56 JUKES ED WARDS 



Rowland, Carmalt, Devereaux, Weston, Heermance, 

 Whitney, Blake, Collier, Scarborough, Yardley, 

 3ilman, Raymond, Wood, Morgan, Bacon, Ward, 

 Foote, Cornelius, Shepards, Bristed, Wickerham, 

 Doubleday, Van Volkenberg, Robbing, Tyler, Mil- 

 ler, Lyman, Pierpont, and Churchill, the author of 

 "Richard Carvel," is a recent graduate. In Am- 

 herst at one time there were of this family Presi- 

 dent Gates and Professors Mather, Tyler, and 

 Todd. Wherever found they are leaders even in 

 college faculties. Those who know what Gates, 

 Mather, Tyler, and Todd have stood for as presi- 

 dent and professors of Amherst will appreciate 

 what Jonathan Edwards' blood has done for this 

 college. 



Of the Jukes, 440 were more or less viciously 

 diseased. The Edwards family was healthy and 

 long lived. Of the eleven children of Mr. and 

 Mrs. Edwards, four lived to be more than seventy 

 years of age, seventy-three, seventy-five, seventy- 

 seven and seventy-nine, and three others were fifty, 

 fifty-six, and sixty-three. Only one died unmarried, 

 none died in childhood. The record for health and 

 longevity continues through every generation. 

 They have also done much to alleviate the sufferings 

 of mankind. There have been sixty physicians, all 

 marked men. Dr. Richard Smith Dewey was an 

 eminent surgeon in the Franco-Prussian war, having 

 charge of the Prussian hospital at Hesse Cassel. 

 Dr. Sereuo Edwards Dwight was a physician and 

 surgeon in the British regular army. The physi- 



