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In 1877, to improve her health, Harriet with her daughter Abby, a recent graduate of Stanstead Wesleyan College, (photo) spent several months in Colorado where her brother was a rancher. Letters home were long and full of detail.

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Jessie Maud Colby, O.B.E.
1879
Stanstead, Québec

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Jessie attended Stanstead Wesleyan College and graduated in 1879, music, M.L.A.

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Abby and Jessie
1880
Stanstead, Québec

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After their school years at the Stanstead Seminary and Wesleyan College Abby and Jessie led a domestic middle-class life in
Stanstead, though interspersed with trips abroad, visits to relatives, including an extensive trip to the American West, and stays
in Ottawa. Their father being a prominent politician at this time, the Ottawa visits were replete with Victorian social occasions.

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The Stanstead Tennis Club
1883
Stanstead, Québec

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In back, standing at left, George Pierce Butters, in centre, Charles Williams Colby, seated at right, Williams Butters. Seated in front, at left, Emma Frances Cobb, at right, Abby Colby.
In Colby Family Sketch, Charles William Colby writes : "All in our set were keen about tennis. George and Will Butters, Louis McDuffee and I played together a great deal, with close social contacts growing out of this athletic association. We had a court on the south side of the house (Carrollcroft) and the Butters (Broadview) had one on their front lawn. Here we had practice
games in which the young ladies participated to some extent, and matches with other teams in the county, particularly with that
from East Hatley.

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Emma Frances Cobb
1874
Stanstead, Québec

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Emma Cobb (1866-1945) was born on 19 January 1866, the only daughter and only surviving child of Walter Balfour Cobb and his wife, Mary. Mary Cobb was the daughter of Wilder Pierce of Stanstead, a man of considerable wealth. Walter Cobb died when Emma was a very young child: his widow maintained a very close relationship with her Pierce family relatives throughout her life, both in Boston and Stanstead.

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John Child Colby
1884
Stanstead, Québec

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John Child Colby was the younger son and youngest surviving child of Charles Carroll Colby and Harriet Hannah Child Colby.
He was born in Stanstead 25 November 1873, and educated at Stanstead College.

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Jessie Maud Colby, O.B.E.
1885
Stanstead, Québec

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Her father represented Stanstead County in Parliament from 1867-1891 and held the important offices of both Speaker of the
House and President the Privy Council. Hence Jessie Colby's youth was spent in the stimulating world of the college and national politics. She frequently visited Ottawa, enjoying both the social events and the affairs of the House of Commons. It is apparent that her father began to count on her as an un-official assistant.

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Abby Lemira Colby
1885
Stanstead, Québec