Women of Strafford County
From the book "New Hampshire Women" A collection of portraits and biographical sketches of daughters and residents of the granite state, who are worthy representatives of their sex in the various walks and conditions of life. Published by The New Hampshire Publishing Co., Concord, NH, J.G. Patterson, Jr. President, ©1895
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Winnifred Helen Berry |
This bright brunette is the younger of the very talented daughters
of Mr. John M. and Mrs. Leah (Roberts) Berry of Farmington where she was born
February 5, 1871. Of excellent New England ancestry, a quickwit, energy,
and an attractive manner, Miss Berry makes success her willing servant in
whatever she undertakes, whether it be in entertainments for worthy local
purposes, in teaching, in crayon portraiture or landscape sketching, or in
quaint and vivid pen-and-ink miniatures, of a startling likeness to their
subjects. Miss Berry was graduated in her seventeenth year from the
Farmington high school and began teaching in her native town in the autumn of
the same year, in the primary department, filling her position with unusual
ability, until, in the course of time, her merits caused her to be called to
Concord, where she was assigned to the Penacook school building. an
advantageous summons to Massachusetts led her to relinquish the Concord
school in the course of her first year of residence in that city, and to go
to Watertown, where she finds not alone an habitual success in teaching, but
also the many opportunities for culture which can be obtained only in the
vicinity of a large city. Thus in her few hours of freedom from school
duties she pursues artistic work under skilled supervision and develops her
fine gift for portraiture. As a teacher Miss Berry devotes her talent and
experience to little children, making a specialty of primary work, instead of
changing to one or another of different grades, and this is one of the
secrets of her success as an educator. It need hardly be said that she is
regarded with the fondest affection by her classes and with cordial
appreciation by their parents and the school officers. Possessed of many
resources for recreation, Miss Berry finds music chief of them, and plays
the piano with a dramatic and poetic sense of her subject, which gives
exceptional charm to her rendering of a composer's conception.
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