Word: cilley
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...England Association of the Alumni of Phillips Exeter Academy held its third annual reunion at the Parker House, Wednesday evening. Over one hundred of the Alumni were present. Addresses were made by Hon. Nathaniel Holmes, Dr. Peabody, Hon. George S. Hale, Prof. Cilley, Dr. Scott, the Principal of the Academy, Ex-Gov-Gardner, Mr. Dudley and Mr. Thornton Woodbury. Prof. Kittridge, who has lately been appointed an instructor in English in the University, also made a few remarks. The Association took appropriate action upon the death of the late president, Augustus L. Soule...
Longfellow's class in college was one of the most remarkable that ever graduated at Bowdoin. There were, among them, Nathaniel Hawthorne (who spelled his name Hathorne in college); Franklin Pierce, afterward President of the United States; Jonathan Cilley, who was shot, while a member Congress, in a duel, by Mr. Graves of Kentucky; George B. Cheever, a distinguished clergyman and author; Stephen Longfellow the eldest brother of the poet, rapidly rising to distinction at the bar, when his earthly career was cut short by death; John S. C. Abbott, a somewhat famous writer; James W. Bradbury, an able lawyer...
...President Eliot appears as tutor of mathematics, and of Professor Child as chairman of the parietal committee. Among the students appear as seniors : Charles Francis Adams of Quincy, Bennett Hubbard Nash and H. M. Ticknor; as junior, Mr. J. C. Ropes; as sophomores, Fisher Ames and Bradford L. Cilley of Exeter; as freshmen, F. E. Abbot, Alexander McKenzie, C. S. Peirce and C. J. White...
...been selected, out of which Moses King will make a handsome little volume of 114 pages, entitled "Exeter, School-days and Other Poems." The work has been examined by John Boyle O'Reilly of Boston, Prof. Francis J. Child and the Rev. F. H. Hedge of Cambridge, Prof. Perkins, Cilley and Wentworth of Exeter, Gov. Charles H. Bell of New Hampshire, and many others, all of whom very highly endorse the work for all that it claims to be - a collection of juvenile poems. It will be illustrated with views of the academy, Gorham Hall and Abbott Hall, and portraits...
...powers I have ever known, for one of his age, died before the commencement. I have recently seen a letter from President Allen to his father, written after his death, saying that he ranked second in his class. In that small recitation room we had Longfellow and Hawthorne, and Cilley and Little, and Abbott and Cheever, sitting side by side. - [James W. Bradbury before the Maine Historical Society...