Caledonia

CARTER, Ezra

Vermont Historical Magazine, No XI, October 1867, p 364

Ezra CARTER, Esq., was born 15 February 1773 at Concord [Merrimack County], 
New Hampshire; graduated at Dartmouth College in 1797; was the same year 
appointed first principal of the academy at Peacham [Caledonia County, 
Vermont], which office he held ten years, and died 10 October 1811, aged 
eighty-eight years. Though a lawyer by profession, he devoted himself 
principally in teaching. In that vocation he was strict almost to sternness, 
and in discipline resorted pretty freely to arguments that were more telling 
and impressive than words. He had to cope with the rudeness and independence 
of a forming period in society, and determined to make heaven's first law the 
motto of his doings. In the early history of the town [Peacham] he filled an 
important and useful sphere of action, because he had so much to do with its 
moral and mental culture, to give shape and tone in methods of study, 
application and industry. Many of his surviving pupils, now aged men and 
women, though not forgetting the discipline, bear testimony to his fidelity 
as a teacher, and his worth as a man. [Excerpt from a section on the history 
of Peacham, Caledonia County, Vermont.]

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