Stick, Wooden
- Object Name:
- Stick, Wooden
- Object ID:
- 2016.031
- Place of Origin:
- Ossipee, NH
- Date:
- 1822
- Description:
- Ferule (schoolmaster's stick), owned and used by Joel Wentworth (1801-1865), Ossipee, NH, 1822. Rectangular mahogany stick with curved, beveled hand grip on one end. Block lettering carved on obverse: "JOEL. WENT.WORTH. 1822." Reverse: "OSIPEE. SCHOOL". Hole in grip end, 0.25" diameter.
- Material:
- Wood
Mahogany - Dimensions:
- W-1.25 L-15.5 D-0.45 inches
- Provenance:
- Joel Wentworth, the son of John and Mary (Rowe) Wentworth was born in Wakefield, NH, on January 16, 1801. He married Abigail L. Smith (1800-1879) of Wakefield on April 9, 1826. Early in life Joel Wentworth was a schoolmaster in Ossipee and selectman in Wakefield. He later took over his father's farm in Wakefield. During the 1850s, he and his family moved to a farm in Cranston, RI. In 1862 they moved to another farm in Dover, MA, where Joel Wentworth died on October 2, 1865.
- Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Purchase, Katharine Prentis Murphy Fund
- People:
- Wentworth, Joel (1801-1865)
- Subjects:
- School discipline, Schools, Teachers
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