Annals of Fifty Years; A History of Abbot Academy, Andover, Mass., 1829-1879

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1880 Original Publisher: W. F. Draper Subjects: Private schools Women Education / General History / General Social Science / Women's Studies Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: II. 1829-1842. The first Principal of Abbot Academy, Mr. Charles God- dard, was a gentleman of fine presence and courtly manners. His father was Dr. John Goddard, of Portsmouth, N. H., and his mother, Mary Langdon, was the daughter of Dr. Samuel Langdon, once a President of Harvard University. He was born at Portsmouth in 1797.1 The School was opened May 6, 1829. The upper story of the building was not then finished; but a large, central room upon the first floor, into which the front door directly opened, with a recitation room upon the north side for the children, and a corresponding room upon the south side for the older scholars, furnished ample accommodation for the seventy eager girls who gathered upon that historic occasion, -- the birthday of Abbot Academy. Many of them, through the vicissitudes of fifty years, have cherished vivid recollections of that eventful May morning. Mrs. Sarah H. Flagg Sheldon writes: " Eliza and Esther Gould, my oldest sister, and I started off the first day of school, with my father for protector, wearing little pink gingham calashes, with a bridle attached, to keep tticni on." Others speak of the curtsey by which they respectfully expressed the morning salutation, as they passed Mr. God- 1 After leaving Andovcr, in 1831, Mr. Goddard conducted for about two years a private school for young ladies in Boston, and then for some time a similar one in Northampton. In 1841 he became cashier of the Boston and Lowell Railroad, and ...