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graduates, three of them of Yale and one each of 

 Harvard and Princeton. A man might well be 

 content to die without lands or gold when eight 

 sons and sons-in-laws were to be men of such 

 capacity, character, and training as are found in 

 this family. 



They were not merely college graduates, but 

 they were eminent men. One held the position of 

 president of Princeton and one of Union College, 

 four were judges, two were members of the Conti- 

 nental Congress, one was a member of the gover- 

 nor's council in Massachusetts, one was a member 

 of the Massachusetts war commission in the Revo- 

 lutionary war, one was a state senator, one was 

 president of the Connecticut house of representa- 

 tives, three were officers in the Revolutionary war, 

 one was a member of the famous constitutional con- 

 vention out of which the United States was born, 

 one was an eminent divine and pastor of the his- 

 toric North church of New Haven, and one was 

 the first grand master of the Grand Lodge of 

 Masons in Connecticut. This by no means exhausts 

 the useful and honorable official positions occupied 

 by the eight sons and sons-in-law of Jonathan 

 Edwards, and it makes no account of their writings, 

 of noted trials that they conducted, but it gives 

 some hint of the pace which Mr. Edwards' children 

 set for the succeeding generations. It should be 

 said that the daughters were every way worthy 

 of distinguished husbands, and it ought also to 

 be said that the wives of the sons were worthy 



