TIMOTHY EDWARDS 65 



and financial agent of Andover Theological Semi- 

 nary. Her children were noted men and women, 

 graduates of Yale and Dartmouth, clergymen, theo- 

 logical professors, secretary of the American Board 

 of Foreign Missions, and secretary American Baptist 

 Missionary Union, prominent teachers and authors. 

 Rhoda Edwards, another of Timothy's daughters, 

 married Col. Josiah Dwight, of Springfield. Among 

 their fifteen children and their descendants are the 

 founder of a famous young ladies' school at Lenox ; 

 an author of " Spanish Conquest of America," and 

 five other considerable works; clerk of supreme 

 court of Massachusetts; a Boston lawyer, graduate 

 of Harvard; an eminent linguist and graduate of 

 Harvard ; music teacher in New York City, educated 

 in Germany ; St. Louis lawyer, graduate of Harvard 

 college and law school, who studied in Germany; 

 major in Civil war, wounded at Antietam; hospital 

 nurse in Civil war; graduate of Yale; graduate of 

 Cambridge, Eng., and author of "Five Years in an 

 English University;" a graduate of Amherst and 

 Andover, and missionary in Southern India; lawyer 

 in Springfield; eminent teacher at Northampton; 

 leading physician at Northampton ; leading physi- 

 cian at New Bedford; supt. Pacific Mail Steamship 

 Company ; merchant in New York ; insurance mana- 

 ger, New York; author of "Greece and Roman 

 Mythology," and five other important works; supt. 

 Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton R. R.; a New York 

 lawyer and graduate of Yale ; author of " History of 

 Virginia," and two other works; graduate Dart- 



