Man 



165 



Naumann 87 



Lee, R. H 86 



Wharton 85 



Carnot, Sadi 84 



Canning, S 83 



Carnot, L. N. M 82 



Carpzov, S. B 82 



Parker, T 81 



Mann 80 



Helvetius 80 



Clinton, DeWitt 79 



Lee, R. E 78 



Darwin 78 



Gladstone 77 



Story, W. W 76 



Lincoln 76 



Arnauld 75* 



Hawthorne 75 



Huber 73 



* Estimated. 



Bach, J. C. F 87 



H.rschell, John 85* 



Carnot, CM 84 



Coligny, G. (161 5) 84 



Lessing 83 



Carnot, L. H 82 



Ad tms, John 81 



Dana, F 80 



Mendelssohn 80 



Schiller 79 



Wellington 79 



Sidney, H 78 



Erskine 78 



Livingstone, E 76 



Lowell 76 



Adams, J. Q 75 



Vernet, J. E. H 75 



Grant 74 



Cockburn 73 



By the addition of some forty or fifty 

 names of men of more or less eminence this 

 list might be continued down to a lapse of 

 58 years between the grandfather and the 

 eminent grandson, at which point it appears 

 to stop. I have never been able to find but 

 one man of considerable eminence who was 

 born less than 58 years after his paternal 

 grandfather, and that one person is Jonathan 

 Edwards. In this case we find old parentage 



