Excerpt from The General Catalogue and a Brief History of Kimball Union Academy, Plainfield, (Meriden P. O.) N. H: Also a Biographical Sketch of Hon. Daniel Kimball, Its Founder; 1815-1880

The patronage of the school, already rapidly increasing, under the influence of the added department and of a full board of earn nest and faithful teachers, at once became very large gathered not only from all the New England States, but from a much wider cir cle of almost all the States and also from the Canadas - the num ber of students sometimes exceeding three hundred and averaging, during the thirty-six years of the writer's principalship, at least two hundred; and such a patronage, too, as certainly cannot be found out of New England, nor in the vicinity of large cities; gathered largely from the middle, industrial classes, from Christian homes of the Puritan stock, bred to habits of industry and economy, and not afraid of hard work. This was a natural result of the primal object of the institution - to assist and encourage Christian young men, in indigent circumstances and of promising talents, for the ministry. This provision probably drew more young men of{ this character to this institution, than to any other in the country. The value of a band of earnest, Christian young men in a large school, as a conservative and eflicient power, cannot easily be estimated. This will account, in part at least, for the high moral and religious tone of the school, and for the many powerful and most precious revivals of religion, during almost its entire history.

The half dozen pages allotted to this sketch will not allow even a brief particular mention of the noble band of assistant teachers or of the many distinguished men who acted as Trustees, whose several and special talents and labors contributed so much to the usefulness and success of the institution. The subjoined catalogue and other records of the institution must supply the deficiency.

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