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Newfoundland (Canada) (search for this): chapter 36
d by the pecuniary embarrassments into which he had fallen, he suddenly disappeared, and, with only five dollars in his pocket, made his way to the West, where, for a time, he found employment as surveyor and civil engineer, and was on the point of setting out across the plains for California, when he was taken ill, and returned to Massachusetts, where he taught school for a while at Barnstable. It was about this time also, it is supposed, that he went on a fishing-voyage to the Banks of Newfoundland. After he had been absent more than a year from South Paris, his friends there having removed the causes which had led to his abrupt departure, gladly welcomed him back; and he resumed his position at the head of the Oxford Normal Institute, which he continued to hold for nearly five years longer, but, failing still to make it profitable, finally abandoned it in 1856. During the next three years he taught a school at Livermore Falls, and afterward went to Aroostook County, Maine, wher
Barnstable, Mass. (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 36
igent in the matter of dress. The results were not remunerative; and at the end of two years, disheartened by the pecuniary embarrassments into which he had fallen, he suddenly disappeared, and, with only five dollars in his pocket, made his way to the West, where, for a time, he found employment as surveyor and civil engineer, and was on the point of setting out across the plains for California, when he was taken ill, and returned to Massachusetts, where he taught school for a while at Barnstable. It was about this time also, it is supposed, that he went on a fishing-voyage to the Banks of Newfoundland. After he had been absent more than a year from South Paris, his friends there having removed the causes which had led to his abrupt departure, gladly welcomed him back; and he resumed his position at the head of the Oxford Normal Institute, which he continued to hold for nearly five years longer, but, failing still to make it profitable, finally abandoned it in 1856. During the
Norway (Norway) (search for this): chapter 36
mencement, it was above the average in Greek, while in Mathematics he had attained high distinction. It has not been easy to trace his career after graduation. He was always eccentric and reticent to excess, and his own family were often ignorant of where he was and what he was doing. He seems, however, to have resumed almost immediately his old business of teaching. In 1845-46 he taught in an academy then recently established at Westbrook, Maine; in 1847 a school was opened by him at Norway, in the same State, under the title of the Norway Liberal Institute; and in 1848 he became principal of the Oxford Normal Institute at South Paris, Oxford County, Maine, where his success as a teacher was very great, and drew to the new institution at one time as many as two hundred students. Here he taught all the higher branches to pupils of both sexes, and fitted a great number of young men for Bowdoin College, where it was said that no candidates for admission came so well prepared as M
Livermore, Me. (Maine, United States) (search for this): chapter 36
Supplementary biographies. 1844. Ebenezer Pierce Hinds. Private 7th Maine Vols. (Infantry), August 21, 1861. died August 17, 1862, on board steamer State of Maine, of disease contracted in the service. Ebenezer Pierce Hinds was born, according to the entry made by himself in the Class-Book, at Livermore, Maine, June 30, 1821. He was the son of Ebenezer and Louisa (Pierce) Hinds, and the fifth in descent from Ebenezer Hinds, who was, in 1776, a Presbyterian preacher in Middleboroa, Mass. He was also the fifth of the family who, from father to son, bore the same baptismal name. Middleboroa continued to be the residence of the family till 1801, when the grandfather and father of the subject of this memoir emigrated to Maine. His father was, for many years, a master ship-builder at Pittston, in that State, where he is still living. On entering college he first joined the class which graduated in 1843, but remained only during the Freshman year, when he left Cambridge
Baltimore, Md. (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 36
lieutenant's commission, he entered the service as a private, saying that he thought he could serve his country better in that capacity than in any other. He was mustered in on the 21St of August, 1861, and left Augusta with the regiment for Baltimore, August 23. The following extract from a letter written in Virginia, November 9, 1861, illustrates the spirit in which he devoted himself to the service of his country, and at the same time shows the strength of his attachment to his family.do think much, very much, of the friends behind me. One thing is certain, sister, there is a God here as at home, and he will not fail to take care of any one who does his duty. Mine is to be here. God help me to do my duty like a man. At Baltimore, where the regiment remained about a month, he worked with the engineers in building a fort on Murray Hill; and this seems to have suggested an application which he made unsuccessfully for a discharge from his regiment in order to enter the eng
Harrington (Maine, United States) (search for this): chapter 36
erth, Aroostook fashion, of boughs well laid down. It was from Maysville, where his farm was situated, that he enlisted in the Seventh Regiment Maine Volunteers, Company I, composed chiefly of men from that and the adjoining townships. Declining, with characteristic modesty, a lieutenant's commission, he entered the service as a private, saying that he thought he could serve his country better in that capacity than in any other. He was mustered in on the 21St of August, 1861, and left Augusta with the regiment for Baltimore, August 23. The following extract from a letter written in Virginia, November 9, 1861, illustrates the spirit in which he devoted himself to the service of his country, and at the same time shows the strength of his attachment to his family. In a few days we expect to be marched out to battle. . . . . I can hardly tell whether I feel much anxiety about myself, but I do think much, very much, of the friends behind me. One thing is certain, sister, ther
Livermore Falls (Maine, United States) (search for this): chapter 36
sed, that he went on a fishing-voyage to the Banks of Newfoundland. After he had been absent more than a year from South Paris, his friends there having removed the causes which had led to his abrupt departure, gladly welcomed him back; and he resumed his position at the head of the Oxford Normal Institute, which he continued to hold for nearly five years longer, but, failing still to make it profitable, finally abandoned it in 1856. During the next three years he taught a school at Livermore Falls, and afterward went to Aroostook County, Maine, where, in local phraseology, he took up wild land and made himself a farm,—still teaching at intervals. His letters from this farm show that the same energy and enthusiasm he had displayed in teaching he here directed to the chopping of big trees, of which he had already felled about nine acres (out of a hundred), and he was full of projects for building a house and opening a road. This was in August, 1859. In November of the same yea
California (California, United States) (search for this): chapter 36
s with reckless prodigality, while, at the same time, he was careless of his personal comforts, and negligent in the matter of dress. The results were not remunerative; and at the end of two years, disheartened by the pecuniary embarrassments into which he had fallen, he suddenly disappeared, and, with only five dollars in his pocket, made his way to the West, where, for a time, he found employment as surveyor and civil engineer, and was on the point of setting out across the plains for California, when he was taken ill, and returned to Massachusetts, where he taught school for a while at Barnstable. It was about this time also, it is supposed, that he went on a fishing-voyage to the Banks of Newfoundland. After he had been absent more than a year from South Paris, his friends there having removed the causes which had led to his abrupt departure, gladly welcomed him back; and he resumed his position at the head of the Oxford Normal Institute, which he continued to hold for nearly
Aroostook County (Maine, United States) (search for this): chapter 36
e Banks of Newfoundland. After he had been absent more than a year from South Paris, his friends there having removed the causes which had led to his abrupt departure, gladly welcomed him back; and he resumed his position at the head of the Oxford Normal Institute, which he continued to hold for nearly five years longer, but, failing still to make it profitable, finally abandoned it in 1856. During the next three years he taught a school at Livermore Falls, and afterward went to Aroostook County, Maine, where, in local phraseology, he took up wild land and made himself a farm,—still teaching at intervals. His letters from this farm show that the same energy and enthusiasm he had displayed in teaching he here directed to the chopping of big trees, of which he had already felled about nine acres (out of a hundred), and he was full of projects for building a house and opening a road. This was in August, 1859. In November of the same year he had been driven out of the woods by th
Westbrook (Maine, United States) (search for this): chapter 36
According to the printed order of Exercises for Commencement, it was above the average in Greek, while in Mathematics he had attained high distinction. It has not been easy to trace his career after graduation. He was always eccentric and reticent to excess, and his own family were often ignorant of where he was and what he was doing. He seems, however, to have resumed almost immediately his old business of teaching. In 1845-46 he taught in an academy then recently established at Westbrook, Maine; in 1847 a school was opened by him at Norway, in the same State, under the title of the Norway Liberal Institute; and in 1848 he became principal of the Oxford Normal Institute at South Paris, Oxford County, Maine, where his success as a teacher was very great, and drew to the new institution at one time as many as two hundred students. Here he taught all the higher branches to pupils of both sexes, and fitted a great number of young men for Bowdoin College, where it was said that no
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