FAEM ECHOES. 27 



Litchfield his home after the war, and the Tallmadge 

 House, on North street, is an object of no little interest. 



General Oliver "Wolcott, one of the signers of the Dec- 

 laration of Independence, resided in Litchfield. It was 

 in his house, also a prized relic of the past, that the 

 leaden statue of George III., destroyed in New York, and 

 sent here for that purpose, was melted into bullets. His 

 son, Governor Oliver Wolcott, Jr., was born here, as was 

 also General Ethan Allen, the hero of Ticonderoga. 



The Rev. Lyman Beecher was for sixteen years pastor 

 of " The First Ecclesiastical Society of Litchfield" (Con- 

 gregational). His six sermons on Intemperance, preached 

 here were "among the earliest and most effective means 

 of arousing the Christian world to the evils of intemper- 

 ance." It was in this church that the disturbance took 

 place, because of a proposition by some of the members 

 to heat the building with a stove. Such an innovation 

 was violently opposed by many, but a stove was finally 

 placed in the center aisle. The weather on the succeed- 

 ing Sunday being mild, no fire was made in the stove. 



I am informed by a gentleman who was present at the 

 time, though so many years ago, that some amusing 

 scenes were witnessed. Those of the congregation in 

 favor of the stove manifested their delight in various 

 ways. Some availed themselves of the opportunity to 

 warm themselves by it before going to their pews, taking 

 care so to protect their clothing that it would not be 

 burned by coming in contact with it. 



The anti-stove members were greatly disturbed. Some 

 were so overcome by the excessive heat as to resort to 



