. The story of the Hall of fame, including the lives and portraits of the elect and of those who barely missed election. Also a list of America's most eligible women. O THE MEMORY OF HENRY WARDBEECHER IN THE HALL OF FAME. m HENRY WARD BEECHER was born in Litchfield,Connecticut, June 24, 1813. His father, Dr. LymanBeecher, was one of the most noted of New Eng-land clergyman of his day. Henry \Vard was the eighth ofa family of ten children, and at the time of his birth thefathers salary was only eight hundred dollars a year, sothat it was rather hard to make the ends meet. Henrysmother died when
. The story of the Hall of fame, including the lives and portraits of the elect and of those who barely missed election. Also a list of America's most eligible women. O THE MEMORY OF HENRY WARDBEECHER IN THE HALL OF FAME. m HENRY WARD BEECHER was born in Litchfield,Connecticut, June 24, 1813. His father, Dr. LymanBeecher, was one of the most noted of New Eng-land clergyman of his day. Henry \Vard was the eighth ofa family of ten children, and at the time of his birth thefathers salary was only eight hundred dollars a year, sothat it was rather hard to make the ends meet. Henrysmother died when he was three years old. Litchfield was amountain town, where winter lasted nearly six months inthe year, and where it was easy to learn lessons of self-re-liance. Henry Ward was a vigorous lad, and HarrietBeecher Stowe relates that at nine years of age, in a time ofwinter drought, he harnessed a horse to a sledge, with a bar-rel lashed thereon, and went off alone three miles over theicy top of the town hill, to dip up and bring home a barrelof water from a distant spring. So far from taking this asa hardship, he undertook it with chivalric pride. His only 279.
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