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of the iron industries of north Alabama; 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, burning the 

 midnight oil by the side of her ingenious husband, helped 

 him to his enduring fame; Merrill Edwards Gates, president 

 of Amherst College; Catherine Maria Sedgwick of graceful 

 pen; Charles Sedgwick Minot, authority on biology and em- 

 bryology in the Harvard Medical School, and Winston 

 Churchill, the author of ConistonJ' ^ These constitute a 

 glorious galaxy of America's great educators, students and 

 moral leaders of the Republic, 



Two other of the descendants of Elizabeth Tuttle through 

 her son Timothy, have been purposely omitted from the fore- 

 going catalogue since they belong in a class by themselves, 

 because they inherited also the defects of Ehzabeth's char- 

 acter. These two were Pierrepont Edwards, who is said to 

 have been a tall, brilliant, acute jurist, eccentric and licen- 

 tious; and Aaron Burr, Vice-President of the United States, 

 in whom flowered the good and the evil of Elizabeth Tuttle's 

 blood. Here the lack of control of the sex-impulse in the 

 germ plasm of this wonderful woman has reappeared with 

 imagination and other talents in certain of her descendants. 



The remarkable qualities of Elizabeth Tuttle were in the 

 germ plasm of her four daughters also: Abigail Stoughton, 

 Elizabeth Deming, Ann Richardson and Mabel Bigelow. 

 All of these have had distinguished descendants of whom 

 only a few can be mentioned here. Robert Treat Paine, 

 signer of the Declaration of Independence, descended from 

 Abigail, the Fairbanks' Brothers, manufacturers of scales 

 and hardware at St. Johnsbury, Vt., and the Marchioness of 



^ From a manuscript furnislied by a reliable genealogist. The statements 

 have not all been checked. 



