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Nehemiah White, President of Lombard University; Almon Gun¬ 
nison, President of St. Lawrence University; Revs. S. A. Parker, 
Harvey Hersey, Simeon Goodenough, William E. Gibbs, Hiram A. 
Philbrook, Franklin S. Bliss and Benjamin K. Russ; Franklin M. 
Robinson of Dubuque, Augustus E,. Scott of Boston, and ex-Con- 
gressman H. W. Parker of New Hampshire; Dr. Oorlando W. 
Sherwin, ex-President of Vermont Medical Society; Dr. Obed C. 
Turner, Cambridge, Mass.; Gen. Windsor B. French, Col. J. J. R. 
Randall, Edward Conant, Randolph Normal School; Prof. Isaac 
A. Parker, Lombard University and Samuel E. Adams, ex-Mas- 
ter of the National Grange. 
Among the earlier principals who achieved marked success 
in their profession were John Ward of Detroit, Dewit C. Cram of 
Dubuque, Rev. John S. Lee, Dr. William R. Shipman, Rev. Moses 
Marston and Rev.' J. J. Lewis. Later principals were men of 
marked ability, as E. H. Aldrich, N. P. Wood, M. D., I. S. Cook, 
O. H. Perry and C. H. Darling. Under the latter Miss Nancy 
Darling, one of the founders of the Nature Club, taught, this 
being in 1884-86. 
Later, on account of other Universalist schools being estab¬ 
lished and the ever increasing educational facilities elsewhere, 
the school assumed a local character, and the last students to 
graduate in 1897 were only two in number, yet the school under 
Prof. Joseph H. Dunbar of North Hartland, a man of genius 
and author of several valuable text books, maintained its high 
standard of scholarship. In the intervening period between 1888 
and 1897 Miss Carrie Walker (later Mrs. Ralph E. Jaquith) did 
excellent work, as did also seven other principals. 
WILLIAM EMERSON DAMON 
William Emerson Damon, author and naturalist, was born 
at Windsor, Vermont, November 15, 1838, son of Luther and 
Betsy (Thayer) Damon. His first American ancestor was John 
Damon, a native of Berkshire, England, and came to this country 
in 1631 and settled in Reading, Mass. The line descends through 
John Damon’s son Joseph, his son Joseph, his son Jabez and his 
son Aaron Damon, grandfather of our subject. He was educated 
at the district school of Windsor and the Kimball Union Academy, 
Meriden, N. H. He remained in Windsor for several years, 
