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 ONE HUNDREDTH 
 ANNIVERSARY OF 
 THE FOUNDING OF 
 
 LENOX ACADEMY 
 
 AN ACCOUNT OF THE CELEBRATION AND 
 
 THE DA rS DOINGS, OCTOBER FIRST 
 
 NINETEEN HUNDRED THREE 
 
 1905 
 
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 FOREWORD 
 
 In August, 1903, the trustees of Lenox Academy and 
 the Lenox school committee met and arranged for a cele- 
 bration of the one hundredth anniversary of the existence 
 of the Academy, — the trustees believing that an institu- 
 tion so long ago founded and so prosperous and useful, for 
 many years, deserved to be publicly remembered, and the 
 school committee recognizing, as official representatives 
 of the town, — which is a gratuitous lessee of the Acad- 
 emy building and to a considerablrt extent an inheritor of 
 the high reputation of the old institution, that an event so 
 interesting and important should not be permitted to pass 
 without notice. 
 
 The following pages contain a record of the day's 
 doings and exercises. 
 
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 PROGRAM 
 
 or THE 
 
 Exercises in Town Hall, 
 
 AT 11 A. M. 
 
 1. Music, . . . Kingman's Orchestra 
 
 2. "Festival Chorus/' 
 
 "Give Thy Heart's Best Treasure/' 
 
 Pupils of High School 
 
 3. Introductory, . . . Joseph Tucker 
 
 4. "The King's Champion/' Pupils of High School 
 
 5. Historical Address, . . Thomas Post 
 
 6. "Farewell Song/' . Pupils of High School 
 
 7. Music, . . . Kingman's Orchestra 
 
 DINNER 
 
 For the Alumni and invited guests 
 
 IN Sedgwick Hall Annex 
 
 AT one o'clock.
 
 INTRODUCTORY ADDRESS. 
 
 Hon. JOSEPH TUCKER, of Pittsfieud. 
 
 It was very seldom, in the beginning of the 
 nineteenth century, that a small country village in a 
 purely agricultural county could possess the county 
 Court House and one of the most famous Academies 
 in the land. Without them Lenox would have been 
 simply a very pretty little farming hamlet, until along 
 in the fifties came the immigrants from the cities. 
 With them it was a real center of Berkshire. The 
 Court House always had a very notable set of officers, 
 but within my remembrance, it was occupied by a 
 group of very strong, able men of the highest char- 
 acter — William P. Walker, Judge of Probate, the best 
 type of what we call a gentleman of the old school I 
 have ever seen ; handsome, courtly, well-dressed, a 
 very distinguished looking man. Henry W. Bishop, 
 Register of Probate (afterwards Judge of the Court 
 of Common Pleas), one of the most eloquent and able 
 members of the bar of Massachusetts. Charles Sedg- 
 wick, Clerk of the Courts, a member of one of the best 
 families of the country, highly educated, very culti- 
 vated, a very fascinating man, beloved by every one 
 especially by the children. Joseph Tucker, County 
 Treasurer and Register of Deeds for over thirty years, 
 a man of great force of character and very popular. 
 His son, George I. Tucker, who succeeded him in 
 
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 both offices, was a very eminent lawyer. William S. 
 Tucker, Assistant Clerk of the Courts, was very prom- 
 inent in social and church affairs. 
 
 There were a few, beside those I have mentioned, 
 who so impressed themselves upon me, then a small 
 boy, that I must speak of them. On the road to Lenox 
 Furnace (not Dale) : John G. Stanley, who sold us 
 books; Dr. Charles Worthington, Miss Catherine 
 Sedgwick, most famous of the early American novel- 
 ists. On the west side of Main street : Ocran Curtis, 
 Deacon Osborn, William A. Phelps, a partner in the 
 Lenox Furnace Iron Company ; James Robbins, a man 
 of great influence ; Dr. Robert Worthington, brother 
 of Dr. Charles ; Zephaniah Davis, an artist in wood- 
 working; dear, sweet Charles Perry. In the fork of 
 the roads behind the little park : Daniel Williams, a 
 leader, as was his wife ; Joel Davis, Court Crier for 
 fifty years, succeeded by George Wells many years ago. 
 On the east side : Eldad Post, a man of great force of 
 character ; James Collins, another partner in the Iron 
 Company ; Dr. Samuel Shepard, pastor of the "Church 
 on the Hill" for fifty-one years, vice-president of Wil- 
 liams College, Trustee of Lenox Academy, and always 
 present at the examinations — a great man, a great 
 preacher ; Oliver Peck, aother partner in the Iron 
 Company ; Guy Worthington, a merchant and broth- 
 er of the two doctors ; Benjamin Cook, keeper of 
 the House of Correction ; M. S. Wilson, who kept the 
 famous Coffee House now Curtis Hotel. I haven't 
 time to go out of the village, but I must name 
 Col. Charles Mattoon and Myron Mattoon, my 
 old Sabbath school teacher, and Chauncy Bangs of 
 blessed memory, these on the Pittsfield road ; and Gen- 
 
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 eral Judd and Thomas Sedgwick, long President of 
 the Lee Bank on the East street. If I had time I 
 could name many more men of high character and ex- 
 ceptional ability, the kind of men who in these days 
 dominate the business of great towns and cities. 
 
 I have mentioned these men to emphasize the pow- 
 erful influence which the fact, of its being the shire 
 town, must have had upon the life of a small country 
 town. Undoubtedly this fact, which had brought so 
 many strong, influential men there, was largely instru- 
 mental in locating the Academy in Lenox. It began 
 its work in 1804; and what a blessing it was to the 
 whole county. Our country schools, in those days, 
 rarely ventured beyond the three R's. Lenox Acad- 
 emy speedily reached the front rank among second- 
 ary institutions of learning, of the whole country. 
 Bright, ambitious boys from the whole country flocked 
 there. 
 
 When I was a small boy there were young men 
 there from Georgia, Alabama, Virginia, quite a num- 
 ber from New Jersey and New York and from all 
 parts of Berkshire. What an inspiration and oppor- 
 tunity it gave the children of Lenox, and they almost 
 unanimously availed themselves of it. It was the 
 chance of a life-time for any boy or girl to be able to 
 study under the guidance of John Hotchkin, the best 
 teacher, with the exception of President Mark Hop- 
 kins, I have ever known. It sent a large class to Col- 
 lege every year. Very many of the best and most 
 useful citizens of this county finished their education 
 here and they were really educated. It was the larg- 
 est, strongest, finest influence in the upbuilding of this 
 section. It implanted the seeds of good citizenship 
 
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 and high character. Those who know the men and 
 women who were its students in the old days, and 
 their present standing in the world, can have no doubt 
 of its great work. It is most fitting that such an institu- 
 tion with such a remarkable successful and useful ca- 
 reer, brought to its end only by the irresistable evolu- 
 tion of the modern high school, should call back its 
 children to renew the dear old memories ; to freshen 
 the old history ; put the old stories on record, and per- 
 petuate the memory of John Hotchkin. It was a 
 happy thought. Others will tell the story in detail. 
 
 For so small a town, there was a very large num- 
 ber of strong, able men and women in Lenox. To 
 illustrate its influence outside of Lenox, we have with 
 us to-day three eminent citizens of Berkshire who 
 fitted for College here about 1840, viz. : Mr. Charles 
 J. Taylor, a very prominent citizen of Great Barring- 
 ton, Treasurer of its Savings Bank and author of a 
 very able history of that town ; Hon. Marshall Wilcox 
 of Pittsfield, the oldest and ablest member of the 
 Berkshire Bar; Robert W. Adam of Pittsfield, Treas- 
 urer of the Berkshire County Savings Bank for the 
 last forty years, the oldest and largest bank in the 
 County. 
 
 It is well that Lenox on this Centennial anni- 
 versary of the birth of an institution which rendered 
 such inestimable service to it and all Western Massa- 
 chusetts should summon its graduates to testify to 
 their deep and solemn appreciation of the value of the 
 blessings it bestowed upon them. And it is especially 
 gratifying to see with what unanimity they have re- 
 sponded to the call. 
 
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 HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 
 
 THOMAS POST, of Lenox. 
 
 Compared with the life of the world's oldest civ- 
 ilized institutions, — colleges and universities seven or 
 eight hundred years old, — great cities long forgotten 
 of men on whose remains rest the foundations of 
 other great cities centuries old, — nations whose ex- 
 istence reach so far back into the remote past that 
 history makes no attempt to furnish their record, an 
 institution chartered one hundred years ago seems of 
 recent origin, and not worthy of notice for its age, but 
 when we remember that that institution is only young- 
 er by thirty-six years than the town in which it exists 
 and by twenty-seven years than the nation — that its 
 career has been contempory with and a part of the 
 world's most strenuous, forceful and successful cen- 
 tury, we may well pause for a day to consider its 
 origin, progress, and achievements and the character 
 and motives of its founders. 
 
 Much of the early immigration to these shores had 
 been of the educated and aspiring classes, — pervaded 
 through and through with great thoughts of relig- 
 ious and civil liberty and education. After they had 
 cleared a little of the wilderness and built a church 
 they established a school. They were not to be satis- 
 fied with rudimentary education either. Their youth 
 must know the best the past had done recorded in the 
 
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 best literature. This spirit of the colonists had lost 
 none of its glow in the early struggles with climate 
 and soil and in the contentions preceding and the sat- 
 isfaction following the Revolution. 
 
 In a message to the General Court in June 1801, 
 Gov. Caleb Strong used these words, "The whole in- 
 fluence of education is necessary in Republican Gov- 
 ernments, — they depend for their support, upon the 
 enlightened and affectionate attachment of the peo- 
 ple, — there is no ground to expect they will be pre- 
 served unless the youth are trained to knowledge and 
 virtue," and "It is not enough to teach children to 
 read and write and understand the first rudiments of 
 arithmetick." 
 
 At this time the Commonwealth was the owner of 
 a portion of the then District of Maine and had en- 
 tered upon a policy of granting lands to educational 
 institutions. Liberal grants had been made to Har- 
 vard College and to several academies. The policy 
 had been adopted of granting land to the first char- 
 tered academy in each county and then upon the 
 condition that a suitable building was provided and a 
 certain amount of property acquired. 
 
 In the early part of January (1803) a petition was 
 presented to the Legislature in these words, viz. : — 
 "To the honourable Senate and House of Representa- 
 tives to be convened in General Court at Boston on 
 the second Wednesday of January A. D. 1803, the 
 subscribers humbly represent to your Honours that it 
 would greatly advance the public utility, — especially 
 that of the County of Berkshire and parts adjacent, — 
 should an academy for the instruction of youth in 
 piety, morality and the liberal arts be established in 
 
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 some convenient and central place in said County, — 
 that the Town of Lenox from, its local situation and 
 other circumstances, appears to us to be the most 
 eligible spot for that purpose and that, with a view 
 to such an establishment, we have erected, at a con- 
 siderable expense, a decent building which is judged 
 to be suitable and adequate for such an institution, 
 we therefore pray your Honours, that we, with such 
 others as may hereafter associate with us, may be in- 
 corporated into a body politic by the name of Lenox 
 Academy with the powers and privileges incident to 
 such corporations and under such restrictions and 
 regulations as your Honours may deem reasonable 
 and proper. Lenox, January 5th, 1803." 
 
 This was signed by Samuel Shepard, Eldad 
 Lewis, Caleb Hyde, Thaddeus Thompson, Gamaliel 
 B. Whiting, Daniel Williams Jun., Samuel Quincy, 
 Joseph Tucker, Charles Worthington, Azariah Egle- 
 ston and fifteen others, all prominent citizens of the 
 town. This petition, now on file at the State House 
 in Boston, is in the handwriting of Dr. Lewis. 
 
 In order that there might be no doubt about the 
 success of this enterprise, before presenting the pe- 
 tition its promoters procured its endorsement by 
 fourteen members of the Legislature from this Coun- 
 ty. The petition was presented in the House of Rep- 
 resentatives January 25th, 1803, read and referred to 
 a committee of three who were to act with such as 
 the Senate might join, and afterwards, on the 
 same day, presented in the Senate and referred to the 
 same committee with two Senators joined. There 
 were no unnecessary delays or uncertainties in those 
 days. There is no evidence that any hearing was had 
 
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 or reasons given, but the Committee on February 9th 
 reported that the petitioners have leave to bring in a 
 bill for the incorporation of an academy at said Lenox 
 and the endowment thereof, with a grant of half a 
 Township of six miles square of the unappropriated 
 lands of the Commonwealth in the District of Maine. 
 The report was made in the Senate, at once accepted 
 there, sent down to the House and there concurred in. 
 On the same day a bill accompanying the report was 
 passed along through both houses with the report 
 and was signed by Gov. Strong February 22d, 1803, 
 and became a law. 
 
 How different from the experience in recent years 
 of petitioners for legislation to establish Normal 
 schools in their towns ! 
 
 The law reads as follows : 
 
 An Act to establish an academy at Lionox, in the County 
 of Berkshire. 
 
 Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House 
 of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by 
 the authority of the same, that an Academy for the in- 
 struction of Youth in Liearning, Virtue and Religion, be 
 and hereby is, established at Lenox, in the County of 
 Berkshire, by the name of The Berkshire Academy. 
 
 Sect. 2. And be it further enacted, that the honour- 
 able William Walker, the reverend Samuel Shepard, 
 Azariah Eggleston Esqr., Joseph Goodwin Esqr., Eldad Lewis 
 Esqr., Captain Enos Stone, and Doctor Caleb Hyde of 
 Lenox, the reverend Ephraim Judson of Sheffield, the rev- 
 erend Jacob Catlin of New Marlborough, the honourable 
 Thomas Ives of Great Barrington, the honourable Barna- 
 bas Bidwell of Stockbridge, the honourable Nathaniel 
 Bishop of Richmond, the reverend Thomas Allen, Simon 
 
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 Lamed Esqr., and Joshua Danforth Esqr., of Pittsfleld, 
 and Joseph Whiton Esqr. of Lee, be and they hereby are, 
 constituted a Body Corporate, by the name of The 
 Trustees of Berkshire Academy; and they and their suc- 
 cessors, shall continue a corporation by that name forever, 
 with power to have a common Seal, to contract, to sue or 
 be sued, and prosecute or defend suits, by their agent or 
 agents, appointed for that purpose, to take, hold, and im- 
 prove, any estate, real or personal, and the same to lease, 
 exchange, or sell and convey, for the benefit of the said 
 Academy, by deed or deeds, duly executed, by their 
 Treasurer or other officer or agent, being thereunto au- 
 thorized by the said Corporation: Provided that the an- 
 nual income of the whole estate of the said Corporation, 
 shall not exceed Five thousand dollars. 
 
 Sect. 3. And be it further enacted, that the said 
 Trustees shall have power from time to time to appoint a 
 Clerk who shall be under oath, and a Treasurer who shall 
 give bond, for the faithful discharge of his trust, and such 
 other officers, and such instructors and governors of 
 the said Academy, as the said Trustees may judge need- 
 ful and proper, and also to determine the times and 
 places of their meetings, the mode of warning the same, 
 of electing officers and Trustees, and of transacting all 
 other business; and to ordain necessary and reasonable 
 orders, regulations, and by-laws, for the instruction 
 and government of the said Academy, not repugnant to the 
 Constitution and Laws of this Commonwealth. 
 
 Sect. 4. And be it further enacted, that whenever 
 any of the said Trustees shall die or resign, or by age, 
 infirmity, or otherwise become incapable of discharging 
 his said Trust, in the judgment of the major part of the 
 said Trustees, the survivors may fill such vacancy by 
 electing a successor. 
 
 Sect. 5. And be it further enacted, that the number 
 of the said Trustees, shall not at any time be more than 
 
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 sixteen, nor less than nine, five of whom, shall constitute 
 a Quorum for the transaction of business, and all ques- 
 tions shall be decided, by the votes of a major part of the 
 Trustees present, and in case of an equal division, by the 
 casting vote of the Presiding Trustee. 
 
 Sect. 6. And be it further enacted, that there be and 
 hereby is granted to the said Trustees and their succes- 
 sors, for the use of the said Academy one half a town- 
 ship of six miles square, of any of the unappropriated 
 lands of this Commonwealth, in the District of Maine, 
 (except the ten townships of Penobscot River, purchased 
 of the Indians) to be laid out and assigned by the Agents 
 for the Commonwealth's lands, under the usual restrictions 
 and regulations of similar grants: Provided that the said 
 Committee shall not proceed to lay out and assign said 
 half Township of Land, until it shall be certifield to them, 
 by the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas, within and 
 for said County of Berkshire, or the major part thereof, 
 that the estate vested in, and secured to, the said Trus- 
 tees, is, at the time of such certificate, of the value of 
 Three thousand dollars. 
 
 Sect. 7. And be it further enacted, that the honour- 
 able William Walker be, and he hereby is, authorized to 
 appoint the time and place, and purposes of the first meet- 
 ing of the said Trustees, and give them notice thereof. 
 
 (Acts of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1802, 
 Chapter 82.) 
 
 These men, many of them professional and col- 
 lege bred, and all of them of the highest repute and 
 in the front ranks as citizens of their towns, were 
 carefully selected to give character and standing to 
 this important new institution. 
 
 In accordance with the Act of incorporation Wil- 
 liam Walker, on March 9th, 1803, called a meeting 
 
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 of the charter trustees to be held at the Coffee House 
 in Lenox, April 20th, 1803, at ten o'clock A. M. by a 
 notice published in the Stockbridge Star and the 
 Pittsfield Sun. At this meeting it was voted that 
 Rev. Thomas Allen of Pittsfield be the presiding 
 trustee for this meeting with the title of President; 
 that Eldad Lewis be Clerk for the trustees and Caleb 
 Hyde Treasurer for the Corporation ; that Rev. Sam- 
 uel Shepard, Eldad Lewis, Azariah Eggleston, Capt. 
 Enos Stone and Caleb Hyde be a committee to super- 
 intend the concerns of the Academy at their discretion 
 until another meeting of the trustees and to appoint a 
 Preceptor or Preceptors as they shall find occasion, 
 taking care that the wages for instruction and all 
 other incidental expenses be defrayed by the scholars 
 who may attend the Academy. It was also voted that 
 the trustees approve of Mr. Levi Glezen as a gen- 
 tleman well qualified for a principal Preceptor of the 
 Academy; that scholars from the District be ad- 
 mitted, as hertofore, free of charge, scholars outside 
 the District to pay $2.25 per quarter; that Mr. Levi 
 Glezen be appointed principal Perceptor, his salary 
 to be "such a tax on the scholars attending as a com- 
 mittee of the trustees should judge reasonable." It 
 was also voted that no meeting for singing or any 
 other purpose except school management be held in 
 the building. 
 
 While the Academy Corporation records do not 
 show the fact it would seem that the Middle School 
 District of Lenox had a controlling interest in the 
 building; it had been maintaining a school there and 
 continued to have a school there until 1821, and the 
 records show that on April 20th, 1803, the managing 
 
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 committee, of which Dr. Shepard was chairman, de- 
 cided to occupy the "New building lately erected in 
 the Middle School District in Lenox, provided the 
 Inhabitants of said District do not object." 
 
 In June of this same year an Act was passed by 
 the Legislature changing the name of the Corpora- 
 tion from "The Berkshire Academy" to "The Lenox 
 Academy." The petitioners for the charter had orig- 
 inally asked that the name be "The Lenox Academy," 
 and very likely other towns in the County had ob- 
 jected to any monopoly of the County name by any 
 one town. Academies were very popular in those years 
 and were springing up rapidly ; the Massachusetts 
 Legislature chartered thirty between 1782 and 1805, 
 setts Legislature chartered 30 between 1782 and 1805, 
 and the prosperity of Lenox Academy is evidenced by 
 the appointment of a committee of the trustees "To 
 enquire for the most eligible place on which to erect 
 a house for the Preceptor." 
 
 It was not until 1807 that the Corporation had a 
 record title of the Academy land and building. On 
 May 2 1 St, 1807, Azariah Eggleston conveyed to the 
 trustees of Lenox Academy thirty-eight and three- 
 fourths rods of land with the building standing 
 thereon, — the present site of the Academy, — for a 
 consideration of $2,200. There is no evidence that 
 this sum was paid to Mr. Eggleston, but it is believed 
 to have represented the amount contributed by the 
 Middle School District and individuals towards the 
 purchase of the land and the erection of the build- 
 ing, Mr. Eggleston retaining title to the land until 
 this time with an agreement or understanding with 
 the Academy corporation. Records in the Registry 
 
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 of Deeds for this District show that in 1802 grantors 
 of adjacent lands bounded their land on one side by 
 the "School house Lot," the same lot afterwards in 
 1806, being recognized as a bounding lot under the 
 name of the "Academy Lot," from all of which the 
 inference is easily drawn that the promotors of the 
 Academy had purchased land and built a building 
 even before securing a charter. 
 
 The right to a half township of land in the Dis- 
 trict of Maine had not been forgotten but had not 
 been availed of because the Academy had not yet 
 shown to the proper authorities of the Common- 
 wealth that it had the $3,000, of vested estate re- 
 quired by the charter as a preliminary to having the 
 land fully vested in the Corporation, but after re- 
 peated efforts by the trustees and other friends suf- 
 ficient funds were acquired, so that upon a hearing 
 before the Court of Common Pleas within and for 
 the County of Berkshire, a certificate was granted by 
 the Court that the Academy had an estate vested in 
 and secured to its trustees of the value of $3,000 
 upon presentation of which certificate to the Massa- 
 chusetts agents of eastern lands there was issued by 
 them on June 20th, 1807, a certificate to the trustees 
 stating that "The subscribers, in behalf of the Com- 
 monwealth, are ready to lay out and assign one 
 half township of land in the District of Maine to the 
 trustees of said Academy." This certificate was 
 signed by John Read and William Smith, agents for 
 eastern lands. 
 
 On September 17th, 1807, the Trustees voted to 
 sell the half township of Maine lands. May loth, 
 1810, they voted not to sell the lands because of pre- 
 
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 vailing low prices. May 8th, 1811, they voted to sell 
 the lands at not less than fifty cents per acre, or in 
 case of failure to sell at that price to have them sur- 
 veyed and located. May 13th, 18 12, they voted to sell 
 the lands for not less than forty cents per acre, or 
 have them surveyed and located. In May 181 5, 
 they voted to sell the lands at not less than 
 twenty-five cents per acre with the usual al- 
 ternative of having them located and surveyed. But 
 notwithstanding the continued dropping in price the 
 lands did not sell; however, at the annual meeting in 
 May 1820, William P. Walker, then Treasurer of the 
 Corporation, was authorized to sell the Maine lands 
 upon such terms as should seem for the interest of 
 the Corporation, and make such conveyances as 
 might be proper to pass the title of the Corporation. 
 Mr. Walker seems to have procured a deed of the 
 lands from the Commonwealth dated February 13th, 
 1 82 1, and upon March 6th, 1821, was further au- 
 thorized to sell all the rights, titles and interests of 
 the Academy Corporation in said lands upon the 
 same conditions, restrictions, and reservations as are 
 expressed in the Commonwealth's deed, upon such 
 terms as he shall think most advantageous, and upon 
 June 20th, 1821, he sold the long cherished lands, 
 about twelve thousand five hundred and twenty acres, 
 to Col. Joseph Whiting of Calais, Maine, for $2,500, 
 about twenty cents per acre. These lands are in 
 Washington County, the extreme easterly county of 
 Maine, and the Register of Deeds at Machias in that 
 County informs me that the original deed from the 
 Commonwealth of Massachusetts to the Trustees of 
 Lenox Academy is recorded in the Washington Coun- 
 
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 ty Registry in Volume 12, Page 192, and describes 
 the land as the west half of Township No. 6, Range 
 I, north of Bingham's Penobscot purchase, and that 
 the township is still unincorporated. This region is 
 beyond Bar Harbor and has not yet been reached by 
 the high tides of fashionable society. 
 
 On May 14th, 1823, an important event in the 
 history of the Academy occurred. Mr. Levi Glezen, 
 who had been Preceptor of the Academy from its first 
 beginning, — who had built up a high reputation for 
 the Academy as a school, and for himself as a teach- 
 er, — tendered his resignation. Mr. Glezen was a 
 scholar of unusual attainments for his day. He was 
 the first graduate of Williams College to become one 
 of its Trustees, and in later years was ranked as one 
 of the two most distinguished men in his college class 
 of 1798. For several years there had been some 
 friction between him and the Trustees of the Acad- 
 emy, chiefly on matters relating to compensation. 
 While expenses of living had increased considerably 
 since 1803, the rates of tuition had increased but 
 little. Many academies and schools of high grade 
 were competing for patronage and Mr. Glezen be- 
 lieved that it would be for his advantage to accept the 
 tendered preceptorship of a new academy at Kinder- 
 hook, N. Y., from which town and the towns ad- 
 jacent there had been a large student patronage of 
 Lenox Academy. He went to Kinderhook Academy, 
 remained there six years, and then went to the acad- 
 emy in Sheffield in this County, as its principal, and 
 remained in Sheffield during the remainder of his life. 
 
 Mr. Glezen was a man of marked peculiarities, 
 but a most successful teacher and manager of the 
 
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 school. He gave Lenox Academy its first start on 
 the road to success. A weaker and less capable man 
 might have led to failure. He was an enthusiastic 
 friend of Williams College and sent many well fitted 
 students there. For several years a large proportion 
 of the students graduating there had been fitted for 
 college by Mr. Glezen. He was also, as a Trustee, 
 one of the most sturdy and determined opponents of 
 the removal of the college to Amherst. 
 
 At the time of Mr. Glezen's resignation, Mr. 
 John Hotchkin, a native of Richmond, who had fitted 
 for college under Mr. Glezen in Lenox and graduated 
 with very high standing at Union College, was a stu- 
 dent at Andover Theological Seminary. The Trus- 
 tees asked him to take charge of the Academy as its 
 Preceptor. He accepted, came at once to Lenox, and 
 commenced teaching, and the Academy again pros- 
 pered. Mr. Hotchkin was an active man as well as 
 a trained student. One of his first requests of the 
 Trustees was for more ground on which his students 
 could exercise. His request could not easily be com- 
 plied with, but they used what ground there was, also 
 the wide street adjacent and, in fact, any of the streets 
 or fields of the town. They explored the entire sur- 
 rounding region with their teacher's entire approval. 
 They made well trodden paths to "Bald Head," to 
 "The Ledge" and "The Pinnacle," and in winter, 
 with their sleds, they kept the "Meeting House Hill" 
 and "The Court House Hill" too smooth for any one 
 else to safely use. 
 
 In the school room Mr. Hotchkin found his chief 
 enjoyment. He taught the languages, Latin and 
 Greek. His assistants taught the so-called English 
 
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 branches which included nearly everything else then 
 taught in the Academies. His knowledge of, and 
 delight in, Latin especially was almost phenomenal. 
 In the later years of his teaching it was his favorite 
 and oft repeated remark that he believed there was 
 "more of mental discipline within the pages of An- 
 drews' and Stoddard's Latin Grammar than in all the 
 mathematics extant." He heard his classes recite in 
 Caesar, Sallust, Virgil, Horace, Cicero and Livy with 
 his book turned down on the table before him and his 
 eyes closed, and if a student inaccurately translated 
 or construed a sentence, without opening his eyes, he 
 could correct him and if necessary, refer to the gram- 
 mar, citing the page, the rule, the remark under the 
 rule, and even the fine print added to the remark. 
 Students were admitted to colleges on his certificate 
 without examination. 
 
 With Mr. Hotchkin the matter of discipline 
 seemed to take care of itself. A large number of his 
 students were of mature years, came from a distance 
 and wished to be well prepared for college. They 
 gave a high and orderly tone to the school and an oc- 
 casional caustic remark from Mr. Hotchkin did the 
 rest. Then, too, the preparations for the annual ex- 
 hibitions kept teachers and students in zealous accord. 
 Those exhibitions! I could not describe them so as 
 to satisfy any of their participants or give persons, 
 who never saw one of them, an adequate idea of their 
 glory and grandeur. I saw only the exhibitions of 
 the later years but, although I have seen many college 
 parades and commencements, and inaugural and ded- 
 icatory parades and exercises, nothing of its kind 
 ever so impressed me with its grandeur. The exhibi- 
 
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 tions were held in the "Church on the Hill." A 
 movable stage, built for the purpose, was set up in 
 the church by Mr. Davis, (no one but Mr. Zephaniah 
 Davis, who was a learned mechanic as well as cus- 
 todian of the church, could set up that stage) — the 
 stage was duly carpeted, provided with steps and with 
 chairs for teachers, trustees and distinguished friends 
 of the Academy. The exhibitions occurred in August 
 and the day — always the fourth Wednesday — was a 
 holiday for Lenox and for many of the people of the 
 county. They filled the two hotels with their families 
 and the hotel stables and yards with their horses and 
 vehicles. The townspeople entertained their out-of- 
 town friends and provided for their teams, and to the 
 substantial railings on each side of the main street 
 were hitched the teams of others. There were no 
 steam or electric cars in those days and stages were 
 few. The Lenox Band, assisted by out of town mu- 
 scians, usually furnished music and an abundance of 
 it. A procession of trustees, distinguished guests, 
 teachers and students, present and past, and their 
 friends, was formed in front of the Academy, and, 
 led by the band, marched by the west walk along the 
 street and up the hill to the Church. The trustees, 
 guests and teachers took their proper places. The 
 band was stationed in the singers' gallery. The ex- 
 ercises were opened with prayer by Dr. Shepard and 
 then there were declamations, essays, orations in 
 English and in Latin, disputations and dialogues in- 
 terspersed at intervals with music. The exercises 
 continued through the morning and afternoon, with 
 an intermission of an hour. Nearly every student of 
 the Academy appeared on the stage, — many of them 
 
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 more than once. All wore rosettes of red, white and 
 blue. The whole range of subjects of oratory and 
 poetry was covered except American slavery which 
 was reserved for a more excited and violent genera- 
 tion. After Mr. Hotchkin's administration no more 
 exhibitions in the daytime occurred. 
 
 At the annual meeting of the Trustees June 26th, 
 1847, Mr. Hotchkin tendered his resignation in a 
 communication to the Trustees, full of most noble and 
 generous words of friendship for the Academy and 
 its Trustees, every one of whom were his ardent 
 personal friends. He had been Preceptor more than 
 half the time of the Academy's existence and the 
 Trustees, with regret, but appreciating his reasons, 
 accepted his resignation and expressed by recorded 
 vote their conviction that a debt of gratitude was due 
 to him from the Trustees and the community at large 
 for his active and efficient labors in the cause of edu- 
 cation ; they also at once elected him one of the 
 Trustees and placed him upon a committee of three 
 to procure a new Preceptor for the Academy. He 
 continued a Trustee while he lived and ever the wise 
 and kind counselor and friend of each of his suc- 
 cessors during that time. Mr. Hotchkin had, from 
 his first coming to the Academy, been an interested 
 and prominent worker in everything pertaining to 
 good citizenship. He w)as one of the first to en- 
 deavor to attract strangers to Lenox. He led in 
 street and park improvements. He founded a li- 
 brary. He always voted, but not always the same 
 party ticket, and upon his death Lenox lost one of 
 its truest, most loyal and devoted citizens. 
 
 In September 1847, Mr. Josiah Lyman, a native 
 
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 of Easthampton, and a graduate of Williams College 
 of the class of 1838, became Preceptor and remained 
 nearly two years when he was obliged to resign on 
 account of ill health. Mr. Lyman was an able 
 scholar and teacher and an especially brilliant mathe- 
 matician and mechanic. His scientific lectures and 
 experiments were fully up to the standard of the lec- 
 tures and experiments in the colleges. He, too, re- 
 mained in Lenox during his life, and found plenty of 
 congenial employment in professional and mechanical 
 work in which he had no rivals. 
 
 In August 1849, ^^- Timothy A. Hazen, a Wil- 
 liams graduate of that year, was chosen to succeed 
 Mr. Lyman. Mr. Hazen, full of youthful enthusiasm, 
 was popular and thoroughly successful as a teacher 
 during the two years he was willing to remain. He 
 resigned in September, 185 1, leaving the Academy 
 with its Trustees so satisfied with his work that, after 
 an interval of two years, they again requested him to 
 take the appointment of principal. In September 
 185 1, Mr. Matthew H. Buckham, then very recently 
 graduated from the University of Vermont, and a 
 very young man, became principal of the Academy. 
 Mr. Buckham, although the youngest man who had 
 ever been at the head of the Academy school, soon 
 gave evidence of his fine scholarship and great ability 
 as a teacher, and when, at the end of two years, he 
 resigned to become an instructor in the university 
 from which he graduated, the Trustees, unable to 
 prevail upon him to continue longer, tendered him 
 their cordial thanks for the able manner in which he 
 had discharged his duties, the active interest he had 
 taken in the Academy and the high character which 
 
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 he had imparted to the school. For several years the 
 once principal of Lenox Academy has been President 
 of the University of Vermont. President Buckham 
 honors us with his presence to-day. 
 
 Following Mr. Buckham, again came Mr. Hazen, 
 who this time remained but one year and then retired, 
 carrying with him one of the choicest prizes of the 
 town. 
 
 After Mr. Hazen's retirement, Mr. Judson As- 
 pinwall, in July 1854, was chosen as principal of the 
 Academy. Mr. Aspinwall was attractive, popular 
 and efficient as a teacher, but was compelled by fail- 
 ure of health to resign in March 1855. Mr. Robert 
 B. Snowden, as principal, a Williams graduate of the 
 class of 1854, completed the academical year. 
 
 Mr. Samuel Jessup took the principalship in 1855 
 for a portion of the year, and in October 1856, Mr. 
 Henry M. Sabin of Lenox, a graduate of Williams 
 whom Mr. Hotchkin had prepared for college, was 
 appointed principal for two terms while on the road 
 to his profession. Mr. Hotchkin, then an active 
 Trustee, may have hoped to turn his former and 
 favorite pupil from the profession of medicine to that 
 of teaching, but he remained only his alloted time. 
 
 September 17th, 1859, Mr. Oliver C. Bullard, an 
 experienced teacher, was appointed principal and con- 
 tinued two years. Mr. Bullard's active interest, fine 
 tastes, genial character and good scholarship made 
 his school a success, and students taught by him in that 
 school are always happy in saying that "they went to 
 school to Mr. Bullard." 
 
 The first period of the Academy's school life last- 
 ed fifty-eight years and now closed. 
 
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 For five years after 1861, no school for classical 
 or academical instruction was maintained in the Acad- 
 emy. 
 
 Several of the preceptors and principals of the 
 Academy were ably assisted — Mr. Hotchkin by Mr. 
 Burgess Truesdell, Mr. John L. Hunter, Mr. Horace 
 Bacon and Mr. George Fitch ; Mr. Lyman by Mr. Ed- 
 mund Wright; Mr. Hazen by Mr. William E. Mer- 
 riam and Miss Charlotte A. Goodrich, and Mr. Buck- 
 ham by Miss Caroline A. Titcomb. 
 
 The path which the common school of the col- 
 onists opened led straight upward in Massachusetts 
 and New England through the grammar school, the 
 Latin school and the academy to the high school with 
 its unlimited grades and capabilities and almost un- 
 limited hold on the wealth of the town, the city and 
 the state. A Massachusetts statute of 1826, requiring 
 all towns with five hundred families to maintain a 
 High school, virtually established the high school sys- 
 tem in this Commonwealth. Forty years after, in 
 1866, an act of the Legislature provided that the 
 Trustees of Lenox Academy might devote the use of 
 their real estate and the income of their fund towards 
 maintaining a High school in Lenox. Upon the con- 
 dition that the High school should furnish academical 
 and classical education, the Trustees gave the town 
 of Lenox the use of their Academy building and land, 
 and annually a portion of their income. To furnish 
 such education was the Academy chartered, and, now 
 that the desired end could be reached more surely and 
 with more power, the Trustees were only too glad to 
 aid along lines where they had so long led. 
 
 Lenox established a High school in the Academy 
 
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 building. Mr. Charles H. Smith, a graduate of Yale 
 University, was its first teacher, — employed by the 
 town. Commencing in September 1866, he conducted 
 the school through the school year. Mr. Smith came 
 with the best of endorsements and more than fulfilled 
 every requirement. For more than fifteen years he 
 has been a professor at Yale. Mr. George W. Todd, 
 an experienced, energetic professional teacher, suc- 
 ceeded Mr. Smith and remained two years. Mr. 
 Augustus R. Linfield came in September 1869, and 
 taught the school three years with great success. Mr. 
 Fritz W. Baldwin, a graduate of Bates College, suc- 
 ceeded Mr. Linfield and remained three years, when 
 he retired from the management of the school to the 
 regret, not only of his pupils but also of the whole 
 community. 
 
 In September 1874, Mr. Harlan H. Ballard, then 
 just graduated from Williams College among the first 
 in his class, was employed as teacher of the school, 
 which he so well conducted for six years, as to satisfy 
 the Trustees that it would be wise to reopen the 
 Academy with Mr. Ballard as Preceptor, the town 
 having completed a commodious school building of its 
 own into which it had decided to remove its High 
 School. Mr. Ballard entered upon his new duties as 
 Preceptor of the oldest academy in Berkshire with in- 
 terest and zeal. His ability as a teacher had been 
 shown in the High School; many Lenox students 
 preferred the Academy under Mr. Ballard to the 
 High School and students came from other towns 
 and from cities and the old Academy resumed its 
 former reputation as an "institution of sound learning 
 upon its old site, in the midst of its former tradi- 
 
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 tions." Mr. Ballard continued in the Academy until 
 1886, but the competition of other academies and 
 richly endowed and generously supported high 
 schools was such that both Mr. Ballard and the Trus- 
 tees were convinced that it would not be wise to 
 further continue the Academy as an independent 
 school. 
 
 Under an agreement between the town and the 
 Trustees by which the town agreed to maintain the 
 Academy building in good repair, the town in 1892 
 again installed its High School in the Academy, 
 where the school has since been conducted very suc- 
 cessfully by Mr. Lyman M. Rowland, a Williams 
 graduate of 1890. 
 
 The Academy building has remained, substantially 
 the same, since its erection before 1803, and its com- 
 pletion in 1 8 10, when the Treasurer of the corpora- 
 tion was directed to collect all subscription dues, 
 finish the building and purchase a bell. That same 
 bell hangs where it was then placed and where it has 
 been rung regularly and irregularly ever since. 
 
 About the year 1841 some unusual repairs becom- 
 ing necessary they were made with money collected 
 by Mr. Hotchkin. In 1880 the Trustees expended 
 $3,290.06 in removing the building twenty feet south 
 of its original location, placing it upon a new founda- 
 tion, and in other improvements. Of this expenditure 
 $2,900 was received from subscriptions. In 1892 
 the town expended $1,943 in general repairs, and in 
 1895, $1,417 in enlarging the building by moving its 
 west side wall twelve feet westerly. The building 
 has well answered its purpose and we prize it now 
 for what it has witnessed and aided. 
 
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 No institution of a public or corporate nature can 
 depend entirely on good detail management however 
 valuable that may be. It needs also sympathetic, 
 watchful and generous oversight. Such oversight the 
 Academy has had from the Presidents of its Board 
 of Trustees, and the High School has from the town. 
 
 Although Mr. Allen was the first elected Presi- 
 dent, and, from his position and distinguished char- 
 acter, gave reputation to the Academy enterprise. Dr. 
 Shepard, from the very beginning, was its real pre- 
 siding genius. He was made chairman of the man- 
 aging committee at the same time that Mr. Allen 
 was made President, and in 1810 he was elected Pres- 
 ident. He attended nearly every meeting of the Trus- 
 tees, every examination and exhibition ; he was a 
 scholarly and cultivated man, and for over forty years 
 the Academy, next after his Church, was the pride 
 of his life. 
 
 Rev. Henry Neill, elected President May 12th, 
 1847, realized how difficult it was to fill the position 
 so long held by Dr. Shepard. He realized also how 
 essential a thrifty school of high grade was to the 
 well being of community and church, and this he at- 
 tested by his active interest in and efficient aid to both 
 teachers and students. 
 
 Rev. Edmund K. Alden was elected President 
 March 28th, 1855. From Amherst College, he had, 
 a few years previous, graduated as the valedictorian 
 of his class. During the few years of his residence 
 here he was interested, attentive, and helpful in every- 
 thing pertaining to the welfare of the school, as be- 
 came a man with his ancestry and his place of na- 
 tivity in the old Plymouth Colony. 
 
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 On May 13th, 1871, the Trustees elected Hon. 
 Julius Rockwell President. Judge Rockwell had come 
 from Pittsfield to Lenox to reside after a long and 
 successful career at the bar and in legislation. He 
 had been an able lawyer, several times Speaker of the 
 Massachusetts House of Representatives, ten years a 
 member of Congress from this District and once a 
 United States Senator, and he was then a Judge of 
 the Massachusetts Superior Court, and of an age 
 when most men prefer to avoid care and responsibil- 
 ity. But Judge Rockwell was always a full citizen; 
 he had prepared for Yale College at Lenox Acade- 
 my and when he accepted its presidency he did so 
 from a sense of duty, and took hold of his work with 
 all the energy and force of his nature. He investi- 
 , gated the affairs of the corporation, raised money for 
 the Academy by subscription, subscribed money him- 
 self, devised ways and means to m.ake the Academy 
 more successful, several times came from a distant 
 part of the State to be present at a meeting of the 
 Trustees. He left nothing of duty pertaining to the 
 Academy undone. Judge Rockwell reluctantly ac- 
 cepted the office of school committeeman and for nine 
 years labored for the good of the public schools. He 
 counselled with and advised teachers, listened to the 
 complaints of pupils and their parents and made har- 
 mony wherever possible. For his services on the 
 committee he never accepted compensation. The 
 great loss to Lenox by the death of Judge Rockwell 
 is yet felt and will be for many years to come. 
 
 Catalogues of the Academy are incomplete. Some 
 very prominent men received a portion of their edu- 
 cation there. Among them: Samuel R. Betts, after- 
 
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 wards a Judge of the Circuit Court of the United 
 States; Charles A. Dewey, a Justice of the Supreme 
 Court of Massachusetts; Mark Hopkins and Albert 
 Hopkins, of Williams College; David Dudley Field, 
 of New York City; Stephen J. Field, a Justice of the 
 Supreme Court of the United States; Henry M. Field, 
 the editor and writer ; Henry W. Bishop, a Justice 
 of the Court of Common Pleas of Massachusetts ; 
 Julius Rockwell, a Justice of the Superior Court of 
 Massachusetts ; Ezekiel R. Colt, of Pittsfield ; James 
 D. Colt, a Justice .of the Supreme Court of Massa- 
 chusetts ; William L. Yancey, a distinguished mem- 
 ber of Congress from Alabama; Marshall Wilcox, 
 long the leader of the Berkshire Bar; George J. 
 Tucker, of Lenox ; Robert W. Adam, of Pittsfield ; 
 Charles J. Taylor, of Great Barrington ; James Brad- 
 ford, of Sheffield ; John Branning, of Lee ; George 
 P. Briggs, Henry S. Briggs and Charles N. Emer- 
 son, of Pittsfield ; James T. Robinson and Andrew 
 A. Richmond, of Adams; Henry W. Bishop, Jr., of 
 Chicago; David S. Egleston and Prof. Thomas Egle- 
 ston, of New York City; George T. Washburn, the 
 missionary and educator; Marshall S. Bidwell, of 
 Monterey; Alexander Hyde and George W. Platner, 
 of Lee; Lemuel K. Strickland, of Otis; Charles J. 
 Kittredge, of Hinsdale; John A. Walker, of Pitts- 
 field; Thomas G. Carson, of Dalton; Henry W. 
 Dwight, of Stockbridge; William T. Filley, of Lanes- 
 boro; Joseph Tucker, of Lenox; John S. Schanck, of 
 Princeton, N. J.; Gilbert Combs, of Freehold, N. J.; 
 Billings Palmer, of Great Barrington; John C. Wol- 
 cott, of Cheshire; Alfred M. Copeland, of Spring- 
 field, and many others of prominence. 
 
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 The High School has trained many young men 
 and women to knowledge and good citizenship. 
 Eighty-two of them have received special diplomas 
 and all of them may be expected to well sustain the 
 reputation and character of the school. 
 
 This is something of the story of the Academy, 
 very incomplete, tedious and uninteresting, maybe, 
 but perhaps worthy of being told. 
 
 The value of that which institutions like this Acad- 
 emy and this High School — its legitimate successor — 
 have done and are doing in the northern states of this 
 country, to extend knowledge, broaden minds and ele- 
 vate character, can never be measured. The last United 
 States census showed that, of a population of three 
 million whites in the so-called Apalachian region of 
 the country, more than one half could neither read nor 
 write. The results of such illiteracy need no descrip- 
 tion. Climate and soil have been more favorable to 
 the men of the Carolinas, Kentucky and Tennessee 
 than to the men of New England, but their motives, 
 impulses and aims were different. That difference is 
 our glory. The founders of Lenox Academy and the 
 men who have sustained it were New England men, 
 with the New England motives, impulses and aims 
 and a reasonable and proper gratitude impels us, on 
 this anniversary, to recall and honor their names and 
 virtues. 
 
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 REV. FREDERICK LYNCH, 
 
 Pastor of the Congregational Church at Lenox presided 
 
 at the dinner table and at the close of the dinner 
 
 spoke as follows : 
 
 Probably no event in recent years has brought back 
 to Lenox so many gracious and distinguished people 
 who for a longer or shorter time dwelt within her 
 boarders, and as we look at these men, youthful in 
 their old age, strong in the midst of years, hopeful 
 when declining days make them despondent, coming 
 back with crowns of achievement won in the great 
 world of thought and action, we realize what an in- 
 fluence has been exerted upon their characters and 
 what the Academy, which to-day celebrates its birth- 
 day, has done for the shaping of their minds. We 
 welcome them heartily in the name of the Academy 
 and of the town itself. For so closely has the school 
 been linked to the life of the town that any celebra- 
 tion of its greatness commemorates the town itself, 
 and I would especially call the attention of the young- 
 er people present to the older graduates who have 
 come back to be with us to-day. 
 
 It was a very old poet who heard the Master say- 
 ing, "Behold I set before thee an open door", but in 
 many other nations of this world there is no open door 
 of the school house into knowledge, power and oppor- 
 tunity. It was a greatness of vision in our fore- 
 fathers, the settlers of this country, that they, rig^t 
 
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 from the beginning, established schools and colleges 
 that the children of America might find an open door 
 awaiting them at their birth. The glory of America 
 to-day is in the fact that for every boy and girl there 
 is a door already open out into skill and wisdom and 
 learning and opportunity and character. It is to be 
 regretted that some young people hang around the 
 threshold of the door instead of gladly going through 
 into the realm of power and liberty for one's faculties. 
 These men present with us today are what they are 
 because they gladly entered in and lit their lamps at 
 the altar of truth. Let the young men of to-day and 
 the future see that in America that door is never 
 closed, that the school is kept out of politics, and that 
 the door is opened for every race and creed. Let us 
 thank God that for one hundred years there has beer 
 this open door in Lenox. 
 
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 PAPER 
 
 GEORGE H. TUCKER, Esq., of Pittsfield. 
 
 To establish an institution is one thing; to suc- 
 cessfully maintain and carry it on for a long term 
 of years is quite another. 
 
 To the thoughful care, excellent judgment and 
 prudent management of the representative men, who, 
 as Trustees and Officers, guided the early years of 
 this seminary of learning, the centennial of whose 
 founding we now commemorate, is largely indebt- 
 ed for that solid foundation which, in spite of 
 the uprising of many similar institutions, enabled 
 it to maintain an honorable rank so long. 
 
 It is fitting, therefore, that while paying our trib- 
 ute of history and reminiscence to the institution it- 
 self, we should dwell for a brief space upon those 
 whose unwearied exertions in its pioneer stage made 
 its continued existence possible. 
 
 First named among the Trustees in the Act in- 
 corporating the Academy was William Walker of 
 Lenox, who was born at Rehoboth July 3, 1751. and 
 came to Lenox about 1773. He was a farmer and me- 
 chanic, which occupations were often combined in 
 those days, with also some education as a surveyor. 
 He early enrolled his name among the minute men, 
 and when the news of the battle of Lexington 
 reached Lenox, marched with Captain Dibble's com- 
 
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 pany to the scene of danger. Sharing the varied 
 fortunes of Colonel John Patterson's regiment, in 
 which he held the rank of First Lieutenant and Ad- 
 jutant, he served in the Canada campaign of 1776, 
 and was in the battles of Trenton and Princeton. 
 
 In the spring of 1777 he left the army, though 
 serving as a volunteer in the battle of Bennington, 
 and was soon after appointed Superintendent of the 
 recruiting service in this part of Massachusetts. He 
 was one of the Lenox signers of the non-importation 
 and non-consumption agreement in 1774; was a 
 member of the convention that framed the constitu- 
 tion of this Commonwealth, and was active on the 
 side of government in the Shay's Insurrection. 
 After the Revolution, he was engaged in the mer- 
 cantile and iron business at what is now Lenox Dale. 
 He served in both branches of the Legislature ; in 
 1 78 1 was appointed Register of Probate and in 1795 
 Judge of Probate, which latter office he held for 
 thirty years. He was one of the foimders and first 
 president of the Berkshire County Bible Society. 
 
 Judge Walker was a man of great personal dig- 
 nity, distinguished for excellence of character and of a 
 companionable nature. Persons of all ages sought 
 his society, and from his general intelligence, 
 practical wisdom and bright example, were stimulat- 
 ed to improvement. He was an efficient member of 
 the Board of Trustees of the Academy for twenty- 
 eight years, and until his death, October 31st, 1831. 
 
 Rev. Samuel Shepard in 1810 succeeded Rev. 
 Thomas Allen as President of the Board of Trustees 
 and held the office until his death. Dr. Shepard was 
 distinguished for promptness, accuracy and punctual- 
 ess )
 
 ity to every engagement. His connection with the 
 Academy was as honorable to himself as it was useful 
 to the institution and we find him attending every 
 meeting but two of the Board from its beginning until 
 his death. 
 
 Dr. Shepard was born in Chatham (now Port- 
 land) Conn., November 19, 1772. He early exhibited 
 a fondness for study and at the age of fourteen 
 taught school for about a year, and graduated 
 from Yale in 1793. He was installed pastor of the 
 Congregational Church in Lenox April 30, 1795, at 
 the age of twenty-two, and for the almost unprece- 
 dented period of fifty-one years was pastor of the old 
 church on the hill. He was an uncommon preacher 
 and possessd a remarkable voice, was a faithful pastor 
 and was blessed with many friends. He was a frank 
 man, speaking what he thought and felt, pos- 
 sessed of remarkable spirit and cheerfulness, gifted 
 in conversation, with a wonderful memory and noted 
 for his fund of anecdotes. 
 
 From 1806 to 181 3 he was a Trustee of Middle- 
 bury, Vt., College, and from 1808 a member of the 
 corporation of Williams College, and Vice-President 
 of its Board of Trustees from 1834 to the close of his 
 life, January 5, 1846. The degree of D. D. was con- 
 ferred upon him by Union College in 1819. 
 
 Major Azariah Eggleston deserves a prom- 
 inent place in the history of the Academy, as he evi- 
 dently did much to bring about the erection of the 
 building, its incorporation and its successful inception. 
 He was on the original Superintending Committee; 
 attended regularly the meetings of the Trustees, and, 
 no doubt, contributed largely to its success, both in a 
 
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 financial way and in having its interests always at 
 heart. He was a Massachusetts man, being born in 
 Sheffield February 23, 1757. He removed to Pittsfield 
 when a young man and when the news of the battle 
 of Lexington reached Berkshire with his three 
 younger brothers, all four in Captain Noble's com- 
 pany, after only a few hours notice marched to Cam- 
 bridge. He served in all of the battles in which Col. 
 John Patterson's regiment engaged, in the Revolu- 
 tionary war, crossed the Delaware on that dreadful 
 Christmas night, and was with Washington during 
 the terrible winter at Valley Forge. He was a mem- 
 ber of the Society of the Cincinnati and one of the 
 founders of the Massachusetts Society. In the trou- 
 bles incident to the Shay's Insurrection, he was a firm 
 supporter of the Government. At the close of the 
 Revolutionary war he came to Lenox and engaged 
 there in active business. He was a man of great 
 energy^ and perseverance, and for years was among the 
 foremost and most enterprising citizens of the town. 
 Largely through his efforts the Episcopal Church 
 was established in Lenox in 1793. He served in 
 both branches of the Legislature and held various 
 local offices. 
 
 Major Eggleston was unselfish, genial and gener- 
 ous. He always, expected the same in others and in 
 his old age lived to be grievously disappointed in 
 some of those whom he had both trusted and bene- 
 fited. Shortly before his death, which occurred Jan- 
 uary 12, 1822, he retired from active business. 
 
 Joseph Goodwin was born at Boston December 
 29, 1761, son of Benjamin Goodwin. He was living 
 in Lenox as early as 1784, was bred a mer- 
 
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 chant and for a number of years was associated with 
 William Walker in the mercantile and iron business 
 at Lenox Dale. He held various town offices and 
 represented Lenox in the General Court in 1800 and 
 1801. He was one of the corporators and Directors 
 of the unfortunate Berkshire Bank, established at 
 Pittsfield in 1807, and on the failure of that institu- 
 tion, the Directors being held personally liable, was, 
 with his fellow Directors, comimitted to jail and pe- 
 cuniarily ruined. He removed to Hudson, N. Y., 
 about 18 14, and was there engaged in business with 
 varying success, until his death November 5, 1822. 
 
 Enos Stone was born in Litchfield, Conn., August 
 5, 1744, and was in Lenox as early as 1771. He 
 signed the non-consumption agreement in 1774; 
 represented the town in the General Court for three 
 years and held various town offices ; was a Captain 
 in the Twelfth Massachusetts Regiment from the first 
 of January, 1777, but being taken prisoner at Hub- 
 bardton, 7th July, 1777, and not exchanged, was 
 obliged to retire from the army. 
 
 Captain Stone was a leading citizen of Lenox for 
 many years. He removed to Rochester, N. Y., in 
 1815, where he had large landed interests and where 
 his sons had previously settled, and where he died 
 September 2, 1815. 
 
 Eldad Lewis, when made a Trustee, was a phy- 
 sician in Lenox. At the first meeting of the Trustees 
 he was chosen clerk and a member of the Superin- 
 tending Committee. 
 
 Dr. Lewis, son of Capt. Eldad Lewis, was bom 
 in Southington, Conn., February 7, 1755. He was in 
 Lenox as early as 1777, and in the spring of that 
 
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 year served as surgeon in a Berkshire militia detach- 
 ment at Ticonderoga; and was active on the Gov- 
 ernment side during the Shay's Insurrection. He 
 was the Lenox Town Clerk from 1794 to 1801, and 
 served in other town offices ; was a Director in 
 the Lenox Library in 1799. In 1794 he made for 
 the state a survey map of the town. In 1788 he re- 
 ceived the honorary degree of A. M. from Yale Col- 
 lege, and, in 1806, the degree of S. M. S. from Wil- 
 liams. He was one of the founders of the Berkshire 
 Medical Society, and delivered an oration at its first 
 meeting. He also published several elaborate and 
 finished poems and addresses on other notable occa- 
 sions. 
 
 About 1816 Dr. Lewis removed to Newburgh, N. 
 Y., where he successfully conducted a printing busi- 
 ness and also continued in the practice of his profes- 
 sion. In October, 1817, his establishment was burned, 
 and then most of his property was lost. He then re- 
 moved to New York City, but afterwards returned to 
 Newburgh, where he died July 15, 1825. 
 
 Politically, he was an ardent Federalist, and dur- 
 ing the campaign of 1808 printed a newspaper — the 
 "Lenox Watchlight" — advocating his principles. He 
 was a charter member and officer of Evening Star 
 Lodge of Masons at Lenox. Dr. Lewis was a mjan of 
 scholarly attainments, interested in and laboring for 
 the interests of the town ; a devoted member of the 
 Congregational Church and an eminent physician. 
 
 Caleb Hyde of Lenox, the first Treasurer, was 
 bom at Lebanon, Conn., August 5, 1765. He came 
 with his father. Gen. Caleb Hyde, to Lenox about 
 1769. Dr. Hyde, as he was called, though an apothe- 
 
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 cary and not a practicing physician, established the 
 first drug store in Lenox a little south of the present 
 Town building. He afterwards bought the property 
 just south of the Academy lot, and established a drug 
 store there. He was Register of Deeds for the Mid- 
 dle District from 1790 to 1796, and County Treasurer 
 from 1810 to 1813; represented Lenox in the General 
 Court and was four years a member of the State Sen- 
 ate. He removed to Stockbridge a few years before 
 his death, and died there March 7, 1838. Dr. Hyde 
 was a man of affairs, a careful business man and 
 accumulated quite a property. 
 
 Rev. Ephraim Judson, when chosen a Trustee, 
 was Pastor of the Congregational Church in Shef- 
 field. He was born in Woodburn, Conn., December 
 5, 1737, graduated at Yale in 1763, and after pastor- 
 ates at Norwich, Conn., and Taunton, Mass., was 
 settled at Sheffield in 1791, where he died February 
 
 23, 1813- 
 
 In person, Mr. Judson was a tall, muscular man, 
 of commanding presence, slow in his movements 
 and enunciation. He wore the white wig of that 
 period, was stately in his manners, yet affable and 
 pleasant to those well acquainted with him, a well- 
 read Divine, his sermons containing a large amount 
 of well digested thought. 
 
 Rev. Jacob Catlin of New Marlboro was born 
 at Harwinton, Conn., March, 1758, graduated at Yale 
 in 1784 and was settled at New Marlboro three years 
 later, remaining as pastor until his resignation in 
 1825. He was a scholarly man, and published several 
 works, the most important being a compendium of 
 theology, which passed through two editions. He was 
 
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 a Trustee of Williams College from 1807 to 1822. In 
 the latter year he received the degree of D. D. from; 
 Yale. Dr. Catlin was of medium height, not fleshy but 
 strongly made, with a grave, manly countenance. His 
 dress was always black, with small clothes buckled at 
 the knee, a white stock buckled behind, and a hat of 
 large brim slightly turned up at the sides and rear. 
 He was courteous in his manner, with the kindly 
 bow of the olden time for all he met. He died April 
 12, 1826. 
 
 Thomas Ives of Great Barrington was born at 
 North Haven, Conn., February 2, 1753. He was a 
 student at Yale when the Revolutionary War broke 
 out, and, in common with others, left the Institu- 
 tion for a time and did service in the American army, 
 returning to College, and graduating with the class of 
 1777. He studied law at Litchfield, Conn., and was 
 admitted to the Litchfield County bar in 1780. He 
 was for a time in the law office of Theodore Sedg- 
 wick at Sheffield, and while there served in the Berk- 
 shire Militia, with the rank of Major. Removing to 
 Great Barrington in 1782, the following year was ap- 
 pointed Collector of Impost and Excise for this 
 County. He served in both branches of the State 
 Legislature. 
 
 As was natural from his early experience, he was 
 much interested in military affairs, and held the rank 
 of General, by which title he was generally known in 
 later years, in the Massachusetts Militia. He died 
 March 8, 1814. 
 
 Barnabas Bidwell of Stockbridge was a mem- 
 ber of the State Senate in 1803, and as such present- 
 ed the petition for the Incorporation of the Academy, 
 
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 drew the bill and greatly aided in its passage. 
 He was the son of Rev. Adonijah Bidwell and 
 was born in Tyringham (now Monterey) Aug- 
 ust 23, 1763. Graduating at Yale in 1785, admitted 
 to the Berkshire bar about 1790 becoming soon a lead- 
 ing lawyer. He was a member of the United States 
 House of Representatives in the Ninth Congress, 
 1805 to 1807, and was Attorney General of Massa- 
 chusetts from 1807 to 1 8 10. He was also Treasurer 
 of Berkshire County from 1791 to 1810. He died at 
 Kingston, Canada, July 27, 1833. 
 
 Nathaniel Bishop of Richmond was born at 
 Guilford, Conn., June 13, 1751, and came to Rich- 
 mond in 1777, in the prime of life, active and enter- 
 prising, and soon taking a leading position in the 
 town. A representative in the Legislature for sev- 
 eral years, and serving it faithfully in various capac- 
 ities. From 1798 to 1823 he was Register of Probate, 
 and for several years a Justice of the County Court. 
 From 1806 to 1810 a Trustee of Williams College. 
 Through a long, and, for the most part, an active 
 life he commanded the respect of the people, and en- 
 joyed the esteem of a wide circle of friends. His 
 death occurred February i, 1826. 
 
 Rev. Thomas Allen of Pittsfield, first President 
 of the Board of Trustees, was born at Northampton 
 January 17, 1743, graduated at Harvard in 1762 and 
 came to Pittsfield as first Pastor of its Congregational 
 Church in 1764. He served the Church for forty-six 
 years, and died in office February 11, 1810. 
 
 Mr. Allen was a strong supporter of the Ameri- 
 can cause in the Revolution, saw service as an army 
 chaplain, and as a volunteer at the battle of Ben- 
 
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 nington became widely known as the "Fighting Par- 
 son of Berkshire." His connection with Lenox Acad- 
 emy had much more than a merely local influence. 
 
 Simon Larned of Pittsfield, born at Killingly, 
 Conn., April 13, 1753, was a Revolutionary officer, 
 who, after the war engaged in mercantile pursuits 
 in Pittsfield. He represented the Berkshire District 
 in Congress in 1806 and 1807; was sheriff of the 
 County for twenty years from 1792, and was in com- 
 mand of a regiment during the war of 1812. He was 
 a Director and President of the ill-fated Berkshire 
 Bank, but through all that trouble retained the con- 
 fidence of his fellow citizens. He died November 
 16, 1817. 
 
 Joshua Danforth of Pittsfield was born at 
 Western (now Warren), Mass., November 26, 1759. 
 
 He was an officer in the Revolutionary army, 
 coming to Pittsfield in 1784 and engaging in mer- 
 cantile business, holding a number of public offices, 
 being a member of the General Court, member of the 
 Governor's Council, United States Revenue Collector, 
 etc. He was the first postmaster of Pittsfield, and with 
 a brief interregnum, held that office until his death, 
 January 30, 1837. A man distinguished for the faith- 
 ful and accurate discharge of all duties devolved 
 upon him. 
 
 Joseph Whiton of Lee, born in Connecticut, a 
 soldier of the Revolution, a prominent citizen of Lee 
 from 1787 to his death, August 16, 1828, completes 
 the list of original Trustees. The title of General, 
 by which he was known in later years, was derived 
 from service in the Massachusetts Militia, a detach- 
 ment of which he led from Berkshire to Boston dur- 
 
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 ing the war of 1812. He served in both branches of 
 the General Court and held numerous local offices. 
 In every position he commanded public confidence and 
 respect. 
 
 These brief sketches of the early Trustees of 
 Lenox Academy show that they were men of weight 
 and influence in their communities and in the county. 
 The Institution was fortunate indeed to command 
 the service of such men. 
 
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 REMARKS 
 
 BY 
 
 Hon. MARSHALL WILCOX, of Pittsfield. 
 An Alumnus of the Academy in the '40s. 
 
 I congratulate myself in being here upon this in- 
 teresting occasion. For many reasons this town, 
 Lenox, appeals to my love and brings before me asso- 
 ciations springing from infancy and from the boyhood 
 and manhood of my life. My birth place was in Stock- 
 bridge near the northerly section of the beautiful 
 lake which I used to know by a very appropriate 
 name, as the "Stockbridge Bowl." From this place 
 Lenox village was in plain view, over a distance, pos- 
 sibly of a mile and a half, sparkling as a gem in the 
 eastern sky. 
 
 Lenox is fortunate in its topography, in the very 
 center of our county, amid the hills and valleys of 
 Berkshire. Greylock towers on the north, the highest 
 land in Massachusetts thirty-six hundred feet above 
 tide water at Albany, N. Y., and as a visible object 
 inspires its beholders with reverence and awe. On the 
 west, and within the town, rises precipitously a com- 
 manding eminence, bringing to view the Hudson 
 river and the Catskill range of mountains in the state 
 of New York, while on the south Monument moun- 
 tain and the dome of Mount Washington and the 
 Housatonic river each having interesting history and 
 traditions are objects of interest. 
 
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 I venture to suggest the difficulty of elsewhere 
 finding a locality richer in natural scenery or more in- 
 spiring to the educated and thoughtful mind than 
 Lenox and its surroundings. 
 
 Professor Silliman, an eminent chemist in Yale 
 College, while on a tour from Hartford to Quebec 
 some time prior to 1830, visited Lenox and thus de- 
 scribes the town : "Lenox, the capital of the county, 
 'is a town of uncommon beauty. It is built upon a 
 'hill on two streets intersecting each other nearly at 
 'right angles. It is composed of handsome houses, 
 'which, with exception of a few brick, are painted of a 
 'brilliant white. It has two neat houses for public wor- 
 'ship. It has a Court House of brick in a fine style of 
 'architecture ; it is fronted with pillars, and furnished 
 'with convenient offices and a spacious court room. 
 'Lenox has fine mountain air and is surrounded by 
 'equally fine mountain scenery. Indeed, it is one of the 
 'prettiest of our inland towns. White marble is often 
 'the material of their steps, foundations and pave- 
 'ments." 
 
 Lenox was incorporated as a town by the Provin- 
 cial Legislature of Massachusetts in the reign of 
 George the Third, 1767. Thirty-six years after in 
 1803, Lenox Academy was incorporated in the third 
 year of the Nineteenth century (1767), one hundred 
 years ago. 
 
 In Dr. Field's history of the County of Berkshire, 
 the Academy is spoken of as follows : 
 
 "This institution is divided into two departments, 
 'both of which are under the superintendence of the 
 'principal. The school is composed principally of 
 'scholars from abroad and consists of youth of both 
 
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 'sexes. Connected with the Academy is a valuable li- 
 'brary, containing between three ^and four hundred vol- 
 'umes of well-chosen books. The Academy is in the 
 'center of the County of Berkshire. The village in 
 'which it is located is pleasant and healthful, and prob- 
 *ably presents fewer temptations to vice and immor- 
 'ality than almost any other place containing an equal 
 'population. The inhabitants are well informed, in- 
 'telligent and hospitable, and may with truth be said 
 'to be remarkable for their habits of industry, sobriety, 
 'morality and order." 
 
 It is quite evident from the conditions then exist- 
 ing, no better place could have been selected for the 
 location of the Academy than the town of Lenox, dis- 
 tinguised not for its scenery merely, but also for the 
 intelligence, moral worth, hospitality and courtly man- 
 ners of its people. Mr. Levi Gleason, a native of 
 Stockbridge, a graduate of Williams College, and for 
 many years one of its trustees, was the first preceptor 
 of the Academy and continued in that position till 1823, 
 and in that period of twenty years he brought the in- 
 stitution into wide celebrity. 
 
 Rev. John Hotchkin, a native of Richmond in 
 this county, and a graduate of Union College, suc- 
 ceeded Mr. Gleason as the principal of the institution, 
 and for about twenty-five years he impressed upon his 
 students an appreciation of himself as a teacher and of 
 his desire to train them intellectually and morally as 
 few teachers have been able to do. 
 
 In May, 1837, my attendance at the Academy com- 
 menced, and continued for three years and one term, 
 when I entered Williams College, in August, 1840. The 
 Academy at this time had attained prominence and 
 
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 celebrity. Its students came not from its immediate 
 vicinity only but from most every state of our union 
 and in some instances from beyond our national 
 boundaries. At the close of each academic year it 
 gave a public exhibition held in the old meeting house 
 overlooking the little village below, and the magnifi- 
 cent works of God around it. In this exhibition, sur- 
 prising as it may seem, people manifested remarkable 
 interest, and came to it not as a gala day but to em- 
 phasize their appreciation of the good works and 
 worth of the institution. 
 
 And lest it may be overlooked let us also remem- 
 ber that this old meeting house was dedicated to the 
 worship of God on the first day of January, 1806, 
 and will itself be a century old the first day of Janu- 
 ary, 1906. It stands on a sacred hill at the gateway of 
 the cemetery midst its founders ; and there, let it 
 stand, if possible, forever, a monument to their works 
 and worth. 
 
 And furthermore, let us not omit to thank Mr. 
 Post, for his excellent commemorative discourse 
 which has involved research and care, and is certain- 
 ly a production of historic value. 
 
 My going to the Academy in 1837 was with no 
 expectation of remaining there beyond two terms, and 
 of course there was no expectation of college. My 
 idea was to be a farmer, fitted to pursue that vocation. 
 Even now, I regard the vocation of the farmer as a 
 primitive calling on which life depends and without it 
 all human progress ends. It delights me to be able 
 to pay this tribute to the farmers who as a class large- 
 ly makes the strength and true nobility of our country. 
 It was not my fortune however to be a farmer, Cir- 
 
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 cumstances led me to continue at the Academy, then 
 to college, and then to the legal profession as you 
 know. At the Academy dear associations were formed 
 and it would please me to review the friendships there 
 formed with young men from North and South, East 
 and West. 
 
 Mr. Hotchkin was the principal of the school in 
 1837. He used to call himself "King John." He wel- 
 comed me as he did all others into his dominion and 
 we fared well under his jurisdiction. He was a su- 
 perior teacher. His motto was "get what you get got" 
 and this he required to be done. The requirement 
 filled the atmosphere of the school and swept through 
 halls every day. He was a public spirited citizen, not 
 a shadow clouded his character and his memory re- 
 mains fresh and dear to all who survive him. 
 
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 REMARKS 
 
 ROBERT W. ADAM, Esq., of Pittsfield. 
 
 It gives me great pleasure to be present here to- 
 day, I find myself seated between two associates and 
 friends of early days. Marshall and Charley they still 
 are to me, and so I still call them. Charley is my seat 
 mate on my right as he was in the old school room 
 many, many years ago, and Marshall is the same cher- 
 ished friend whom I have known through this long 
 period as school mate, college mate, man of business 
 and neighbor. But I would rather listen than talk. 
 I want to hear something which will quicken my 
 memory, by no means dull however, of what were 
 some of the happiest years of my life. I came here 
 in 1835. My father had been here before me; about 
 1810, I think. Mr. Gleason was my father's teacher 
 and I remember calling on him with my father, at his 
 home in Sheffield, where he lived after retiring from 
 the Academy. 
 
 I came into the family of my aunt, Mrs. William 
 I. Walker, and had an exceptionally good opportunity 
 to become acquainted with the town and its inhab- 
 itants. I learned the town very thoroughly and 
 learned to love it. I fished in its ponds and streams, 
 and if I was not uniformly successful, my early ac- 
 quaintance with two or three noted fishermen of the 
 day taught me how to give a fairly favorable report. 
 I climbed old Bald Head ; I tramped over The Pin- 
 acle, and I earned my first pair of skates picking up 
 
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 chestnuts in the woods around the site of the present 
 Hotel Aspinwall. 
 
 Lenox was then a remarkable town in its inhal>- 
 itants. I have never known its superior. The name of 
 Shepard, Walker, Worthington, Sedgwick, Bishop, 
 Tucker, Cook, Hotchkin, Post, Judd, Brewster, Mat- 
 toon, Morrell and many others, then prominent here, 
 bring up the memory of men in professional, business 
 and agricultural life such as few towns could show. 
 They were men of high thought, independent judg- 
 ment, worthy aspirations, good citizens all. 
 
 In the early years of the last century there was in 
 the Connecticut River valley a class of men known 
 as The River Gods, men well deserving the title. 
 Lenox had her Mountain Gods, their equals in every 
 respect ; topographically at least on a higher plane, 
 nearer the Olympian summit. 
 
 The Academy was then at the height of prosperity. 
 It was found necessary to remodel the interior of the 
 building, placing a double row of desks around the 
 school rooms, and every desk had its occupant. There 
 were many students here from Albany and Troy and 
 others of the river towns. They were here in num- 
 bers from New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, South 
 Carolina and Georgia, and there was one boy from 
 Cuba. I wonder if he is living now, and what and 
 where he is. 
 
 Of Mr. Hotchkin I have a most grateful memory. 
 He was a thorough teacher. Thoroughness was his 
 prominent characteristic. How often have I heard 
 him repeat, 
 
 "A little farm well tilled, 
 A little lesson well drilled", 
 
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 and the unfortunate youth who undertook a recitation 
 before him without full preparation was sent back to 
 his desk to complete the drilling. He had a somewhat 
 hasty temper and it occasionally got the better of him, 
 but he was a thoroughly just man and ever ready to 
 make amends for any error hastily committed. He 
 had the respect and affection of his pupils. So well 
 was he known and appreciated at Williamstown that 
 his certificate of fitness admitted one of his scholars to 
 the college with merely a formal examination. 
 
 As I have already said I learned to love Lenox, 
 and some of the happiest years of my life were spent 
 here. The place has changed from what it was. Pal- 
 aces, misnamed cottages, are planted on its hills and 
 wealth and fashion promenade its streets, but I still 
 see the comfortable old mansions, with their stately 
 occupants long passed away, and I meet on the street 
 ingenuous youths and maidens fair, grand parents 
 now if living, most of them gone before. It is the 
 privilege as well as the pleasure of an old man to live 
 much in the past. 
 
 How many times, sitting here by open window on 
 a summer Sabbath morning, I have caught the tones 
 of the old church bell, as the strong arms of Sexton 
 Davis sent them rolling down the hill, crowding the 
 whole atmosphere with sound. Then in the intervals 
 there would come floating up the valley, softened and 
 mellowed by the distance, the sweet call of the church 
 bell in Lee. So now in the rush, and the press, and 
 the hurry of the busy present, how often there come 
 to me restful recollections of the happy, careless boy- 
 hood of long ago. 
 
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 SUMMARY OF REMARKS 
 
 OF 
 
 CHARLES J. TAYLOR, Esq., of Great Barrington. 
 
 Charles J. Taylor, Esq., of Great Barrington, a 
 student at the Academy in the forties with Messrs 
 Wilcox and Adam, told in a very entertaining and 
 interesting manner of his life and experiences while at 
 school in Lenox. His recollections of Mr. Hotchkin 
 and his assistants, of Dr. Shepard, pastor of the old 
 church on the hill, long president of the Academy's 
 trustees and always alive and attentive to its interests, 
 of Dr. Robert Worthington, an able and efficient 
 trustee, of Judge Walker, Charles Sedgwick and of 
 many other then prominent people of the town, was 
 pleasing and instructive to hear, and so also was his 
 account of the impressions made upon him of the town, 
 its schools, churches, hotels, prison and court house 
 with its frequent and long continued sessions of the 
 courts. 
 
 Mr. Taylor's life long interest in and attention to 
 historical and biographical subjects made his remarks 
 of great value as well as pleasant to hear and it is to 
 our great sorrow and regret that his passing away 
 occurred so soon ; and we do not here attempt to do 
 justice to his remarks. 
 
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 REMARKS 
 
 BY 
 
 MATTHEW H. BUCKHAM, 
 
 President of the University of Vermont. 
 
 It is now just fifty years — eheu fugaces annos! — 
 since I left the principalship of Lenox Academy to 
 become an instructor in the University of Vermont. 
 Though I have since that time returned to Lenox but 
 once, it has all along been like a sweet dream to think 
 back upon my life here. And now coming into this 
 Berkshire region in all the pomp of its October 
 glories, and to Lenox in this calm sweet Indian sum- 
 mer time, it is to me like the realization of a dream. 
 It is even more — for either Lenox has increased in 
 beauty, or in all my dreaming I had not pictured it as 
 beautiful as it really is. Some things disappoint me. 
 When in my rambles this morning I passed some of 
 the fine old houses in which once lived the families 
 whose gracious hospitality was one of the charms of 
 the old Lenox, and was confronted by a saucy placard 
 warning me to "Keep off these grounds," I could not 
 keep down a little feeling of resentment, and a wonder 
 who these intruders might be who presumed to shut 
 their doors and even their door-yards against one who 
 used to be welcomed by the Sedgwicks, the Walkers, 
 the Tafts, the Bishops, and the Tuckers. How much 
 better, I thought to myself, are these things done by 
 the Webbs, the Cannons, the Hatches, the Holts, and
 
 the Buells of Burlington, where the placard reads, 
 "The Public are welcomed to these grounds on every 
 day of the week except Sunday." But this mood 
 was soon effaced by the sights and the associations and 
 the memories which restored the old glamour and re- 
 vived the old affection. This broad, winding village 
 street, the most beautiful one I know in New Eng- 
 land ; these fine old houses "plain in their neatness"; 
 these elms, these gardens ; this idyllic quiet undis- 
 turbed by any form of modern locomotion; the old 
 church on the hill, standing where by New England 
 tradition it ought, "equally inconvenient to everybody," 
 preaching from its vantage-point to all the region 
 round old fashioned piety and ever-during virtue ; the 
 memories awakened by these scenes, of old faces, old 
 friendships, old meetings and partings ; of one great 
 tragedy, the Norwalk calamity, which draped the 
 street in gloom ; the old sessions of the court when 
 Lenox was the shire-town ; memories of Hawthorne 
 who came up at 4 o'clock every afternoon for his mail 
 from his little red cottage by the Stockbridge Bowl (I 
 wonder if it is still "Stockbridge Bowl" or some new 
 lack-a-daisical name!) ; the delightful evenings at Miss 
 Catherine Sedgwick's ; the girls of Mrs. Sedgwick's 
 School, representatives of our "first families" in all the 
 States, whom one met alike in storm and shine out 
 for their constitutional ; chestnutting in the fall, skating 
 on the ponds in the winter — all these things, for I was 
 not much more than a boy then, — come back to me to- 
 day in a flood of reminiscences, mingling joy and sor- 
 row, the grateful sense of the good which has been, 
 tinged with a sadness which is not akin to pain. 
 
 Naturally my thoughts recall my pupils of that 
 
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 far-away time. Last evening I visited the cemetery 
 on the hill, and I read through tears the names of old 
 pupils graven on stones already moss-grown. Where 
 is she now, the fairest of them all, under what beach- 
 en shade, by what limpid stream of Paradise, who 
 never could get her subjunctives and her gerundives 
 right, but who phrased the beauties of the Eclogues 
 with a felicity something like that of Virgil himself? 
 I recall a handsome little curly-haired boy, the young- 
 est and, all said, the favorite pupil of the Principal, 
 who is now mine host of this Curtis House and the 
 best-reputed landlord of the Berkshires. Two of my 
 scholars of that time are sitting here today, one the 
 orator of the morning and the other an honored guest, 
 between whom there was a friendly rivalry, and I was 
 proud of both. 
 
 But Lenox Academy ! It belongs to a class of in- 
 stitutions which I suppose have had their day — super- 
 seded by the High Schools, wisely, no doubt on the 
 whole, but not without some loss. To say a word of 
 praise for the old Academy is like praising the old 
 Stage-Coach. But even so, it shall not lack the word 
 of praise from me. It had this great advantage over 
 the High School — ^that it gave a great opportunity to 
 a teacher of exceptional personal gifts and power of 
 influence. What finer work is ever done for one hu- 
 man soul by another than that which is done bv a 
 teacher who gives his thought, his toil, his prayers, 
 himself, to his pupils — by Dr. Arnold at Rugby, by 
 the Scotch Dominie in Drumtochty, by this one and 
 that one whose names we cherish in our heart of 
 hearts though they may be unknown to fame. And 
 what admiration and love and gratitude are better 
 
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 earned or more heartily awarded than those we give 
 to the men or the women who in teaching us the 
 classics, or the mathematics, or the sciences, teach 
 what is of a thousand times more worth, truth, and 
 gentleness, and courtesy, and love of home, friends, 
 country and God. The old Academy teacher had a 
 unique opportunity to do this work — and in number- 
 less cases he did it, and did it faithfully and lovingly; 
 and many a man, who never afterwards went to Col- 
 lege, got from this training the best part of a liberal 
 education and rose to a position of honor and use- 
 fulness. The High School teacher has not the same 
 opportunity. He is an employee in an organization 
 which prescribes to him his work, calls him to ac- 
 count for accomplishing certain specific things, and 
 rather discourages any spontaneity or initiative in him. 
 We have heard to-day admiring and loving words 
 spoken of Principal Hotchkin. Would the work he 
 did in Lenox Academy be possible in a High School? 
 Do we ever, or often, hear such words spoken of the 
 principal of a High School? To get prescribed work 
 regularly done, to keep the classes up to standard 
 grade, to satisfy the requirements of regents or other 
 examiners, this is the ambition of the High School 
 principal or teacher. But where is the personal in- 
 terest, the study of individual capabilities and needs, 
 the patience with dullness, the sympathy that discerns 
 latent ability under an unpromising exterior, the 
 brooding and pleading, the reproving frown which is 
 the worst punishment and the encouraging smile which 
 is the highest reward — where is all this most valuable 
 of all educative influence, if the teacher does not, so to 
 speak, live with his pupils, but locks his doors against 
 
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 them, and goes his own way, during all but five hours 
 out of the twenty-four? 
 
 The High School is our one great American con- 
 tribution to the education of the people. Let us, by 
 all means, maintain and complete it. But there is a 
 place for the endowed Academy which no other educa- 
 tional institution can fill, and the lack of which would 
 leave a large amount of the best talent undeveloped. 
 And I, for one, should rejoice to see the old Lenox 
 Academy revived in a new life in accordance with the 
 conditions of the new generation. The wealthy men 
 who have come in here and appropriated the beauties 
 and the charms of this most lovely spot, owe some re- 
 turns to the locality for all that they have received 
 from it. It gives me great satisfaction to see what 
 they have done for Church building and for Church 
 life since my home was here. But I trust they will 
 pardon one who is now a stranger to Lenox, and who 
 if they will heed him for this once, will forever here- 
 after "keep off their grounds," if he suggests to them 
 that the building and endowing of a first class Acad- 
 emy, to bear the old and honored name of the "Lenox 
 Academjy," would be the recognition of a great op- 
 portunity, and the discharge of a part — and only a 
 part — of a great debt. 
 
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 REMARKS 
 
 President HENRY HOPKINS, of Williams College. 
 
 A certain Berkshire consciousness has seemed to 
 mark every one who has Hved in the Berkshire Hills. 
 At the time of the establishment of Lenox Academy 
 there was in the county a high grade, homogeneous 
 population of English descent. They were industrious, 
 frugal, leading simple, earnest lives, for the most part 
 God-fearing farmers ; there were no very rich nor very 
 poor. Neighborhood had meaning and moral earnest- 
 ness was the fashion. It may fairly be asserted that 
 no more highly intelligent, more generally moral, and 
 more truly democratic communities than those were 
 have appeared anywhere. It is not too much to say 
 that there did not then exist upon the face of the earth 
 a population where there was so high an average of 
 intelligence, of character, and of genuine worth. It is 
 certainly perfectly safe to assert that there was no- 
 where a population upon whom could rest more safely 
 the fabric of a free state. 
 
 From among them emerged leaders who were 
 notable for the breadth of their intelligence, the exalta- 
 tion of their character, and the strength of their in- 
 fluence. A similar class of men in the valley of the 
 Connecticut at about that time used to be called "the 
 River Gods". These men might with equal propriety 
 have been called "the Gods of the Hills". To com- 
 
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 memorate their names should be a part of an occasion 
 like this. 
 
 These people inherited traditions of liberty. They 
 were patriotic by instinct. Their fathers fought in the 
 colonial wars, took part in the agitation which pre- 
 ceded the Revolution, in the battles which finished it, 
 and in the debates which established the Constitu- 
 tion. Almost as a matter of course they believed in 
 education as a necessity for the state as well as for the 
 individual. They believed in the best and highest 
 things and wanted them for their children. They 
 looked out for one another, took care of the poor, and 
 were mindful of the broader interests of the common- 
 wealth and of the nascent Republic. 
 
 Their ideal of the common school had not broad- 
 ened in its scope to embrace the higher branches, so 
 that they had to supplement it, and the academy and 
 the college very early appeared. The academy was a 
 natural evolution. It was a necessity and it was for 
 a long series of years a success. The high school is 
 demanded by our present situation, but fine and strong 
 as it is the going out of the New England academies 
 was a distinct loss. They gave something which the 
 high school does not and cannot really give. 
 
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 REMARKS 
 
 Judge ALFRED M. COPELAND, of Springfield, Mass. 
 
 No words of mine can make you fully understand 
 how much pleasure comes to me from this reunion 
 with my fellow students of Lenox Academy more than 
 fifty years ago, and it gives me no less pleasure to 
 meet our honored teacher, Mr. Buckham. 
 
 One cold afternoon in December, 1851, the Lenox 
 and Pittsfield stage landed me safe and sound at the 
 Curtis Hotel. I was a stranger in Lenox. The only 
 Lenox man I knew was Henry H. Cook ; and with 
 him was to be my home for a few weeks. At the hotel 
 I was informed where he lived. As I started on my 
 way a man, under whose stove-pipe hat a benevolent 
 face was beaming with kindness, came down the Court 
 house steps. Almost any one, even Scrooge if he 
 were living, would wish to inquire the way of such a 
 man, even if he knew it by heart. "Why, yes," he 
 said, "I can tell you where Henry Cook lives" — and 
 putting his arm round me in a fatherly manner, he 
 walked with me to the middle of the road and pointed 
 out the very spot. It is unnecessary to give the name 
 of that man to any old resident of Lenox. You will 
 all recognize him even by the poor description I have 
 given. Every one knew him and every one loved him. 
 Old Lenox was better for his living in it. Besides 
 Judge Bishop, were Mr. Sedgwick and his good wife 
 
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 with her splendid school for young ladies, who under 
 her leadership took their daily constitutionals through 
 the streets of the town. Nor must we forget Dom- 
 heim, her German teacher. And there were the Tuck- 
 ers and Mr. Wells, the postmaster, and the Curtisses, 
 and if last, surely not least, Rev. Henry Neill, who 
 preached in the old church on the hill, and a splendid 
 man he was. There were a score of other excellent 
 men and women who created a wholesome, moral and 
 intellectual and social atmosphere in the town, such 
 as was not excelled any where. Not a fitter place 
 in all New England could have been selected for the 
 old Academy. And it has made a noble record, of 
 which we are all proud. 
 
 It is needless to say that I found Henry Cook's. 
 And there I found Mr. Buckham — the very man I 
 most wished to see. The winter term of the Academy 
 had begun ; and the question was, where would I fit 
 in? Some tests were given and in a day or two I 
 went into school and was placed where I could do the 
 best work. From the start I felt that Mr. Buckham 
 was my friend — we all felt so. He was a gentleman, 
 manly and impartial. His pupils all held him in high 
 esteem ; and as the years rolled on and we saw his ad- 
 vancement to the presidency of his alma mater, none 
 rejoiced at his good fortune more than did his old 
 pupils of Lenox Academy. The school grew under 
 his management, and in a few weeks it became neces- 
 sary to use the north room in addition to the south one. 
 When he proposed to put me in charge of the north 
 room and of a class of lads I accepted the charge with 
 a feeling of honest pride. The pupils in both rooms 
 were busy as bees, and we accomplished results of 
 
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 which we all were proud. The occasional visits of 
 Mr. Neill and of "Old Master Hotchkin," as he was 
 called, were welcomed and were inspiring. At the close 
 of the winter term preparations were made for a grand 
 exhibition to be held in the old church. We were to 
 get up and give an original dialogue, and we gave it 
 in good style. There also were original declamations, 
 composed by the orators themselves. A prize con- 
 sisting of a six-volumed edition of Gibbon's Decline 
 and Fall of the Roman Empire was pledged. It was 
 generally believed it lay between Post and me. Being 
 already the happy owner of this work, I hoped that 
 Post would win it and he did. We all felt that we had 
 covered ourselves with glory, filled our teacher's 
 heart with sunshine and painted the old Academy red. 
 
 In the autumn of 1852, we, who were in the Virgil 
 class, were making written translations of the Bucol- 
 ics. The season of year, our love of out-of-door life 
 and of nature, with the eminently fitting surroundings 
 of autumnal scenery in old Berkshire, so harmonized 
 with our work, that my recollection of it is like that 
 of a delightful dream. But this was my last term. I 
 left it to teach school. 
 
 It used to be said of old Master Hotchkin that it 
 was a saying of his to his pupils, "Whatever you get 
 get it got." It would be a happy event if this were 
 adopted as the key-note of modern education. '^Get 
 it got," alas, our public schools of to-day do not get 
 anything got. The pupils are made to learn a little 
 of almost everything, without knowing much of any- 
 thing, and we call this education. Gradgrind said, 
 give the children nothing but facts. But giving them 
 
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 facts is simply giving them information, which is not 
 worthy to be called education. 
 
 A teacher in Springfield one day said to me, 
 "There are so many things crowded into the schools 
 that we teachers have to hurry to get through our 
 work." Hurry may do in some things, but it will 
 never do in educating the young. Too much of the 
 work is done by the teacher and too little by the pupil. 
 If the master of a gymnasium were to undertake to 
 teach simply by exhibiting to his pupils athletic feats 
 would that make the pupils strong of muscle? Would 
 it make them athletes? One object of education is to 
 make the brain strong and fit it for hard work. There 
 is but one possible way to accomplish that result. The 
 men and women of other days who have been referred 
 to to-day as the giants of a past generation were not 
 developed by having their tasks done for them. They 
 learned how to do things by doing them themselves. 
 So our school children can learn how to use their 
 minds, only by doing mental work for themselves. 
 We have not improved upon the old methods. Is it 
 not time to return to that better system of education 
 that educates? Something that will strengthen the 
 brain and fit it for hard work. 
 
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 REMARKS 
 
 Rev. fritz W. BALDWIN, D.D., Orange, N. J. 
 
 I count it a great privilege to be able to join with 
 you to-day in this celebration. I listened with deep 
 interest to the opening address by Judge Tucker and 
 to the admirable historical paper by Mr. Post. It has 
 been pleasant also to hear from some of these vener- 
 able men who attended Lenox Academy in the days 
 of its prime. 
 
 My own connection with Lenox dates from the 
 spring of 1872, when, scarcely as yet out of college, 
 I came here from Maine to be for two years the 
 principal of the recently organized high school. Even 
 then the old Academy was little more than a tradi- 
 tion, and the chief function of its trustees seemed to 
 be, as I believe it still is, to provide a building for 
 the public high school. 
 
 From appearances here to-day no stranger would 
 gather that we were celebrating the anniversary of a 
 defunct institution. This is about the liveliest corpse 
 I have seen in many a day. Evidently the trustees 
 do not intend that the "Nunc Dimittis" shall be sung 
 over its remains just yet; and I am glad, for some 
 day the heart of some Lenox millionaire may be 
 moved to endow this ancient and honorable institu- 
 tion, making it again a high-grade school, one of 
 Berkshire's gems. That would be better than a half 
 dozen new villas; it would revive a noble past, and 
 help to bring back something of that ancient social 
 
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 and intellectual atmosphere which is one of the town's 
 proudest memories. 
 
 I have always had a deep love for Lenox. Why 
 should I not? I found here the young lady who has 
 ever since been the first lady in the world to me. I 
 made here many warm and true friends, some of 
 whom I see around me to-day. I found here what 
 so many others have found, — perpetual joy in these 
 beautiful hills and valleys; they touched my imagpina- 
 tion and fed my mind. The modern Lenox is rich 
 and stately, but the old Lenox had its own peculiar 
 charm, — and the hills are the same forever. 
 
 Of one man especially I think to-day, whose ashes 
 rest in yonder churchyard, whose memory every one 
 interested in the Lenox schools should cherish with 
 gratitude — Judge Julius Rockwell. He was chairman 
 of the school board in my time, and gave his time and 
 thought to the youth of this town as faithfully as to 
 the larger duties of his judicial office. He used to say 
 to me that he knew of no other way in which he 
 could benefit his town so much as by seeking to ele- 
 vate the character of the schools. We all know that 
 the New England school house has ever been one of 
 the cornerstones of New England's greatness. Many 
 of the old academies have given way to the modem 
 high school, and that is well, but there is still a place 
 for the endowed academy, especially as a fitting 
 school for our colleges and universities, and I trust that 
 when the two hundredth anniversary of this Acade- 
 my is celebrated it will be one of the great schools of 
 Massachusetts, feeding Berkshire's noble college in 
 Williamstown, and sending its light and power far 
 away beyond the Berkshire hills. 
 
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 REMARKS 
 
 BY 
 
 Rev. WILLIAM J. DOWER, 
 Pastor of St. Anne's Roman Catholic Church in Lenox. 
 
 The Rev. Toastmaster has just alluded to me — in 
 all good nature it is true — as one not to the manor 
 bom, an alien, as it were, in race and creed to tht 
 founders of the institutions whose centenniel we an 
 gathered here to celebrate. 
 
 Although a native of Massachusetts, bom in his- 
 toric Cambridge, I admit the truth of the Toast- 
 master's charge to a certain degree. I claim at the 
 same time, however, that one of the creed and of the 
 race to which I am proud to owe my origin is under 
 no obligations to apologize for his presence on 
 American soil. History bears me out in my assertion 
 — the history of our common country, the history of 
 our state, and even the history of our own town. 
 
 Here few names are held in higher regard, few 
 more revered, than that of the Irishman and the de- 
 /out Catholic, Patrick Plunkett. Had he never 
 quitted his native shore the loss to Lenox would have 
 been, though undreamed of, yet great. Had he re- 
 mained satisfied with the lot of the Irish Catholic of 
 the period — that of Political slavery and of persecu- 
 tion on account of Religion — what a misfortune would 
 have resulted to Berkshire County. 
 
 Indeed, I know you will bear me out when I say 
 that were we compelled to erase the name of Patrick 
 
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 Plunkett from amongst those of the makers of Lenox 
 we would also be constrained to blot out many bril- 
 liant pages in the industrial and political history, not 
 only of Berkshire County, but of Massachusetts as 
 well. This is but a case in point ; I mention it par- 
 ticularly, because it is so well known and comes home 
 to us here assembled with peculiar force. 
 
 But enough of this. It is hardly to the point on 
 the present occasion, but was drawn from me by the 
 good-natured remarks of the toastmaster. 
 
 In claiming due honor for men of the stamp of 
 him, to whom I have referred, I realize that they 
 owed as much, if not more, to America and its insti- 
 tutions than America owes to them. In giving their 
 best to the advancement of the interests of their 
 adopted country, they but paid a just debt, and 
 showed due appreciation of benefits received. Con- 
 sider the vista that opened up to the mental vision of 
 the emigrant of a hundred years ago, once that vision 
 became adjusted to the new light of freedom — which 
 at first must have almost dazzled — a vista of equality 
 and of fraternity between man and man, and of op- 
 portunities for the gaining of emoluments and of 
 honors never dreamed of by the toiling masses of 
 Europe. 
 
 But thrice happy, the emigrant whom fortune led 
 to Berkshire County. For here he found himself, 
 from the beginning, amongst manly men, of liberal 
 mind, who were ever ready to assist the new comer 
 in the first days of poverty and trial. I believe my- 
 self, that nature, from the first had placed the seal of 
 her nobility on the original settlers of Lenox, and 
 that the grandeur of the environment has only pre- 
 
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 served, perhaps enhanced, the orig-inal strain in their 
 descendents. 
 
 I remember well the words of an aged priest, who 
 did duty in Berkshire, in the so called No Nothing 
 Times. "Of all my early missionary days," he said, 
 "I remember with most pleasure those spent in Berk- 
 shire." "There I found none but gentlemen; there I 
 met with respect, and encouragement on every side." 
 Coming as I did, a stranger to Lenox, nearly twelve 
 years ago, I had reason to remember the words of the 
 aged Missioner. 
 
 His experience became my own, and I now take 
 sincere pleasure in acknowledging the friendly wel- 
 come and warm hearted encouragement from all class- 
 es, which made my early work in Lenox, though 
 laborious to a degree, yet full of consolation and hap- 
 piness. Fortunate indeed was the old Academy to 
 find a home in this town of culture, amidst a people 
 of generous impulses. It could not fail to drink in 
 the spirit of its surroundings, to impart this spirit to 
 its pupils, and to send them forth to diffuse the same 
 over all our broad land. The mission of the Academy 
 was in a certain sense, I presume, similar to that of the 
 small college of the present day. Recent events have 
 constrained me to the belief that to the small college we 
 must look, rather than to the grand university for the 
 instilling of those principles, and the up-holding of 
 those ideals, which were the incentives that urged 
 the Fathers of the Republic to their Supreme endeav- 
 ors and their noble Sacrifices. To the smaller col- 
 leges we must look for men to speak out and fear 
 not. 
 
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 Not long ago, on the platform of this very hall, 
 stood a professor connected with one of our smaller 
 colleges. Clearly and scathingly did he lay bare and 
 rebuke the corruption of certain unlawful combina- 
 tions of capital, dauntlessly did he assert the rights 
 of the people. 
 
 Then and there, did I become convinced that to 
 men of his stamp and to institutions, such as he rep- 
 resented, must we look for the proper and safe edu- 
 cation of the youth of to-day, of the leaders of the 
 future. If, as has been pithily said, "Mark Hopkins, 
 seated on one end of a log and a student seated on 
 the other end were university enough," it must be 
 conceded, that grand and costly edifices, or any col- 
 lection of the same, avail little of themselves, if the 
 true educational spirit has departed from within their 
 walls, or independent utterance be denied the profes- 
 sors, who dispense knowledge therein. 
 
 Finally, since time presses, I would but add that 
 the presence here of so many who have won enviable 
 distinction in various walks of life, who have, in 
 many cases, made evident sacrifice of time and com- 
 fort to do honor to their first Alma Mater, of so 
 many venerable by virtue as well as by years, — ^this 
 alone I say, proves to us of later day that our Acad- 
 emy must have been truly a model of its kind, must 
 have deserved well of all who had the good fortune 
 and to drink at its fountains of Science and Truth, and 
 must have done noble work in the forming and the 
 up-building of the characters of the men of its time. 
 
 As a member of the present school committee, a 
 last word may be permitted me. The Academy 
 building has been for years the home of the Lenox 
 
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 High School. Needless to say that the traditions and 
 the memories which cluster around the ancient edi- 
 fice are cherished by the teachers and pupils who now 
 occupy it. Needless to say, that these traditions and 
 these memories form an incentive to high endeavors 
 on the part of both. 
 
 Finally, the committee and the citizens of Lenox, 
 as far as their means allow, are constant in their en- 
 deavors to make the Lenox High School a worthy 
 successor to the Academy of other days, and especial- 
 ly are they solicitous to preserve amongst the pupils 
 of the present day that spirit of refinement and of 
 high purpose which made the graduates of the Old 
 Academy such useful and honored members of the 
 communities in which they lived. 
 
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 The foregoing pages contain a substantially correct 
 account of the celebration of the Academy's centennial. 
 The day was fine, the weather being ideal even for this 
 Berkshire region in early October. The new town hall, — 
 well adapted to a large assemblage was filled with an 
 appreciative audience, — friends and alumni of the old Acad- 
 emy, and friends, alumni and students of the High School. 
 The orchestral music and the singing by the High school 
 students were both excellent and in fine taste. The dinner 
 in the assembly room of Sedgwick Hall, the use of which 
 was generously tendered for the occasion, was choice, beau- 
 tifully served and all that could be desired. Old acquain- 
 tances and friendships of former years were revived, life 
 experiences recounted, and the day was passed in a manner 
 fittingly commemorative of an honorable past of the 
 Academy, and, we hope, inspiring to a noble future for the 
 High School. 
 
 Thomas Post, 
 
 Charles C, Flint, 
 
 Committee of Publication. 
 
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 LIST OF TRUSTEES 
 
 OF Lenox Academy from 1803 to 1903. 
 
 William Walker, 
 Samuel Shepard, 
 
 AZARIAH EGLESTON, 
 
 Joseph Goodwin, 
 Eldad Lewis, 
 Enos Stone. 
 Caleb Hyde, 
 Ephraim Judson, 
 
 Jacob Catlin, 
 Thomas Ives, 
 Barnabas Bid well, 
 Nathaniel Bishop 
 Thomas Allen, 
 Simon Larned, 
 Joshua Danporth, 
 Joseph Whiton, 
 
 Trustees Named in Lenox Academy Charter. 
 
 Augustus Sherill 
 William Allen 
 William P. Walker . 
 James Bradford 
 James W. Robbins 
 Charles Worthington 
 Henry W. Bishop, Sr. 
 William Porter, . 
 Alvan Hyde 
 Robert Worthington 
 George J. Tucker 
 Edwin W. D wight 
 Robbins Kellogg 
 Eber S. Clark 
 Henry W. Tapt 
 Henry Neill 
 Thomas Twining 
 William A. Phelps 
 Henry H. Cook 
 John Hotchkin 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Elected May 8, 
 
 1811 
 
 . 
 
 . 
 
 May 8, 
 
 1811 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 May 11, 
 
 1814 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 May 11, 
 
 1814 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 May 1, 
 
 1816 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 April 30, 
 
 1817 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 May 20, 
 
 1823 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Day 20, 
 
 1823 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 June 28, 
 
 1826 » 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 June 28, 
 
 1826 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 May 19, 
 
 1828 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 May 13. 
 
 1829 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 May 18. 
 
 1829 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 May 12, 
 
 1847 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 May 12. 
 
 1847 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 May 12, 
 
 1847 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 May 12, 
 
 1847 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 • " May 12, 
 
 1847 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 May 12. 
 
 1847 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 June 26, 
 
 1847 
 
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 Charles Sedgwick 
 
 . Elected May 8. 1852 
 
 William James 
 
 Aug. 28, 1852 
 
 Edmund K. Alden 
 
 March 28, 1855 
 
 Charles S. Renshaw 
 
 March 28, 1855 
 
 Nahum Gale 
 
 March 28, 1855 
 
 Marshall Wilcox 
 
 March 28, 1855 
 
 Julius Rockwell 
 
 April 14. 1866 
 
 Thomas Post 
 
 April 14, 1866 
 
 Richard Goodman 
 
 April 14, 1866 
 
 Joseph Tucker . 
 
 May 13, 1871 
 
 Henry W. Bishop. Jr. . 
 
 May 13, 1871 
 
 Justin Field 
 
 May 13, 1871 
 
 Richard T. Auchmuty . 
 
 Sept. 10, 1879 
 
 Charles H. Parkhurst 
 
 Sept. 10. 1879 
 
 Frederick W. Rackemann 
 
 Sept. 10, 1879 
 
 F. Aug. Schermerhorn 
 
 Sept. 10. 1879 
 
 William R. Robeson 
 
 June 28, 1880 
 
 Henry Sedgwick 
 
 June 28, 1880 
 
 Richard C. Greenleaf 
 
 June 28, 1880 
 
 William D. Curtis . 
 
 June 28, 1880 
 
 Charles S. Rackemann 
 
 Feb. 7, 1885 
 
 Frlderick J. Lynch 
 
 June 30, 1903 
 
 Harold Arrowsmith 
 
 June 30, 1903 
 
 William J. Dower 
 
 June 30, 1903 
 
 Edward McDonald 
 
 June 30, 1903 
 
 Henry P. Jaques 
 
 June 30, 1903 
 
 George H. Tucker 
 
 June 30, 1903 
 
 Lenox School Committee, 1903. 
 
 Maurice J. Roche, 
 Charles C. Flint, 
 William J. Dower.
 
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