Men of mark in Connecticut; ideals of American life told in biographies and autobiographies of eminent living Americans . E. H. Chapin, Lydia Maria Child, Ralph Waldo Emerson, andto other gifted authors and lecturers of that period. His earliest ancestor in this country was Stephen Goodyear ofLondon, England,—1638; who was one of the founders of NewHaven, Connecticut, a magistrate, commissioner for the UnitedColonies, and deputy governor of New Haven Colony. Another, JohnTaylor of England, was one of the settlers of Hartford, Connecticut,and of Hadley, Massachusetts. His sound, healthy physica
Men of mark in Connecticut; ideals of American life told in biographies and autobiographies of eminent living Americans . E. H. Chapin, Lydia Maria Child, Ralph Waldo Emerson, andto other gifted authors and lecturers of that period. His earliest ancestor in this country was Stephen Goodyear ofLondon, England,—1638; who was one of the founders of NewHaven, Connecticut, a magistrate, commissioner for the UnitedColonies, and deputy governor of New Haven Colony. Another, JohnTaylor of England, was one of the settlers of Hartford, Connecticut,and of Hadley, Massachusetts. His sound, healthy physical development is to be attributed inmany ways to his early years on the farm, with its varied demands onbody and mind and its excellent school of discipline, observation, anduseful experience. In boyhood the study of the Bible and the readingof history and biography were potent factors in strenglh^ning his firmand serious grasp of the basic principles for an honest, sturdy, andforceful life. Later, the Greek, Latin, and ln2r!i>h classics, andstandard fiction, served to mold his speech and writing into a correct.
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