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Dwight, president of Yale ; Sereno Edwards Dwight, president of 

 Hamilton College; Theodore Dwight Woolsey, for twenty-five 

 years president of Yale College ; Sarah, wife of Tapping Reeve, 



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This record shows the inheritance of artistic ability (black circles arid squares). 

 (After Davenport.) 



founder of Litchfield Law School, herself no mean lawyer ; Daniel 

 Tyler, a general in the Civil War and founder of the iron indus 

 tries of North Alabama ; Timothy Dwight, second, president of 

 Yale University from 1886 to 1898 ; Theodore William Dwight, 

 founder and for thirty-three years warden of Columbia Law 

 School ; Henrietta Frances, wife of Eli Whitney, inventor of the 

 cotton gin, who, burning the midnight oil by the side of her ingen 

 ious husband, helped him to his enduring fame ; Merrill Edwards 

 Gates, president of Amherst College; Catherine Maria Sedg- 

 wick of graceful pen; Charles Sedgwick Minot, authority on 

 biology and embryology in the Harvard Medical School ; Edith 

 Kermit Carow, wife of Theodore Roosevelt ; and Winston Churchill, 

 the author of Coniston and other well-known novels." 



Of the daughters of Elizabeth Tuttle distinguished descendants 

 also came. Robert Treat Paine, signer of the Declaration of 

 Independence; Chief Justice of the United States Morrison R. 

 Waite ; Ulysses S. Grant and Grover Cleveland, presidents of the 

 United States. These and many other prominent men and women 

 can trace the characters which enabled them to occupy the posi 

 tions of culture and learning they held back to Elizabeth Tuttle. 



Euthenics. Euthenics, the betterment of the environment, 

 is another important factor in the production of a stronger race. 

 The strongest physical characteristics may be ruined if the sur 

 roundings are unwholesome and unsanitary. The slums of a city 



