. Appleton's cyclopaedia of American biography . t the same time an official appointmentfrom the state legislature to visit as agent the pub-lic schools of Europe, particularly those of his return he published his Report on Ele-mentary Education in Europe. In 1850 accepted a professorship in Bowdoin, andin 1852 he was appointed to fill the chair of sacredliterature at Andover seminary. In 1853 and 1856he visited Europe with Mrs. Stowe. In 1864,owing to failing health and increasing infirmities,he resigned his professorship and removed toHartford, Conn. Besides the works m
. Appleton's cyclopaedia of American biography . t the same time an official appointmentfrom the state legislature to visit as agent the pub-lic schools of Europe, particularly those of his return he published his Report on Ele-mentary Education in Europe. In 1850 accepted a professorship in Bowdoin, andin 1852 he was appointed to fill the chair of sacredliterature at Andover seminary. In 1853 and 1856he visited Europe with Mrs. Stowe. In 1864,owing to failing health and increasing infirmities,he resigned his professorship and removed toHartford, Conn. Besides the works mentionedabove, he published Introduction to the Criticismand Interpretation of the Bible (Cincinnati, 1835); The Religious Element in Education, a lecture(1844); The Right Interpretation of the Sm-ivdScriptures, inaugural address (Andover, 1853);and Origin and History of the Books of the Bible,both Canonical and Apocryphal (Hartford, 1867).—His wife, Harriot Elizabeth Beecher, b. inLitchfield, Conn., 14 June, 1812; d. in Hartford. 1 714 STOWE. July. 1S96. She was the third daughter of >r. Beecher. When she was a mere childMrs. Beecher died, yet she never ceased to influ-ence the lives of her children. Mrs. Stowe \v n ite:Although my mothers bodily presence disap-peared from our circle, I think that her memorymid example had more influence in moulding herfamily than the living presence of many her death, Mrs. Stowe was placed under thecare of her grandmother at Guilford, Conn. Hereshe listened, with untiring interest, to the balladsof Sir Walter Scott and the poems of Robert Arabian Nights, also, was to her a dreamof delight—an enchanted palace, through whichher imagination ran wild. After her fathers sec-ond marriage, her education was continued at theLitchfield academy under the charge of SarahIien-e and John Brace. Of Mr. Brace and his methods of instruc-tion Mrs. Stoweever spoke withthe greatest enthu-siasm. Mr. Braceexceeded all
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