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Rh painstaking labor, the walls being adorned with valuable pictures, which delight and educate the pupils. It was no easy matter to obtain these. Mrs. Packard knows how many hours of persuasive talking were needed at first to arouse any enthusiasm, how persistently contributions were sought, and what numerous entertainments were given before funds were forthcoming with which to purchase them. During this year of exacting toil she proved herself an energetic and untiring worker. The results are certainly gratifying. During the eleven years that Dr. Packard was a member of the Deering Board of Education, he found his wife always interested in the plans which pointed toward better methods and hither aims in the local .schools. Essentially a lover of children, she is am'bitious for them, and rejoices in their ever-increasing advantages.

Mrs. Packard has always proved herself a devoted home-maker and housekeeper. In her private life those who know her best esteem her most. Dr. and Mrs. Packard attend the Congregational church.

USAN B. ANTHONY, in virtue of her birth, her parentage, her six years of budding childhood passed at the foot of "Old Greylock" in the Berkshire range of hills, also through the residence of her ancestors in direct line, both maternal and paternal, with most if not all of their kith and kin, for seven generations, in Rhode Island or Southeastern or Western Massachusetts, may be justly claimed as a New England woman. Daughter of Daniel and Lucy (Read) Anthony, she was born at Adams, Mass., February 15, 1820, and was named for an aunt, Susan Anthony Brownell. The history of the family in America begins with the arrival at Portsmouth, R.I., in 1634, of John Anthony, a native of Hempstead, England, and then twenty-seven years of age. He served the colony as a Deputy, 1666-72. He had three sons—John, Jr., Joseph, and Abraham—and two daughters.

John, Jr., was the father of Albro3 Anthony, whose daughter Elizabeth,4 born in 1728, married a Scotsman, Gilbert Stuart, Sr., and became the mother of Gilbert Stuart, born in 1755, the great portrait painter.

From John Anthony, the immigrant, to Daniel Anthony, of Adams, Mass., the line appears (from the printed records consulted) to have descended through Abraham,2 William,3 William, Jr.,4 David,5 Humphrey.6 William Anthony, son of Abraham and his wife, Alice Woodell, or Wodell, married in 1695 Mary Coggeshall, who belonged to a family well known in Portsmouth, R.I., to this day.

David Anthony married Judith Hicks. Shortly before the Revolution he removed from Dartmouth, Mass., where his son Humphrey was born in 1770, to Berkshire, settling near Adams. Judith Hicks probably belonged to the family founded by Robert Hicks, who came over in the "Fortune" in 1621.

Humphrey Anthony married Hannah Lapham. Both were birthright Quakers, or Friends, and she was an Elder, and in " meeting" sat on the "high seat." Their son Daniel was born in 1794. At the time of the division in 1826 between the liberal and the orthodox Friends, he sided with the liberals, or Hicksites. He was educated at Nine Partners, a Friends' boarding-school, and began active life as a teacher, shortly becoming a cotton manufacturer, some years later a farm-owner, and then engaging in the insurance business, the family home being successively in Adams, Mass., Battenville. Centre Falls, and Rochester, N.Y. Mr. Anthony was a man of excellent business capacity, true moral courage, and sterling integrity; his wife, Lucy Read Anthony, a woman of sweet disposition and gentle manners, yet not lacking native energy and force of character. Her father, Daniel Reatl, was a native of Rehoboth, Mass., a Universalist in religion, a Whig in politics. Her mother, Susanna Richardson Read, was from Scituate.

The removal of Daniel Anthony and his family from Adams to Battenville, N.Y., forty-four miles distant, took place in 1826. Young as she was at this time, Susan had already, from her close association with "Old Graylock" — visible embodiment of strength and uplift, its top seeming to touch the sky — received an inspiration destined to remain with her through