The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-07-08

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
ago, was in good health. although she
was frail bodily.
Short Biography of Mrs. Stowe.
Mrs. Stowe was the third daughter and
sixth child of Rev. DR.. Lyman Beecher
She was born in Litchf1eld, Conn.,, June IA,
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 Litchfield academy.
Her father, though Calvinist clergyman,
was possessed of broad and liberal views.
lie had early espoused the cause of the
slave, and night and morning in family de-
votfon Harriet heard her father appeal to
Heaven that the time Of deliverance might
come to poor, oppressed, bleeding Africa
The effect of such sermons and prayers on
the mind of an imaginative and sensitive
child can easily be conceived. They tend
ed to make her from early childhood the
enemy of all slavery.
Married a Clergyman.
In January, 1886, she married Calvin Ellis
Stowe, a clergyman of the parish of Wal
nut Hills, a suburb Of Cincinnati. Her
home in Cincinnati was a 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-
pecting to be reused by the bowling of a
mob led by the agents Of exasperated and
desperate shareholders.
In 1S49 Mrs. Stowe published 1.-THE May
flower; or Sketches Of the Descendants of
80,
which she had from time to time contrib
uted to various periodicals. In 1850 she
removed with her husband and family to
Brunswick, Me-, where the former had
just been called to professorship in Bow
dom college.
It was at the height of the excitement
caused by the passage of the fugitive slave
law. 1t seemed to her as If slavery was
about to extend itself over the free states.
She conversed with many benevolent and
tender-hearted Christian men and women
who were blind and deaf to arguments
against it, and she concluded that it was
because they did not realize what slavery
really meant. She determined, IL possible,
to make them realize it, and as q result of
this determination. wrote Uncle Tom 8
Cabin: or. Life Among the Lowly."
"Uncle Toms" Great Success.
Neither Mrs. Stowe nor any of her
friends had the least conception Of the
future that awaited her book. She was
herself very respondent. 1t does not seem
to have been very widely read when 1t ap-
peared in the National Era at Washington,
D. c., from June, 1851, till April, 1852, be-
fore it was issued in book form. During
the first year 10000 copies of the book were
sold.
Mrs. Stowe published in 1853 "a Key to
Uncle Toms Cabin, Presenting the Orig
inal Facts and Documents Upon Which the
Story Is Founded Together with Corrob-
orative Statements Verifying the Truth Of
the Work." She also wrote "A Peep Into
Uncle Toms Cabin for Children" The
story has been dramatized into various
forms, once by the author as THE Chris
tan Slave"
Mrs. Stowe wrote many other books,
many Of which were just published as
serials in the leading magazines.