CHAPTER IX 



TIMOTHY EDWARDS 



To make more clear, if possible, the persistence 

 of intellectual activity and moral virtue, let us study 

 samples of the family, Take for instance the eld- 

 est son, Timothy. He was a member of and leader 

 in the famous Massachusetts council of war in the 

 Revolution, a colonel in the militia, and a judge. 

 His descendants have been leaders in Binghamton, 

 Pittsburg, Indianapolis, Bangor, St. Louis, North- 

 ampton, New Bedford, San Francisco, New York 

 New Haven, and many other cities and towns in 

 New England, New York, Pennsylvania, West Vir- 

 ginia, and Ohio. From his descendants a Con- 

 necticut town, Chaplin, is named; Newark, Ohio, 

 had a long-time principal, Jonathan E. Chaplin ; 

 Andover Theological Seminary had one of its most 

 famous treasurers, Samuel Farrar ; the American 

 board of missions had one of its grandest leaders 

 and secretaries. Dr. Elias Cornelius ; the American 

 Baptist Missionary Union had one of its eminent 

 secretaries. Dr. Solomon Peck ; the American Mis- 

 sionary Association had as its great treasurer, W. 

 E. Whiting ; the famous young ladies' seminary of 

 Lenox, Mass., had for thirty years its great prin- 



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