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strong will, extreme intellectual vigor. On November 

 19, 1667, she married Richard Edwards of Hartford, Con- 

 necticut, a lawyer of high repute and great erudition. Like 

 his wife he was very tall, and as they both walked the 

 Hartford streets their appearance invited the eyes and 

 admiration of all," In 1691, Mr. Edwards was divorced 

 from his wife. After his divorce Mr. Edwards remarried 

 and had five sons and a daughter by Mary Talcott, a medi- 

 ocre woman, average in talent and character and ordinary 

 in appearance. None of Mary Talcott's progeny rose 

 above mediocrity and the descendants gained no abiding 

 reputation. 



Of Elizabeth Tuttle and Richard Edwards the only son 

 was Timothy Edwards, who graduated from Harvard College 

 in 1 69 1, gaining simultaneously and highly exceptionally 

 the two degrees of Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts. 

 He was pastor of the church in East Windsor, Connecticut, 

 for fifty-nine years. Of his eleven children the only son 

 was Jonathan Edwards, one of the world's great intellects, 

 pre-eminent as a divine and theologian, president of Prince- 

 ton College. Of the descendants of Jonathan Edwards 

 much has been written; a brief catalogue must suffice: 

 Jonathan Edwards, Jr., president of Union College; 

 Timothy Dwight, president of Yale; Sereno Edwards 

 Dwight, president of Hamilton College; Theodore Dwight 

 Woolsey, for twenty-five years president of Yale College; 

 Jared Sparks, president of Harvard College, 1849-53; 

 Sarah, wife of Tapping Reeve, founder of Litchfield Law 

 School, herself no mean lawyer; Daniel Tyler, a general of 

 the Civil War and founder of the iron industries of northern 

 Alabama; Ann Maria, wife of Edwards Amasa Park, 

 president of Andover Theological Seminary, herself as 



