Barrows, Alice, 1878-1954.

Alice Prentice Barrows was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, the daughter, granddaughter and great-granddaughter of Congregational ministers and died in New York City in 1954. She graduated from Vassar College in 1900 and became a teacher. She later became a noted specialist in school building problems and devoted forty-one years to the cause of education, twenty-three of them in the U.S. Office of Education. After her retirement in 1942 she lived in East Blue Hill, Maine.

Charles Dana Barrows, father of Alice Prentice Barrows, was born in Fryeburg, Maine in 1844 and died in 1892. He married Marion C. Merrill in 1866 and they had 4 children: Malcolm Dana, Charles Dana, Alice Prentice, and Samuel Fay. He was principal of Fryeburg Academy and later became minister of the First Congregational Church in San Francisco, California.

Charles Dana Barrows, brother of Alice Prentice Barrows, was born in Lowell, Massachusetts in 1871 and died in 1926. He was purchasing agent for the Maine Central Railroad for 29 years.

Thomas Brackett Reed, uncle of Alice Prentice Barrows, represented Maine in the U.S. Congress for 20 years, was Speaker of the House of Representatives, and candidate in the primaries for President of the U.S. on the Republican ticket in 1900.

Dr. Rueul Barrows, native of Hebron, Maine, settled in Fryeburg around 1817, continued with a large medical practice, and was the leading physician in Oxford County.