Subject:
Dodge info
From:
NancyF9533@aol.com
Date:
Wed, 26 Jan 2005 06:45:35 EST
To:
barbvdodge@dodgeoffice.net

Barbara, Saw the name Caleb Dodge in the report.  I have highlighted the name. Did your ancestors come through Nova Scotia?  Hope all is well with you. 
 
 Nancy Fennessey
 
 
 
From:
nsroots@ednet.ns.ca,
 

In his book, "Fifty Years With The Baptists," Rev. I.E.
[Ingraham Ebenezer] Bill included the Minutes of the 5th
annual meeting of the Baptist Convention held at Hillsborough
Baptist Church, Albert Co., N.B., from Aug. 21-24, 1880.
Among the Minutes was an education report: (extract follows -
copied from pp. 560-2).

    "The Annual Report of the Board of Governors of Acadia
College, stated that the following gentlemen, having fulfilled the
prescribed course of study and passed satisfactory examinations
thereon, were respectively admitted to the degree of Bachelor of
Arts, viz:
    Messrs. G. Wilbert Cox, Geo. E. Croscup, Walter Barss,
Samuel N. Bentley, Isaac C. Archibald, Edward E. Morse,
Everett W. Sawyer, Caleb R. B. Dodge, Richmond Shafner,
Benjamin F. Simpson, Clarence E. Griffin, G. J. Coulter White,
and Howard Chambers.

    President Sawyer's report on the internal affairs of the College
says:

   "There have been enrolled within the year in the Senior Class
13 members, in the Junior, 16, in the Sophomore, 12, in the
Freshmen, 24, and as general students, 5, making a total of 70.
Some of these, on account of sickness and other causes, were
compelled to suspend their studies before the close of the year,
but the number of these is small. Of the students who have been
in attendance, 6 are from New Brunswick, 2 from Prince Edward
Island, and 62 from Nova Scotia.
    The studies in the several departments have been pursued with
the customary success. Miss Huguenin has continued to give
lessons in French and German to such students as desired it and
were willing to pay the extra fees for this instruction."

    The reports of Rev. E. A. Crawley, D. D., and Rev. D. M.
Welton, PhD, regarding the Theological Department in
connection with the University, indicated solid work done by
them during the year.
    The reports from Professor J. F. Tufts, Principal of Horton
Collegiate Academy, and of Miss Mary E. Graves, Principal of
Acadia (Ladies') Seminary, were of a very cheering character,
showing that both these Institutions are in a very flourishing
condition. Sixty-Seven young men and about fifty young women
had been in attendance."
    The expenditures for the year were, -- for the College, $9,835;
for the Academy and the Ladies' Seminary, $7,104. The College
Endowment Fund was reported as amounting to $85,113.68.
    From the "Year Book" for 1880 we extract the names of the
brethren who now have the management of our Institutions, and
the instructors in the several departments.

                    BOARD OF GOVERNORS

Rev. A. W. Sawyer, D. D., President of the College, ex officio.

Members whose terms of office expires 1883. --Rev. George
Armstrong, A. M., Rev. E. M. Saunders, A. M., Rev. S. W.
DeBlois, A. M., Rev. I. E. Bill, Rev. E. Hickson, A. M., and
Mary Curry, Esq.

Members whose terms of office expires 1886. --T. H. Rand,
D. .L., B. H. Eaton, A. M., D. R. Eaton, Esq., Avard Longley,
Esq., M.P., J. R. Calhoun, Esq., M.P.P., A. F. Randolph, Esq.

Members whose terms of office expires 1889. --C. F. Clinch,
Esq., Rev. S. B. Kempton, A. M., Hon. D. McN. Parker, M.
D., J. H. Harding, Esq., Rev. J. W. Manning, A. B., Rev. T. A.
Higgins, A. M.
Rev. S. DeBlois, A. M., Secretary; A. DeW. Barss, Esq., M.
D., Treasurer.

                        FACULTY

                   DEPARTMENT OF ARTS

    Rev. A. W. Sawyer, D. D., President, and Professor of
Intellectual and Moral Philosophy and Evidences of Christianity.
    Rev. J. M. Cramp, D. D., Professor Emeritus; D. F. Higgins,
A. M., Professor of Mathematics; R. V. Jones, A. M., Professor
of the Greek and Latin Languages; J. F. Tufts, A. M., Professor
of History; G. T. Kennedy, A. M., Professor of Natural Science;
J. G. Schurman, A. M., Sc. D., Professor of Political Economy,
Logic, and English Literature.

                    DEPARTMENT OF THEOLOGY

Rev. E. A. Crawley, D. D., Principal, and Professor of New
Testament Interpretation and Church Polity.
Rev. A. W. Sawyer, D. D., Professor of Evidences of
Christianity
Rev. D. M. Welton, D. D., Professor of Hebrew and Christian
Theology.

                    EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Rev. A. W. Sawyer, D. D., Rev. S. W. DeBlois, A. M., A.
DeW. Barss, Esq., M. D., A. W. Masters, Esq., J. F. Tufts, A.
M., Hon. D. McN. Parker, M. D., Rev. E. M. Saunders, A. M.,
Mark Curry, Esq., D. F. Higgins, A. M., Rev. S. B. Kempton,
A. M.

                  COMMITTEE OF INVESTMENTS

J. W. Barss, Esq., Chairman, Hon. D. McN. Parker, M. D., J.
DesBrisay, Esq., Hon. A. McL. Seely, D. R. Eaton, Esq., A.
DeW. Barss, M. D., Treasurer.

                 HORTON COLLEGIATE ACADEMY

Professor J. F. Tufts, M. A., Principal, Teacher of Latin and
Ancient History.
Albert Coldwell, M. A., Mathematics; A. W. Armstrong, A. B.,
Greek and English.

                     LADIES' SEMINARY

Miss Mary E. Graves, Principal; Mlle. Huguenin, French and
German; Miss Carrie Whidden, English and Latin; Miss Augusta
J. Dodge, Music; Miss Eliza Harding, Painting and Drawing;
Miss Harding, Matron."

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NOTE: J.F. Tufts was John Freeman Tufts. His son, Robie,
is remembered as "The Birdman of Nova Scotia." Author of
books on birds, Robie also played a very prominent role
in the establishment of wildlife reserves and sanctuaries
in the province starting (I think) in the 1930s.

Bill
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