Mary Larcom DowMary Larcom Dow, née Ober, was cousin to the New England writer and poet Lucy Larcom. Born in 1835 in a little house on Mingo Beach Hill, she was a schoolteacher (and later headmistress) at the Farms School on Indian Hill, just above
Prides Crossig station. She worked her way through school by binding shoes, and received her education at the State Normal School in Salem, Massachusetts. She resided in the Farms until her death in 1920. Read More Read Less