[3] However, the bulk of the money was contributed by Congregationalists, and eventually they achieved control of the school, though it was nonsectarian in actual practice".
[2] Jacob Shedd Spaulding (1811-1880) was the principal of the Barre Academy for most of its existence, serving in that capacity from the opening of the institution until his sudden death in 1880.
Wheelock (himself a Barre Academy alumni),[1] this decline continued until the closure of the school in 1885.
[2] After the Barre Academy closed, the original building was sold and moved from the site, and the Spaulding School Building, named in Spaulding's honor, was built on the site.
[2][4] Page 442 "Genealogical and family History of the state of Vermont" Compiled under the editorial supervision of Hon.