EDUCATOR 89 



It is not a little singular that after all the contempt 

 with which the ladies of the Crescent City treated him in 

 '63, he should have won the hand and the heart of Helen E., 

 daughter of John Stanton, of New Orleans. They were 

 married December 10, 1873. This event was quickly fol- 

 lowed by the establishment of a home. He was very happy 

 in his home, which stood on rising ground overlooking 

 the valley of the Connecticut. The outlook was delightful. 

 The varied scenes of meadows and fields, of hills and the 

 mountains beyond, had a restful influence upon his spirits. 

 He had a sensitive ear for the sounds of Nature. He loved 

 to listen to the gossiping of the wind with the leaves on the 

 trees about his house, and he took great pleasure in the 

 roar of the advancing storm, as it came up from the west, 

 or down from the north. He would call attention to those 

 moments of quiet, when Nature seemed to be listening, and 

 he enjoyed the solemn stillness. Indeed, he had an eye to 

 see, an ear to hear and a spirit to feel, "what he could n't 

 near express but could not all conceal." "It is a delightful 

 rest," he used to say, "to look on that landscape." The spot 

 he chose for his home illustrates one side of his character. 



Their two children, both boys, were a great delight to 

 him, and he always attributed their good conduct to the 

 influence of their mother, who, he said, understood the art 

 of inculcating good principles without making them dis- 

 agreeable by tedious lectures ; but he would add with a smile, 

 that he was sometimes afraid that the boys were not al- 

 ways getting "the sincere milk of the Word." He lived to 

 see one of them started in the world. Here is the introduc- 

 tion his father gave him as he went out to try his hand in the 

 affairs of real life. It was written to a college classmate, a 



