TH E LIB RARY The Ontario Institute Studies in Educatio n n o Canada Toro t , L I B R A R Y T H E O N T A R IO IN S TIT U T E FO R S T UDIE S IN E D U C A TION TY M C N D A TO R TO . A A MAY 1 1968 , " 04 t f. 0 a" A H I STO R Y D UM M E R A C A D E M Y B E I N " TH E C E NT E N NIAL DISC OUR SE D E L I "E R E D B Y N E H E M I A H C L E A " E L A N D On st 12th 186 3 Augu , T O" E T H E R W I T H A N A CC O UNT OF TH E PR O CE E D I N" S I N C O M M E M O R A TI O N OF TH E 15 0TH A N N I " ER SA R Y OF TH E SC H OO L M A N E W B UR YPOR T , SS. TH E H E R A L D PR ESS 19 14: C ONTE NTS H I ST ORY OF D UM M ER A C AD EMY The Dummer Family Richard Dummer Jeremy Dummer William Dummer Katharine Dummer The Mansion House Th f m e " ill of Gov . Dum er The Moo dy Family Samuel Moody Appointed M aster Incorporation of Dum‘mer Academy Re signation and Death of Mas ter Moody Moody as a Teacher and Disciplinari an Theophilus Parsons and Rufus King e c Pearson , Webb r, Smith , Pres ott Och terlon Samuel Phillips , Sir David y Edward Preble Isaac Smith , Preceptor Re miniscence of . Smith Re signation of Smith k Parker Cleaveland , James Jac son a i Benj m n Allen , Preceptor Benj amin Apthorp Gould George B arrel"Emerson Abiel Abbott , Preceptor n President Hale , Judge Ten ey o Samuel Adams , Precept r - Nehemiah Cleaveland , Preceptor Society of the Sons of Dummer, Founded Proj ect of an A—gricultural Department Re organi z ation English Department s Phineas Nichol , Principal Frederic A . Adams , Principal D Henry urant , Principal " I C ON TE N T S. 4 Ariel Chute , Principal 3 c sh aw 43 Marshall , Principal . 44 John S Parsons , Principal The Three Feo e es 44 The Fifteen Charter Trustees 45 Truste es Elected Before 18 40 47 Conclusion 56 D E F F H N N I " SA Y T H E ON E H U N R D I TIET A ER R . 59 Anniversary Dinner 6 1 Introduction 6 3 n t 6 5 An ual Mee ing of the Society of Sons of Dummer . Preliminary Exercises 6 5 The Exercises in Commemoration of the l 50th Anniversary 6 7 M r 6 . John Hamilton Morse 7 P i o fcsso r James Hardy Ropes 6 8 M aste r Ingham 6 9 E x o . 4 Governor John D . Long, the Orat r of the Day 7 After Dinner Speeches 8 4 . 8 4 Hon Alden P . White , Toastmaster N . 8 5 Mr . Joseph Dummer m 8 . 7 Mr . Fred M A brose 8 9 Mr John W . Perkins 9 1 Mr . Henry H . Edes 9 2 Dr . Harlan Amen H o n . 9 6 . John D Long Th e Samuel Sternes Scholarship 9 7 The Dummer Ode 9 7 A P P EN DI " 9 9 9 9 Trustees 100 I UU M M E R . L K ADY A T H ARINE D U MMER I ‘ I U US E . 2 H STORY U E R E I OF D MM ACAD MY . youth , on the very spot where some of its happiest hours were passed . I n I Our e the brief review which propose , r spects are s n s first due to the illu trious fou der . You are , I suppo e , generally awar e that the Dummers of Newbury are coeval n with the tow . The parish of Bishopstoke near Southampton w as the English home of the pioneers . From that place R C H A R D 16 32 f I DUMMER came in , and a ter a soj ourn of four n years in Roxbury and Boston , joined the fou ders of this . S P H new settlement His brother , TE EN , came from Engl and ’ 16 38 e to Newbury in , but returned , aft r ten years trial , k D ummer ta ing all his family. Though no American s can to trace their origin Stephen , there is abundant cause to thank him for the child whom he gave in marriage to H ENRY S W ’ E ALL . This wedded pair, after a few years stay abroad , o e returned to Newbury , to become the progenit rs of a rac n u surpassed in the commonwealth . Of wh at other woman among the Pilgrims can it be said that four of her immed iate descend ants attained to seats on the highest bench of j udicature , and that three of these held the place of chief ce — j usti not to mention others of the family, who were only less distingui shed " N o r was this all that JANE DUMMER did — for her coun try and mankind for in the sixt h degree of s direct de cent from her , we have the renowned and delightful author of Hiawath a and Evangelin e. The elder brother , Richard , was , from the beginning, th e a - a man of mark ; by far largest l nd holder here , and , probably, the richest man in the Province . The first mill in h t e o r . t wn was built by him on a fall , still tu ned to use He ff was prominent in church a airs, and a magistrate of the so Colony . In the controversy regarding discipline , which th e long agitated the first Parish of Newbury , and which enti re civil and ecclesi astical power was unable to quell , he e an d took part against the minist rs , Parker and Noyes , was one of the t wo Ruling Elders electe d to manage th e afl airs . e of the church In tha t great r controversy , when a strong s s minded woman first appeared on the Mas achusett stage , an d shook the young colony to its base , he sided with Harry " w . ane , and not ith John Winthrop But Winthrop carried h — h t e day Dummer was left out of t e mag istracy , and had gun and sword taken from him under the disa rming act . I rejoi ce to add that he did not wait long for his revenge . A R CH RD DU E R 3 I A MM . few years later, Winthrop , by the dishonesty of his English . was to the steward , became poor An appeal made generosity s of the colonist , and in the subscription which followed , ’ ‘ Richard D ummer s name led all the It is pleasant to know that this is the very ground on which the patriarch lived ; that here he m ade his fi rs t clearing in the woods ; that here was the site of the earliest o - Dummer h me , and that it was his plough share which first the turned up to sun and air, the virgin soil of our school r a fa m . Conjointly with Saltonst ll , Sewall , and others, he m th e was a ong first to import cattle , horses and sheep into t the new colony, and it is on record that the herds hus introduced were pastured on an extensive tract set apart for s B fi eld the purpo e , round the falls where the y Factory now e the u stands . From this useful ent rprise , and from fr it W n trees hich he broug ht over, the you g community here must a . have derived large advant ge One delicious apple which he , ' u t perhaps , introd ced , and which is found only here , s ill be ars the Dummer name . The large black mulberry before e the Mansion House so familiar —to you all , may have b en planted by him . The oldest apple trees on the farm undoubt edl e y dat back to his day . - Of his five sons Jeremiah became a silver smith , and — , settled in Boston a man of substance and respectability in his day , but chiefly to be remembered as the father of Jeremy J Y U M M E and William . The name of EREM D R , as the able l a s and faithfu ag ent of Mass chu etts in England , is familiar to every reader of our colonial annals . But it is not so gen erally known that he was one of the most remarkable men - t New England had then produced that , af er graduating i n l at Harvard , w th a reputation for scholarship u eq ua ed U there , he won similar distinction at the great niversity of — e ro fes Leyden in Holland that , relinquishing the sacr d p sion for which he had been trained under Mather and Wits ius c , with the highest prospe ts of eminence and useful ‘ b t e D mme v e h w a i 6 40. r es s t h 5 00 o t i g T is s n 1 o l an c n r u d , u r a ‘ " i s o n 1 00 H is e e o s i ty s ys Sa v axg e i s a b o v e p i s e .