Central Railroad, was station agent for five years. Charles Emery. — Born in Springfield, Mass., in1816, and attended the old High School on School street,from its opening, in 1828, until 1831, when he left to followthe sea, after the example of his father and first voyage was made as a boy on the ship ICclipsc,from Salem to Manilla ami Canton. He sailed on his 15th. CAPT. CHAKLES EMERY. OLD HIGH SCHOOL. 33 birthday, and was absent 13 months. He made other voy-ages as seaman on the ship Chatham to Charleston andLiverpool, on the Eclipse to Calcutta as second mate,and on the brig Margaret to Savannah and the West. Indies. In the summer of 1836 he was offered the commandof the brig Swan, fitting out for the west coast of SouthAmerica, and made the voyage around Cape Horn as cap-tain, when but three months over 20 years of age. Afterspending two years on that coast and visiting all its principalports, he returned as passenger on the whaling bark Columbus of New Bedford. He then bought the brig John Gilpin, went to South America, sold the vesselat Lima, Peru, and returned as a passenger on the whalingship Ma
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