520    LITERARY    INSTITUTIONS.

Kimball Union Academy is pleasantly situated on commanding
ground in the beautiful village of Meriden, within the present limits
of the town of Plainfield. It was incorporated in 1813, and organized
in 1815.

It is sectarian, but still receives scholars whose parents are of other
religious belief. It is incorporated in its charter that the trustees and
instructors of the Union Academy, shall be professors of the Christian
religion, and each shall be a regular member of some Congregational or
Presbyterian Church.

This school has always held a high position among its contemporaries.
It has given instruction to over 7,000 pupils, and has aided over three
hundred young men for the ministry, at an expense of over $25,000.

At the commencement of the Institution, the Hon. Daniel Kimball
donated $ 6,000 as a permanent fund, which was afterwards increased
to $ 30,000, and the whole fund is now over $ 50,000. Efforts are now being
made to secure an additional endowment of $ 100,000, which will estab-
lish it on a solid basis.

In 1824, the building, together with a valuable library, was burned.
The second building, now the wing of the new edifice, was completed
in 1825. The main building was finished in the autumn of 1839. The
natural decay of the buildings, and the imperative demands of the times,
require larger accommodations, which no doubt will be furnished, with-
in a few years. In these days.of progress, in every department of educa-
tion, this Institution must not only hold its own, but it should keep
pace with the general advance in the educational world.

Rev. Charles A. Downs, Lebanon, President of Trustees. Rev. L. A.
Austin, Principal.

Lancaster Academy. Lancaster.

Landaff High School, Landaff. H. H. Clark, Principal.

Littleton Graded School, Littleton. F.D. Hutchins, Principal.

Manchester High School, Manchester. W. W. Colburn, Principal.

Marlborough High School, Marlborough. Charles E. Houghton,
Principal.

Marlow Academy is located in Marlow, and has been organized
nearly forty years. It has met with varied success, depending large-
ly as to teachers, &c.

McCollom Institute is located in Mount Vernon, and was incorpo-
rated in 1850. It is a popular Institution, and well conducted. There is
a library of 600 volumes connected with the school. George W. Todd,
Principal.

Milford High School, See Milford. George French, Principal.

Nashua High School, Nashua. T. W. H. Hussey, Principal.

Nashua Literary Institution is located in the city of Nashua, and
was commenced in April, 1835, under the name of the “ Nashua High
School.” G. S. Brown, anti David Crosby, Instructors.

In 1840, it was incorporated under its present name, and has been un-
der the immediate management of Mr. Crosby ever since.

The building is two stories, the upper being used as school room, with