DISTINGUISHED NANTUCKETERS. Ill 



(Barnard) Coffin. Mrs. Hanaford' s father and mother 

 were direct descendants of Tristram Coffin and Peter 

 Folger. She received her education in the public 

 and private schools of Nantucket, studying the higher 

 branches with an Episcopalian clergyman. Mrs. liana- 

 ford was married at the age of twenty, and has a son 

 and daughter living, the son (Howard A.) being a Con- 

 gregation alist clergyman. In 1868 she was ordained 

 pastor of the Universalist Church in Hingham, Mass. ; 

 in 1870 she was installed in New Haven, Ct. ; in 1874 

 she removed to Jersey City, since which time she has 

 been the pastor of the Church of the Good Shepherd 

 on the Heights. Mrs. Hanaford is a pleasing speaker; 

 and that she wields a facile pen is evidenced by the 

 fact that she has written so many good books in prose 

 and verse, some of them reaching a sale of 20,000 

 copies. Her " Women of the Century," and lives of 

 George Peabody and Abraham Lincoln, are well known. 



In a recent letter to the Boston Traveller, Wm. M. 

 F. Round, the genial author of " Rosecroft," after 

 paying a visit to Mrs. Hanaford at her home in Jersey 

 City, says of her: — 



" Mrs. Hanaford has a good many friends in Massa- 

 chusetts, — indeed, she has friends everywhere, — and 

 a chat about her home will be interesting. Nobody 

 will be surprised if I say that this estimable lady lives 

 on the Heights. Those who have read her poems and 

 her books, and followed the vicissitudes of her event- 

 ful life, know that she lives * on the heights ' in a 

 double sense, for her home is in the highest part of 

 Jersy City. Here, near to the little Universalist 

 church over which she faithfully presides, is a modest 



