The Days of a Man [1875 



Marriage On March io, 1875, I was married at Peru, Berk- 

 s k* re County, Massachusetts, to Susan Bowen, 

 daughter of Sylvester S. Bowen of that town. Miss 

 Bowen had been at Penikese both the first and 

 second summers. A favorite pupil of Miss Shattuck, 

 she then held the position of associate in Botany at 

 Mount Holyoke Seminary, of which she was a 

 graduate. She was a woman at once gentle and 

 enthusiastic, always hopeful, and of the type for 

 which the word "beloved" is naturally employed. 

 After ten years of married life she died at Blooming- 

 ton, Indiana, November 15, 1885, leaving three 

 children Edith Monica, born in 1877; Harold 

 Bowen, born in 1882; and Thora, born in 1884, 

 who survived her mother less than two years. 



Among my new friends in Indianapolis was Dr. 

 Oscar Carlton McCuiioch, pastor of Plymouth 

 Church and a most humanly genial and broad- 

 minded man. Appreciating his fine work, religious, 

 social, political, and charitable, I became a member 

 of the Plymouth Congregation, the only religious 

 organization I ever formally joined, and in after 

 years I used occasionally to speak from that pulpit. 

 My homily on "The Disappearance of Great Men 

 from Public Life" 1 was first given there, as was 

 also my account of the Oberammergau Passion 

 Play. 



McCuiioch was making a special study of the 

 problems of hereditary poverty, and conducted a 



1 See Chapter xin, page 313. 



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