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that “. . . there was not any gaming in their
Company; and that he never saw or heard that
Mr. Hildreth did game, or that he was addicted
to Liquor; but on the Contrary, he believed him
to be a very sober diligent man . . .
This cleared Mr. Hildreth, but in the latter
part of the nineteenth century, another Head­
master, the Reverend August Ulmann, was
charged by the students with the more seiious
offense of believing in the adage, spare the rod
and spoil the child.” His administration, although
thus questioned by the students, drew the follow­
ing comment from the Churchman, I his school,
which, with its inherited estates and historic
traditions, has in it great possibilities of useful­
ness, promises ere long to realize them. Air.
Ulmann . . . has already raised its standard of
discipline and instruction to a level which is
attracting the confidence of the church people in
a degree hitherto unprecedented.”
But Trinit} also has had those whom she
loved. Dr. Lawrence “Bunny” Cole was one.
The Reverend August Ulmann (1890-1903). This man inherited a “fine building and growing
concern, but a concern that was going to the
dogs.” He dealt with it not by preaching but

We have already spoken at some length about
the Huddlestons, father and son. When the lat­
ter, Thomas, died in 1731, his mother decided Matthew E. Dann (1937-1955), whose administration
featured great advancement and change at Trinity.
to run the school herself. The Venerable Society
for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign
Parts, however, had other ideas on the subject,
and thus Trinity School escaped the fate of hav­
ing a headmistress and established the precedent
of passing the headmastership down the male
line.
In 1750, when one of these males, Joseph
Hildreth, was headmaster, he came very close to
losing his job on account of the fire in February
of that year which burned down the newly con­
structed schoolhouse. It seems that the gossips
forgot that Hildreth and his family had lost
everything in the fire. Because of their accusa­
tions of, at most, arson and, at least, negligence
in respect to the fire, Hildreth was forced to
attain a character affidavit from James Napier, a
merchant for whom Hildreth worked as account­
ant. He had it published in the March 5 issue
of The Weekly Post Boy. Napier stated that
Hildreth had been working for him on the fate­
ful night and that both had visited Mr. Waters,

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