• president of Wesleyan University in Connecticut. In 1971 the academy merged with Monson Academy, established in 1804. It became known as Wilbraham & Monson...
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    Wilbraham & Monson Academy (WMA) is a college-preparatory school located in Wilbraham, Massachusetts. Founded in 1804, it is a four-year boarding and...
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  • Gouverneur Wesleyan Seminary in St. Lawrence County, New York Wesley Seminary in Marion, Indiana Wilbraham Wesleyan Academy in Wilbraham, Massachusetts...
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  • an early citizen of Wilbraham, Massachusetts, the proprietor of a tavern which later became a part of the Wilbraham Wesleyan Academy. He was born to David...
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    parents were Capt. John and Lydia Swift. She was a student at Wilbraham Wesleyan Academy, where she was graduated in 1850, as valedictorian. At about the...
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    son of Massachusetts farmers, Conwell left home to attend the Wilbraham Wesleyan Academy and later Yale University. In 1862, before graduating from Yale...
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    education in the schools of Worcester before enrolling at Wilbraham Wesleyan Academy in Wilbraham at the age of eighteen. In 1864, he sailed to Oregon where...
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    where he was taught the shoemaker trade. He attended the Wilbraham Wesleyan Academy in Wilbraham, Massachusetts. After graduating, he taught for a year...
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    William Rice (librarian) (category Wilbraham & Monson Academy alumni)
    William Rice II studied in the Springfield public schools and at Wilbraham Wesleyan Academy, graduating in 1840. He was a vocal abolitionist beginning early...
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    Humphrey Pickard (category Wilbraham & Monson Academy alumni)
    Brunswick on 10 June 1813. He attended Wilbraham Wesleyan Academy from 1829 to 1831. He attended one year at Wesleyan University in 1831 before returning...
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    schools, afterwards in private schools, and still later, in the Wilbraham Wesleyan Academy, all contributing to her training, after which she had further...
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    George McKendree Steele (category Wesleyan University alumni)
    (1850–1853) as a teacher of Latin and mathematics at Wilbraham Wesleyan Academy in Wilbraham, Massachusetts, and married Susan J. Swift on July 1, 1852....
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    Massachusetts. After completing her studies at Pennington Seminary and Wilbraham Wesleyan Academy, she became a teacher and preceptress at Lawrence College, before...
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    Willbur Fisk (category Presidents of Wesleyan University)
    Massachusetts (and renamed the Wilbraham Wesleyan Academy), he was appointed to the position of principal in 1826. The success of the Academy under his direction...
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    in Attica, Chicago and Evanston, Illinois, and went to Wilbraham Wesleyan Academy in Wilbraham, Massachusetts. She then moved to the Colorado Territory...
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  • superintendent of the dyeing department at Middlesex Mills. She attended Wilbraham Wesleyan Academy. She taught in the public schools of Lowell. She was president...
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    moved to Wilbraham, Massachusetts when her parents took over the management of the Students’ Boarding Hall associated with Wilbraham Wesleyan Academy. While...
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    Henry White Warren (category Wesleyan University alumni)
    graduated in 1853 at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn. He taught ancient languages at Wilbraham Wesleyan Academy, Wilbraham, Mass. (1853–55), and...
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    according to the economy of their church. In 1866, she entered Wilbraham Wesleyan Academy, and remained a student there two years. Failing health compelled...
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    self-supporting, converted to Methodism at 23 and later attended the Wilbraham Wesleyan Academy. While studying there, he became friends with Osman Baker and...
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    Richard S. Rust (category Wesleyan College alumni)
    eventually found a school sympathetic to his anti-slavery views in Wilbraham Wesleyan Academy, a school run by the Methodist Episcopal Church, from which he...
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    Isaac Goodnow (category Wesleyan University people)
    education and worked as a clerk. He eventually graduated from Wilbraham Wesleyan Academy in Wilbraham, Massachusetts in 1838. Also in 1838, Goodnow married Ellen...
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    in New Salem, Massachusetts on February 15, 1832. She attended Wilbraham Wesleyan Academy. Gray traveled westward in 1852 under the auspices of the National...
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    Osman Cleander Baker (category Wesleyan University alumni)
    Baker was born in Marlow, New Hampshire in 1812. He entered the Wilbraham Wesleyan Academy, a preparatory school, at the age of fifteen. Soon after he converted...
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    One of the three oldest Methodist academies in the United States (with Cazenovia Seminary and Wilbraham Academy), the school is now a member of the...
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    Street. Wesleyan Academy was founded in 1817 and moved to Wilbraham in 1824; its oldest buildings date to 1825. It merged with Monson Academy in the 20th...
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    William Rice (1788) (category People from Wilbraham, Massachusetts)
    meetings were held at his house. He was one of the founders of Wilbraham Wesleyan Academy, giving it a third of its land, and helping the institution to...
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    house was built. Josephine went away to school at the Wilbraham Wesleyan Academy in Wilbraham, Massachusetts. After she completed her schooling, she...
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    in Lynn, Massachusetts on October 24, 1850. He attended Wilbraham Wesleyan Academy in Wilbraham, Massachusetts. He died at his home in Lynn on November...
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    John Christian Keener (category Wesleyan University alumni)
    of the best-known Methodists of Baltimore. John was a pupil at Wilbraham Wesleyan Academy, from which he graduated. At the age of 9 he was taken into the...
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