Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-27
OBITUARY
Miss Harriet E. Robinson.
(Contributed.) )

The passing of Miss Harriet E. Rob- inson recalls to many of the older res 1dents the time more than half a cen tury ago when she was quite a factor in the school life of Lebanon. She was sought after by the various school committees of Lebanon and adjoining towns, as she was an excellent dis c4plinarian> and had the faculty of impressing ideas upon the minds of her pupils in a marked degree. Though excellent in all branches taught in the common schools at that time. Miss Robinson excelled perhaps in mathe- mates, and in later years often said how much she enjoyed taking pupils through the Arithmetic" from rota- ton to cube root and problems em- braclng geometry everything was thoroughly mastered. Those pupils who wished to study algebra could do so and were carried safely through duadratics. In English nothing in the readers was too difficult for her to take up with her pupils in analysis and parsing.
 She taught school for about 25 years many. pupils going directly from her 1 schools into other schools az success 1 f'll teachers
 ! Miss Robinson began teaching when
 sixteen years old at a time when for many years teachers were so plenty ii was difficult for them to procure a 1 situation and many a week she la | bored for s3 a week and "boarded l around It was also time when | the schoolhouse was closed at 4 D. m with no more distracting worries unti i o'clock the next morning.
 For many years after Miss Robin
 son gave up teaching to care for. her 1 parents. she trained the children in i the Sabbath school of the church she l loved in singing, reciting and concert 1 exercises, until her health failed a l few years ago.
 In her home life she was4a devoted daughter and sister, also a true friend.
 Her life has been noble and use ] full one.
 Mrs. Josiah MuIfond Hedges. Josiah Mulford Hedges, of Herkimer 1 N. r, died at No. 246 Washington
 street Sunday night after an illness l of one day with broncho pneumonia 1 and asthma. Mrs. Hedges was visit ing at the home of MT. and Mrs. Will l liam R. Clark when she was taken i'll
 She was s7 years of age and was born i in Elizabeth, N. J. Mrs. Hedges was i the daughter of Mr and Mrs. Andrew 1,
 i The body was prepared for burta,
 by Undertakers Church 6 Allen and l was sent sby them to Herkimer Mon- | day. Burial will take place there.
 Miss Mary Elizabeth Friswelf. Miss Mary Elizabeth F'riswell 1 daughter of Mrs. William F'riswell died Monday afternoon about 3.15 O. clock at her home. No. 27 Franklin street. Miss Friswell, who had beer in rather poor health since lasi
 summer, dined as usual Monday a noon, but shortly afterwards suffered
 a shock and expired at 3.15 O clock. Born in Norwich, Miss Friswell hal
 always made her home in this city
 She graduated from Broadway Gram I mar school and attended the Norwicl
 Free Academy. She was employed a the Thames National Bank and ha' previously been employed at the Nor . wich Savings Society
 Surviving are her mother, one sis ter. Mrs. George Johnson of Mystic and three brothers, George, Afber
 and Frederick Friswell, all of Nor
 wich.
 } Miss Friswell was a member c Trinity Episcopal church and also be : longed to, Sachern Chapter, No. 57, Or der of the Eastern Star, the King z Daughters and the Halle club. Sh , was popular with her many friend 5 and her death is sincerely mourne 1 by all who knew hex.