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CARY SEMINARY, TOWN OF OAKFIELD
Transcribed by Nancy Bow, Oakfield Town and County Historian

Cary Seminary was a well-known and highly regarded private school in Oakfield for over 60 years.

Colonel Alfred Cary donated the land for the school, and with citizens, subscribed funds for the erection of the building. The cornerstone was laid July 4, 1840, and in the fall of 1844, the school opened. During the first winter term there were 136 students, almost evenly divided between boys and girls. Pupils were allowed to board at the school, or in private homes in the community. The annual enrollment from 1844 to 1860 ranged from 200 to 300 students. During the Civil War the school suffered, but after the war the school was especially prosperous. In later years, the school eliminated the primary and intermediate departments and work was confined to the academic grade. The availability of free education provided in Oakfield began the downfall of the seminary. By 1905, the Seminary had closed, and the building was leased by the Oakfield school district. In 1926, the Seminary building was torn down and a new district school was built in its' place.

Student Enrollment

School Year ending July 31, 1847

Trustees:

President: Alfred Cary

Clerk: George March

Treasurer: Stephen Olmsted

James A Bolles

Stephen Grant

Trumbull Cary

Homer Kimberly

John Foot

John Cotes

James A. Billings

John S. Ganson

Benjamin Pringle

John E. Tompkins

William H. Seward

James D. Merrill

Harvey Putnam

Heman J. Redfield

Richard L. Wait

George W. Lay

Board of Instruction:

Benjamin B. Richards, Principal

Robert Blennerhassett, Ancient and modern Languages

Artemas Chapel, English,

Algernon S. Pratt, Penmanship

Anna P. Sill, Painting and Drawing

Minerva A. Kibbe, Music

Eliza A. Richards, Primary dept.

Students: - Residence:

Rathbun P. Allen - Oakfield

Oscar Allen -

Shelton Armstrong -

Henry W. Arnold - Bergen

William Baldwin - Oakfield

Milton R. Baldwin -

Aaron Baldwin -

George Bemis - Alabama

Benjamin H. Benham - Byron

James A. Billings - Batavia

Ira F. Bird - Oakfield

Isaac Bishop - Alabama

Alva J. Blodgett - Oakfield

Charles W. Bradley - OaKFIELD

s. Gates Bronson - Warsaw

Ryan S. Buck - Oakfield

Walter W. Burton -

William Caldar -

Caleb Calkins -

Elias Calkins -

Samuel Campbell - Grand Traverse, Mich.

Charles Chamberlin - Oakfield

Artemas Chapel -

James M. Chapel - Lima, NY

J. Foster Clark - Alabama

James A. Cowles - Oakfield

Luther Crocker - Elba

Josia J. S. Dean - Royalton, NY

Francis Drake - Oakfield

Sheldon Dunlap - Shelby, NY

Josia Dunlap -

B. Franklin Fellows - Oakfield

James B. J. Fellows -

William H. G. Finch -

Charles Foster -

Franklin J. Fuller -

George D. Fuller -

Charles H. Fuller -

Henry K. Gates - Warsaw

Archibald M. Gibson - Oakfield

John Sill Gibson -

James W. Gibson - Alabama

William W. Gould - Pembroke, NY

Asa W. Green - Alabama

Gideon C. Guernsey - Royalton, NY

Rawson A. Harmon - Wheatland, NY

Leonard W. Hartt - Oakfield

Giles Hathaway - Barre, NY

Henry L. Hawes - Oakfield

Benjamin F. Hawes -

George M. Hopkins -

Nelson Horning - Alabama

Charles Howard - Oakfield

Henry Howard -

Milo M. Howe -

Colby Ingalsbe - Alabama

Worthy Johnson -

Richard M. Jones - Oakfield

Edgar Knickerbocker Riga, NY

Charles H. Laing - Waterloo, NY

Alfred C. Lewis - Oakfield

Lucas Seaver Lewis -

John Macomber - Alabama

Samuel March - Oakfield

Elias Martin - Alabama

Hiram McCreery - Clarkson, NY

Levant C. McIntyre - Oakfield

Thomas W. McIntyre -

John Morris - Batavia

Theoron C. Norton - Alabama

Washington O'Donoughue - Bergen

William D. Olmstead - Oakfield

S. Emory Olmstead -

Charles Pardee - Alabama

Stillman Pond -

Edson H. Pond -

Homer Reed - Oakfield

Sherman Reed -

Jackson Reeves -

Henry D. Reeves -

G. W. Rice - Barre, NY

Oliver H. P. Roszell - Alabama

Nathan C. Rowley - Batavia

James A. B. Satterlee Oakfield

Elijah Sheldon, Jr. - Royalton, NY

Simeon Sheldon -

Nathan Shotwell - Elba

Albert Sizer - Bethany

Horace Smith - Pembroke

George S. Spalding - Oakfield

Henry G. Stone -

Daniel R. Taylor - Alabama

William H. Vaneps - Oakfield

William H. Wait - Bethany

John W. Ware - Oakfield

Simon P. Webster - Kendall, NY

J. Kannicott Whitman - Oakfield

Nelson C. Wilder - Elba

William H. Willett - Pembroke, NY

James Willett - Batavia, NY

Austin W. Wolcott - Oakfield

Edward Wolcott -

Gilbert Wolcott -

Oliver M. Wolcott -

Augusta Allen -

Mary A. Ash - Alabama

Henrietta Baldwin - Oakfield

Helen E. Barker -

Elizabeth Barker -

Frances A. Barker -

Alzina Bailes -

Levantia A. Bartholomew -

Susan E. Beecher - Bennington, Mass.

Mary U. Billings - Batavia

Elizabeth S. Billlings -

Marion M. Bradley - Oakfield

Calista Brown -

Ellen M. Buck -

Emma A. Buck -

Eunice Buell -

Spide Buell -

Amelia Burgess -

Chastina M. Buswell - Batavia

Frances Calkins - Oakfield

Harriet A. Campbell - Westfield, NY

Helen Chamberlin - Oakfield

Mary Cheeney - Alabama

Olive Churchill - Bethany, NY

Hannah B. Coddington - Oakfield

Eliza Coddington -

Harriett Cowles -

Zilpha Crocker - Elba

Sybil Curtis - Alabama

Elizabeth Foot - Batavia

Hepzibeth Freeman - Oakfield

Sarah E. Fuller -

Lucy E. Galaway - Detroit, Mich

Lucy T. Gardner - Oakfield

Mary E. Gates - Warsaw

Mary E. Gibson - Oakfield

Susan M. Gibson -

Susan E. Goodrich - Alabama

Harriet Gregg - Oakfield

Mary A. Gregg -

Sarah M. Gregory - Batavia

Frances M. Hebbard - Oakfield

Ellen Hosselkus - Oakfield

Hester Hosselkus -

Mary Hosselkus -

Helen Howard -

R. Cordelia Howe - Elba

Jane Joyce - Leroy

Amanda N. Kelsey - Oakfield

Olive Kimberly - Batavia

Mary A. Knickerbocker Elba

Eliza Knight - Oakfield

Harriet Lillie -

Sarah C. Long - Pembroke

Ann J. Long -

Emeline Macomber - Alabama

Julia Mann - Oakfield

Mary A. McBrertz - Royalton, NY

Delia E. McCrillus - Oakfield

Ann J. McCrillus -

Sarah C. McCully - Batavia

Susan Merrill - Byron

E. Lovina Morley - Bethany

Harriet J. Morley -

Mary E. Morley -

Ann E. Moss - Oakfield

Mary Nichol - Alabama

Marietta Olmstead - Byron

Mary J. Pardee - Elba

Margaret Pardee - Alabama

Zipporah B. Parish Bergen

Louisa Phillips - Oakfield

Elizabeth A. Pierson -

Augusta Rathbun -

Eliza A. Richards - Bennington, NY

Melinda Richards -

Hannah Richards - Balston, NY

Ann Q. Ross - Oakfield

Narcissa R. T. Roszell - Alabama

Mercy N. Shepard -

Amanda Shepard -

Nancy Smith - Oakfield

Julia Smith - Batavia

Horatia Spalding - Oakfield

Amanda Stone -

Harriet Sweetland Stafford

Emily Taylor - Alabama

Elizabeth Taylor -

Jane Thompson - Oakfield

Charlotte Tone - Bergen

Mary F. Vale - Royalton, NY

Mary Waller - Elba

M. Cordelia Waller -

Sarah W. Ware - Oakfield

Abigail Warner - Batavia

Caroline M. Warner -

Dolly Watson - Stafford

Mary S. Webber -

Julia Webber -

Sophronia Whitman Oakfield

Sarah Wilcox - Elba

Phebe A. Williams - Royalton,NY

Sarah A. Wolcott - Oakfield

Loretta Wolcott -

Sarah A. Wolcott - Alabama

H. Miranda Wolcott -

Eleanor Wolcott -

School year ending July 31, 1889

Trustees:

President: Rt. Rev. A. Cleveland Cove

Vice President: A. C. Dodge

Treasurer: Henry Caple

Secretary: H. B. Rathbone, M.A.

Herbert P. Bissell

Rev. Pierre Cushing

Principal: Reginald H. Coe

Teachers:

Reginald H. Coe

Howard L. Rixon

Mary G. Armstrong

Elizabeth V. Rorbach

Sarah A. Buell

Students: - Age:

Wilber J. Armstrong 18

Stanton E. Barrett 17

Charles. S. Dillingham 20

Bert B. Farnsworth 20

Francis L. Hawes - 16

Homer J. Knickerbocker 16

Roselle H. Norris - 18

Herbert W. Olmsted 20

Fred J. Pev - 18

Richmond L. Rathbone 16

Herbert R. Stevens 18

Mary A. Blodgett - 19

Lillian Chamberlin 17

Anna C. Chapple - 16

F. Edith Deuring - 17

Nina A. Drake - 15

Selina Printup - 20

Anna M. Pugsley - 13

Gertrude A. Rausier 17

Georgia W. Rathbone 18

Jane Sleeper - 20

Addie H. Wolcott - 15

School year ending July 31, 1890

Trustees:

President: Rt. Rev. A. C. Cove

Treasurer: Henry Caple

Secretery: A. B. Rathbone

Rev. E. N. Potter

Rev. A. M. Sherman

Principal: Curtis C. Gove

Preceptress: A. M. Thomson

Resignations:

Reginald H. Coe

Howard L. Rixon

Appointments:

Curtis C. Gove

Miss. Am M. Thomson

Mary G. Armstrong

Sarah A. Buell

Frances L. Norton

Students: - Age:

Herbert J. Armstrong - 19

Stanton E. Barrett 17

Lee T. Benton - 20

Charles S. Dillingham -21

Charles H. Eichler - 14

Avery S. Gilbert - 15

Francis L. Hawes - 17

Charles S. McDonald - 20

Fred J. Pev - 21

Richmond L. Rathbone - 17

Lillian Chamberlin - 19

Anna C. Chapple - 16

Marjorie L. S. Coe - 16

Nina A. Drake - 16

Clara J. Farnsworth - 17

Flora L. Isaac - 15

Nannie A. McVea - 17

Selina Printup - 20

Anna M. Pugsley - 14

Gertrude A. Rausier - 20

Addie H. Wolcott - 15

School Year ending July 31, 1891

William S. Andrus - 18

Stanton E. Barrett - 18

Charles H. Eichler - 14

Albert A. Farnsworth - 15

Bruce f. Halsey - 15

Burt Norton - 14

Bayard J. Stedman - 15

George A. Wakeman - 17

Edith Bloomingdale - 15

Marjorie L. S. Coe - 17

Lillian Chamberlin - 19

Nina A. Drake - 16

Catherine C. Gove - 13

Nannie A. McVea - 16

Anna M. Pugsly - 15

Addie A. Wolcott - 16

School Year ending July 31, 1892

Francis C. Blodgett 17

Charled H. Eichler -16

Albert A. Farnsworth - 15

Francis L. Hawes - 19

Bruce F. Halsey - 16

Burt B. Norton - 15

Bayard J. Stedman - 17

Allison J. Wakeman - 16

George A. Wakeman -18

Clara B. Andrews - 19

Edith E. Bloomingdale - 17

Josephine A. Cosway - 16

Catherine C. Gove - 14

Mabel E. Howland - 16

Susie H. Town - 19

Nina A. Drake - 19

School year ending July 31, 1893

Principal: Rev. Curtis C. Gove

Students: - age:

Frances B. Blodgett - 18

Albert Farnsworth - 17

Bruce F. Halsey - 17

Burt B. Norton - 16

Richmond L. Rathbone - 21

Bayard J. Stedman - 17

George A. Wakeman - 18

Allison J. Wakeman - 16

Harry D. Waldo - 19

Clara B. Andrews - 20

Lizzie A. Armstrong - 16

Edith E. Bloomingdale - 17

Josephine A. Cosway - 17

Nina A. Drake - 18

Catherine C. Gove - 14

Mabel E. Howland - 18

Grace B. McDonald - 17

Nina T. Norton - 15

Anna M. Pusgley - 17

Sarah Root - 17

Susie H. Town - 20

Year Ending July 31, 1894

Francis B. Blodgett 19

Bruce F. Halsey - 18

George H. Harvey - 17

Frank R. Ingalsbe - 16

Harry C. Nobles - 17

Burt B. Norton - 17

Richmond L. Rathbone - 22

Allison J. Wakeman - 17

Harry D. Waldo - 19

Clara B. Andrews - 21

Florence M. Andrews - 17

Lizzie A. Armstrong - 17

Helen P. Baird - 20

Mabel Buxton - 19

Grace E. Farnsworth - 15

Catherine C. Gove - 15

Bertha L. Lewis - 19

Nina T. Norton - 16

Anna M. Pugsley - 18

Rhena A. Pugsley - 15

Alice E. Roatch - 16

Susie H. Town - 21

Year Ending July 31, 1895

Trustee: - Year of appointment

A. Cleveland Coxe - 1865

William D. Olmsded - 1884

Arthur B. Rathbone - 1875

Henry Caple - 1883

Gad B. Worthington - 1856

Robert W. Nichols - 1871

John L. Macomber - 1877

William C. Dunlap - 1877

A. P. Jackson, MD - 1879

Irving J. Stedman - 1880

Henry Halsey - 1881

Thomas L. Nichol - 1882

William A. Hitchcock - 1883

Eugene T. Chamberlin - 1887

Charles F. J. Weigley - 1888

Rev. Pierre Cushing - 1889

Rev. Addison M. Sherman -1890

Frank B. Redfield - 1891

Henry F. Darnell - 1892

William D. Orville Doty -1892

Fred B. Parker - 1892

Aldice G. Warren - 1894

Rev. Warren G. Hubbard - 1894

Charles F. Stafford - 1894

Teachers:

Curtis C. Gove, Principal

Edwin B. Clift, Science and Mathematics

Miss Nina A. Drake, Vocal and instrumental Music

Miss Clara B. Andrews, English

57 students enrolled, but not listed by name

School year ending July 31, 1900

Trustees:

Vice President: Irving J. Stedman

 
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