EARLY SCHOOLS FOR GIRLS IN HANOVER

It is a fact perhaps not generally known that Hanover was once the site of two flourishing female seminaries, the older of which, conducted in the Rood House, which was removed to make place for Webster Hall, furnished Susan Coolidge the inspiration for her once widely popular girls' book, "What Katy Did at School."

Professor John K. Lord is the one to whom inquirers as to matters of Hanover history turn, and in response to request for information as to the proprietorship of these old schools, he has written the following, which is here printed as a matter of general interest:

"In 1850, Mrs. Laura C. Dickinson succeeded Mrs. Daniel; Furber, who, as Mrs. Peabody, had conducted a very successful girls' school in Hanover for ten years in what we knew as the Rood House. Mrs. Peabody married in 1850 the Reverend Daniel Furber of the Class of 1843, and transferred her school (house and good will) to Mrs. Dickinson. She continued it but one yelar as she followed Mrs. Peabody's example and was married at the end of the year to Mr. Lansing and sold her school to Professor Hubbard. He continued it for five years and then removed it to his own house which we know by his name, and which stood on the site of Parkhurst Hall."