Harlan Melville Bisbee Biography from History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire
From: Barbara Gottlock - BGOTTLOC@ccsd.edu

Surname: BISBEE
Source:  History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens
          by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill., 1915


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     HARLAN MELVILLE BISBEE, principal of Robinson Seminary,
Exeter, N. H., was born at West Sumner, Me., January I, 1875. His father,
Charles M. Bisbee, a son of Daniel a:nd Philinda (Teague) Bisbee, is a phy-
sician, now engaged in practice at Rumford Falls, Me. Dr. Charles M. Bisbee
was born in Canton, Me., and first married Ella. Remember Tucker, of Peru.
that state of which union there were two children, Harlan Melville and Ches-
ter Garfield, the latter being now engaged in the insurance business in Wayne,
Maine. Mrs. Ella R. Bisbee died in 1892 and Dr. Bisbee subsequently mar-
ried Ella C. Abbott, also of Sumner, Me. Of this second marriage there have
been no children.
     Harlan M. Bisbee began his education in the common schools of Sumner
and continued it at Hebron Academy, Hebron, Me., where he was graduated
in the class of 1894. He then entered Bowdoin College, from which he re-
ceived His degree of A. B., graduating in the class of 1898. Deciding to enter
the educational field, he secured a position as teacher in the high school at
Rumford Falls, where he remained one year. That he had shown ability may
be inferred from the fact that he received a call to become principal .of the
high school at Brewer, Me., which position he held for five years, performing
its duties with marked efficiency.  He then went to Harvard University to
obtain his master's degree, which he received in June, 1905. In the fall of
that year he came to Exeter to assume the duties of his present position as
principal of Robinson Seminary. In the nine years that have since elapsed
he has given much additional evidence of his ability as an educator, having
brought this noted institution up to the highest degree of efficiency it has yet
attained. The Seminary has 316 pupils registered for the present year (1914),
and its successful management, together with the high degree of  scholarship
attained by its graduates, have rendered it one of the most popular institutions
of its kind in this part of New England, much of the credit for which belongs
to Mr. Bisbee.
     By speaking at Teachers' Institutes throughout the State for several years
he has become conversant with the newer ideas in educational pedagogy and
psychology and has introduced many of them into the work of the Seminary.
     Mr. Bisbee was married in 1900 to Miss Maude Arlie Wells, who was born
in Lynn, Mass., a daughter of Enos and Annette (Morse) Wells, her father
being a prosperous shoe merchant of Lynn. Mrs. Bisbee is one of a family of
four children, one son and three daughters, the other members of her parents'
family being: Arvesta, who is the wife of George Mann, of Ione. Cal. ;
Fred Enos, who resides in Syracuse, N. Y., and Etta, who is the wife of

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George Poole of Lynn. Mr. and Mrs. Bisbee have one child, Harlan Mel-
ville, Jr., who was born January 11,1913. Mr. Bisbee and wife are members
of the First Congregational Church of Exeter. He is a republican in politics.
His society affiliations include membership in the Blue Lodge, A. F. & A. M.,
at Exeter, the Chapter, R. A. M., at Rumford, Me., and the Delta Kappa
Epsilon fraternity. He has served as president of the New Hampshire State
Teachers' Association, of the Rockingham County Teachers' Association, and
of the Bowdoin Club of Boston. He is also a member of the National Edu-
cational Association, of the New England Association of Colleges and Pre-
paratory Schools, of the American Institute of Instruction, of the Classical
Association of New England and of the Educational Council of New Hamp-
shire.

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