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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Mrs. William D. Knapp |
The fine farms of Barrington have given to the advancement of the
world some very bright men and women, and a notable one of the latter is a
daughter of Dea. Thomas and Mrs. Susan (Hale) Hussey. Her studies in the
country schools were supplemented by terms at the New Hampshire Conference
Seminary and Gilmanton Academy in the spring and autumn, the alternating
seasons being occupied by teaching. In 1854 Miss Hussey entered the State
Normal school at Framingham, Mass., from which she graduated in July 1855.
Following a season of teaching in her native town, she became an assistant
in the Great Falls high school, but resigned her position in 1858, for one
more lucrative in Stoneham, Mass., whence she was called in 1861 to become
the first assistant in the high school named, where she taught with marked
success until 1865. After teaching a select school in her own town, she
married in 1866 the Hon. William D. Knapp, a distinguished lawyer of
Somersworth, where she has since resided. Mrs. Knapp, a member of the
Pascataqua Congregational Club, and trained to good deeds from her childhood,
has been prominent in religious work, and in the many avenues by which women
of like mind and culture may aid in the progress of civilization. The love
and admiration of everyone associated with her have been deservedly hers.
From 1885 to 1893-94, she was president of the Strafford Conference of the
New Hampshire Branch of the Woman's Board of Missions, and her resignation of
the office was received with the strongest reluctance on the part of the
conference. She has been a frequent contributor of poems and sketches to
both secular and religious papers and magazines, and has delighted readers of
her home publication by "Old Time Stories," and by reminiscences of the high
school. A history in rhyme, written for the first reunion of alumni of the
school in 1877, was published later in book form. Her literary work is most
refined and charming, in keeping with her whole life and character.
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