Memoirs of Lucretia Crocker and Abby W. May

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Excerpt from Memoirs of Lucretia Crocker and Abby W. May: Prepared for Private Circulation Lucretia Crocker was born in Barnstable, Mass., Dec. 31, 1829. I have little information regarding her childhood or girlish life. Her ancestors came early to this country, and settled in the old Commonwealth. All her influences and associations belonged to the New England type of life. We must imagine the little girl in her simple country home, trudging not "unwillingly to school, " delighting in the solemn grandeur of the ocean, and loving and beloved in all her family relations. Who were the enviable teachers who helped to mould this mind so receptive and so active, I know not, until the time when she entered the Normal School. Her family had then removed to Shawmut Avenue in Boston, and she attended as a day scholar. If the adequate training given to this rare mind had been the only result of the Normal School System, it would have justified the enthusiastic expectations of its founders. But, if unequalled, she was not alone, but the centre of a group of noble and dear friends. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.