In 1888 Cyril Carpenter (1812 - 1890) wrote a series of articles entitled The Schoolmaster of By-Gone Days, Number One through Seven. Number Five published April 6, 1888 in the Poultney Journal covered the period 1838 - 1842 when he taught in Clarendon.
His time in Clarendon began in North Clarendon, then Clarendon Flats, and finally in Chippenhook. In his recollections he names many of his students and notes some of the community members and families that he knew. Carpenter's Chippenhook School account includes some of Chippenhook's history, including mention of Judge Theophilus Harrington who he was an admirer of. There we also learn that a former Governor of Ohio and almost Democratic Party Presidential nominee in 1852, Reuben Hazen Wood (1794 - 1864), had been one of the early teachers at the Chippenhook school. In the entry Mary Rice Wood, Almost 1st Lady? found in the People collection, more can be read about him, though Gov. Wood had only previously made it into an entry on account he married a woman from Clarendon, Mary Rice (1798 - 1886). Prior to Carpenter's article we did not know Gov. Wood himself had a Clarendon connection.
Note that the (To be continued) at the end of the article refers to the next article, Number Six, that will be forthcoming. It does not refer to there being more to this article.
See the entry Cyril Carpenter, Clarendon Schoolmaster in the People collection for more on him.
The undated cover photo of the Chippenhook School is from an Alice Keyes (1883 - 1975) scrapbook, courtesy of Donna Brewer.
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