Hampton Academy & Winnacunnet High School Alumni Association
65th Anniversary, Historic Souvenir Booklet, 1972

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The Trustees of the Proprietary School in Hampton Corporation

(February 5, 1811 to May 15, 1821)

The Board of Trustees of the Proprietary School in Hampton (Known as Hampton Academy)

(May 15,1821 to April 12, 1943)

The Board of Trustees of Hampton Academy and High School, Inc.

(April 12, 1943 to present)

The Trustees have donated this space so that the list of Academy Trustees begun by Joseph Dow in his “History of the Town of Hampton, New Hampshire” (pages 498-500) may be brought up to the present. Additions to Dow’s original list as well as the names of Trustees who held office after his manuscript went to press in the fall of 1892 are presented below. The two-digit apostrophized number after some names indicates the year of graduation from Hampton Academy and High School. Other Trustees, such as Elmore L. Dearborn and Wheaton J. Lane, attended the Academy but transferred to another secondary school before graduation. Still others (e.g., Horace M. Lane and Christopher G. Toppan) attended Hampton Academy before a diploma-granting program was initiated with the consolidation of Hampton Academy and High School in 1885. One Trustee, Prof. Jack Sanborn, was Principal of the Academy. (Much earlier, Trustee Amos Tuck was both Principal and former Academy student.) It should be noted that Superintendents of Schools — although they sometimes sat in on Board meetings after 1916 — were not ex officio members of the Board. Despite nonmembership, however, Charles N. Perkins (Superintendent, 1925-30) was elected Auditor of the Corporation by the Trustees in 1926, 1927, 1928 and 1929.

(Note: Since the Board operates on a July-through-June year, the final year of “Time of Office” in some instances is the year after a resignation was submitted or the year after death. Such Trustees were considered members of the Board until the following annual meeting in June when resignations were accepted and or successors were chosen.)

[Editor’s note: The list below updates and adds to the list in Dow. See that list for a complete list of the early Academy Trustees.

NAME RESIDENCES(S)
TIME OF OFFICE
[*] Rev. Jonathan French, D.D. North Hampton
1811-1856
(Board Pres. 1837-1856)
Hon. Christopher Toppan. Hampton
1812-1818
(Pres, of the Trustees of
the Corp. 1816-1818)
John Fogg, M.D. North Hampton
1811-1816
(Pres. of the Trustees of
the Corp. 1811-1816)
[*] Rev. Josiah Webster Hampton
1811-1819, 1821-1837
(Board Pres. 1823-1837)
[*] Ebenezer Lawrence, M.D. Hampton
1820-1852
(Pres. of the Trustees of
the Corp. 1820-1821;
Board Pres. 1821-1823)
[*] Rev. Luther F. Dimmick, D.D. Newburyport
1821-1860
(Board Pres. 1856-1860)
Rev. Charles Burroughs, D.D. Portsmouth
1824-1868
(Board Pres. 1860-1868)
Rev. Samuel J. Spalding, D.D. Newburyport
1855-1892
(Board Pres. 1868-1891;
Pres. “For Life” 1891-1892)
Joseph Johnson Hampton
1861-1867
William T. Merrill, M.D. Hampton
1861-1897
(Board Pres. 1892-1897)
Rev. Thomas V. Haines North Hampton
1873-1903
Christopher G. Toppan Hampton
1879-1914
John H. Fogg Hampton
1881-1905
Rev. Walcott W. Fay Hampton & Mass.
1886-1903
Joseph O. Hobbs North Hampton
1887-1927
Jacob T. Brown Hampton
1891-1896
(Acting Board Pres.
1891-1892)
Horace M. Lane Hampton
1891-1920
Prof. Jack Sanborn Hampton Falls
1891-1910
Rev. John A. Ross Hampton
1896-1916
(Board Pres.
1897-1914)
Warren M. Batchelder Hampton
1896-1937
Charles M. Batchelder Hampton
1897-1930
John T. Brown Newburyport
1897-circa 1900
Wallace Hackett Portsmouth
1901-circa 1910
Albert Batchelder North Hampton
1903-circa 1925
Rev. Edgar Warren Hampton
1903-1908
Edward Tuck New York &
Paris, France
1905-1908
(Elected Honorary
Trustee in 1908}
Christopher S. Toppan 1890 Hampton
1906-1947
Howard G. Lane 1887 Hampton
1908-1957
(Board Pres. 1914-1947;
Pres. Emeritus 1947-1957
Amos T. Leavitt 1887 Hampton
1910-1938
Albert K. Church Hampton
1915-1925
William T. Ross Belfast, Maine
1916-1944
Flora E. (Taylor) Lane
(Mrs. Horace M. Lane)
Hampton
1920-1940
Fred L. Dow North Hampton
1925-1938
Vrylena F. (Gill) Olney Hampton
1925-1935
John W. F. Hobbs ’04 North Hampton
1927-1935
Samuel A. Towle ’22 Hampton
1930-1988
(Board Pres. 1947-1988)
Paul W. Hobbs ’25 North Hampton
1935-2000
O. Raymond Garland ’14 Hampton
1935-1938
1947-Resigned 5/19/80
Kenneth W. Swain ’31 Hampton Falls,
Hampton,
and North Hampton
1937-Resigned 7/25/89
Gordon S. Dow North Hampton
1938-1981
Hollis R. Johnson ’27 Hampton & Braintree, Mass.
1938-1968
Elmore L. Dearborn Hampton
1938-1961
Wheaton J. Lane ’21 PEA Hampton & Princeton, N.J.
1948-1983
Edwin L. Batchelder, Jr. ’42 Hampton
1963-1992
Russell A. Merrill ’44 Hampton
1963-   
H. Alfred Casassa ’48 Hampton
1967-   
Joyce B. Marelli ’52 Hampton Falls
1980-   
Diane Shaw Hampton
1981-   
David J. Power ?
1983-1993
Wayne I. Elliot ’46 North Hampton
1990-   
Richard R. Grenier ’45 Hampton
1994-2003
Alfred H. Carlson ’51 Alfred, Maine
1994-
Stanley W. Knowles ’53 North Hampton
1994-   
Glen C. Martin North Hampton
2000-   
John M. Holman ’47 Hampton
2004-   

* [Member of the first permanent Board.]

[Updated April 2012]