Memorial of Henry Wolcott, one of the first settlers of Windsor, Connecticut, and of some of his descendants . LIEOT. HDOTINGTON rEOTHINGHAM WDLCOTT SEVENTH GENERATION. 401 A Memorial Volume, prepared by his mother, illustrating the career ofhonor which he had completed before he reached the age of twenty, is oneof the treasures of the household. The likeness which we give is froma portrait painted by the late W. M. Hunt, who had known him longand well, and who wrote after his death: He combined the character ofthe lovely boy and noble and devoted patriot and soldier in a morestriking manner t
Memorial of Henry Wolcott, one of the first settlers of Windsor, Connecticut, and of some of his descendants . LIEOT. HDOTINGTON rEOTHINGHAM WDLCOTT SEVENTH GENERATION. 401 A Memorial Volume, prepared by his mother, illustrating the career ofhonor which he had completed before he reached the age of twenty, is oneof the treasures of the household. The likeness which we give is froma portrait painted by the late W. M. Hunt, who had known him longand well, and who wrote after his death: He combined the character ofthe lovely boy and noble and devoted patriot and soldier in a morestriking manner than any one I have ever known. Lieutenant Wolcottwas buried at Mount Auburn 402 THE WOLCOTT MEMORIAL. Mr. J. Huntington Wolcott represents the Family in the Society ofthe Cincinnati, of which his grandfather was an original member. Thisassociation was organized at the close of the War of the Revolution, andwas composed of officers in the army, with a provision for its perpetuationin the persons of their descendants and representatives. It was an expres-sion of the fellowship which the war had created, a memorial of the patriot-ism and valor which had sustained it, and was designed to guard in civilrelations the liberties which it had achieved in battle. It embodied themost patriotic traditions of the Republic, and linked its different sectionswith the memories of a common struggle and a common triumph andrenown. Many of the officers of the Revolutionary Army were men ofliberal education, familiar with ancient classic literature. The record ofCincinnatus, the hero of Republican Rome, who at the close of his emi-nent public service retired to the farm, which at
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