Liversidge Institute, River St., Dorchester
No. 561Postcard. Caption on front: Liversidge Institute, River St., Dorchester. Postally unused.
copy no. 2 has verso: The Royal Blue card Pub. by Putnam Art Co., Grove Hall, Boston.
Liversidge Institute, River St., Dorchester
No. 561Postcard. Caption on front: Liversidge Institute, River St., Dorchester. Postally unused.
copy no. 2 has verso: The Royal Blue card Pub. by Putnam Art Co., Grove Hall, Boston.
I am the great grandson of Julius Clarke Tibbetts (1847-1926), first and only headmaster of Liversidge Institute, a school for “boys of old and New England” (1880-1922). I have some documents from the time including the recommendation letters from notable figures for my great grandfather (originals and his transcriptions) for the headmaster position as he was at the time Deputy Superintendent of Deer Island House of Correction and Poor Farm. I also have a transcription of the will of Stephen Liversidge who died in 1876 and bequeathed his estate to establish and maintain the school that lists in excruciating detail the entire estate. I also have a Hayward-Wakefield student desk from the school and wax portraits of Thomas Liversidge & his wife who emigrated to the United States in the 1820s and eventually established themselves at 291 River Street and what I am told was the oldest starch mill in the United States, the basis for Stephen Liversidge’s estate. After my great grandfather died in 1926, my grandfather, Charles Bradford Tibbetts II, became de facto custodian of the idle estate and with his death in 1936, my father Howard M. Tibbetts, Sr. (my father), became custodian until o/a 1942-43. After the property changed hands and the contents of the estate were given to Thompson Island Academy, the main building “mysteriously” caught fire (starting in all 4 corners of the building simultaneously) after the new owner was unsuccessful in turning the grounds into Jewish cemetery. I was my understanding that much of the documentation from the school was placed UMASS Boston by Thompson Island Academy as they didn’t know what to do with it. If I get a chance in the next few years I will visit as I now live in Hawaii after a 55 year career with the US Army, retiring last March.