Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1868-10-01

~, lcVutI VIM Wo> bs"se~~
College in 1851. AMI was for more than
fifty years the pastor II the Congrega-
tional Church in Sharon, Connecticut,
was his brother and John Cotton Smith,
Ii d.. of sharon. a son Of the Rev Cot
ton Matlnr Smith, born February IL,
lsG5, died December Z, lsiS,l and grad
ua,e of Yale Collegein 1888, who was well
known as Representative in Congress
from Connecticut from 1900 to 1906. as a
Judge of the Superior and Supreme
Courts OF that State, and also us its Gov
ernor from 1913 TO 1917, and, later in
life. as President Of the American Board
Of Commissioners for Foreign Missions,
also as President Of the American Bible
Society, was his nephew, and also was one
Of the executors of hill VIII, as well as
principal beneficiary and the residuary
legattee and devlseo under his Win. lie
had one sister. Elizabeth, born Novem'
Der 10, 1726, and referred to in his Win
as '.sister Lomis,'1 who was married to
Graves LOOMS Of suftield May 10, lT49,
The late Hon. Luther LOOMS OF Suhield,
son of Iuther) who was well known in
Connecticut, was their grandson. He also
had two other brothers, viz: Dan, born.
October q, l,eS, and Paul, born Sep
,ember 10, 1867 Dan Smith, Esq, of
Panton, formerly of Westhaven, born
d
January 2s, 1853, died February 10, 1881
and Apollos Smith, formerly Of West
haven, born December 3, 1856, died Feb
ruary %, $780, the father of the we'll
known inn keeper in Westhaven OF the
same name, were sons Of his brother Dan,
and were also natives Of Sufield. The
Hon. Israel Smith, Of Rutland, born
, April 4, 1859, graduate Of Yale College
in 1881, died December ., $780, who was
! a Representative and Senator in Congress,
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and
Governor Of Vermont in lS0I-s,-the
5 Rev. Dan Kent, of Benson, the first set
" tied Minister in that town, born April
10, 1853, died July %, lS35,l-AsaheI
= Smith Esq. of Benson, the first Represent
: alive of that town in the General Assem-
bly of Vermont, and who received eight
;, successive annual elections to the sam,
!, office, born November 2G, 1879, died june
: %, 1874. and first cousin of DIR. Simeon
Smith, being son of Ichabod Smith
t Jun'r brother of Samuel, the father Of
+ Simeon, and Doctor Chauncey Smith
: son of Asahel, above named, also of Ben
son, who received thirteen elections as tn
:. Representative of Benson in the Genera
:, Assembly, and WAS one of the Judges q
the County Court of the county of Ru
>, land for the year lsl4 l5,-aud Apollo
n Austin Esq. of Orwell, died Decembe
l. 20, 1912, aged so years all leading an
+ prominent men among the early settler
of Rutland County, were also natives {
Il Sufield.
- In the Eulogy or Discourse on the Lii
=, and Times of John Cotton Smith, d.
liyered before the Connecticut Historic;
10 Society in 1916 by Rev. William w. Al
H. drcws, which is prehxed TO the publish,
of volume of the Correspondence and VI
n ceilanies IF JodH Cottoa Smith" it is stat,
(p. 10 that Jerusha, the mother of Re
psS Cotton Mather Smith and also of Since
~ Smith, was the daughter of that gre
= light Of the New England Churches, Il
I'd Rev Doctor Cotton Mather. who was Il
pastor of the second or old North Chur,
te in Boston, from 1855 to l12S, and 4
tn granddaughter of the Rev. Doctor l
as crease Mather Who at an earlier perio
" ~ was the pastor of the same Church, al
also was the President of Harvard Co
lege from 1853 to 1901, and whose wi
~ was the daughter of the Rev. John CO
nd ton. the pastor of the first Church in Be
nd ton from 1853 to 1862, a man who in h
Id time welded u greater influence in DO
civil and ecclesiastical affairs than any
W his contemporaries; and that her husban
=, Samuel Smith, was grandson of the Re
qs Henry Smith, who came from Englal
of an ordained minister of the Gospel, an
e. was installed the first pastor of the Churc
in Wethersfeld, Connecticut, in 1853
IT. For these statements, Memoir of Il
IA Rev. Cotton Mather Smith, said to
Oh written by his son, and published in t,
it. Connecticut Evangelical Magazine" al
ok republished as Appendix A, in the pu
.es lished Correspondence and Miscellanies
Governor Smith, above mentioned, is
ms ferred to as authority. My examination
~ the family genealogy, which have ende
-, vored to make as thorough as could fro
Dr.. the sources of information which were {
ID ccssiblc to me, has satifed me that the
ne statements are erroneous. l think II
ao- Mr.. Andrews fell into an error in supp
ing that the Memoir referred to in
note states that the mother of the r.
he Cotton Mather Smith was the daugh,
of the Rev. Doctor Cotton Mather L
ks Memoir referred to only states that $
de- was the granddaughter of the Rev.
ION crease Mather, though the mention Of
son, the Rev. Doctor Cotton Mather,
nts the same connection, might justly excr
ed, Tho ;nforonoo hot sho a,as h;s aa,obt
bv yet it is not distinctly stated in the y
moir that she was his daughter. My
his vestigations have satisfied me that
Of statement that she was the grand-daup
ms ter Of the Rev Doctor Increase Mather
an error. She was n daughter of
Anterior Mather and Rebecca, (Stou2
:" ton his first wife, and her father, W
was first Of Windsor and afterwards
at Suffield, was 4 son of Timothy Mather
of Dorchester, Massachusetts, the brother