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James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Book 1: he keepeth the sheep. (search)
s widow, with singular tact and judgment, to habits of industry and principles of virtue, and all became distinguished citizens in the communities in which they resided. One of the sons became a judge in one of the courts of Ohio. One of the daughters had the honor of giving to one of our most flourishing New England colleges a president for twenty years, in the person of her son. My authority is William H. Hallock, of Canton Centre. The preceding facts were chiefly furnished by Lancet Foote, Selden H. Brown, of the same place, and by a pamphlet, now out of print, entitled, Genealogical History, with Short Sketches and Family Records of the Early Settlers of West Simsbury, &c., by Abiel Brown, an uncle of the liberator. She was a woman of great energy and economy, writes a descendant, Professor C. F. Hudson, a distinguished theological author. the economy being a needful virtue. I have heard my grandfather tell of her cooking always just what the children needed, and n
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 1: the child and his ancestors. (search)
s widow, with singular tact and judgment, to habits of industry and principles of virtue, and all became distinguished citizens in the communities in which they resided. One of the sons became a judge in one of the courts of Ohio. One of the daughters had the honor of giving to one of our most flourishing New England colleges a president for twenty years, in the person of her son. My authority is William H. Hallock, of Canton Centre. The preceding facts were chiefly furnished by Lancet Foote, Selden H. Brown, of the same place, and by a pamphlet, now out of print, entitled, Genealogical History, with Short Sketches and Family Records of the Early Settlers of West Simsbury, &c., by Abiel Brown, an uncle of the liberator. She was a woman of great energy and economy, writes a descendant, Professor C. F. Hudson, a distinguished theological author. the economy being a needful virtue. I have heard my grandfather tell of her cooking always just what the children needed, and n