The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1896-07-04

MRS. HARRIET BEECHER STOWE.
suffering very much. Since Monday
morning she has been confined to her
bed. and Tuesday afternoon became un-
conscious.
Mrs. Stowe. until about seven years
ego, was in good health, although she
was frail bodily.
Mrs. Stoves body will be taken TO
Andover, Mass, Friday. The burial
will be in the cemetery connected with
the Andover theological seminary,
where Mrs. Stoves husband Prof. CAL
vim Il. Stowe, and her son Henry are
buried.
Mrs Stowe was the third daughter and
sixth child OF Rev. Or. Lyman Beecher.
She was born I'm Litchneld, Conn. June IL.
1872 She was LEFT motherless at the age
OF four years, and was then placed under
the care OF her grandmother. who lived at
Guilford Conn. After her fathers sec
ond marriage her education was continued
at the Litchicld academy.
Her father. though a Calvinist clergyman,
was possessed OF broad and liberal views.
lie had early cspoused the cause OF the
slave. and night and morning IN family de-
votior Harriet heard her father appeal to
Heaven that the time OF deliverance might
come 10 poor. oppressed. bleeding Africa.
The effect OF such sermons and prayers on
tho mind OF an imaginative and sensitive
child can easily be conceived They tend
cd 20 make her from carly childhood the
enemy OF all slavery.
In January. 1886. she married Calvin Ellis
Stowe, n clergyman OF the parish OF Wal
nut Hills, a suburb OF Cincinnati. Her
home I'm Cincinnati was n station OF the
underground railroad, and many fugitive
slave found temporary quarters there be-
fore being helped to friends and freedom
on the Canadian border. Many night
Mrs. Stowe sank into uneasy slumber. ex-
pectlng 70 be reused by the bowling OF a
mob led by the agents OF exaspcratcd and
desperate shareholders.
In 1910 Mrs Stowe published "The May
flower: or Sketches Of the Descendants OF
the Pilgrims" being n collection OF papers
which she had from time 90 time contrib
uted 10 various periodicals. In 1850 she
removed with her husband and family TO
Brunswick. Me-, where the former had
just been called TO a professorship IN Bow
doin college
1t was at the height OF the excitement
caused by the passage OF the fugitive slave
law. IL seemed 10 her as II slavery was
about 10 extend Itself over the free states
She conversed with many benevolent and
tender-hearted Christian men and women
who were blind and deaf 10 arguments
against II, and she concluded that Il was
because they did not realize what slavery
10 make them realize Il. and as a result OF
this determination, wrote Uncle Toms
Cabin; or. Life Among the Lowly."
Neither Mrs. Stowe nor any OF her
friends had the least conception OF the
future that awaited her book. She was
herself very Respondent. IL does not seem
TO have been very widely read when Il APP
peared I'm the National Era at Washington,
ID. c.. from June. 1851. TN April, 1852. be-
fore Il was issued In book form. During
the first year $4,000 copies OF the book were
sold.
Mrs. stowe published I'm 1868 "A Key TO
Uncle Toms Cabin. Presenting the Orig
inal Facts and Documents Upon Which the
Story Is Founded Together with Corrob-
orntive Statements Verifying the Truth Of
the Work" She also wrote "A Peep Into
Uncle Toms Cabin for Children" The
story has been dramatzed into various
forms, once by the author as Tho Chris
tian slave"
Mrs. Stowe wrote many other books.
many OF which were just published as
serials In the leading magazines.