Norwich bulletin., 1911-06-17
CANTERBURY SCHOOLS
 AND THEIR TEACHERS
(ContinLed from paoe eJeve

cipal of Plainfield academy. who prob | ably taught John Adams there. was | Eliphalet Mott. who married daugh- l ter of the Plainfisld pastor, Rev. MT. Benedict, and wito became the most 1 famous president of Union college | Schenectady, N. !. Two sons of his 1 became prominent teachers William 1 Kinney Yale 1S04, was probably 1 pupil of John Adams at the Academy. | William Kinney taught in Maine while it was still a part of Massachusetts. | Two sons of his. William Kinney and | Henry Clay Kinney, were lifelong | teachers. William Kinney had a pri- l vate school about 1850 in the house 1 in which Mrs. William Adams now | lives. Later he succeeded John Ad- l ans as principal of Bacon academy, i Colchester, and still later he was prin- | cipal of large schools in New Haven. | Conn, and Ithaca, N. Y. Henry Clay 1 Kinney, Oberlin college, became a l prominent educator in California for | many years and the author of educa- 1 tfonal books. John M. Francis, broth erin law of the Kinney brothers was ! prepared for Brown university in the | Willoughby district schoolhouse He | was taught to read Greek and Latin l there by Jonathan Perkins. who gave
 young Francis 2 translation of Hor- {! ace "as a reward for ability and gen 1 tlemanly department" MT. Francis 1 taught in the Pioneer schools for the ! deaf and dumb in Ohio and California
 in the years 1s5G-1S70.
 Daniel Colt Gilman.
 James and Edward Monroe, of the 1 Black Hill part of the parish became graduates of Oberlin. James, born l 1921, Oberlin 1S59 was an earnest an
 ti-slavery debater. became member of 1 the United States congress. minister to Brazil, professor and acting presi- 1 dent in Oberlin college His brother.
 Edward. became Congregational
 minister and pastor for many years of | one of the largest churches in that
 denomina ton. located in Ohio. I have | heard him preach in this church. Dan | fel Colt Gilman. professor at Yale, | first president of Johns Hopkins uni 1 versity, Baltimore. was 9 descendant | of this parish; his grandfather Colt | lived in the house now occupied by Mr l Ray. Whether he went to school here 1 Or not, do not know. Besides the | ministers schools and John Adams famous school there were several pri-
 vate schools, the most famous of which 1 was that of Prudence CrandsI, about l 1880. in the house now occupied by l the Rev. MT. Hetrick This will be 1 treated in other papers. so I will not summarize 1t here. Earlier than this, | about 1918. a school was opened es- ! pecially for Quaker children by Dr.
 Rowland Green and Benjamin Green, | in the house now occupied by MT. Gil- 1 bert Randall on Black Hill This | school was an outgrowth of the Quak- | CT church built. upon Black Hill at about that time
 | William kinney's School.
 ! In the early fifties Mir. William Kin 1 ney opened a private school in the
 room that had been the office of Dr. 1 Harris in the house built by him, now owned by Mrs. William Adams. Dan | !el Bond, for many years justice of | the superior court of Massachusetts,
 and MT. William $. Adams were fel-
 low pupils of MT. Kinney. MT. Adams | career as a teacher is typical of the ! best native teachers of the last half 1 century. He began teaching at r and | taught for thirty-seven years in the | public schools of this and neighboring towns. l was one of his pupils and he was one of my best teachers. Not only | by his length of service, but by | the quality of his teac hing he deserves
 a record here. He was a born teach | er,instinctively doing what we are l trying to teach as educational princi- l pals. In 1859 in the same roof of the i same house AIT. George Palmer of | Scotland (Conn-) opened a private ! school for young ladies. Some of his ! pupils were Miss Myra Adams. who 1 taught many years in this vicinity, | Mrs. Daniel Bond Miss Sarah Palm
 CT, daughter of Dr. Palmer, and Miss | Willoughby. In 1884 Mrs. Kirk Leav- | ems Of PackervilIe opened a private | school in the Prudence CrandaI1 house. { then owned by Dr. Palmer. Among her 1 pupils was Mrs William Adams. Later ! the school was removed to Packer | vile. At one time very successful | school was held in the vicinity of ! Westminster by Mir. Knowlton Peck | Today Canterbury has town system
 of schools, employing superintendent | and pays tuition for her boys and | girls in the neighboring high school. What Of the Eufure7
 l But what of the future? For two
 hundred years this parish village has | had a worthy and influential life Fly eryone here is asking the question I | have just uttered We are justified in ! being hopeful One hundred years l from today 1 do not believe some poet will read on this spot poem on "A | Deserted Village, but rather I think | that happy. prosperous families will | tell again the story of faithful, sacri- i ficing effort to make this a good place | for people to live in, helpfulIy, honest | ly, aspfringly-the best place they | possibly could It may become much l richer, widely known through some ] historic act, or honored by the noble | life of some genius. but I have no
 fonder wish than that What else it | may become I do not know, but that ' at least l want it to become. I would 1 like the people of this old parish to do i all in their means to always maintain l llkS BtSl StliOOlS dIf0 lO oeHu Iue NOuG2 | people to the best colleges, as of old, | that the young people may get the necessary stimulus and sustenance to | prepare them for living worthily in ! their day.
 | would wish, also. that this sacred | house may be so gently hospita ble in | its welcome that all needy men and women may find here rest. sympathy, and help to living, and forgetting the | controversies of it's earlier history, i teach the people simple story of fla | therhood and brotherhood. so that all 1 will prize it and none will let it go. | I would wish also that those living ! together here as citizens may recall | the ancient liberties of the freeinen in 1 the old English parishes of more than | one thousand years ago. and how from ! that time 10 this. the Anglo saxon cit ! izen has reVerenced his conscience as ] his king" and has permitted no wrong { to De done whether by baron by | boss. But in honor and justice and
 with pride in his parish, the good cit | izen has thought and worked for the | good of all m the parish and for it's good name throughout ihc world So ] may it he here in Canterbur5 now and