Joseph Burnett

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Joseph Burnett, son of Charles and Keziah Pond Burnett of Southboro, married Josephine Rebecca Cutter, the daughter of Edward and Ruth Torrey Cutter of Boston. They were married March 20, 1848 at Church of the Advent in Boston. They had 12 children.

"His kind and gentlemanly, cheerful and generous qualities are cherished as a living fountain to his memory."

From Wikipedia

Joseph Burnett (1820–1894), educator, was born in Southborough, Massachusetts in November, 1820 and died there in 1894. He was an innovator in the production of premium vanilla extract in the United States. Vanilla extract was previously imported from France and made by processes which were proprietary secrets. He was a manufacturer of pharmacy and foods and the family remained in business for over a century.

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He was the founder of St. Mark's School (Massachusetts) an Episcopalian boarding school. His son Edward Burnett served a term as a United States Congressman. Edward's wife Mabel Lowell the daughter of James Russell Lowell inherited her father's house Elmwood currently home to the President of Harvard University.

• Updated from WikiTree Genealogy via daughter Louise Choate (born Burnett) by SmartCopy: Jun 30 2015, 20:30:02 UTC
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Rev. John Barrett Kerfoot had a nephew who was the founding headmaster of St. Mark's School in Southborough, Massachusetts (1865).

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(snip) (St. Marks's had) four different headmasters in its first seventeen years of existence, followed by the appointment of William E. Peck in 1882. Peck was a controversial headmaster, often in conflict with the trustees, until 1894, when he resigned and founded Pomfret School, taking a number of students and teachers with him. It wasn't until the inspired appointment of Headmaster William Greenough Thayer (who had taught for five years at slightly younger rival Groton School) in 1894 that St. Mark's began to experience stability. Thayer led the school until 1930, bringing it out of its initial financial difficulties, expanding the campus infrastructure dramatically, and eventually retiring just as the school faced the challenges of the Crash of 1929 and its impact on the student body. St. Mark's – and Thayer – were national institutions by the time of his departure from the school. News of his pending retirement was reported by Time Magazine in 1929 as an event of national significance, which to the nation's social elite it then was. [ Time Magazine, "Twill" December 2, 1929]