Caroline G. Atkinson
1866-1949
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Born in Jefferson, NH in 1866, Caroline G. Atkinson graduated from the Albany Normal School (now University at Albany). Her teaching career began on August 30, 1885, in the four-room school on Pine Street and Guy Lombardo Avenue. She became one of four teachers in a school with less than 200 students. After 52 years of service, Ms. Atkinson retired in 1937. She was a member of the First Baptist Church where she was elected an honorary deaconess. It is said that she knew the Bible almost by heart and spent much of her time visiting the sick and reading to children. Ms. Atkinson died at the age of 82 of a heart attack in 1949 and is buried in Greenfield Cemetery. That same year, the Freeport School Board unanimously approved the naming of the school on Seaman Avenue the "Caroline G. Atkinson School."
Sources:
"Baptist Church Shares in Atkinson Estate." The Leader. 24 November 1949, p. 1.
"Caroline Atkinson Buried in Greenfield." The Leader. 10 November 1949, p. 5.
"Seaman School Named For Caroline Atkinson." The Leader. 10 November 1949, p. 1.
Sources:
"Baptist Church Shares in Atkinson Estate." The Leader. 24 November 1949, p. 1.
"Caroline Atkinson Buried in Greenfield." The Leader. 10 November 1949, p. 5.
"Seaman School Named For Caroline Atkinson." The Leader. 10 November 1949, p. 1.
