Barre Academy
Barre Academy was a school in Barre, Vermont in operation from 1852 to 1885.
The institution was incorporated by the Vermont Legislature in 1849.[1] The school building was constructed in 1852,[1] and the school "opened on September 1, 1852 for the fall term".[2] It was "originally conceived as being supported by three religious denominations: Congregational, Methodist, and Universalist",[2] with the original board of trustees being "carefully determined so as to be equally representative of these denominations".[3] However, the bulk of the money was contributed by Congregationalists, and eventually they achieved control of the school, though it was nonsectarian in actual practice".[2]
Jacob Shedd Spaulding (1811-1880) was the principal of the Barre Academy for most of its existence, serving in that capacity from the opening of the institution until his sudden death in 1880.[1] Even before Spaulding's death, attendance at the school had declined somewhat,[2] and under its next principal, A.N. Wheelock (himself a Barre Academy alumni),[1] this decline continued until the closure of the school in 1885.[2] After the Barre Academy closed, the original building was sold and moved from the site, and the Spaulding School Building, named in Spaulding's honor, was built on the site.[2][4]
Notable alumni[edit]
- John I. Gilbert, New York politician[1]
- Simon W. Rosendale, first Jew elected to statewide office in New York[5]
- Wendell Phillips Stafford, Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court, and U.S. District Judge for the District of Columbia[2]
- Charles F. Templeton, Dakota Territorial Supreme Court Justice[6]
- Dr. William Henry Harrison Varney, Practiced for 40 years in Charlotte Vermont. State Legislative Representative for Charlotte from 1888 to 1892 (1 term) </ref> Page 442 "Genealogical and family History of the state of Vermont" Compiled under the editorial supervision of Hon. Hiram Carleton of Montpelier, published 1903 Lewis Publishing Co.
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d e "Barre Academy, Barre Vermont". vtahgp.genealogyvillage.com. Retrieved 2016-10-14.
- ^ a b c d e f g "Barre Academy Collection, 1852-1891, BHC 9-11", Barre History Collection, via vermonthistory.org.
- ^ John W. Noble, "Jacob S. Spaulding and the Barre Academy, via vermonthistory.org.
- ^ Doreen Chambers and Brooke Lorentzen, Images of America: Barre (2014), p. 32.
- ^ "Simon W. Rosendale". Jewish Encyclopedia. 1906.
- ^ Memorial Addresses for Chief Justice David E. Morgan and Judge Charles F. Templeton (1913), p. 5.