The memorial history of Hartford County, Connecticut, 1633-1884; . livery of thisice for the use of the city is a growing business. Tiie product of which West Hartford is most proud is her men andwomen. Not less than nineteen ministers, some of them famous men,were born in this town. Of these, Dr. Harry Croswell, the well-knownEpiscopal divine, has been mentioned. Joab Brace, , was for morethan fifty years pastor in the adjoining parish of Newington. Hisdaughter married the Rev. John Todd, long the eminent pastor of thechurch in Pittsfield, Mass. The ceremony was in the meeting-house,on Su
The memorial history of Hartford County, Connecticut, 1633-1884; . livery of thisice for the use of the city is a growing business. Tiie product of which West Hartford is most proud is her men andwomen. Not less than nineteen ministers, some of them famous men,were born in this town. Of these, Dr. Harry Croswell, the well-knownEpiscopal divine, has been mentioned. Joab Brace, , was for morethan fifty years pastor in the adjoining parish of Newington. Hisdaughter married the Rev. John Todd, long the eminent pastor of thechurch in Pittsfield, Mass. The ceremony was in the meeting-house,on Sunday, and was followed by a sermon from the father of the bride,who improved the occasion by discoursing to the happy pair fromthe text, In the resurrection they neither marry nor are given inmarriage. Many famous men in other walks of life had their beginning most eminent of these names is that of Noah Webster, knownwherever the English language is spoken. The house in which he wasborn is still standing about a mile south of the centre of the town, and. 1 |.f,f?/^f(FSP^ mimsm^::.. -m^&^^^^^^t^;!^^^ THE NOAH WEBSTER HOUSE. his parents are both buried in the old cemetery a few rods north of thechurch. He was a pupil of Dr. Perkins, and it was perhaps from himthat he imbibed those ideas which led him while a very young man topublish a pamphlet on the Effects of Slavery on ^Morals and story of Dr. Websters life is told in the memoir by his son-in-law. Dr. Goodrich, in the Unabridged Dictionary. His work is weighedmore fully in the biography lately prepared by Horace E. Scudder. William Faxon, Assistant Secretary of the Navy under PresidentLincoln, came from West Hartford stock. It was one of his ancestorswho introduced into the parish the first four wheeled-vehicle ever seenthere. He drove to church therein with his family. The people, filled 424 MEMORIAL HISTORY OF HARTFORD COUNTY. with wonder, surrounded the cart. Not a few entered the meeting-house late. T
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