Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-07-06


gave no sign Of intelligence, even when
old friends greeted her. Sunday, June
IA, she was "a years old. Last Friday
morning her attendant, Mrs. Arms, when
she went to call her, found that she was
in Semi-consciouS condition. Her
nenhew, Dr. Edward B. Hooker, and his
sister, Isabella Beecher Hooker, were
till last night to avoid the annoyance of
inquiries that were sure to come from
all parts of the country.
Sketch of Mrs. Stoves Life.
Harriet Elizabeth (Beecher) Stowe
was born at Litchfeld, Conn.,, June a,
1911. Her father was the famous DIR.
Lyman Beecher, her mother ROXanna
Foote, his first wife.
At an early age she manifested great
eagerness for books, and read the prosy
theological works of her fathers library
with an eagerneSS only eXcelled 10y that
with which the pages of stray volume
of the arabian Nights" or Don Qulx-
ote," were devoured.
The first twelve years of her life were
spent in the intellectual atmosphere of
Litchfield, which was a famous resort
for minister's judges, lawyers and pro-
fessional men Of culture and education.
When about Il years of age, she went
to Hartford where her sister Catherine
had opened school. While here, she
was known as an absent-minded and
moody young lady, odd in her manners
and habits, but fine scholar, exceiling
especially in composition.
In 1892 when her sisters health failed,
she went to Cincinnati, to which place
her father had removed, where they
opened a school. On the 9Th of January,
1886. she married Prof. Calvin e. Stowe,
a man of learning and distinction.
For several years previous to her mar
riage, she had contributed occasionally
to the periodical literature of the day
and gave promise Of becoming noted
among men and women of letters.
At the meetings of the "Semicolon
Club in Cincinnati, she first became
conscious of the power she could WELD
with her pen, and shortly after her mar
riage she published THE Mayfower,"
the papers of the "Semicolon Club"
From this time her life flowed quietly
along, for several years, in domestic
channels, until the passage of the fugi-
tive slave law. Then, the definite pur-
pose arose in her mind to show up sla-
conviction at this time laid the corner
stone for 'Uncle Toms Cabin" which
was first published as a serial, in the
National Era. A few months after its
republication in book form, Mr.. Jewett
handed to Mr.. Stowe $4,000, as his
snare or the prOHCS. w lCn1n SIX uOuLuS
over 10000 copies were sold.
In England 100000 were ordered by
the booksellers in one month. It was
translated into Spanish. Italian, French,
Danish. Swedish, Dutch, Flemish Ger
man, Polish. Magyar, Arabic and Arme-
MAN.
In 1852 Mrs. Stowe took up her resi-
dence at Andover, and, soon after, went
abroad to recuperate her exhausted
strength Her visit was one continuous
ovation and year later she gave to the
public her Sunny Memories of Foreign
Lands"
In 1856 ''Dred; Tale of the Dismal
Swamp" appeared but did not meet with
the furore which attended the publication
of ''Uncle Tom"
In the Atlantic Monthly of 1859 she
published "The Minister'S Wooing,"
which is pronounced by literary men her
ablest work, in which appear the pic
lures of New England life and charac-
ter, for which her brother, Henry Ward
Beecher, is also famous. In 1862, after
a brief sojourn in Italy, "Agnes of Sor-
rento'' appeared in the columns Of the
Atlantic Monthly.
Herverses, volume of which has been
published, are chiefly religious, and most
sweet in their plaintive sadness.
In 1867 Mrs. Stowe purchased Man
DARN, a winter home in Florida, and be-
tween the residence in Hartford and that
in the South she divided her time. Her
husband died in Hartford in 1886.