Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-04-26

ary war. David Dudley Field the father
of the four bows who have become noted in
American affairs, was born May 20, l1Sl.
He was educated for clergyman, and be-
came pastor at Haddam, Conn, when be
was twenty-three years old. He married
Miss Submit Dickinson. of Somers, who
bore him ten children
More than common interest attaches to
a home which reared so famous a family.
The parish of Haddam was rough and un-
inviting; the meeting house was huge
| barnli!le structure in keeping with the vii
lage But The young pastor entered ear
nestly into his work. His great strength
aud visor of Thought were seen best in the
| pulpit. His reputation as "A preacher spread
abroad and lie WAS called to deliver ser
mons Ga special occasions.
The mother of the Field boys was q
worthy helpmeet for this Woodworking
minister The SONS never tired of singing
! her praises "She was the JOY and light
| of the home" writes one of them. Nv hat
! ever of success or prosperity has attended
| the family has been in great measure
owing to her unseldsh spirit, which made
every sacrifice for the education of her
children, to her perpetual buoyancy of
temper, to her womany patience, courage
and hope" With q salary of $500 and
growing children, there wus no time for
idleuess or luxury or playing the fine lady
She was up early and late; love made all
duties easy, all burdens light Never was
a home, continues this afectiouate son,
blessed with more cheerful industry
To her husband She was noa only the truest
friend, but the wisest counselor. His heart
safely trusted in her, while to her children
her devotion was such that after the lapse
| of half a century those OF them who sur
viye call her blessed.
After fourteen years service at Haddam,
DR. Field was called to Stockbridge, Mass.
A beautiful picture of their domestic life
there has been drawn by Henry NJ Field
the family historian already quoted. Its
whole tone came from the unaffected piety
of the parents Saturday evening was
kept in strict Puritan fashion. AS the sun
declined, DR.. Field gave the solemn admo
milton, My sons, we are on the borders oil
holy time" AT sunset all labor was sus
pended for twenty-four hours. There was
fasting aud prayer and devout meditation
! But like other boys, with pulses beating
with strong vitality, they waited anXiousll
the close of the Sabbath. They watched
. the sun sink in the west, and bountled of
> to play soon as the orb was below tn,
; horizon. 1t required strict economy ans
no end of self sacrifice to send four sons Il
! college, but this great object was accom-
A plished, and the boys were turned out il
the world we'll equipped to battle with it
trials and overcome its difficulties. How
they succeeded is known to every Amer
lean. One achieved high honors OH tn
+ bench of the supreme court; another sim
plifed and codiiied the laws of his nativ
n land aud gave impetus to law reform
:, abroad; third, tue one whose old AGE LA
# been saJldened by disaster, won undyin
q distinction as the father of ocean telegra
}, ply, and the fourth attained prominence
o as divine and tbeologian
o One can trace the influence of their sin
3 pie home life in the career Of each of tbos
: famous boys. Each had pluck and pers,
;, verance; each was of strict honor an
=. prooity, of uprishtness and fair dealing
~ Their early training fitted them to wrestI
= valiantly with the difficulties OF the worl;
"a their use of advantages honorably an
courageously won was marked with wi.
Ii dom, discretion and henevulence. No bei
:, ter evidences of the splendid influence O
n, ancestry is needed than the career Of til
a; Field boys, for in each WIS tie mark ,
,, Puritan conscience and virtue softeued h
K. the broader charity of more modern belle
a and IN none have the higher attributes {
IN mankind been more markedly illustrate
ae than in Cyrus w. Field, whose recet
troubles have called forth this brief revit
,v of remarkable family.
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