BARRE lies in the southeast part of the county, in latitude 44° 11' and longitude 4° 31', and contains 19,900 acres. It is bounded north by East Montpelier and Plainfield, east by Orange, Orange county, south by Williamstown, Orange county, and west by Berlin.

      This town was chartered by the name of Wildersburgh, and granted to William WILLIAMS and his associates November 6, 1780.

      The surface is uneven and hilly, but there are no great elevations, Cobble and Millstone hills being the highest, and composed of an almost solid mass of granite. Mainly the town has a good soil, and Barre ranks with the good farming and dairying towns of the state. Large quantities of maple sugar are also produced and exported annually.

      The town is abundantly watered by its numerous springs and running brooks. The principal streams are Stevens Branch and Jail Branch. Stevens Branch has its source in Williamstown, Orange county, flows in a northerly direction, crosses the south line of Barre, continues a north course until it reaches Barre village, then takes a northwest- course, and crosses the northwest corner of Berlin and unites with the Winooski river. In the early history of this location a hunter by the name of STEVENS had a camp near the mouth of this stream, and was found dead in his hut on a bed of beaver skins. From this circumstance the branch received its name. Jail Branch rises in Washington, runs northerly into Orange, thence westerly into Barre, and unites with Stevens Branch near the center of the town, a little south of the lower village. Gunners Brook is also a considerable stream. The only natural pond in town is Peck's pond, situated in the northwest corner, and is quite small in size. There is a mineral spring near jail Branch, and about two miles southeast of Barre village.

      The first settlement was made in Barre in 1788 by Samuel ROGERS and John GOLDSBURY, and their families, and from 1790 the town was rapidly settled by an enterprising and industrious class of pioneers who came from Massachusetts and Rhode Island, and hewed out of the wilderness homes which are in many instances now occupied by their descendants.

      The town was organized, with the charter name, "Wildersburgh," March 11, 1793. The officers then elected were: Joseph DWIGHT, town clerk; Joseph SHERMAN, Joseph DWIGHT, Nathan HARRINGTON, selectmen; John NICHOLS, treasurer; Job ADAMS, constable; Isaac S. THOMPSON, Apollos HALE, Elias CHENEY, listers.

      The long name of the town (very justly, too,) soon became unpopular with the inhabitants, and a town meeting was called and held at the house of Calvin SMITH, September 3, 1793, for the purpose of selecting some other name to present to the legislature for their approval. The town records of Barre show that the transactions of this important meeting are as follows:
 

"Voted, that the man that will give the most towards building a meeting house in said town shall name the town, and the town will petition the Legislature for that name. The name of the town vendued and bid off by Ezekiel Dodge WHEELER, for 62 ? lawful money, he being the highest bidder, and said WHEELER named the town Barre."

      Thompson, in his History of Vermont, part third, page 9, gives the following version of the origin of the name of Barre:
 

"The meeting being opened, freedom was given for anyone to present the name he chose, and the choice among the number presented was to be decided by vote of the town. Several names were proposed, such as Paris, Newburn, &c. Two of the voters present, Capt. Joseph THOMPSON and Mr. Jonathan SHERMAN, the first from Holden, the other from Barre, Mass., each in their turn strenuously contended for the name of the town from which he came; and as the matter seemed to lie chiefly between these two, it was proposed that it should be decided between them by boxing, to which they readily agreed. The terms were that they should fight across a pole; but if one should knock the other down, they might then choose their own mode of war-fare. The meeting then adjourned to a new barn-shed, erected by said SMITH, over which a floor of rough hemlock plank had just been laid, and on this the issue was to be decided. Agreeably to this arrangement, the combatants advanced upon each other, and soon THOMPSON, by a well-directed blow, brought his antagonist to the floor, and springing upon him at full length, began to aim his heavy blows at his head and face; but SHERMAN, being more supple, avoided them, and they generally fell harmless on the floor, except feeling his own knuckles. During this process, SHERMAN was dexterously plying his ribs from beneath, when THOMPSON was soon heard to groan, and his blows became palsied and without effect. SHERMAN then rolled him off, and springing upon his feet, exultingly exclaimed – ‘There, the name is Barre', by God!’ Accordingly, a petition for the name Barre was presented and sanctioned by the legislature the same year.''

      The foregoing is the current tradition of the people of Barre. The writer has no doubt that, in the heat of the contest for the name, the belligerents, THOMPSON and SHERMAN, did resort to fisticuffs on their own account, and in the manner described; and that the supple SHERMAN overcame his stronger but less active antagonist; but thinks that the honor of naming the town justly belonged to Mr. WHEELER, as shown by the town records.

      In 1880 Barre lead a population of 2,700 and is estimated to have 5,000 now. In 1886 the town had fourteen school districts and fourteen schools, taught by six male and twenty-two female teachers, at an average weekly salary, including board, of $12 for males and $7 for females. There were 678 different scholars, and forty-six attended private schools. The whole amount of revenue for school purposes was $4,943.86, and the whole amount expended for all school purposes was $5,063.98.

      The rapid and almost unprecedented increase of the population of Barre village has made it necessary for that district to adopt the graded school system, and provide adequate accommodations for all their children. The district has recently bought the buildings and ample grounds of Barre Academy, and appointed a committee to draft a plan fur a fine new structure capable of seating and accommodating 500 scholars.
 

      BARRE village is located in a beautiful valley on Stevens Branch, a tributary of the Winooski, which here furnishes a fine water-power, and lies about six miles east of Montpelier on the Central Vermont, Barre branch, and Barre railroads. It is the busiest and most flourishing town of its size in the state. In 1880 the entire population of Barre was but 2,700; now the village alone, as estimated, has a population of 3,500, and including the township 5,000. This unprecedented and phenomenal growth is explained and by two words, Barre granite.

      The village was incorporated November 24, 1886. Mail matter is sent from the postoffice here to adjacent towns by several star mail routes. Barre has four churches, Congregational, Universalist, Methodist, and Roman Catholic. The Union graded school and Goddard Seminary afford superior educational advantages, and offer the acquisition of a good academic education to all her sons and daughters. There are several flourishing manufactories, besides about forty granite firms, and several fine business blocks occupied by numerous and enterprising wholesale and retail merchants, lawyers, doctors, and business men. The village also boasts of its fine opera house, and "The Village" and "furrier" parks. The latter was donated to the village by Hon. S. C. CHUBB.

      FACTORY VILLAGE, THWINGVILLE, and GOSPEL VILLAGE are now included in the corporation of Barre.

      SOUTH BARRE is a post village located on Stevens Branch, about two miles south of Barre village. In the early history of Barre this was the important village, and here was located the postoffice for the town, which received its mail from a postman on horseback, and later by the old stage coach drawn by six horses. Here also was Ira DAY's tavern, where he entertained General LaFayette. And here flourished the leading merchants, a foundry, two saw-mills, a tannery, and cab-shop. Now it contains a large granite polishing mill, a sash and blind factory, general store, blacksmith shop, livery stable, and about forty dwelling houses.

      EAST BARRE (p. o.) lies in the southeastern part of the township. Jail Branch passes through this village, and furnishes its water-power. The village contains a granite and blacksmith shop, one store, and about twenty dwellings.

      Goddard Seminary is the child of the Universalist denomination, and has ever received the fostering care of the members of that fellowship.

      The institution, in common with many others of the Universalist church owes its being to a great interest in educational matters that began to be manifest in the denomination about the middle of the present century. The early fruit was the founding of Tufts College, which in ten years drew to itself funds to the amount of nearly $800,000. Later came the foundation of St. Lawrence University, New York, and Dean Academy, Massachusetts, and large gifts to these and older schools. The tide of interest reached Vermont and its people became keenly alive to all educational interests. In the state there were already two schools under the patronage of the Universalists, the Orleans Liberal Institute at Glover, founded in 1852, and the Green Mountain Institute at South Woodstock, founded in 1848, one of the oldest academies in the state. For some years the school at Glover had kept within its income by having but two terms in a school year, while that at South Woodstock had kept its doors open for the full school year only by a constant drain on the means of its friends to supply the inevitable deficiency. Both these schools had done excellent work, and had been loyally supported, but without endowment it was not possible to maintain a school of the highest academic grade that should be able to prepare for the best colleges.

      The growing educational sentiment inspired the denomination with the thought that their growth with as a church and true Christian zeal demanded of them more careful attention to the education of their youth. The sentiment crystallized at a meeting of the State Convention of Universalists held at Montpelier in August, 1863, when a committee, consisting of Rev. J. S. LEE, William R. SHIPMAN, and Hon. Heman CARPENTER, reported a resolution, -- “that it is expedient for our denomination to establish and endow a scientific and classical school of the grade of an academy." This resolution received a unanimous vote, but to pass a set of resolutions never yet accomplished anything, and many feared that the movement would not outlast the enthusiasm and glow of the convention. But those who wished well, but prophesied failure, were to be happily disappointed. At the session of the General Assembly in the fall of 1863 a charter was granted to Eli BALLOU, of Montpelier, Harvey TILDEN, Barre, Heman CARPENTER, Northfield, L. H. TABOR, Concord, Isaiah BUCKMAN, W. R. SHIPMAN, Woodstock, R. B. FAY, Williston, G. W. CHAPLIN, Rutland, J. S. MOORE, Royalton, Riverius CAMP, Jr., St. Albans, William B. DENNISON, Irasburgh, W. T. STOWE, Brattleboro, James T. PARISH, Stowe, Martin BURNHAM, Williamstown, Kittredge HAVEN, Shoreham, and T. R. SPENCER, St. Johnsbury, as trustees of a school to be called the Green Mountain Central Institute. Rev. Eli BALLOU was chosen first president of the board, and Hon. Harvey TILDEN, secretary and treasurer. W. R. SHIPMAN, late principal of the school at South Woodstock, was chosen financial agent to canvass the state for subscriptions. It was not deemed expedient to locate the school until $30,000 should be pledged.

      At the first broaching of the subject of a school in Vermont, Thomas A. GODDARD, of Boston, interested in the institution both for itself and as a fitting school for Tufts College, of which he was a devoted friend, had offered to give one-tenth of any amount raised up to $50,000. He was already paying the interest of $5,000 toward the expenses of the school at South Woodstock, and recognized the necessity of endowment to any school that was to be properly sustained. With the promise of this sum as an incentive the agent entered upon his work. The first town canvassed was Woodstock, which, despite the fact that it had the interests of its own school at heart, came loyally to the support of the new institution with a subscription of more than $3,000, Major Gaius PERKINS heading the list with $1,000.

      Mr. SHIPMAN canvassed a small part of the state and raised about $10,000, when he relinquished this work in the summer of 1864 to accept a professorship in Tufts College. His retirement seemed to block the wheels for a time. After a futile effort to advance the work by constituting all the ministers of the state agents, it remained for a conference of churches at South Woodstock, in February, 1865, called for the ordination of Prof. SHIPMAN to the ministry, to give a new impetus to the work, fifty persons pledging themselves to be responsible for the salary of an agent for one year. Soon after J. J. LEWIS, who had also been principal of the South Woodstock school, took the field and the outlook again brightened. Subscriptions were not large but quite general. When the work began to flag it was thought advisable to authorize the issue of scholarships to those subscribing $100 or more, and with this impetus the work went on until, at a state convention held at East Montpelier, in August, 1865, amid much enthusiasm, $6,000 was pledged, completing the $30,000 that was to be raised before locating the school.

      The locating committee, as provided by the charter, consisted of Rev. A. A. MINER, D. D. of Boston, Ex-Gov. Eliphalet TRASK, of Springfield, Mass., and Rev. G. W. BAILEY, of Lebanon, N. H. In November this committee visited each of the competing towns, Springfield, South Woodstock, Bethel, Northfield, Barre, and East Montpelier, and made a thorough inspection of the towns themselves and of the sites suggested. At the close of this visitation representatives of each town appeared before the committee at the courthouse at Montpelier and presented the claims of their towns. The towns, in addition to a general subscription, made certain pledges of money, free sites, and building material. The competition was an earnest yet friendly one.

      The task of the committee was difficult; not only financial aid, but locality, the community, church advantages, and various other considerations must have weight. Each town had advantages peculiarly its own; the committee in reporting bore witness to the generosity of each, and the fraternal spirit of the contest, but fixed upon the town of Barre, as, on the whole, meeting the greatest number of requirements. Barre, beside a general subscription of nearly $3,000, had about $12,000 already pledged as a local subscription and offered a suitably graded site free of charge. Five towns were, of course, disappointed, but they remained to an unexpected degree loyal to the school.

      The institution was now an assured fact, and strenuous exertions were put forth to increase the subscription, the more sanguine working with a hope destined to be unfulfilled, that the sum already pledged by general subscription might be held as an endowment fund. Mr. LEWIS continued as an agent for a time, and later G. H. HARMON and others assisted in the work.

      The site chosen was on a plateau a little north of the village. "The prospect commands a fine view of the valley spread out along the river. To the south and west, over a wide reach of green hills, fertile farms stretch away before the eye, while down the valley towards Montpelier, and over the hills beyond, the dark blue form and sharp outline of the most sublime of Vermont's mountains, Camel's Hump, rises in silent majesty against the sky." The plan of the building was prepared by T. W. SILLOWAY, of Boston, and the building committee consisted of L. F. ALDRICH and Charles TEMPLETON, of Barre, and Heman CARPENTER, of Northfield. Early in the spring of 1867 the people of Barre, according to agreement, began to grade preparatory to building, and in the summer of the same year, by which time the funds at the disposal of the trustees had increased to nearly $50,000, work was begun and prosecuted vigorously.

      The work throughout was under the constant care of the building committee, the Barre members, Messrs. ALDRICH and TEMPLETON, giving nearly their entire time for three years without remuneration. In digging for the foundation a fine bed of clay was found and from this all the bricks were made. This was a great saving, but the high prices of labor and all materials, which were still at war rates, made the original estimate of the cost far too low. It was also deemed best to heat the building by steam, the first so heated in the state, and this made an additional expense.

      At this time the school had no agents, subscriptions had ceased to come in, and in the summer of 1868 it was feared that the work would have to stop before completion. An appeal to the public brought a speedy answer from Mary T. GODDARD, widow of the early benefactor, T. A. GODDARD, who had recently died. She offered an additional $5,000, on condition that a like sum should be raised by others. At the time of the receipt of this communication, members of the board of trustees were gathered at the home of Judge TILDEN, anxiously and despondently discussing the question of ways and means. An enthusiastic shout greeted the reading of the letter and new life was put into the work. The executive committee being in pressing need of funds, Mrs. GODDARD did not wait for the complete fulfillment of her condition, but in a letter to the board sent a check for the amount with these words: "I wish you to accept this as a gift from Mr. GODDARD, in memory of him whose interest in your institution would not, I am sure, have abated had his life been spared, and who would joyfully have witnessed a successful result of your labors." The gift of $1,000 antedating this by a few months, from Mrs. Philena HAYES (now DAVIS), then a resident of Chicago, deserves to be noted also as coming in a time of need.

      The constantly increasing prices, however, rapidly consumed the funds at command, and it was amid renewed discouragement that the friends of the institution continued the work. Great credit is due to the building committee and their energetic treasurer for the sacrifices and zeal which characterized the work until its completion in 1870. Of the building itself but little need be said. It is sightly, commodious, and substantial. From a central portion fifty-three feet square two wings extend to the north and south, each fifty-three and one-half feet long. It is four stories in height above the basement, and is built of brick with granite trimmings.

      The school opened February 23, 1870, with eighty-eight students in attendance. L. L. BURRINGTON, now at the head of Dean Academy in Massachusetts, was the first principal; Miss Mary BRYANT, preceptress. 

      Soon after the opening the ladies of Barre held a "Bell Festival" to procure a bell for the school building, a festival famous in the vicinity as a great success. The net proceeds were about $525. The first class graduated at the close of the summer term, and consisted of four young men, three of whom had been with the principal at another school.

      In November of the same year, by vote of the trustees and act of the legislature, the name of the institution was changed to Goddard Seminary, in honor of Thomas A. GODDARD. Mr. Goddard took a life-long interest in the educational work of the Universalist church, his name being forever connected with Tufts, Dean, and Westbrook by gift of buildings or endowment of professorships; a proposition of his to give $5,000 was the nucleus about which the original fund was gathered; his gifts supplemented by those of his wife made the school possible. For these reasons it seems preeminently fitting that the school should bear his name. He was a man of large views, great charity, and just discrimination. His wide charities were distributed with generous hand. Always the friend of the young, his constant aim was to help provide for the Christian education of the youth of the church to which he gave so liberally of his means and time. By his works he showed the greatness of his faith.

      Though the school had seen dark days during its building, darker times were ahead. Instead of $40,000 the building, with the heavy cost of equipment for school use, had cost nearly $75,000, a part of which was unpaid. The only subscriptions during this time were gifts of fifty dollars by a large number of individuals or societies to furnish rooms. While for the first two years the number of students was large and school expenses amply provided by its income, the "hard times" rapidly came on, and it was a fight for life for many years. The trustees knew not which way to turn to obtain money for the pressing obligations of the school. Members of the board had risked much for the sake of the school, many being on notes of the institution for more than the value of their property. At one of these dark periods Judge TILDEN made a trip to Boston to ask aid of friends in that neighborhood. He found other interests pressing and those whom he consulted discouraged him. Disappointed and disheartened he started on his return home. Stopping at Concord, N. H., he received a little encouragement and help. The prospect of returning nearly empty handed was too painful to be thought of, and he turned back to Boston. Again Mrs. GODDARD responded with a gift of $2,000, and soon, by the efficient aid of Dr. A. A. MINER, about $7,000 was secured, which tided ever the most pressing difficulties.

      In 1872 Mr. BURRINGTON resigned his position and was succeeded by Mr. F. M. HAWES. In the fall of the same year the school received its first bequest by will, $ 1,000 from the estate of Lucyna H. ROSS, of Chesterfield, Mich., a resident of Barre in her younger days, who by her gift marked her memory of her native town and her appreciation of school advantages which she had desired, but had never been able to obtain. Later a bequest of the same amount was received from Amasa WATKINS, of Reading, Vt.

      During all its early years the school struggled under a heavy weight of debt. At many times it seemed as if the fight for its existence would have to be abandoned. The financial crisis of '73, and the hard times that followed, were severely felt by its constituency. It seemed folly to attempt to raise money at such a time, but it had to be done. In 1874 $11,000 was raised by the efforts of earnest friends, $7,000 being raised in Massachusetts and vicinity by Prof. SHIPMAN, at this time president of the board of trustees, and the remainder in Vermont. The amount was completed at a convention in Bethel in response to a fervent appeal of Mrs. Caroline A. SOULE, and a beginning was also made on an endowment fund. This sum did not prove sufficient, and the next year another effort had to be made to conquer the specter, debt. It was a gloomy prospect; but the ever faithful friends responded loyally, and about $4,000 more was raised. At the next meeting of the board of trustees, in June, 1876, there was found to be a slight remainder of the old debt, and, as if to mock the efforts of years, a deficiency of nearly $3,000 in the running expenses of by far the most disastrous year in the history of the school stared them in the face. This was near to being the last straw, but after long debate, eleven members of the board assumed the entire debt till such time as the school could pay it, a result not accomplished till 1883, and then largely by the giving up of notes by those who, assuming the debts, had taken the notes of the institution, secured by the only mortgage that had ever been placed on the building through all these years of hardship and discouragement.

      This was the last of the financial struggles of the school. It had been long and trying. Only by the cooperation of all under the leadership of the energetic and self-sacrificing president of the board of trustees, and by most persistent effort, was the result accomplished and the school put in a condition where it might hope for brighter things. It might literally be said of each one of several workers of the period, "without the help of this one it could have been impossible to save the school."

      From 1876, when the remainder of the debt was, as stated, assumed by certain trustees, to 1880, the raising of an endowment fund of $10,000 was prosecuted with more or less energy. Under the stimulus of an offer by Mr. Ira C. CALEF to pay the last thousand of the sum, a thorough canvass of the state was made by Mr. H. V. FRENCH, $2,500 was raised in Massachusetts, and the full amount was made up by a memorable contribution in the great hall of the seminary at the close of the graduating exercises in June, 1880.

      During these years of financial struggle the school itself was steadily gaining ground in the confidence of the people and in the ability to provide a thorough education, under the efficient principal, Mr. Henry PRIEST, who had succeeded Mr. HAWES in 1874. By his efforts facilities in the laboratory were increased, the cabinets received many additions, and the library was constantly growing. The class of students has been excellent to a remarkable degree from the beginning to the present, a fact of no small importance towards making a successful school. A well marked system of government has been followed from the first that, avoiding so far as possible minute rules, should cultivate habits of honor and order.

      Since the establishment of the permanent fund other gifts have come, until the school has now the income of $20,000. Of this sum Stevens CALEF, of Providence, R. I, bequeathed $1,000, the late Jonas BARBER, of Richmond, $7,000. Besides this the institution holds a gift of $3,200 from Mr. J. M. HAYNES, of St. Albans, subject to his life interest, and Mrs. Almira SMITH, of Barre, a devoted friend of the school, willed to it her entire personal estate, subject to the life interest of her parents. In 1884 a tract of land south of the building was purchased to present the encroachment of the growing village. It was, in part, paid for by gifts of the Alumni. This addition renders it possible to make the grounds a great ornament, and the work of putting them in proper order, which pressing necessities have heretofore forbidden, will be undertaken in the near future.

      The graduates of the school number 228 -- 104 ladies and 124 gentlemen. It is worthy of note that more than one-half of the young gentlemen who have graduated, in all sixty-eight, became college students, of whom fifty-three entered at Tufts, the remainder at Dartmouth, Burlington, Harvard, Cornell, Boston University, Smith, and Antioch.  The following gives the names of its successive teachers and their terms of service:

      The present condition of the school is the best in its history. The number of pupils in the fall and winter terms of 1887 and 1888 has never been exceeded. The musical department, which was made a prominent part of the school work in 1884, has been successful from the first, both in number of pupils and character of the instruction. Nine scholarships have been recently endowed by gifts of friends, which are given, under prescribed conditions, to those needing aid. Of these one was founded by Hon. Parley STARR, of Brattleboro, one by the sons of Capt. Stephen FOSTER, of East Montpelier, one by Mrs. Harriet Mason CHRISTIE, of Woodstock, and the others by friends in Massachusetts and elsewhere.

      The future of the school never was so encouraging as at present, a result due mainly to the devotion to it of scholars, teachers, and friends. To them it owes its life, after a struggle for existence that would discourage the bravest. From the beginning a very large number have responded to every call for funds. Often when the husband has died, the wife has taken his place as a benefactor; the son has supplemented the gifts of the father. New friends have risen to aid and strengthen the old, and its supporters were never so numerous as at the present. All things seem to prophecy for Goddard the fulfillment of the prayer of one of its earliest and latest friends, that "its prosperity may ever endure, and it may long continue to be a power for good in all the state, sending forth faithful children and obedient disciples of Christ our Teacher and Saviour, and God our loving Father."

      Barre Academy was incorporated by act of the legislature of Vermont, passed November 13, 1849. An organization was completed under this act, and Newel KINSMAN was chosen president and Leonard KEITH, secretary. The academy building was completed in 1852, and in the autumn of that year the school was opened, with J. S. SPAULDING, A. M., principal. Mr. SPAULDING, before he came to Barre, had earned a high reputation as an able educator, by his successful management of the academy of Bakersfield, Vt.; and during the twenty-eight years that he was at the head of Barre Academy this high reputation was more than sustained. President BUCKHAM, of the University of Vermont, at the funeral of Dr. SPAULDING, uttered not mere words of eulogy when he alluded to Barre Academy as the Rugby of Vermont, and compared Dr. SPAULDING with Dr. ARNOLD. Many of Dr. SPAULDING's pupils may say of him, as one has said of Carlisle, "He benefitted me not so much by what he taught as he did by evoking an energy of purpose and will." This energy was impressed upon all who were so fortunate as to receive the instructions of Dr. SPAULDING.

      Dr. SPAULDING was succeeded by A. H. WHEELOCK, A. M., a graduate of the academy and of the University of Vermont, who remained in charge of the school a little more than two years. Mr. WHEELOCK then accepted a position in the Institute of Technology at Boston, Mass. The school was continued only three years longer. J. R. SLOCUM, A. B., succeeded Prof. WHEELOCK, and remained but one year. It continued its existence the ensuing two years, under the management of E. H. DUTCHER, A. B., when, because the institution was without funds and in debt, the trustees found it impossible to continue it longer, and Barre Academy ceased to exist.

      In the fall of 1887 the grounds and buildings were conveyed to the village school district (No. 8, of Barre). The district, by vote, had decided to adopt a system of graded schools so that, phenix-like, the old institution will be perpetuated by the new, in a manner more in accord with the spirit of the age, and perhaps will better subserve the needs of the entire community.

      The curriculum of studies prescribed by the academy and mastered by its students thoroughly prepared them to enter any and all of the New England colleges, and fitted them also to enter into active business, or the learned professions. Over three hundred pupils, including both sexes, have graduated from this institution, and those who have been enrolled as students number thousands. The honorable career of many of these affords surest testimony of the high character of Barre Academy.
 
 
 
 

Gazetteer Of Washington County, Vt. 1783-1899, 
Compiled and Published by Hamilton Child,
Edited By William Adams.
The Syracuse Journal Company, Printers and Binders.
Syracuse, N. Y.; April, 1889.
Pages 129 - 139

Transcribed by Karima Allison, 2003