The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-10-20

married Professor Stowe, who was nine
years her senior.
At Cincinnati were born all but one
of their six children, pair of girl-twins
coming first. These were named Eliza
Tyler and Harriet Beecher for two
wives of the happy father. Mrs. Har-
riet has remarked that first children are
poems and that those who come after
are apt to be prose. This couple of
girls were certainly perfect rhymes and
to this day are very like.
Within eighteen months came in
prose, a son, who died by drowning
after he reached maturity; then follow
ed Georgina May, who is the wife of
Rev. Henry f. Allen, the ritualistic
rector of the church of the Messiah in
Boston, and son, who died in infancy.
1t was after their return to Andover in
1851 that Charles T.. Stowe, at present
the pastor of the Windsor avenue Con-
gregational church of Hartford, was
born, and in the same year appeared
the great work "Uncle TOMS Cabin. "
Mrs. Stowe, now seventy-siX years old,
was greatly Frustrated by the recent
death of her husband but is able to be
out again, and is often seen upon the
streets near her home, dressed in sim
pie black, habitually carrying bunch
OF flowers, of which she is passionately
fond.
OF Henry Ward Beecher it is I'M
necessary to write, so well is he known.
He is seventy-four years old, the next
younger than Harriet, and from the
time when they played together or
went hand in hand to school, a warm
affection has existed between them. A
life-size photograph of her brother
stands upon an easel in the parlor at
the Stowe residence in Forest street.
Charles Beecher, at present pastor of
a Congregational church at Wysox,
Penn, is seventy-two years old and
lives life of quiet usefulness; became
a minister of the gospel at the urgent
wish of his father, though his tastes
and inclinations went toward music,
for which he had a special talent. Had
he been allowed to pursue this profess
sion, his sisters think he might have led
quite as happy life.
Thomas X. Beecher, the well-known
pastor of a Congregational church in
Elmira, n. Y, is about seventy. He
was at one time principal of the Hart
ford High school, and by nature and
education was pre-eminently fitted to
become an inspiring and successful
teacher. These are the children of the
first wife, gentle ROXana Foote.
OF the sweet second wife who came
to be mother of Lyman Beecher's
nine children, there were two more
children born. First Isabella, who
grew to womanhood imbued with the
principle which has guided her busy
life-that of equal rights for women.
She became the wife of Mr.. John
Hooker, a lawyer, who has always
furthered the efforts of his wife
in her career, and materially aided
Hartford's one woman lawyer, Miss
Mary Hall, in her education and OPP
posed admittance to the bar. Mrs.
Hooker is the mother of three chill
dren-Mrs. John c. Day, Mrs. Mary
II. Burton (now deceased) and DIR. Ed
ward Hooker, a successful physician of
the city.
family, and in childhood the pet of his
earnest and brilliant preacher, closely
, resembling his brother Henry in style
, and eloquent power. But some ten
years ago he became afflicted with q
2 mental malady, which few weeks since
5 terminated in self-destruction in a mo.
I ment of frenzy. His wife, charming
1 lady of liberal culture, and a cousin of
the late Mrs. j. r. Hawley, has main
S tanned for some years a school at heI
. home in Cos Cob, where, with her three
adopted children, she has received boys
g and girls, giving them care and home
S nurture and the requirements of re.
Y fined education