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Title: History of the Connecticut Valley in Massachusetts, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: L.H. Everts & Co
Subjects: Connecticut River Valley -- History Franklin County (Mass.) -- History Hampshire County (Mass.) -- History Hampden County (Mass.) -- History
Publisher: Philadelphia : Louis H. Everts
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: UMass Amherst Libraries

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to the east, and presents a most beautiful view of theacademy buildings, campus, meadow, grove, and mountain.The campus has a frontage on the street of nearly a sixth ofa mile. At the southern extremity stands the MethodistChurch, a massive structure of red sandstone. Near to this,and in front of the boarding-hall, is an attractive croquet-ground for the young ladies, while farther to the north islocated a most excellent ball-ground for the young men. Thetrustees now hold a farm of nearly 200 acres, suitably dividedinto meadow-, tillage-, and pasture-lands, which, under thecareful management of a skillful farmer, supplies all the milkand vegetables needed by the boarding-house. The value ofthe real estate and personal property owned by the institutionis as follows: Real estate , S12;i,.550 Libraries 0,744 Cabinet and museum 2,IK)0 .\pparatu8.. 3,511 Musical instruments ,3,6.s.^ School furniture, etc 2,342 Boarding-Iiall furniture, etc 9,71S Frtvni-stock and tools 2,493 Total fl54,043
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istiEtT/SiiKi a©a©iEay sij^iiUDiria-rJauSi^, iy)i.aiu\)^J^\ja, Ki^^i. HON. J. M. MERRICK. The subject of this brief notice is tlioBixMi genenilion from ThomaB MejTicU,wlio wjifl born in Wales, Great Britain, inthe year 1620; emigrated to this countryabout l&iO, and settled at tiipringtieUl,Mass., in 1638. John M. was born iu Wilbrahani, May9,1810, and is the second son of John andHarriet (Brewer) Merrick, and Krandsonof Lieut. Jonathan Merrick and Mary, liiswife. This lady was a sister of TimothyMerrick, whose tragic death, at an earlyage, is described in verse in the historyof the town of Wilbraham. John Merrick, the father of our subject,died in August, 1816. In April, 1817, hiswidow marrieil John Bliss, a native ofWilbraham, and John M. at once took uphis abode with his mother and her hus-band. His earliest years were spent inworking upon the farm in the summermonths, and in attendance upon the com-mon schools in the winter-time. At the age of fourteen he chose AbrahamAveryâ

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