. Portrait gallery of eminent men and women of Europe and America. With biographies. ike Avhilethe iron was hot, and he hit the nailon the head. He married a Sperry,the granddaughter of a full-bloodedWelchman. Their son, David, wasshort, like his mother, and could lift abarrel of cider and carry it into thecellar. He was a blacksmith, andworked on the same anvil his fatherhad before him. Besides coniing upto the staudard of physical strength inthe family, in the handling of the ci-der barrel, he was fond of reading, andan adept in politics, a man of humorand humors, the latter somewhatencourag
. Portrait gallery of eminent men and women of Europe and America. With biographies. ike Avhilethe iron was hot, and he hit the nailon the head. He married a Sperry,the granddaughter of a full-bloodedWelchman. Their son, David, wasshort, like his mother, and could lift abarrel of cider and carry it into thecellar. He was a blacksmith, andworked on the same anvil his fatherhad before him. Besides coniing upto the staudard of physical strength inthe family, in the handling of the ci-der barrel, he was fond of reading, andan adept in politics, a man of humorand humors, the latter somewhatencouraged by dyspepsia, which he in-curred from keeping boarders, and pro-viding a better taljle than that of hisneighbors, for the representatives tothe legislature, who lodged with was five times married, his third andbest-loved wife, Esther Lyman, ofScottish descent, giving birth, in 1775,to the late Dr. Lyman Beecher, one ofthe paternal family of twelve cliildren,all l)ut four of whom died in a seven months child, the off-spring of a cousumjjtive mother, who I. ^f^^r?) ^f^.^^. HAERIET BEECIIEE STOWE. 435 died only two months after he wasborn, there was something of the ironof the old race of blacksmiths in hiscomposition, to j)ioserve tlie punyinfant for the good liurd work he wasdestined cheerfully to undertake inthe world. Educated at Yale College,nnder the presidency of the venerableTheodore Dwight, he rendered emi--nent service as a clergyman in his longpastorate at East Hampton, LongIsland, and other parochial charges;in the Presidency of the Lane Theo-logical Seminary at Cincinnati, and invarious other relations, up to the timeof his death, in Brooklyn, New York,in 1863, in his eighty-eighth year. Dr. Lyman Beecher Avas married in1799, shortly after leaving college, toRoxana Foote, an estimal:)le lady, thedescendant of Andrew Ward, a fellowemigrant with Hannah Beecher, underDavenport. The Waixl family wasrepresented in the military service ofthe old Fr
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