December 1859

The Diaries of Ralph Leland Goodrich, 1859-1867

December 1859
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December 2, 1859

Peck came over & said the sewing machine had come. Pa let me have $18.00 and we went and took it out. $0.45 Express. Went to Peck’s and put it up & used it. Had considerable trouble.

December 3, 1859

[My brother] Steve & I finished painting the back sides of the house.

December 5, 1859

Went to town. Saw [Willoughby] Babcock & [Nathaniel] Davis. Learned something bad about Austin. That he had helped a fellow in Kansas get out of his hands about $2000 dollars.

December 9, 1859

[Upon the advice of Rev. Rankine,] wrote to the Bishops of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, & Mississippi [for a teaching position].

December 15, 1859

Wrote to Professor H. T. Wells, [1] Burlington, New Jersey. [Received rejection letter from Bishop Thomas Atkinson of North Carolina.]

December 17, 1859

[Received rejection letter from Bishop Johns of Maryland.]

[1] “ H. T. Wells established a private institution of learning at Burlington, New Jersey in 1860. Some time after it was moved to Andalusia, Bucks County under the name of Andalusia College. It can hardly be said to have ever exercised the functions of a College, and after a lingering existence as a Boarding School for boys, it died.” Source: A History of Education in Pennsylvania, Private and Public, Elementary and Higher: From the Time…. James Pyle Wickersham.