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private institution, founded under the auspices of a 

 denomination to which he was warmly attached, and 

 where he could cultivate without let or hindrance 

 the religious sentiments, as well as train the intellect. 

 It is no disparagement perhaps to add, that Middle- 

 boro was the home of one whom he had loved from 

 boyhood, and to whom on attaining to manhood he 

 had plighted his troth. 



On the first Monday in March, 1842, he com- 

 menced the term with eleven pupils, closing with 

 thirty. The second term he commenced with sixty 

 pupils and closed with eighty. His success was now 

 assured, and he entered into matrimonial relations, 

 making it his permanent home with his father-in- 

 law, the late Major Elisha Tucker. His wife was 

 an only child, the granddaughter of the founder of 

 the Academy, and a lady of rare personal attractions 

 and moral worth. For nearly forty-two years they 

 walked in happy union such as is seldom accorded 

 to mortals in this present life, until in July, 1884, the 

 golden cord was severed. During all this period of 

 complete domestic bliss, their hopes, their joys, their 

 interests, their fortunes were one, and not a jarring 

 word of discord ever passed their lips. 



Having by strict economy succeeded in obtaining 

 a valuable apparatus, and having a School of one 

 hundred pupils with a constantly increasing atten- 

 dance, Mr. Jenks now began to indulge his passion 

 for the study of nature, particularly in Ornithology, 

 taking lessons of a celebrated taxidermist in Boston 



