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James Parton, Horace Greeley, T. W. Higginson, J. S. C. Abbott, E. M. Hoppin, William Winter, Theodore Tilton, Fanny Fern, Grace Greenwood, Mrs. E. C. Stanton, Women of the age; being natives of the lives and deeds of the most prominent women of the present gentlemen, Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton. (search)
nstown, New York,--forty miles north of Albany. Birthplace is a secondary parentage, and transmits character. Elizabeth's birthplace was more famous half a century ago than since; for then, though small, it was a marked intellectual centre; and now, though large, it is an unmarked manufacturing town. Before her birth, it was the vice-ducal seat of Sir William Johnson, the famous English negotiator with the Indians. During her girlhood, it was an arena for the intellectual wrestlings of Kent, Tompkins, Spencer, Elisha Williams, and Abraham Van Vechten, who, as lawyers, were among the chiefest of their time. It is now devoted mainly to the fabrication of steel springs and buckskin gloves. So, like Wordsworth's early star, it has faded into the light of common day. A Yankee said that his chief ambition was to become more famous than his native town: Mrs. Stanton has lived to see her historic birthplace shrink into a mere local repute, while she herself has been quoted, ridicu
James Parton, Horace Greeley, T. W. Higginson, J. S. C. Abbott, E. M. Hoppin, William Winter, Theodore Tilton, Fanny Fern, Grace Greenwood, Mrs. E. C. Stanton, Women of the age; being natives of the lives and deeds of the most prominent women of the present gentlemen, Victoria, Queen of England. (search)
d to a daughter of the fourth son,--the Duke of Kent. The Prince of Wales, however, had but one leg was not the mother of them. Edward, Duke of Kent, the fourth of the king's sons, had the reputatcome of a country gentleman. This poor Duke of Kent, although he enjoyed a revenue about is large aTo economize his slender resources, the Duke of Kent resided, for many years, in Germany. He was liy months, it became evident that the Duchess of Kent was about to become a mother, and the duke was y published, which the mother of the Duchess of Kent despatched to her daughter, when she heard the xpended in discharging the debts of the Duke of Kent. The little princess was as well educated aning, wrote her / grandmother to the Duchess of Kent, when the child was four years of age. She is slater, when Parliament had named the Duchess of Kent to the regency of the kingdom, in case the kings father and brother accompanied the Duchess of Kent and the princess there, on the occasion of the [3 more...]