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Co the Memory OF Bon. Homer Nash Eibbard of the Class of 185o 'Che Hriel is respectfully dedicated by the Class of Gigbteen Hundred Ninety-Nine
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Homer Nash Bibbarcl, LL. D. By Salim 5. Deabody, Db. D., LIL. D., Class of 185 2. HOMER NASH HIBBfXRD, son of Samuel Hibbard and Edith Nash, was born at Bethel, Windsor County, Vermont, November 7, 1824. For several genera- tions his ancestors had passed their lives amid those influences of New England scenery and society which have developed in her sons sturdy and sterling char- acter. On his fathers side he was sixth in descent from Robert Hibbard, who in 163, 5 was recorded as a member of the Congregational church in Salem, Massa- chusetts. On the side of his mother he was sixth from Thomas Nash of the Reverend Iohn Davenport's church in Quinnipiac, now New Haven, Con- necticut. His early life was that common to a far1ner's boy born in a Vermont valley. In the summer he was ubiquitous on the farm, in the winter he attended the district school. Cf how many men of mark is their boyhood's history told with equal brevity ! An elder brother had worked his way into and nearly through a collegiate course, and although this one died in his junior year, his example was not lost on the younger brother. In his sixteenth year he began to attend an academy in the neighboring town of Randolph, earning while there, by manual labor, something more than his board. In the next winter he taught his first school. His plans for further prosecution of his studies were interrupted by his father's iinancial needs. At eighteen he fell under the notice of Mr. I. C. Dexter, an eminent lawyer of Rutland, Vermont, who was looking for just such a lad to enter his office as clerk and student. Soon after Mr. Dexter was appointed postmaster of Rut- land, and the young clerk was assigned to duty on the mails. The Rutland post oliice was a distributing office, and the heavy mails arriving from Boston and New York had to be handled in the night. The days the clerk had mostly to himself. The eager longing for a college education still burned within him. I-Ie began systematically to it himself for college, at first under the private instruction of the Reverend VVilliam Mitchell. He continued to teach school in the winters. After two years of such summer and winter service he had saved enough to pay for a term's attendance at the seminary in Castleton, Vermont, in 7
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