PREFACE. 



of medicine, and engaged himself as teacher in a school for 

 boys at Round Hill, Northampton, Mass., where Bancroft, the 

 historian, was also employed. Here he was married to Miss 

 Caroline Lee Whiting, the daughter of Gen. John Whiting, of 

 Lancaster, on Sept. 30, 1824, and Mrs. Caroline Lee Hentz 

 became afterwards well known as a poet and novelist. 



Soon after their marriage, Hentz and his wife removed to 

 Chapel Hill, N. C, where he had been offered the chair of* 

 modern languages in the State University. In 1830 he moved 

 to Covington, Ky., to take charge of a female seminary, and a 

 year or two after, to Cincinnati, where he was similarly en- 

 gaged. "A graceful allusion," writes Dr. Hentz, "is made to 

 them during this time, in Mansfield's ' Life of Daniel Drake,' 

 1855, p. 226." 



In 1834 they again removed to Florence, Ala., and there for 

 eight years conducted a flourishing school, the " Locust Hill 

 Female Academy-" In 1842 they went to Tuskaloosa, and in 

 1846 to Tuskegee, both towns in Alabama, and the following 

 year to Columbus, Georgia, all the time engaged in similar 

 teaching. 



In the latter place in 1849, Hentz' s health began to fail, his 

 whole nervous system giving away. He grew gradually more 

 and more infirm, and became a regular user of morphine, which 

 betook daily for several years before his death. He moved, 

 finally, to the residence of his son Charles in Mariana, Fla., 

 where he died November 4, 1856. 



In person, Prof. Hentz was a small, spare man, about five 

 feet and a half in height, and weighing only one hundred and 

 ten "i- mi'' hundred and fifteen pounds. Although of a genial, 

 affectionate, and generous nature, his peculiarly nervous organ- 



