The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-06-19
 BEARDSLEY WOULD
 DO STRIKING DEED BY WHICH HIS NAME WOULD BE
 FOREVER LINKED WITH
 PUBLIC WELFARE So Says Daniel Davenport In Eloquent Oration at Unveiling of Monument to Benefactor-Beards- ley Pleaded With Fellow Citizens to Receive His Gift - F'oresaw Growth of Population.
So Says Daniel Davenport


 Mr. Davenport said:
 Carlyle in his Shall Cromwell Have a Statue'' puts the matter thus:
 "Show me the man. you honor: ] know by the symptom, better than any other, what kind of man you yourself are. For you show me then what your ideal of manhood is; what kind of man you long possibly to be, and would thank the gods with your whole soul, for being if you could. Whom shall we consecrate and set apart as one of our sacred men? Sa- cred; that all men may see him, be reminded of him, and by new example added to old perpetual precept be taught what is real worth in man. Whom do you wish to resemble? Him men looking at it may be continually apprised of the duty you expect from them"
 James W. Beardsley, whom the peo- pie of this city desire to honor by the statue which we have just unveiled with such fitting ceremonies, was born in Monroe, May 9th, 1920, the son of Elisha HI. Beardsley and Betsy Walk er He was of pure New England stock He was lineal descendant, gree. from the following first settlers of New England: Rev Peter Prudden, John Benjamin. Robert Walker, Thom- as Munson, William Beardsley, John BlrQSGYG, Minor, William Wilcoxson, John Hurd and Samuel Blagge- When the sew eral strains of blood from all these progenitors >converged and mingled in his veins, they had, in the two hun dred years intervening, pulsed through more than three score worthy and v1r- tuous known ancestors, usually long lived, and identified with the planting and growth of this state. A Prince in Israel could not claim better de- scent.
 Though in so sepse given to ances- tor worship, he h&d proper pride in lthe- e-hononi&16a41 fsc1nl men, through whom his life blood tracked it's parent being; in them he lived and they in him.
 It would be interesting and, if he were here today to listen, not ungrat- men and women and tell what they were and what they did, and seek to trace in them the remote and occult sources of his temperament and char acter, but the limits and nature of this discourse forbid. Though their in dividual spheres of duty and of in fluence were not large. and what Dr. Johnson wrote of another might be said of each of them
 'SHis virtues walked their narrow
 round,
 Nor made pause, nor left a void; And sure the Eternal Master found
 His single talent well employed" yet the lives and deeds of these and such as they were the very warp and wool out of which the New England that exists today, yes the United States itself, was woven. Suffice it to make particular mention of but three or four.
 William Beardsley, the first of his name in this country, came from Strat- ord-on-Avon, where his father had been a fellow townsman and contem- porary of William Shakespeare. It is said that from this circumstance Stratford, Conn.,, got its name. What is rnore he and his contemporaries founded Stratford and all that has pro- ceeded therefrom.
 Robert Walker, the ancestor like wise of Samuel Adams of Revolution ary fame, came over to Massachusetts with Winthrop the elder, and was long identified with the affairs of Boston and its First Church, until. in 1869,
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