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ians of the family have had important connection 

 with insane asylums and hospitals. The legis- 

 lative action of New York, by which the first insane 

 asylum of the state was built, was largely the 

 result of a physician of this family. The medical 

 superintendent of the Illinois state insane asylum 

 was another of the family. Eminent names in the 

 medical annals of San Francisco, Chicago, Detroit, 

 New York, Boston, and other cities can be traced 

 to Jonathan Edwards. 



The Jukes neglected all religious privileges, 

 defied and antagonized the church and all that it 

 stands for, while the Edwards family has more 

 than a 100 clergymen, missionaries, and theologi- 

 cal professors, many of the most eminent in the 

 country's history. America has had no more 

 brilliant preachers and theologians than some of 

 those that bear the names of Edwards, Dwight, 

 Woolsey, Park, Ingersoll. There have been no 

 more noted missionaries than this family has sent 

 for faithful and successful work in Asia Minor, 

 India, Africa, China, Hawaii, and the South Sea 

 islands. Dwight's famous five volumes on theology 

 are a product of a worthy descendant of Jonathan 

 Edwards. Edwards A. Park, the longtime head 

 of Andover theological seminary, whose vigor of 

 thought, keenness of logic, and pulpit power are 

 unsurpassed, was a descendant of Mr. Edwards. 

 The family has furnished several army chaplains 

 and one eminent chaplain of the United States 

 senate. They have made many churches prominent 



