The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-07-02
HARRIET B. STOWE DEAD
4 AUTHOR OF "UNoLE T0M'S CABIN"
 PASSES AIyAY AT HARTFORD.

She Was Eighty-four Years Old and Had Devoted Herself to Literature Since Her Early Childhood-How Her Epoch making Book Came to be Written-lts
 Enormous Circulation Here and Abroad. Hartford, July Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe died at 12 o'clock to- day
 Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe was born in Litchfield, Conn.,, on June IA, 1S11 She was the third daughter and seventh child of the Rev. pr, Lyman Beecher, a distinguished divine of his time, and also the father of Henry | Ward Beecher. pr. Beecher's first wife, the mother of Mrs. Stowe, was Miss Rosanna Foote before her mar riage She died in 1916.
 Mrs. Stowe was then but child of four years and was placed under the l care of her grandmother at Guilford, Conn. Here she lived for a few years | until her father married Miss Porter of Maine. when he returned to Litch- | field
 From her childhood Mrs. Stowe lived l amid decidedly literary environments 1 Her education was under the care di l Sarah Pierce and John Brace of the l Litchfield academy, of whom she 1 speaks most affectionately in her writ ings.
 Much of the training of my early | days" she wrote, consisted not in the | things I was supposed to be studying l but in hearing, while seated unnoticeo at my desk, the conversation of MT | Brace with the older classes" Her father, like most of the Calvinist l divines of his day. was a deep theolo- ! g!an a man of great intellectual activ-
 ity, who was constantly elaboratins 1 and expounding his ideas at home as l well as in the pulpit. He encouraged 1 his children to read. The poems of Sil | Walter Scott, of Burns and Byron were I familiar to Harriet Beecher before she 1 was in her teens.
 Bright and thoughtful child though | she was, she rather surpassed the ex- | pectations of her family when but 8 I child of twelve years she wrote a scheo l composition on the theme, Can the I immortality of the soul be proved from l the height of nature2" She took the negative side of the question and pre-
 scented such original and excellent ar | gurnents that her father, not knowing | the author, exclaimed, when MT. Brace | read it to him, "Who wrote that?'
 Speaking of her fathers surprise wher l he learned the authors name, Mrs l Stowe aeterward said: Tt was the ] proudest moment of my life There l was no mistaking my. fathers face I when he was pleased, and to have in
 terested him was past all juvenile tri- i umphs."
 1 Byron was the favorite poet of Mrs 1 Stowe's childhood. Speaking of read I ing his "Corsair" when she was but ter | years of age, she said: II shall never | forget how it thrilled and electrified l me After that I listened to everything
 that father and mother said at the ta. 1 ble about him.
 ] Dr. Beecher was greatly wrought III over the slave problem at the time ot 1 the Missouri agitation His sermons
 and prayers in his pulpit, his conver.
 sation and prayers at home, were bur dened with his desire for the abolition
 of slavery. A lasting impression wa.
 made on the mind of his daughter
 From childhood she was an enemy O I slavery.
 Mrs. Stowe in 1924, she being thei thirteen years of age, went to Hart I ford and became a pupil in school es
 tablished by her elder sister, Catherine l Here she obtained a sound knowledg l of Latin, French and Italian, and als
 acquired considerable skill at versifica ] tion. She remained at her sister l school first as pupil then as teacher 1 until the year 1882, when her fathe
 went to Cincinnati, where he took tn presidency of Lane Theological semin