Life and labors of Miles Grant, with New-Year glimpses from his daily journal through fifty years, 1859-1908 . s, which, fostered by scrupulouscare, was a priceless heritage in after small of stature, his agile withy framewas closely knit and hardened, throughout theyears of his minority, in the crucible of exact-ing farm labor. From these surroundings andthis training he went forth with a physicaldevelopment that carried him through around of activities far beyond the average,and justly won him the reputation of being atireless worker. His splendid physical ro-bustness that throu
Life and labors of Miles Grant, with New-Year glimpses from his daily journal through fifty years, 1859-1908 . s, which, fostered by scrupulouscare, was a priceless heritage in after small of stature, his agile withy framewas closely knit and hardened, throughout theyears of his minority, in the crucible of exact-ing farm labor. From these surroundings andthis training he went forth with a physicaldevelopment that carried him through around of activities far beyond the average,and justly won him the reputation of being atireless worker. His splendid physical ro-bustness that through decades seemed limit-less, may in part have been an inheritance,but in large measure it was a gift from thehills, rounded into hardened symmetry bylabor on the farm. But bracing as may have been the air ofold Litchfield, the intellectual atmosphereof the region was not less no section of the United States hasfurnished a larger number who have dis-tinguished themselves in business, and inliterary and professional life. This county 12 nII) O«-i (U 9rt- OJ* COl-l* a-2. on 13 a. Ww o3. CHILDHOOD—EDUCATION gave the world Henry Ward Beecher, theprince of American preachers, and his giftedsister, Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe. AndTorrington has not been behind in her con-tribution. In this town was born SamuelJ. Mills, Jr., a leader of the famous haystackprayer-meeting at Williamstown, Mass., whosework gave rise to the American Board, andwho became known as the founder of theforeign mission enterprise from this country. Here, too, was born a martyr to the cause ofslave emancipation—John Brown. Thoughhis extreme and premature action called outthe bitterest denunciation throughout theSouth, and in much of the North, and ledhim to the death of a felon, he has passedinto our history, as a devout, if over-zealous, advocate of a great and worthycause, which he was not spared to see triumph. With such a triumvirate as Beecher, Millsand Brown, and with scores of less
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