. The Granite monthly : a magazine of literature, history and state progress. her, who brought him over Vt. On returning at duskhe found the road to West Lebanonoverflowed by recent heavy rains,and by an accident he was drowned. The first lady preceptress was MissMartha Green ; her successor wasMiss S. Helen Richards, afterwardsMrs. E. W. Clark, missionary to theSandwich Islands. Then followedMiss Mary Xudd Robinson; MissPrentice; Miss Bates; Miss HstaBaldwin, daughter of Prof. Cyrusand Hannah Shattuck Baldwin;Miss Myra Everest; Miss Georgia jxiv—16 Wilcox; Martha Day: Miss Loui
. The Granite monthly : a magazine of literature, history and state progress. her, who brought him over Vt. On returning at duskhe found the road to West Lebanonoverflowed by recent heavy rains,and by an accident he was drowned. The first lady preceptress was MissMartha Green ; her successor wasMiss S. Helen Richards, afterwardsMrs. E. W. Clark, missionary to theSandwich Islands. Then followedMiss Mary Xudd Robinson; MissPrentice; Miss Bates; Miss HstaBaldwin, daughter of Prof. Cyrusand Hannah Shattuck Baldwin;Miss Myra Everest; Miss Georgia jxiv—16 Wilcox; Martha Day: Miss LouiseBugbee, with a host of others, wholeft a deep impress upon this institu-tion of learning. About 1870 there came a time ofdepression, owing to the Civil War,emigration to the West, and the pres-ence of other schools. Improvementsto keep up with the times were sadlyneeded. A large number of thesenior classes of 1S61 and 1862 en-listed in the Ninth, Eleventh, Four-teenth and Sixteenth X. H. returned to graduate at Dart-mouth College, and others died from. The Old Academy. exposure. One was in Libby prisonfor months, another, George W. Bar-ber, lost an arm at the Battle of Fred-ricksburg, and is now chaplain inthe Soldiers Home in Wisconsin. The graduating classes numberedfrom forty to sixty each year. Theday was observed as the event of theyear, when old and young gatheredfrom near and far, in the old historicchurch, hallowed by so many sacredmemories. In 1S77 an alumni association wa^formed to meet once in three years atMeriden. The first reunion was heldJune 16, 1S80, when a large numberof the older teachers, students. anJ 234 PLAINFIELD AND MERIDEN. friends were present. A reunionsone was written for the occasion bv sentatives in Kimball Union Acad-emy at some time since 1815. EveryMrs. M. \V. Palmer with music by state in the Union, Canada, England, W. O. Perkins, a well-known com- and to-day even Armenia has herposer. Addresses were delivered by represen
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