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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler 8 0 Browse Search
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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 1: lineage and education. (search)
ining one is the writer. The Rev. Mr. Edson was the foster father of this school, and brought for us our teacher, Thomas N. Clark, a graduate of Yale. Mr. Clark taught us for nearly two years, and with him we went into the new schoolhouse. The Mr. Clark taught us for nearly two years, and with him we went into the new schoolhouse. The numbers of the school increasing with the same rapidity as the new town, he brought to his assistance a classmate from Yale, Mr. Clapp, who afterwards left our school to go to Charleston, South Carolina, where he finally became the editor of the Chaid the venom of the poison remained in him. For some reason, which as a boy I never knew, the school was suspended when Mr. Clark retired from the teachership to enter his profession of the ministry. In this profession our reverend teacher rose stes, but utterly without the special capacity to train young men, and particularly those who had enjoyed the teachings of Mr. Clark. Indeed, we dealt with him rather as a foe, and all the resources of pretty active minds were exhausted in an endeavor