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 per-
sistently 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 Edu-
cation, he found his wife always interested
in the plans which pointed toward better
methods and higher 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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY, in virtue of her
birth, her parentage, her six years of
budding childhood pjissed at the foot of
^'Old Greylock" in the Berkshire range
of hills, also through the residence of her an-
cestors in direct line, both maternal and pater-
nal, with most if not all of their kith and kin,
for seven generations, in Rhode Island or South-
eastern or Western Massachusetts, may be
justly claimed as a New England woman.
Daughter of Daniel and Lucy (Read) An-
thony, she was born at Adams, Mass., Febru-
ary 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 Albro' Anthony, whose daughter Elizabeth,* born in 1728, married a Scotsman, Gilbert Stuart, Sr., and became the mother of Gilbert Stuart, bom 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,* William, William, Jr.,* David,^ Humphrey.^ 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 Hum- phrey 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 Lap-
ham. Both were birthright Quakers, or
Friends, and she was an Elder, and in "meet-
ing 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 manufact-
urer, some years later a farm-owner, and then
engaging in the insurance business, the family
home being successively in Adams, Mass., Bat-
tenville. Centre Falls, and Rochester, N.Y.
Mr. Anthony was a man of excellent business
capacity, true moral courage, and sterling in-
tegrity ; 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 Read, was a native of Re-
hoboth, Mass., a Universalist in religion, a
Whig in politics. Her mother, Susanna Rich-
ardson 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