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moral culture, and a desire that female education especially 

 should be advanced ; the privileges, that the children to- 

 day enjoy, did not then exist. Incorporated in 1803, a 

 building was erected, and the preceptor elected was Rev. 

 Samuel Walker, a native of Haverhill, a graduate of 

 Dart. Coll., 1802, and the minister of the South Church, 

 Danvers, now Peabody, from 1805 to his death, July 6, 

 1826. Rev. James Flint, who was the pastor of the East 

 Church, Salem, from 1820 to his death, March 4, 1855, 

 was the third principal. 



Benjamin Greenleaf was the fourth principal, from 

 Dec. 12, 1814 to April 6, 1836. During this period, it 

 obtained a wide and most honorable reputation. In 

 1828, the school was divided into a male and female 

 department, Mr. Greenleaf had charge of the former, 

 and Miss Abigail C. Hasseltinc of the latter. 



In 1836, Mr. Greenleaf retired. The male department 

 was then closed, and the Institution was devoted entirely 

 to the education of females. Mr. Greenleaf then took 

 charge of the Bradford Teachers' Seminary, and continued 

 at its head till its discontinuance in 1848, when his pro- 

 fessional labors as a teacher closed. As an author, he was 

 very widely, eminently, and honorably known ; while the 

 number of his pupils went up into the thousands, the 

 number of copies of his text-books went up into the 

 millions; he died Oct. 29, 1864. 



Miss Abigail Carleton llasselline, born in Bradford, 

 March 15, 1788, a graduate of the school, appointed as- 

 sistant teacher in the summer of 1815, principal of the 

 female department in 1828, retired in the autumn of 

 1852, died January 13, 1868, the beloved teacher and 

 friend, and whose name is cherished in thousands of homes 

 to-day, contributed largely to the success of the In- 

 stitution. 



