CLASS OF 1849

Rev. Carlos Slafter died at Hyde Park, Mass., July 18, after a brief illness. He was born in Thetford, Vt., July 21, 1825, and was the son of the late Sylvester and Mary Armstrong (Johnson) Slafter. He prepared for college at Thetford Academy. He began teaching in Fairlee, Vt., December, 1841, and after, wards taught four winters in Lyme, N. H., one in Maiden, Mass., and two in Dedham, Mass In the fall succeeding graduation he taught in Lyme, and thentaught the grammar school of Dedham, Mass., meanwhile reading law there. In 1851-2 he was the first master of the high school of Framingham, Mass. He then returned to Dedham as principal of the high school, and taught there till 1892, beloved alike by pupils and parents. Declining a re-election, he devoted his leisure time to writing and historical research. He was the author of Historical Catalogue of the Dedham High School," and " The Schools and Teachers of Dedham, 1644-1904." In the latter, accounts were given of 1050 teachers. Both works were 'labors of love," and the result of years of careful research, especially the studies of early school life in Dedham, and much of the material it would be impossible again to collect. He also wrote a biography of Sir Humphrey Gilbert for the Prince Society of Boston, and various other pamphlets. He delivered a historical address at the 75th anniversary of the founding of Thetford Academy, and one at the 250 th anniversary of the founding of the Dedham public school, the first public school in this country to be supported wholly by direct taxation. He was ordained deacon in the Protestant Episcopal church in Boston in 1865, and preached occasionally. He received the degree of A.M. from Trinity College in 1867. He married Rebecca Bullard of Dedham in 1553, who died in 1901. In 1906 he married Miss E. S. Clarke of Hyde Park, who survives him. He is survived also by his two children, Theodore S. Slafter '75, and Mrs. Calvin Countryman of Rockford, Ill.