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CHARLES EBEN SWETT Charles Eben Swett,
son of Charles and Anna (Babcock) Swett, was born March 12, 1839, at Chelmsford, Massachusetts. He commenced his
classical education at Appleton Academy, New Ipswich, New Hampshire, and entered college at the beginning of the Fall
term, August 24, 1860.
Immediately after graduating, he went to Gowanda, Cattaraugus County, New York, where he became Principal of a large
Union School, in September, 1864, and continued in that position until July, 1865. He was then offered the position of
Principal of Oneida Seminary, Oneida, New York, which he accepted, and remained there for four years. In 1869 he went
to Gloucester, Massachusetts, as Principal of the High School, and continued his duties there until the Summer of
1873. In the Fall of that year, he accepted the position of Sub-Master in the Dudley School at Boston, Massachusetts,
remaining there until 1876, when he was transferred to a similar position in the Rice School, in the same city, where
he remained until the close of the year 1877. In January, 1878, he accepted the Principalship of the Grammar School at
Winchester, Massachusetts, which position he occupies at present. In July, 1878, he was elected Superintendent of the
Academical Department of Adelphi Academy, Brooklyn, New York. In September, 1880, he was elected Superintendent of
Schools at Malden, Massachusetts, and in November, 1883, to the Mastership of the Punchard High School, Andover,
Massachusetts, which he declined, preferring to remain at Winchester, where he is very pleasantly located.
In his religious faith, he is a Congregationalist. In politics, he is a Republican.
He was married August 28, 1866, to Miss Clemantine Keyes, of Westford, Massachusetts. They have had four children:
Charles, born October 23, 1867; Ralph Keyes, born April 26, 1869 ; Edith Josephine, born March 30, 1873, and Arthur
Harold, born August 17, 1875.
Charles died October 23, 1867.
Source: "Memorialia of the Class of '64 in Dartmouth College" complied by John C.
Webster, Shepard & Johnston, Printers, 1884, Chicago
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