The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-07-02

ary and the pastorate of the Second Presbyterian church. Here she engag- ed in teaching with her sister and com piled geography which was published and large used. She was a member of literary club, the Semi Colon, and wrote a number of humorous sketches and poems which were read before the club, Calvin ID, Stowe was q professor at the seminary. His wife, Eliza Ty- Ter, became 8 close friend of Harriet Beecher She died in August, 1884, and In January, 1886, her husband married Harriet Beecher.
 In 1850 she removed to Brunswick, Me, where her husband took chair at Bowdoin college. It was while she was living in Maine that she began the book that made her celebrated the world over-"Uncle Toms Cabin" The hatred of slavery which had been en- gendered in her childhood by her fla ther's discourses, Increased as she att tained maturity. While she was in Cincinnati the city was disturbed by riots arising out of the slave question. At the time she removed to Brunswick the whole country was excited over the passage of the fugitive slave law. | Mrs. Stowe talked with her friends on the slavery question, and finding them deaf to her arguments for abolition, she became convinced that they did not realize what slavery really was and 1t was to picture it to them that she wrote her now celebrated book Uncle Toms Cabin" first appeared in the National Era, at Washington, between June, 1851, and April, 1852. At first it attracted little attention, but when it was published in book form in Boston in 1852 it's success was unprecedented. It took the northern states by storm. Half million copies were sold in this country within the five years after its publication. Since then it has been translated and published in more than twenty languages. It was also widely I dramatized.
 l Mrs. Stowe published in 1853 "A Key to Uncle Toms Cabin" She also wrote "A Peep Into Uncle Toms Cabin for | Children
 | Her best work, from purely liter ary standpoint, was, in the opinion of James Russell Lowell "A Ministers l Wooing," a New England story that appeared in 1859.
 The best known of Mrs. Stowe's nu- merous other works are: Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands" QS5Q; l "Dred, Tale of the Dismal swamp (1S56); "Old Town Folks" dS69); "Geog- raphy for My Children" (iS55); The l Pearl of Orrs Island GS62) and Foot steps of the Master" (1S76).
 These works were written during
 Mrs Stoves residences in Andover, Hartford and Mandarin, Fla. Profes- l sor Stowe WAS appointed to the chair l of Biblical literature at Andover Theo- l logical seminary in 1851, and his fam 1 fly moved thither. In 1864 they went tc Hartford, where Professor Stowe died | in iSS6
 | Mrs Stowe spent the winters in her cottage at Mandarin. Fla. Her Hart ford folise vas on crest street, clos2 | to the homes of Charles Dudley War ner and Mark Twain. Here, with hel l two daughters. she spent, peacefully and cheerfully, the declining years ol her long and active life. Her son, the | Rev. Charles Stowe, is pastor of the Windsor Avenue Congregational church os Hartford
 Mrs. Stowes funeral will be attended
 at her home at 5 o'clock tomorrow af-
 ternoon. Relatives, friends and neigh bors are invited. Her body will be talk | en to Andover, Mass, Friday on the | train leaving here at 9 o'clock a. m. on I the New England road The burial 1 will be in the cemetery connected with the Andover Theological seminary | where Mrs. Stoves husband, Professor
 Calvin F, Stowe, and her son Henry l are buried