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THE FEENCH BLOOD IN AMEEICA 



Birthplace of 

 Universalism 

 in America 



Passevant 

 Preacher 



Chauvenent 

 Mathema- 

 tician 



in America. In this edifice De Bonneville had a large 

 room fitted up as a chapel where he was wont to preach 

 the doctrine of universal redemption to his friends and 

 neighbours who gathered to hear him." De Bonneville 

 was descended from the Lords of Bonneville, whose an- 

 cestral seat was at Limoges. His grandfather was 

 Francis De Bonneville, who went to England at the invi- 

 tation of William III, and whose son married a member 

 of the famous Granville family. From this marriage 

 was born George De Bonneville in 1703. While a young 

 man De Bonneville returned to France to preach to his 

 Huguenot brethren, was captured and was on the point 

 of being beheaded when a reprieve came from the king, 

 Queen Anne of England having pleaded in his behalf. 

 After his release he preached through Germany and 

 Holland and finally emigrated to America in 1741. He 

 will always be remembered as one of the prime movers in 

 what was, perhaps, the profoundest change which took 

 place in religious conceptions dui-ing the eighteenth 

 century. 



A Pennsylvanian of Huguenot descent who will long be 

 remembered by many grateful hearts is Eeverend Will- 

 iam A. Passevant, of the Lutheran Church. The greater 

 part of his life was devoted to philanthropic enterprises. 

 He was instrumental in founding hospitals in Pittsburg, 

 Milwaukee, Chicago and Jacksonville. He helped es- 

 tablish orphanages at Eochester, Pa., and Mt. Vernon, 

 N. Y., and was the founder of Thiel College at Green- 

 ville, Pa. 



William Chauvenent, the brilliant mathematician, was 

 born in Milford in 1820. He was active with Mamy, a 

 Virginia Huguenot, in bringing about the establishment 

 of the United States Naval Academy, and was the leading 

 professor there for several years. For his patriotic 

 efforts in establishing the academy on its present admirable 

 basis, and for his many contributions to the scientific 

 literature of the day, he deserves to be remembered. 



