. History of Cheshire and Sullivan counties, New Hampshire. old school. Josiah Griswold Graves, , was bornJuly 13, 1811, in Walpole, N. H., one of theloveliest villages of the beautiful ConnecticutValley. His father was a well-to-do farmer,and his mother a woman of superior mind andexcellent judgment, who looked well to theways of her household, as did the notablewomen of that period. Ralph Waldo Emer-son affirmed that man is what the mother makeshim. Much of truth as there undoubtedly is inthat assertion, it does not tell the whole generations, as well as the beloved mother,hav
. History of Cheshire and Sullivan counties, New Hampshire. old school. Josiah Griswold Graves, , was bornJuly 13, 1811, in Walpole, N. H., one of theloveliest villages of the beautiful ConnecticutValley. His father was a well-to-do farmer,and his mother a woman of superior mind andexcellent judgment, who looked well to theways of her household, as did the notablewomen of that period. Ralph Waldo Emer-son affirmed that man is what the mother makeshim. Much of truth as there undoubtedly is inthat assertion, it does not tell the whole generations, as well as the beloved mother,have contributed to the building of the peculiarities, physical aptitudes andmental tendencies have been transmitted by theancestors, and in the case of this mother andson, who shall say that the mothers nature,intensified by the inheritance of powers fromprogenitors strong physically and mentally, didnot so influence the son as to make his successfulcareer certain from the start, forcing him fromthe uncongenial vocation of a tiller of the soil. -,.
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