charities. Alexander and Charles, grandsons of
Enoch, were graduates of Harvard.

As this list of college graduates and professional
men is not extended beyond the year 1850, a little
past the limit of a century after the marriage of
Richard Hale and Elizabeth Strong, one is inclined
to wonder whether any other farmer's
family within that, or any other, period in American
history, can show a more remarkable record.

One is impressed, too, most profoundly, by the
realization that, although Elizabeth Strong Hale
died so early, as lives are now measured,--she
was only forty,--to few women in any land who
have reached the appointed limit of human life
have been given the remarkable power of leaving
to so many descendants such warmth of feeling
and such nobility of nature as passed through that
century of her descendants.

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