History of Concord, New Hampshire, from the original grant in seventeen hundred and twenty-five to the opening of the twentieth century; . s stepson, Paul Rolfe,and his infant daughter, Sarah, subsequently known in this countryand in Europe as the Countess of Rumford. Abroad he rose, with a rapidity rarely equaled, to the companion-ship of savants and an association with kings. In 1784 he wasknighted in England, becoming Sir Benjamin Thompson. Havingsubsequently entered the service of Charles Theodore, the Elector ofBavaria, he was made a Count of the Holy Roman Empire in 1791,with the titular
History of Concord, New Hampshire, from the original grant in seventeen hundred and twenty-five to the opening of the twentieth century; . s stepson, Paul Rolfe,and his infant daughter, Sarah, subsequently known in this countryand in Europe as the Countess of Rumford. Abroad he rose, with a rapidity rarely equaled, to the companion-ship of savants and an association with kings. In 1784 he wasknighted in England, becoming Sir Benjamin Thompson. Havingsubsequently entered the service of Charles Theodore, the Elector ofBavaria, he was made a Count of the Holy Roman Empire in 1791,with the titular designation of Rumford, since which time he haseverywhere been known as Count Rumford. But it is unimportantto the present purpose to trace further his well-known history. These incidents account for the double name of Rolfe and Rum-ford given by its founder, the late Countess of Rumford, to thisinstitution. The germinal idea of it may, doubtless, be found in acircumstance which occurred about one hundred years ago at Munich,in Bavaria, where Count Rumford, then in the service of the reign-ing Elector, was living with his Benjamin Rolfe and Countess Rumford House. THE ROLFE AND ROMFORD ASYLUM. 1085 One of the most important enterprises which the Count had origi-nated and carried to full success in that city was the establishmentof an institution known as the House of Industry. Through itsefforts large numbers of idle beggars had been converted to indus-trious and self-supporting citizens. It became very popular, andexcited much interest in all Europe. To pay her respects to her father on his forty-fourth birthday, theCountess called upon him on the 26th of March, 1797, accompaniedby a dozen boys and girls from this House of Industry. An accountof this call and its sequences may be gained from the following ex-tracts of a correspondence resulting therefrom, to be found in full inDr. George E. Elliss Life of Count Rumford. : In a letter dated Munich, December 17, 1797
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