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astute a thinker as her clerical spouse ; Timothy Dwight the 

 second, president of Yale University from 1886 to 1898; 

 Theodore William Dwight, founder and for thirty-three 

 years warden of Columbia Law School; Henrietta Frances, 

 wife of Eli Whitney, inventor of the cotton gin, who, burn- 

 ing the midnight oil by the side of her ingenious husband, 

 helped him to his enduring fame; Merrill Edward Gates, 

 president of Amherst College; Catherine Maria Sedgwick, 

 of graceful pen; Charles Sedgwick Minot, authority on 

 biology and embryology in the Harvard Medical School; 

 Edith Kermit Carow, wife of Theodore Roosevelt, and 

 Winston Churchill, the author of Coniston. These consti- 

 tute a glorious galaxy of America's great educators, students, 

 and moral leaders of the Republic. 



The remarkable qualities of Elizabeth Tuttle were in 

 the germ plasm of her four daughters also : Abigail Stough- 

 ton, Elizabeth Deming, Ann Richardson, and Mabel Bige- 

 low. All of these have had distinguished descendants of 

 which only a few can be mentioned here. Robert Treat 

 Paine, signer of the Declaration of Independence, was 

 descended from Abigail; the Fairbanks Brothers, manu- 

 facturers of scales and hardware at St. Johnsbury, Ver- 

 mont, and the Marchioness of Donegal were descended 

 from Elizabeth Deming; from Mabel Bigelow came Morri- 

 son Waite, chief justice of the United States, and the law 

 author, Melville M. Bigelow; from Ann Richardson pro- 

 ceeded Marvin Richardson Vincent, professor of Sacred 

 Literature at Columbia University and the Marchioness of 

 Apesteguia, of Cuba. Thus, numerous scholars, inventors, 

 and publicists trace back their origin to the germ plasm from 

 which (in part) Elizabeth Tuttle also was derived, but of 

 which, it must never be forgotten, she was not the author. 



