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William B. and Mary French Colby
1867
Stanstead, Québec

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Mary and Martha Colby, the two daughters of William Benton Colby and Melvina Wallingford, completed the collegial programme at Stanstead College and were promising students. Both qualified as teachers. Mary accepted a teaching position in Winnipeg and after William's death, his widow and daughter Martha joined her there. Martha started the first private kindergarden in Winnipeg. Melvina Colby died in Winnipeg in 1899 and was buried in Stanstead.
Mary married James Albert Manning Aikins M.P. in 1899, a brother of Somerset Aikins who was married to Abby Colby.
James Aikins later became Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba, as his father James Cox Aikins had been before him. They had two daughters Mary Alberta Helena (Helen), 1902, and Elizabeth Grace (Betty), 1903. Helen married Frederick Ney in 1923: Betty married his brother Reginald in 1926. Mary French Colby Aikins died in Winnipeg in 1931 and was buried in Stanstead.
Martha Stoddard Colby married the Reverend Walter A. Cooke, a Methodist minister in 1894. They had one child Albert, born in 1895. The family lived in many localities throughout the West before retiring to Vancouver. Martha Stoddard Colby died in Vancouver in 1951 and was buried in Stanstead.

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William White and Charles Carroll White
1866
Stanstead, Québec

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When Charles William Colby took over the family business after his father's death, he noted : "Conscious of inexperience and
mindful of responsibility I felt that sound advice was needed and so went to Judge White, whose first wife was father's sister and
had continued to be an intimate friend of our family. Out of a full and ripe experience he spoke in favour of great caution, in a
most kindly manner putting in high relief my complete lack of business experience."

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Abby Lemira Colby
1872
Stanstead, Québec

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Abby Lemira Colby was born in Stanstead 27 September 1859. She was the eldest child of Charles Carroll Colby and Harriet Hannah Child Colby, born while her father was newly practicing law in Stanstead and the construction of Carrollcroft was underway.

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Jessie Maud Colby, O.B.E.
1873
Stanstead, Québec

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Jessie Maud Colby was born 11 November 1861, the younger daughter and second of the four surviving children of Charles
Carroll Colby and his wife Harriet Hannah Child. She was born in Stanstead, in the newly finished family home, Carrollcroft, that was to be her home for most of her very long life. Her early education was at the Stanstead Seminary and she continued on to study at Stanstead College, newly established in 1874. She graduated from the college with a degree in English Literature and later obtained a degree in music from the Eastern Townships Conservatory affiliated with the college. She was an accomplished pianist and her name is cited as accompanist on the programmes of numerous musical events over the years.

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Pre-school training at home
1866
Stanstead, Québec

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This well preserved sampler is embroidered "Jessie M. Colby, aged 5 yrs, Stanstead, 1866". It is one of many exceptionally fine samplers among the Stanstead Historical Society collections of textile artefacts.

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Charles William Colby
1875
Stanstead, Québec

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[Charles William] was born just when [his] father was being elected to Parliament for the first time - his birthday falling on March 25, 1867 while the Confederation of British North America was proclaimed on July 1st of that year.

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Abby Lemira Colby
1879
Stanstead, Québec

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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.