Headmasters & Heads of School
Monson Academy, Wesleyan Academy, Wilbraham Academy, Wilbraham & Monson Academy

Monson Academy
1804 Monson Academy incorporated
1806-1807 Rev. Simeon Colton (1st administration)
1807-1813 Rev. Levi Collins
1813-1816 Rev. Joy H. Fairchild
1816-1818 Rev. Frederick Gidley
1818-1820 Robert Riddle (1st lay Head)
1820-1821 Rev. William Hunt
1821-1830 Rev Simeon Colton (2nd administration)
1830-1832 Rev. William S. Porter
1832-1835 Rev. Sanford Lawton
1835-1839 Rev. David R. Austin
1839-1841 Rev. Charles Hammond (1st administration)
1841-1842 Rev. Samuel A. Fay
1842-1843 James G. Bridgeman
1843-1844 Rev. Frederick A. Fiske
1844-1845 Rev. Daniel H. Temple
1845-1853 Rev. Charlels Hammond (2nd administration)
1853-1859 Rev. James Tufts
1859-1862 Rev. William J. Harris
1862-1863 School closed - Civil War
1863-1878 Rev. Charles Hammond (3rd administration)
1878-1881 D. Newton Putney
1881-1885 George J. Cummings
1885-1887 C.C. Gove
1887-1893 Dana Marsh Dustan
1893-1899 Arthur N. Burke
1889-1909 James F. Butterworth
1909-1916 Henry F. Dewing
1916-1917 Seth G. Haley
1917-1919 Alexander M. Blackburn
1919-1922 Joseph M. Sanderson
1922-1923 Charles M. King
1923-1926 Closed – used by town of Monson as high school
1926-1935 Bertram Strohmeier (opened as all-boy school)
1935-1966 George E. Rogers
1966-1971 Arthur F. Tuttle
1971 Monson Academy merged with Wilbraham Academy on the
Wilbraham campus as a coeducational institution.

WESLEYAN
1812 Wesleyan Academy incorporated
1817-1818 New England Conference (Board of Preachers)
1818-1820 Rev. Martin Ruter
1820-1825 Moses White
1825 Move from NewMarket, NH, to Wilbraham, MA
1825-1831 Rev. Wilbur Fisk D.D.
1831-1832 Rev. William M. Bangs A.M.
1832-1834 Rev. John Foster A.M.
1834-1841 Rev. David Patten, D.D.
1841-1845 Rev. Charles Adams, D.D.
1845-1848 Rev. Robert Allyn D.D.
1848-1864 Rev. Miner Raymond D.D.
1864-1874 Rev. Edwrd Cooke D.D.
1874-1879 Rev. Nathaniel Fellows A.M.
1879-1892 Rev. George M. Steele D.D.
1892-1908 Rev. William R. Newhall, D.D.
1908-1909 Rev. C.M. Melden
1909-1911 Rev. Charles Davis
1911-1912 Closed for one year- reopened as Wilbraham Academy (all-boys)

WILBRAHAM
1911-1929 Gaylord W. Douglas
1929-1935 Ralph E. Peck
1935 Plimpton, Dresser, Newell from April -June
1935-1955 Charles L. Stevens
1955-1971 W. Gray Mattern
1971 Wilbraham Academy merged with Monson Academy on the
Wilbraham campus as a coeducational institution.

WILBRAHAM & MONSON ACADEMY
1971-1973 Arthur F. Tuttle
1973-1988 Francis M. Casey
1988-1989 Frederick D. Watts – Interim Head
1989-2002 Richard C. Malley
2002-present Rodney J. LaBrecque

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