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Graduating from Dartmouth College
1847
Stanstead, Québec

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Charles Carroll. Colby was born in 1827 in Derby, Vermont, the eldest child of Dr. Moses French Colby and Lemira Strong.
The family moved to Stanstead, Quebec in 1832 and he attended school there. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1847,
then studied law with H. Bailey Terrill, Stanstead, A. and G. Robertson, Montreal and the Hon. J. S. Sanborn, Sherbrooke.

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Charles Carroll Colby I (1827-1907)
1865
Stanstead, Québec

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He was admitted to the Bar in 1855 and began to practice law in Stanstead in that year. In 1858 he married Harriet Child (1838-1932) of Weybridge, Vermont, a teacher at the Academy School in Stanstead. Their house Carrollcroft was built the following year. Between 1859 and 1873 seven children were born to the Colbys, of whom four survived, Abby (b 27 September 1859), Jessie (11 November 1861), Charles (25 March 1867) and John (25 November 1873).

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Christmas 1903
1858
Stanstead, Québec

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Harriet Hannah Child was born 23 April, 1838 on a farm in Weybridge Vermont, the daughter of John Child and Abigail Wright. Her mother died when she was five years old and she was mainly brought up by her stepmother, with whom she had a good relationship. After schooling in the local village school she was sent as a boarder to the Fort Edward Institute in up-state New York, moving from there to the Fort Plains Institute, near Albany, most probably a Normal School. Judging from the documents kept from this period, poetry, essays, graduation programmes, concert notices and such, these were fulfilling years for Harriet.
In September 1857 she was hired as a teacher at the seminary in Stanstead, forerunner of Stanstead College. There she met the young lawyer Charles Carroll Colby: they were married in December of the following year.

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'Hattie' Child Colby
1859
Stanstead, Québec

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By the summer of 1858, Hattie knew she wanted to marry and wrote to her mother introducing Charles Carroll Colby:
"He's about as good-looking as I, no great praise I can but acknowledge, but ergo no great reason to complain on our part. To do his countenance justice however, it is very expressive and eloquent … he is precisely the person which you all have selected as an ideal: 1st Talented, 2nd Educated, 3rd a Lawyer, 4th Popular."
"Hattie Child Colby", by Jackie Hall, Townships Crossroads, September 1992.

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Harriet H. and Emily Stewart Colby (1864-1865)
1864
Stanstead, Québec

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Photograph showing Harriet Hannah Colby holding her third daughter, Emily Stewart, who died in infancy. Two other of Charles and Harriet's children did not survive their first year : Carroll Child Colby (1869-1869) and Harriet Alice Colby (1870-1871).

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A concern for education
1867
Stanstead, Québec

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"[Charles Carroll Colby] was one of the founders of Stanstead College, a member of the Board of Trustees, and chairman of the executive committee for Stanstead Seminary."
The Stanstead College Story by Joan MacDonald

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Charles Carroll Colby I (1827-1907)
1867
Stanstead, Québec

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C.C. Colby entered politics in 1867 when he was elected to the House of Commons as an Independent Conservative representing Stanstead County. He was returned by acclamation in 1872 and 1874 as a Conservative. He was re-elected in
1878, 1882 and 1887, at which time his responsibilities increased notably. He was Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons
from 1887-1889 and President of the Privy Council from 1889-91. His career as the representative of Stanstead County ended
with the election of 1891 when he was defeated by T. B. Rider. He had been a Member of Parliament for twenty-four years
and was in his sixty-fourth year.