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Dr. McGuigan's School Days

The following mention of the Lambtown School is made by Dr. Clara Hammond McGuigan (1863-1964) in her book The Antecedents and Descendants of Noah Whipple of the Rogerene Community at Quakertown, Connecticut (Ithaca, New York: John M. Kingsbury, 1971. p. 178), which is the most complete source of genealogical information on Quakertown families.

Josiah Hammond [Dr. McGuigan's father] moved to Ledyard, Conn., in Nov. 1866, in that part called Quakertown where the relatives known as Rogerene Quakers lived. There I was raised. I attended the same public school in Lambtown that my mother did before me and I had the same teacher that she had had. This was Samuel Lamb who, though working in a small one room school house, was a great and effective teacher. We began Latin and algebra early with Samuel Lamb and most of the scholars thrived on it. To celebrate fifty years of his teaching, his pupils had a large reunion. The eminent New York lawyer Elisha Whipple McGuire… made the presentation speech and I spoke a few words as well.

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