New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-12-05

i says in her book "Retrospection and In
trospection":
! My mother as she bathed my burning
| temples. bade me lean on Gods love, which
would give me rest if I went TO Him in
/ prayer. as I was wont to do. seeking His
| guidance. I prayed, and a soft glow OF
inefYabIe JOY came over me The fever was
I gone and 1 rose and dressed myself III d
normal condition of health. Mother saw
| tEis and was glad. The physician mar
Yelled and the horrible decree of predes-
| tination-as John Calvin rightly called his
own tenet-forever lost its power over NE y
/ When Mary was thirteen years old her
/ father gave I'D his farm IN Bow 70 his
brothers children and moved TO Tilton,
eighteen miles north OF Concord At this
| time Albert Baker was studying law in
| Franklin Pierce's law office at Hillsborough.
y. H. Samuel was contractor IN Boston.
and George had gone into the mills in San
boruton Bridge in which he afterward be
came a partner. Abigail Baker married
Alexander TiIton. her brothers partner,
soon after the family left Bow.
Mary continued in TiIton still strongly
under the influence Of the Church. Her
| father became one Of the leaders Of the
| meetings while her brother, George, led
the village choir. and Mary became warm
friend and intimate associate Of the Rev.
Enoch Corser, the pastor of the church
Argues Theology at Fifteen.
! II was through him that she finally be-
came a member Of the church and the
families of both freely admitted that they
| discussed subjects too abstract for others
10 understand Mary was not fifteen years
1 old when she was conducting these theo-
logical arguments
/ She received the final touches on her edU-
cation during the seven years that the fam
| lily lived in Tilton. being pupil at the
/ private school Of Professor Dyer II. San
born Her training at this school was
| principally in rhetoric
Mary Baker has been described al this
time as slender and graceful, with q
shower of chestnut curls delicate and re-
/ fined features and great blue eyes, that on
! occasions of unwonted interest became al
most black She wore a fashionable man
tie over her silk gown, and the bonnet Of
the period. which came round her face, re-
ueved with a delicate ruching of white
Her cIIrls escaped from the bonnet and
shaded cheeks which were so glowing they
rivalled the rose"
Mary Bakers life IN Tilton continued in
! the plane of religious enthusiasm until 1S4S,
! when she was married 70 George Washing
| ton Glover of Charleston, 5. {. Glover had
! been formerly in partnership with Samuel
Baker IN Boston in the contracting bust
ness. A few years before he had left Bos-
/ ton and gone TO Charleston, where he es-
| tabIished himself in the contracting bust
ness. He first met Mary IN 1871, when ne
went to Tilton with Samuel Baker at the
time of the death Of Albert Baker
The marriage vas al the farmhouse in
Triton and the young couple went At once
/ 70 Charleston where Glover had accuulU-
lated considerable property and a few
slaves The ownership Of slaves was for
! eign 10 the young wtfe's training, ana she
/ at once began 20 try 10 persuade her hus-
! band to free those he owned And here
she began her public writing in letters TO
the newspapers opposing the institution Of
| slavery.
Loses Her First Husband
/ Her advocacy of abolition was strong
and so outspek-u that her husband feared
pnvsical violence for her. and when. in the
/ summer following their marriage, he had 70
go 10 Wilmington 10 look after some bust
ness in connection with supplying stone
for s. cathedral in Hayh he Took his wife
with him Yellow fever was epidemic IN
Wilmington. and though Mr.. Glover tried
+ n hurry his business through and get
away he was stricken with the fever and
/ died there in q few days, Mrs Glover be-
coming q widow before she had been mar
Fied a year.
Mrs Glover remained in the South for a
month after her husbands death and IN
that time freed her slaves. She returned
10 her former home IN New Hampshire in
August and IN September gave birth TO e
son, who was named for his father. Mrs.
| Glover was too sick 10 nurse her child, ana
the baby was sent 70 friends and afterHard
passed from family TO family for several
years until he was lost 10 her entirely It
was 20 this loss OF her baby and the yearn-
| ing for him for years that was afterward
attributed much of the sickness that came
/ to her and afflicted her for many years
/ For the next FIVE years Mrs Glover
! lived in her fathers house. and with her
| sister, Mrs Tilton She was sick large
| part Of the time. but she had not yet be-
| come confirmed invalid, and for part of
the time she was a substitute instructor
! in Professor Dyer's school. and for a short
! time made ar attempt ar running herself
an infants school. She also wrote several
articles for The New Hampshire Patriot
on the slavery question IN the South, which
she considered herself peculiarly qualified
to discuss on account OF her residence in
South Carolina
Rupture Occurs in the Family.
Two years after Mrs Gover's return
home her mother died and 1t was not long
before her father married again. Mrs
Glover then Went to live with her sister.
Mrs Tilton. She lived there for three
years. 81 the time when the slavery ques-
fiea was becoming particularly acute. and
her views slavery finally brought about
q rupture between her and her sister that
caused Mrs. Glover to leave her sister
house.
Spirttualism also was agitating the land
at this time and Mrs. Glover became
deeply interested in the subject, speedily
following from Hpiritualism 10 magnetism