A small card dated Saturday, April 14, 1866, showing that E. Johanson had achieved a week of industry and good conduct at the Bowdoin School. The name of D. C. Brown is imprinted on the card.
Hopefully readers will have some insights into the identity of student E. Johanson.
The Bowdoin School was established in 1821 and named in honor of Governor James Bowdoin.
D. C. Brown was Daniel C. Brown, born in Kingston, New Hampshire on 28 October 1814, the son of Benjamin and Mary Brown. After graduating from Middlebury College in Vermont, he accepted a teaching position at Arlington, Massachusetts. Eventually he became Master at the Bowdoin School in Boston and served there for twenty-nine years.
Daniel C. Brown married Rosetta Jane Prescott, born 25 July 1841 at Deerfield, New Hampshire, daughter of James Prescott. Daniel and Rosetta had a daughter Rose Prescott Brown, born 28 June 1881, who, in 1905, married Henry Spaulding Coffin of Brookline, Massachusetts.
Daniel died 3 July 1884. A Memorial booklet with a sketch of his life and eulogies of friends and colleagues is online.
An excerpt about Daniel C. Brown, alluding to an intended's tragic death [not Rose, as she survived him], from The History of the Bowdoin School 1821-1907, by Leah L. Nichols-Wellington, Class of 1846, printed in 1912.
the coming of his successor, Mr. Daniel Colcord Brown, A.
lum was not so bound by authority as at present, and Mr.
terwards taken up at the High School.
cent absence of Mr. Brown.