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Superintendents

1819-1824 Matthew and Betsy Purinton
1824-1835 Enoch and Lydia Bruce
1829-1835 Stephen and Hannah Gould, Assistant Superintendents
1835-1836 Seth and Mary Davis
1837 Enoch and Lydia Bruce
1838-1839 Rowland and Alice Rathburn
1840-1844 Allen and Olive Wing
1845-1846 Olney and Lydia Thompson
1847 Jarvis and Lydia Congdon
1847-1852 Silas and Sarah M. Congdon

Principals (to 1919)
1832-1835 John Griscom
1835 Pliny Earle
1836-1838 Moses B. Lockwood
1838-1852 School managed by Superintendents without Principals
1852-1855 Charles Atherton and Gertrude E. Whittier
1855-1860 Joseph and Gertrude W. Cartland
1860-1868 Alfred H. Smiley (Associate Principal also — 1873-1879)
1860-1879 Albert K. Smiley
1863-1879 Rebecca H. Smiley, Principal of Girls’ Department
1879-1904 Augustine Jones
1904-1924 Seth K. and Mary Amy Gifford

Headmasters
1924-1955 L. Ralston Thomas
1955-1957 George C. St. John, Jr.
1957-1964 Robert N. Cunningham
1964 (Feb.-June) Whittemore Whittier, Acting Headmaster
1964- 1965 William Paxton, Interim Headmaster
1965- 1969 Gordon D. Davis
1969-1977 Peter Rhoades Mott
1977- 1978 Richard L. Gaines, Acting Headmaster
1978- David C. Burnham