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Note    N2542         Index
Anna was a Community School teacher in Ripon. She never married. During most of their years in Ripon, Anna and sisters Frances, Sarah, Mary and Lizzie lived together in a home on Woodside Avenue.

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Note    N2543         Index
In 1860-1880, Frances was a Community School teacher in Ripon. She never married. In 1900, she gave her occupation as Librarian.

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Note    N2545         Index
Sarah never married. She graduated in 1872 from Ripon College with a B.S. degree, and was a schoolteacher in Ripon (1874-75), Rosendale, WI (1875-77, 1881-82), Fond du Lac, WI (1879-81), and Waupun, WI (1878-79, 1882-83) (David P. Mapes, HISTORY OF THE CITY OF RIPON [Milwaukee, WI: Cramer, Aikens & Cramer, Publishers and Printers, 1873], 275; GENERAL CATALOGUE OF RIPON COLLEGE, 1851 to 1894, "Alumni," page 22).
 Ripon College was first named Brockway College. It was closed for a year (1861) during the Civil War, but reopened in 1862. It was renamed Ripon College in 1863.

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Note    N2546         Index
Mary worked as a clerk in a dry-goods store in Ripon. She never married. In 1900, she gave her occupation as Stenographer.

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Note    N2547         Index
Lizzie was a music teacher in Ripon. She never married.

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Note    N2556         Index
Hadassah was a teacher at Brockway College (which, in 1863, became Ripon College) in Ripon, Wisconsin. Interestingly, in the 1860 Census of Ripon, she gives her age as being 37 years old, two years less than the age reported by her in the 1850 Census of Waterville. This was not an uncommon occurrence, indicating that persons then (as now) preferred not to reveal their correct ages. She and Phoebe were living together at the time (NARA Microcopy 653, Roll 1408, Page 840, Dwelling 1170, Family 1162).

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Note    N2557         Index
Phoebe was also a teacher at Brockway College in Ripon, Wisconsin. In the 1860 Census of Ripon, she gives her age as being 39, only two years more than the age reported by her in the 1850 Census of Waterville (see Notes for Hadassah, above).

 Also in that 1860 Census, her name is listed as "Phebe Thompson." This, and the following information, raises the question of whether she had been married and divorced prior to the family's moving to Wisconsin. In the 1870 Census of Ripon, there is a 55-year-old Phebe Thompson, born in Maine, living with the Charles T. Thompson family (NARA Microcopy M593, Roll 1714, Vol. 7, Page 510B, Dwelling 287, Family 295). Charles (aged 28) states that he was born in New Jersey (so, he would have been born there about 1842). Further, in the 1880 Census, Phoebe is listed as Charles' mother (NARA Microcopy T-9, Roll 1426, Vol. 9, E.D. 56, Page 442D). In the 1850 Census of New Jersey, of the fifteen possibilities, one Charles Thompson appears to fit this picture. That Charles Thompson, aged 9, is the son of Charles and Rebecca Thompson (both aged 36) of Camden, Camden County (NARA Microcopy M432, Roll 445, Page 57, Dwelling 400, Family 386. Also in that 1850 family is another son, Richard, aged 6, and a daughter, Mary, aged less than one year). So, it could be possible that Phoebe married the elder Charles Thompson in New Jersey about 1840, had one or two children with him, divorced him prior to 1850 and returned to Waterville, Maine, in time for the 1850 Census. Then, her son, Charles, and his family caught up with Phoebe in Ripon, Wisconsin, sometime between 1860 and 1870. It appears that Charles died sometime before 1900.

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Note    N2559         Index
In the 1850 Census of Waterville, Charles lists his occupation as "Lumberman."

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Note    N2563         Index
Ethel died from a cerebral hemorrhage. She never married. In 1930, she was living in Augusta and working as a clerk for the Maine State House of Representatives (NARA Microcopy T626, Roll 833, E.D. 6-2, Page 18A, Line 47).