The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-01-09
An Interesting Hook.

To the Editor of the ! oURNAL AND CoURI@R
 The Str,et Genealogy, Compilation begun by Henry A. Street, New Haven, Conn, Completed, edited and published by Mrs. Mary A. Street, Corresponding Secretary of the Street Association, Exeter N. 1T,
 This handsome octave volume of 560 pages must be of great interest to every one who bears the name of Street. And not to these only, for in its pages may be found the story of many other families who share in the Street lineage, Heatons, Shermans, Peclls, Yales, At waters, Bassetts, Hotchkisses, Olcotts, Todds, Davenports--in fact almost all the old names of New Haven-so gen. enllly is the blood of this ancestry coursing to-day in the life about us. One should have imagination to enjoy thoroughly such a book as this. As he reads the names and dates and brief mentions, he should see the persons whom they concern living again before his eyes and playing their part in events of all sorts, great and little, serious and gay, sad or mirthful or tragic, and to give Zest, he should re- member always that out of this old life of the past has come by a cease less flow the life we are now living.
 Books of this kind are often under valued. It is because people do not see what is in them, do not sense the mean ing of those deep currents of heredlty which run and branch from name to name through the whole. Here is a study in social science, a disclosure of the silent forces that make communi- ties and give them character.
 Nicholas Street was one of the early colonists of New England. He was for many years a minister in Taunton, Mass, and then in this city of New Haven. Besides being a minister, he was the father of a family; and this probably was 'he most important part of his work,t for it perpetuated his traits in multiplying families to be- come an element in the nation forever. His son Samuel graduated from liar ward college in a class of seven, taught for awhile in the Hopkins Grammar school, and then went with the settlers to start a new community at Walling ford, where he continued to be pastor of the church for forty-five years. If i any one would know why Wallingford 1 has stood for over two hundred years in the fore front of Connecticut coun- | try towns he must take into account l the molding influence of this Christian ] scholar in it's formative period. An 1 other of the family was settled in the l ministry at East Haven for more than 1 fifty years, covering the critical period of the revolutionary war and the es- tablishment of the republic. ,Still an- 1 other was the cultured gentleman who 1 is well remembered by the older resi- l dents of New Haven, MT. Augustus R. 1 Street, to whom Yale is indebted for f two of its endowed professoIships, and still more for it's School of Fine Arts his gifts to Yale university amounting in all to more than $400050. These are few of the more conspicuous among many hundreds who have lived useful 1 lives.
 I We easily lost out of mind the quiet power of the daughters of such a fam 1 ily Rev. Nicholas Street of New Ha- ven had three daughters and one son and these sisters, no doubt. were as effective in their way as the brother was in his. As wives and mothers they ' gave LU llASlt cIlILlIefl G Sldnlp or GudI- acter which holds till now. A daugh- ter of this family was the wife of Dr. Joseph Bellamy of Bethlehem; another was the mother of Governor Lyman Hall of Georgia, signer of the Declara- tion of Independence from another came the family of Bronson Alc0itt, and another was the wife of Admiral Foote
 This volume is not confined to the 1 descendants of the New Haven family. but contains an account of other fami- lies in this country, and also of the { extensive branch remaining in Eng land. It will be found of interest to antiquarians in general, as well as to members of the family on both sides of the sea.
 I The price of the work is s and it can be obtained of MT. s. H. Street, 33 Crown street,
 G. S. DTCKERMAN.