H. Churchill, Amos B. Goodhue, Joshua J. Blaisdell,
Artemas W. Sawyer, Mark Bailey, Gideon Draper, Joseph O. Hudnut, Henry
E. J. Boardman, Charles S. Farrar, Nathan S. Lincoln, John Ordronaux,
John M. Hayes, Daniel Putnam, Martin H. Fisk, Isaac A. Parker, Ephraim
March, William E. Barnard, Ambrose W. Clarke, Amos N. Currier, Richard
C. Stanley, Albert S. Bickmore, George S. Morris, and John W.
Scribner. It is hardly possible to overestimate the influence of these
men in shaping the thought and life of our country.

If we turn to academies we find that Mark Newman, Osgood Johnson, and
Samuel H. Taylor, especially the two latter, were largely instrumental
in placing Phillips Academy, at Andover, at the head of such
institutions in America. Few schools of the kind have a more brilliant
record than Kimball Union Academy, and few American educators have
acquired more permanent renown than Cyrus S. Richards.

The labors of Amos J. Cook at Fryeburg, of John Vose at Atkinson and
Pembroke, of Andrew Mack at Gilmanton and Haverhill, of John Hubbard
at New Ipswich, of Ezra Carter at Peacham, of Clement Long and William
Nutting at Randolph, of James K. Colby at St. Johnsbury, of Ebenezer
Adams at Leicester, of Proctor Pierce at Deerfield, of Caleb Butler at
Groton, and Benjamin Greenleaf at Bradford, constitute a vital portion
of the history of academic education in New England. Nor must we
forget that such men as Albert C. Perkins, at Exeter, C. F. P.
Bancroft, at Andover, and Homer T. Fuller, at St. Johnsbury, are still
laboring in this important sphere, while Hiram Orcutt is performing
valuable service in a somewhat similar sphere at West Lebanon.
Worcester Free Institute is under large obligations to Charles O.
Thompson and John E. Sinclair.

If we turn to the metropolis of New England we find that John D.
Philbrick has made her schools and school-houses in their leading
features models for a world, fit successor to Elisha Ticknor, the
leading founder of her primary schools, and Caleb Bingham and John
Park, who in large measure revolutionized female education in America.

Beaumont Parks taught successfully for forty years in Indiana and
Illinois; Charles E. Hovey founded the Illinois Normal School--worthy
followers of Daniel Story at Marietta, the pioneer professional
teacher of the West.

John Eaton, as Commissioner of General Education, has stamped his
name, indelibly, upon our country's history.

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