Papers, 1808-1940.

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Papers, 1808-1940.

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Correspondence and other documents of several generations of the Barrows family of Fryeburg, Maine. Featured most prominently in the collection are letters, receipts, and essays of John Stuart Barrows from 1816 to 1848 and letters of George B. Barrows, 1833-1898. Also includes material of Jesse Barrows, 1808-1811, about his attendance at Hebron Academy and his qualifications to teach school; a letter from Dr. Reuel Barrows, a physician in Fryeburg, about the death of George Barrows in 1819; letters and essays of Anna Ayer Bradley; and letters written by and to Georgianna Barrows, 1850-1912. Also includes letters, 1929 and 1934, to Anna Barrows, an author and staff member at Teachers College, Columbia University. A few letters to other family members as well as a photograph of the Barrows house in Plymouth, Mass., are found in the collection.

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Raymond H. Fogler Library

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Raymond H. Fogler Library

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Barrows, Georgianna Souther

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Teacher of English at Freehold Young Ladies' Seminary, Freehold, N.J. (1845-1853); returned to her hometown of Fryeburg, Me., ca. 1855; b. Georgianna Souther. From the description of Papers, 1846-1881 (bulk 1847-1876). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70949049 ...

Barrows, John, of Fryeburg, Me.

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Hebron Academy

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Barrows, Reuel.

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Barrows, George B. (George Bradley), 1822-1904

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Barrows, Jesse.

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Barrows, Anna

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Born in Fryeburg, Maine in 1861 to Georgiana Souther Barrows, Anna Barrows was educated at Fryeburg Academy -- which was founded by her parents -- and began her teaching career in the public schools of Fryeburg and Conway, N.H. After taking a course at the Boston Cooking School in 1886, she began teaching cooking and home economics, before these were standard courses in the public schools. Barrows taught in a number of schools in the Boston area, including Lasell Seminary in Auburndale. She beca...

Barrows family.

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William Barrows, a Revolutionary War soldier from Carver, Mass., founded the Hebron Academy in Hebron, Maine in 1803. His son, John Stuart Barrows, a native of Hebron, came to Fryeburg, Maine in 1810 and established a law partnership there with Col. Samuel A. Bradley. John Barrows married Anna Ayer Bradley in 1820. Their son, George Bradley Barrows, born in Fryeburg in 1822, graduated from Fryeburg Academy and Dartmouth College in the class of 1842 . He read law with his father but did not pract...