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Note: In 1860, Miss Emma L. Taylor took charge of the school. She held the position seventeen years and was succeeded by Miss E. F. Billings, Miss Carrie Clark and Mrs. David S. Clark. The academy celebrated its semi-centennial on July I, 1873. The academy is leased by the town of Derry for one of its district grammar schools. The building remains unchanged in outside appear- ance and the inside is practically the same as it has always been. http://www.archive.org/stream/historyofrocking00hazl/historyofrocking00hazl_djvu.txt Emma donated money for the clock in the tower of the First Presbyterian Church Emma L. Taylor Memorial Photos Flowers Edit Learn about upgrading this memorial... Birth: �Ctab�DAug. 25, 1827 Death: �Ctab�DDec. 3, 1886 For many years she was the preceptress of Adams Female Seminary in East Derry, New Hampshire. Emma L. Taylor gave the sum of one thousand dollars to the town for what is now the Taylor library in East Derry, NH. Her sister Harriet did the same. Emma also left the same sum towards the erection of the Derry Civil War Monument. The town appropriated $2,000 to add to the sum that Emma bequeathed. Notice from The New England Magazine and Bay State Monthly Volume 5 November 1886 Miss Emma Taylor, of St. Johnsbury, Vt., sister of Dr. Samuel Taylor, president of Phillips' Andover Academy and of the wife of Governor Fairbanks, of Vermont, died in December. She was a native of Derry, N.H. and was at one time a teacher in St.Johnsbury Academy. Top photo shows a plaque located on Island Pond Road, Derry, New Hampshire. It reads: This farm was the home of James and Persis Hemphill Taylor and in the house which formerly stood near this spot were born their children Samuel Harvey Taylor Principal of Phillips Academy Andover, Nathaniel Milton Taylor, Almira (Fairbanks) (Thayer), Caroline P. (Jewett), Harriet Taylor, James Calvin Taylor , Sarah J. (Parker), Mary E (Fairbanks) and Emma L. Taylor. Family links: Parents: James Taylor (____ - 1864) Persis Hemphill Taylor (____ - 1858) Burial: Forest Hill Cemetery East Derry Rockingham County New Hampshire, USA Plot: Section L Lot 54 Edit Virtual Cemetery info [?] Created by: D. J. Goldman Record added: Feb 04, 2008 Find A Grave Memorial# 24400448
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