and in one of his New York letters he wrote, "I
always with respect remember Mr. Huntington
and shall write to him if time permits."

Admitting that Nathan Hale's father and mother
were his most important early friends, we believe
that Dr. Huntington, as pastor, tutor, and friend
during the six years before Nathan entered college,
may have stood not far behind the parents in deep
influence upon his character--that splendid character,
destined to be one of the beacon lights of
our country's history.

(2) Alice Adams

Studying the lives of the founders of our republic,
we are interested in noting the early marriages that
so often occurred, and which seem to have been
justified by the early mental maturity of the young
men and women in the eighteenth century.

With early marriage, large families were the
rule and not the exception; and eulogize the forefathers
of New England as much as one may, no one
at all familiar with the lives of the mothers of those
generations can question the share that the fore-mothers
had in broadening the lives and inspiring
the characters of the husbands and sons in that
early period. Nathan Hale showed the power
of heredity, and Alice Adams, the woman he is

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