News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1896-05-07


New England stock that emf
grated to Canada and settled
what is now called the Eastern
Townships.
Mr.. French lived at home until
he was twenty years of age, when
he went to Kidder, Mo, to at
tend there an academy of which
an uncle was principal. After
taking a three years course at
Kidder, he served part of an APP
premiership at the pattern max
ers' trade.
InSeptember, 1889, Mr.. French
entered Oberlin Theological Sem
mary, graduating from the Eng
lish course in 1891. He was mar
RED July Is, 1891, to Nellie NJ.
Osgood, of Eaton, Quebec. He
then spent a yearin mission work
in Terra Haute, Indiana, under
the care of the First Congrega-
tiOnal Church.
From there he went to Guild
hall, Vt, where he was ordained
and installed as pastor of the
Congregational Church Sept. 20,
1892. During this pastorate he
was called to Lunenburg and Is
land Pond, but declined both calls.
In May, 1895, he received and
accepted a calf the church in
Johnson, and began his pastorate
here July /, 1895.
REV. X. f. LOWE.
The pastor of the Methodist
Episcopal Church is the Rev.
Ralph F. Lowe, who was APP
pointed here in April of the pres
ent year. Mr.. Lowe was born at
York, a sea coast town of Maine,
July %, 1866. After teaching
several terms of school in his ma
tive town he attended the Confer
ence Seminary at Kent's Hill, Me,
where he was graduated in 1889.
He then spent a year at the Phil
lips Exeter Academy, where he
also received a diploma. Henext
passed four years at Wesleyan
University, the oldest Methodist
college in the United States, stu
ated at Middletown, Conn. AT
ter graduating from that institu-
ton, in the class Of 1894, he was
employed by Presiding Elder
Sherburne to supply the charges
of Binghamville and Westford.
He was appointed to the same
place one year ago, and at the
last conference was unanimously
desired by both churches to re-
turn for a third year. The presid-
ing Bishop, however, decided that
Mr.. Lowe might be enabled to do
effective work in Johnson, and
accordingly s5nt him here -
In April, 1895, he was united in
marriage to Miss NELLIE Gregory,
of Madison, Maine. Mrs. Lowe
is an accomplished and well edu-
Gated lady, being a graduate OF
the Maine Conference Seminary.
After graduation she taught one
| year in degraded school of Som
ers, Conn, and three years in
the high school at Richmond, Me
H. J. WALLACE.
Mr.. Hiram j. Wallace, princi-
pal of the Johnson village school
was born in Concord, w., in
1870. His father, Hon. J. B
Wallace, is a farmer and a long.
time and prominent citizen o.
that town.
Hiram's early education was
obtained at the Essex County
Grammar School of Concord
He acceptably taught severa
terms of school in his native anC
adjoining towns, thereby OBJ
tanning the means for pursuing {
course at the Johnson Norma
School, from which he graduated
in 1898. He has also taker
most of the studies required il
the second course.
In 1894 he was called to thu
principalship of the Johnson Vii
lage School, which has steadily
improved, both in deportmen
and scholarship, under his man
agement. He taught the Esse2
County Grammar School very
successfully during the sprinl
term of 1895.
w. II. NYE & co.
| The Johnson namesake of tn,
original "Bill Nye" does no.
possess the mental and physica
characteristics of the lamenteC
professional and perambulatins
Joker. He rs a successful sales
man, the business managing
partner of the most ex tensiv,
mercantile firm in town and E
self-made man. This firm is tn,
oldest in town and was origi
nally Lynds & Morse. Corneliu,
Lynds enlisted as a college stu
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