Miss R. H. Holyoke, 1870. J. W. Brown, 1870, 71. S. W. Clarke, 1871, 73. D. G. Thompson, 1878 to 82. Assistant, Grammar School. Miss K. C. Bradlee, 1875. Primary School. Miss Hattie E. Barbour, 1868. Fannie M. Kendall, 1869, 70. "Nellie F. Vose, 1872, 73. "L. W. Vose, 1873 to 77. "Helen E. Sumner, 1877, 78. M. L. Pierce, 1878, 79. "M. E. Tufts, 1879, 80. M. E. Upham, 1880 to 82. "Emma L. Ziegler, 1881. Grace B. Fisher, 1882, 83. Kate L. Brown, 1883 to 87. TEACHERS IN CENTRE SCHOOL SINCE IT WAS ESTABLISHED IN 1832. Mixed School. Miss Mary D. Breck, 1832, 33. Nathan Metcalf, 1835. W. H. Swan, 1835, 36. John P. Robinson, 1836, in hall over Reed's store. Susan E. Adams, 1836, in vestry of church; 1837, in new school-house. W. H. Swan, 1837 to 39. Almira Jones, 1842, 43. Mr. Brown, 1843. John Q. Adams, 1844. Miss M. A. Kennedy, 1844, 45. "Helen French, 1845. Mrs. M. S. Webster, 1846, 47. N. B. Bryant, 1846, 47. Gorham Bartlett, 1847. Ahira Holmes, 1847 to 49. Miss Alice Cunningham, 1849, 50. "Sarah M. Vose, 1850, 51. J. Moore, 1851, 52. Miss H. A. Emerson, 1852, 53. "C. R. Haven, 1853. Whole number of pupils registered during year Average daily attendance $12,385,150 627 15 17 679 536 499 Ratio of attendance to average number belonging, .93 EXPENDITURES FOR THE YEAR. Teachers' salaries, fuel, and care of rooms. sion $14,455.92 4,825.87 $19,281.79 MILTON GRADUATES OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 1690, Rev. Benjamin Wadsworth. 1690, Joseph Belcher. 1696, Peter Thacher. 1697, John Swift. 1698, Oxenbridge Thacher. 1698, Richard Billings. 1700, John Holman. 1703, Nathaniel Pitcher. 1706, Peter Thacher. 1708, Recompense Wadsworth. 1717, Joseph Belcher. 1720, Joseph Gooch. 1722, Ebenezer Miller. 1723, John Wadsworth. 1723, Joseph Belcher. 1724, Isaac Billings. 1733, Seth Adams. 1735, William Foyc. 1735, Samuel Swift. 1737, Benjamin Prat. 1738, Oxenbridge Thacher. 1741, Grindall Rawson. 1744, Nathaniel Tucker. 1752, John Miller. 1769, Benjamin Wadsworth. 1769, Peter Thacher. 1770, Samuel Kinsley Glover. 1770, William S. Hutchinson. 1772, Josiah Badcock. 1773, Samuel Henshaw. 1775, Rufus Badcock. 1775, Edward II. Robbins. 1775, Thomas Thacher. 1778, Job Sumner. 1778, Jesse Tucker. 1783, J. Smith Boics. 1783, Ebenezer Tucker. 1784, N. J. Robbins. 1787, Solomon Vose. 1787, John Murray Forbes. 1790, Roger Vose. 1796, Charles Pinckney Sumner. 1812, Edward H. Robbins. 1816, Jason Reed. 1822, Josiah Bent. 1826, Charles Rollin Kennedy. 1831, Nathaniel Tucker Bent. 1831, Asaph Churchill. 1831, Wm. Saxton Morton. 1831, Warren Jacobs Whitney. 1836, John Ruggles. 1840, Joseph McKean Churchill. 1845, Charles Marshall Churchill. 1846, Jonathan Russell. 1852, William Robert Ware. 1854, Joseph Rowe Webster. 1856, Jonathan Chapman. Spring www Elisha G. Babcock was a graduate of Amherst College, 1824. Nathaniel Foster Safford was a graduate of Dartmouth College, 1835. Edward Lillie Pierce was a graduate of Brown University, 1850. Walter Denison Brooks was a graduate of Williams College, 1868. THE CHAPTER XII. INDUSTRIES OF MILTON. E first manufactories of the town sprang up along the Neponset river, where various enterprises were started at a very early date. The early adventurers were led, by the natural advantages of the river, to settle in its near vicinity, and were quick to discern the water-power at the head of navigation and at the rapids above. The river has been identified with the whole history of the town. It has proved an important factor in its successful beginnings and in its subsequent development. A description of it will be of interest to every citizen. NEPONSET RIVER. I have applied to our Indian interpreter, Dr. J. Hammond Trumbull, for the signification of the Indian word "Neponset." But though that eminent scholar was so felicitous in his interpretation of Unquity-quisset, he informs me that thus far the word "Neponset" resists all analysis. The Neponset river takes its rise in the northern part of the town of Foxborough. In that section there are large tracts of swamps and of low, springy lands, from which issue several little streams, which, combined, form the western branch of the Neponset. In the year 1846 a number of the mill-owners on the river obtained from the Legislature an act of incorporation, under the title of the "Neponset Reservoir Company," for the purpose of securing and retaining for their mills a reserve of water for a time of drought. By throwing a dam across the stream formed by the united brooklets flowing from these low lands, the waters are retained and thrown back over an area of between three and four hundred acres, lying within North, Beach, Mechanic, and Chestnut streets in Foxborough, giving a general depth of eight feet when well filled. This is known as the "Neponset Reservoir." From this source a small stream 'flows |