CHAPTER VI. 



HALL OF FAME MEN. 



In carrying out this inquiry into the ancestors of the Hall of 

 Fame Men, I made for each person a diagram like the following 

 one given for Beecher : 



Yale. 



D? 



f Lyman Beecher, 

 b. 1775-10-12... 



E? 

 David Beecher. 

 b 



A. C. 



Nathaniel Beecher. ..Joseph, about 1658 

 b. 1706-4-7. 



Sarah Sperry. 



3rd. wife. e. 

 Esther Lyman, 

 b. 1749-2-17 



D. 



John Lyman., 

 b. 1717-5-28. 



.Ebenezer, b. 1682. 



c. 



Roxanna Foote, 

 b. 1775-9-10 



Lawyer. 

 Eli Foote, 

 b. 1747-10-30. 



a. 



Hope Hawley. 



D. 



B? 

 Roxanna Ward, 

 b 



(Daniel Foote Nathaniel, b. 1682. 

 b. 1717-2-6. 

 Margaret Parsons. 



C? 

 fGen. Andrew Ward.. Col. Andrew, b. 1669. 



This shows that Henry Ward Beecher was born June 24, 1813, 



and was the son of Lyman Beecher, who was born October 12, 



1775, and was graduated at Yale College. We thus see that the 



father of Henry was not only given an education that developed 



his brain in youth, but that he was more than thirty-eight years of 



age when his son was born, and consequently had had a great many 



years in which to use his brain, and the opportunity to transmit the 



effects of such use, if there is such a thing as use-inheritance. The 



date of birth of Lyman's father David is not given, so we cannot 



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