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Excerpt from Henry Augustus Coit, First Rector of Saint Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire Dr. Henry Augustus Coit was born Janu ary 20, 1830, at Wilmington, Del., where his father, the late Rev. Joseph Howland Coit, D.D., was rector of St. Andrew's Church. In 1832 his family went to Plattsburg, N. Y., his father having been elected rector of Trin ity Church in that city. There his youth was passed until his fifteenth year, when'he was sent to the well-known boarding-school at College Point, Flushing, L. I., under Dr. Muhlenberg. In due course he went to the University of Pennsylvania, but, his health giving out, he spent a winter in the South, chiefly in Georgia. On his return, he ao cepted the position of assistant professor of the ancient languages at St. James's College. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.