JOHN VOSE 1795

Referring to Dr. Spalding's recent article on the College life of Judah Dana 1795, Professor John V. Hazen adds some interesting information in a letter to the editor. He writes:

"The class of 1795 was my grandfather's class, that of John Vose whose name I bear.

"One or two errors appear in the footnote in which he is mentioned. He was born in 1766 not 1776 as indicated. He was a teacher for about thirty-five years, not all of his life. He did not teach all of this time at Atkinson but also taught quite a period at Pembroke, (N. H.) Academy. He retired from teaching about 1830 and devoted the latter part of his life to farming, surveying and that of a village squire.

"He was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa and at one time gave an address before that society. While principal of Atkinson Academy he was instrumental in the building of the present existing academy building, one of the oldest structures in the state built in the early part of the last century. He published two text-books on Astronomy, was much interested in that subject and calculated a good many eclipses. As a farmer the latter part of his life he first introduced grafted fruit into his town and I think some of the trees are still producing apples. As a boy I picked apples from those trees.

"I have several other interesting mementoes of the days when his class was in College, one a printed sheet containing the names of the class when they were sophomores. I have also his Bachelor's diploma and Master's diploma received three years later, both signed by the younger Wheelock and the Trustees of that time. They are rather dingy specimens but much more ornate in some respects than those now issued."