mums038 Greenwich School District No. 5 Register, 1873-1874 Finding Aid Finding aid prepared by Linda Seidman. Encoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Special Collections and University Archives, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Amherst, MA
2002

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 Finding aid encoded using Perl scripts and edited in XMetal 2.0. Encoded by Eric Cartier. 2002-04-10 Finding aid written in English. 2005-09-23 mu37 converted from EAD 1.0 to 2002 by v1to02-5c.xsl (sy2003-10-15). Special Collections and University Archives, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst Greenwich School District No. 5 Register, 1873-1874 Finding Aid Manuscript Number 38 Compiled by Linda Seidman 1985 Encoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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 Collection Overview Greenwich (Mass. : Town). School District No. 5 Greenwich School District No. 5 Register 1873-1874 MS 38 1 folder, housed in box with other small collections (0.25 linear ft.) Special Collections and University Archives, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst Register for winter term 1873-1874 for School District No. 5 of Greenwich, Massachusetts. Includes list of students, attendance, headmarks, visitor records, and a few statistics all kept by teacher Ernest Howe Vaughan who later became a lawyer involved with handling claims associated with the taking of property for the Quabbin Reservoir. English. Biographical Note

Greenwich was among the Western Massachusetts towns abolished in 1938 to allow the Swift River Valley to be flooded, thereby creating the Quabbin Reservoir to provide Boston with water.

Scope and Contents of the Collection

The register for School District No. 5 of Greenwich, Massachusetts for winter term 1873-1874 lists seven students aged 8 to 12 years attending for the 2 month period, December 1 to January 23.

The teacher, Ernest Howe Vaughan, earned $24 per month, which he used to defray the costs of his own education, according to Donald Howe in Quabbin: The Lost Valley (pg. 297). Vaughan later became one of the most prominent members of the Worcester County Bar Association. He, with other lawyers, handled the claims of many firms and individuals in connection with the taking of property for the Quabbin Reservoir.

The register is a single folded sheet of paper, unbound, and includes attendance, headmarks, and visitors records, as well as a few statistics.

The collection is open for research.

 Preferred Citation

Cite as: Greenwich School District No. 5 Register (MS 38). Special Collections and University Archives, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Acquired from Donald Howe, 1960.

Processed by Linda Seidman, 1985.

 Search Terms Greenwich (Mass. : Town). School District No. 5. Public schools--Massachusetts--Greenwich (Town)--History--19th century--Sources. Education--Massachusetts--Greenwich (Town)--History--19th century--Sources. School attendance--Massachusetts--Greenwich (Town)--History--19th century--Sources. Greenwich (Mass. : Town)--History--19th century--Sources. Quabbin Reservoir Region (Mass.)--History. School records. Vaughan, Ernest Howe, 1858-1937.