The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-06-08
LONGEVITY.

TICS tnal Iney are lHpOselDle, anu tncn re-
fers to a banquet given in Richmond, Eng
land, to Edward Morgan, of Brougham
house, Willisden, on his completing bis one
hundred and sixth year, and states that he
has had one hundred and two children,
grandchildren, and great-grand.c children,
of whom sixty-seven were present at the
banquet.
Such records are not by any means elm
gular. We hsve before us the names Of
over ninety persons who, In New Hamp-
shire alone, in the ninety-three years pre-
vious to 1926, attained the age of one hun.
bred years ard upwsrds, one each of whom
attained the age of one hundred and six
teen, one hundred and fifteen, one hundred
and twelve, one hundred and ten, one hun
bred aud eight, and one hundred and six
years respectively, and seven the age of
one hundred and five years. One OF these
Hannah Lovejoy, who died at the age of
one hundred and two years-had three hun
dred and twenty-six descendants another
Mary Bean, aged one hundred years
had two hundred and thirty-three descen-
dants-ten children, fifty-nine grand-chi-
dren, one hundred and forty-three great
grand children, and twenty-one of the fifth
generation. Hannah Foss lived to be one
hundred and three years old, and lett two
hundred and twenty descendants, among
whom was grand-child ffy-six years old.
Another Abigail Craig-lived to be one
hundred and five, and never was compelled
to employ a physician until after she was
hundred years old. William Prescott lived
to be over one hundred and two years, al
though he lost a leg in the engagement of
Cape Breton, more than forty years before
his death while one Thomas Walker died
in 1929, aged one hundred and three years,
although he had been soldier during the
revolution and participated in the battles
at Saratoga, White Plains, Brandywine,
etc., etc.
During the first six months Of the year
1869, there is the record of some thirty
persons dying at the age OF one hundred
years and upwards, one of whom reached
the extraordinary age of one hundred and
twenty-one years one of these, dying at
the age of one hundred and four, left sur
viving him widow aged ninety-nine
years another was the mother of fourteen
children, the grandmother Of ninety sir, and
the great grandmother of sixty-eight chill
dren. During the same period, it was re-
ported that couple were living in Upton
oe-.'y, H"e-cie, The husband being one
hundred and one, and the wife one hmm.
dred and two years old that woman one
hundred and two years old was converted
at revival meeting in Iowa that Ten
nessee widow of one hundred and fourteen
years boosted of four hundred descendants,
"and rides on horseback - and that a
French artist, one hundred and three years
old, had just sent q picture to the Paris fine
arts exhibition representing two hundred
and fifty-flve persons, that he was in ex-
cellent health, took strong walking exercise
every day, was married to an English lady
of forty, and had son aged eighteen.
1t is not great many years ago that a
highly respected lady, aged one hundred
and one years, was burned to death IN Rut-
land, by her clothes taking fire. By the
census of 1850, it appears that there were
in Vermont one person Of the age of one
hundred years or over to every thirty-nine
thousand of the population in 1860, one
to. every twenty-one thousand and in 1870,
one to every fifty thousand. In the United
States, in 1870. there were 8, 622 persons Of
the age of one hundred years and upwards
-1,2S6 males, 2,236 females-or about one
to every eleven thousand inhabitants; while
in 1850, there were two thousand five hun
bred and fifty-five-1 OFT males, and 1,47e
females-or about one to every nine thou
sand inhabitants. In 1850, the distinction
between white, free colored and slaves Is
preserved-happily, now there are no slaves
and the proportion Of centenarians being,
one to "a, S46 among the whites, one to
1857 among the free colored, and one to
2,249 of slaves. In 1870, Incorporation is
one to nineteen hundred and twenty-three
among the colored, and one to nearly thirty
five thousand of the whites.
We have referred to these statistics tor
the purpose of showing that centenarians
are not by any means as rare as is generally
supposed. What the conditions necessary
for longevity are would puzzle the wises,
to determine. Among those whose history
has been preserved, and to which we have
alluded, will be found the white and the
colored; the male and the female; the
slave and the free; married women and
single woman women who have borne
children in extraordinary numbers, and
those who have never been mothers sold.
iers, sailors, farmers, mechanics and pro.
fessional men those who have lived a life
of toll, and those who have lived in ease
those who have passed their days in
prisons, warehouses and poorhouses, and
those who have lived in luxury opium
eaters, tobacco chewers and smokers
those who have used intoxicants mildly
and to excess, tea drinkers and COFFEE
drinkers, and those who have been scrupu
lousy abstemious In all these respects-and
life seems TO have been prolonged with the
one as the other. Perhaps there is some
general proposition to be derived from ar
examination Of all these cases-if 90, LEI
some one instruct the people In the art Of
prolonglng life.