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Endicott Peabody was 27 when, with two Boston friends, Sherrard Billings and William Amory Gardner, he founded Groton. Born in Salem, he had spent his own school and university days at Cheltenham and Cambridge in England where his father was a partner in the British branch of the House of Morgan. Returning to the U. S., he studied theology, became an Episcopal deacon (later priest) and built the first school building, Brooks House, in the little town of Groton, 45 miles from Boston...
GLENWOOD J. SHERRARD...
...funeral services of Percy D. Haughton '99 will be held this afternoon in St. Paul's Cathedral in Boston. Bishop Lawrence will be the officiating clergyman. He will be assisted by Reverend Sherrard Billings '80 of Groton School, where Mr. Haughton prepared for the University...
Following the exercises a luncheon was served in the quadrangle to the friends and alumni of the school and at 3 o'clock the Alumni Association held a business meeting at which the following officers for the coming year were elected: President, Egisto F. Chauncey; vice-president, Sherrard Billings '80; treasurer, Raymond H. Kendrick; executive committeemen, Edmund James Cleveland G. '05, Dwight Walter Hadley '10; preacher for 1924, Edward H. Van Etten; substitute preacher, Edward T. Sullivan...
...Reverend Sherrard Billings '80, Headmaster of Groton School, will conduct service this morning in Appleton Chapel at 8.45 o'clock. The services will close promptly at 9 o'clock in order to allow students to reach their classes at that hour...