Holyoke High School - Annual Yearbook (Holyoke, MA)

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- V V - JOSEPH PAYSON BUCKLAND, son of George W. and Lydia CWoodj Buckland, was born in Chicopee Falls, October 6, 1836. He was educated in the Chicopee Falls public schools and in Williston Semi- nary. Mr. Buckland was graduated from Yale Col- lege in 1857 with degree, A.B. In October of that year he began duty as principal of the Holyoke High School, which position he filled until Decem- ber, 1858, when he resigned to study law. He was invited to return to the principalship in April, 1860, and continued until March, 1863. He was then elected superintendent of schools and served two years. He studied law with Judge W. B. C. Pearsons, with George M. Stearns of Chicopee, and with Judge Clark of New York. In October, 1865, he was admitted to the practice of law in the courts of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He im- mediately entered a partnership with Edward W. Chapin, later Judge. After a year of practice he associated himself with T. A. Curtis of Springfield in the practice of patent law. In 1871-1872 he served one year on the Holyoke School Committee. In 1871 he was appointed judge of the police court in Holyoke. He served in this position until January, 1877, when he resigned to enter a partnership with A. L. Soule of Springfield. He died October 25, 1879, at the early age of 43.

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MOSES EMORY WRIGHT, Reverend, was born in Leicester, Vermont, May 23, 1828, son of Moses and Sally QOlinj Wright. He studied in Middle- bury College for one term in 1849, after which he entered Wesleyan University from which he was graduated A.B. in 1853. Declined A.M. degree. He taught in Newark, New Jersey, Black Rock Institute, North Carolina, and was principal in Holyoke in 1857. He entered the regular ministry in the New England Methodist Conference in April, 1856, so that it was in his ministry in Hol- yoke that he was principal of the high school. He was a man of scholarly attainments, and a diligent student all his life, in his desk were found at the time of his death fifty carefully prepared addresses, not one of which had ever been delivered. In addi- tion to his ecclesiastical interests, he had a scientific bent, and was the author of a successful book on paper making. On March 26, 1855, Rev. Mr. Wright married Jane E. Cone. Their children are Edward Olin and Helen Cone. His daughter married Dr. Charles L. Farwell of Boston. Both his son and son-in-law were successful physicians. At the time of his death on December 13, 1909 in Gloucester, Massachusetts, Mr. Wright was survived by his wife and daughter, Mrs. Charles L. Farwell.

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NATHAN RANSOM MORSE was born in Stoddard, New Hampshire, February 20, 1831. He was grad- uated A.B. from Amherst College in 185 7. While in college, he was especially devoted to the study of geology. After graduation he became principal of the high school, serving from 1859-18605 leav- ing Holyoke he studied at Harvard Medical School and the University of Vermont where he was graduated M. D. in 1862. Dr. Morse iirst practiced at Reading, Massachu- setts, later moving to nearby Salem where he main- tained a practice for the rest of his life. He Was one of the founders of the Medical Department of Boston University and Was Professor of Diseases of Women and Children from 1874 to 1887. In 1878- 1879 he was secretary of the Massachusetts Homeo- pathic Medical Society and editor of volumes IV-V of its transactions 1879. At the time of his death in 1897, Dr. Morse was senior member of the American Institute of Homeopathy.