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bag," and had some prints made of the portrait to send to a few of Mr. Taft's more intimate friends. I have dictated this brief description of the picture, as I know from long experience how much facts regarding portraits from life are valued. I have been interested in portraits and portrait painting all my life. I have it on very high authority that Mr. Taft considered this the best of his portraits.
Mr. Cass Gilbert, a close friend of mine since 1926 until his death, designed the new Supreme Court Building in Washington for Mr. Taft, during whose chief-justiceship the building was designed and constructed. Mr. Gilbert was taken into the secret of the portrait of Chief-Justice Taft, and told me that he had designed a particular place for it in the new building, but whether or not the canvas was ever hung in that place I do not know. A Washington correspondent to whom I wrote the other day said that he had been informed that the portrait was now hanging in the Main Conference Room of the Supreme Court Building, but whether or not in the place designed for it by Mr. Gilbert I have no idea.
GEORGE DUDLEY SEYMOUR
Note: My Washington correspondent now writes that the portrait of Mr. Taft hangs "in the Main Conference Room of the court and occupies a prominent place on its own wall opposite the portrait of Chief-Justice Taney which is at the other end of the room over the fireplace." October 7, 1940.
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PLANTING THE DAVENPORT AND EATON MEMO- RIAL OAKS ON THE GREEN ON THE TWO HUNDRED SEVENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF DAVENPORT'S FIRST SERMON
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PLANTING THE DAVENPORT AND EATON MEMO- RIAL OAKS ON THE GREEN ON THE TWO HUNDRED SEVENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF DAVENPORT'S FIRST SERMON
(See Section XLV, pages 393-397)
Former President Taft, William Whitman Farnam, Esq., Presi- dent of the Park Board, the Rev. Dr. Oscar E. Maurer, Minister of Center Church, and the writer, as assembled on the Green on April 25, 1913, for the planting of the Davenport and Eaton Memorial oaks on the Two Hundred Seventy-fifth Anniversary of Davenport's first sermon in New Haven.
Colonel Samuel H. Fisher, a descendant of Davenport, and Professor Walter Ruel Cowles, a descendant of Governor Eaton, may be recorded as "among those present" that day on the Green- "in the offing," so to speak. They did not get into this picture. (See Section XLV, pp. 393-397.)
The writer also proposed to the Park Board the planting of an oak in memory of John Brockett (d. 12 March, 1689/90 ae. 79), surveyor, who laid out New Haven in 1638, but the suggestion was never acted upon. The Brocketts claim that John was nobly born (see "The Tuttle Family," 1883, p. 642) ; maybe so ; but he has a brighter claim to remembrance in being the first town-planner in America.
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SON CHARLES
FORMER PRESIDENT TAFT AND HIS
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Former President Taft (1857-1930, Yale College 1878), and his soldier son, Private Charles Phelps Taft II (1897- , Yale College 1918), A.E.F. The young man left college in his Junior year to enlist (May 3, 1917) in the United States Army, and went overseas after some preparatory training in a camp near Alex- andria, Virginia, where his father, who was then living in New Haven, visited him and where this photograph was taken. Young Taft was chosen to impersonate Hale in the "Martyrdom of Nathan Hale," written by the author, for the Yale Pageant of 1916. Charlie was big and blond, and took the part of Hale very acceptably.
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THE REVEREND DR. EZRA STILES (1727-1795) From the painting by Reuben Moulthrop, of East Haven (Courtesy of Yale University)
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THE REVEREND DR. EZRA STILES (1727-1795) Yale College 1746 President of Yale (1778-1795)
President Angell told the writer that President Hadley had told him that President Stiles, with his right hand uplifted in admoni- tory gesture, was saying, "Shut the door."
Another story anent President Stiles: One evening in the Graduates Club the late Bishop Lines told the writer that Bishop Seabury, soon after being consecrated Bishop "on the quiet" in Aberdeen, had occasion to come over to New Haven from New London. The Yale Commencement exercises, as it happened, were in progress, and one of the Bishop's admirers went to President Stiles and asked him to invite the Bishop, a Yale graduate, to sit on the platform. President Stiles replied, not too graciously, "We are all Bishops here, but if a cheer can be found for Mr. Seabury, he may hev it."
As he read the Scriptures, Stiles considered that he too was a Bishop, though not of the Apostolic succession, and it would seem that he rather resented Seabury's new honors .- G. D. S.
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THE RIGHT-REVEREND SAMUEL SEABURY (Courtesy of Yale University)
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· THE RIGHT-REVEREND SAMUEL SEABURY (1729-1796, Yale College 1748) Primus Episcopus Americanus
NEARLY A HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE YEARS LATER THE OLD TORY ENTERED THE YALE DINING HALL WITH HIS MITRE OVER HIS HEAD
(Section XLIII, pages 384-389)
From the painting in the Yale Dining Hall, copied 1907 by Mrs. Mildred Carola (Jordan) Tuttle from the original canvas painted from life in London by Duché and now owned by the Diocese of Connecticut ; in the keeping of Trinity College, Hart- ford. The mitre carved in the oak frame was copied from the Bishop's Mitre (he very rarely wore it) also in the keeping of Trinity College. Even Seabury's massive head would not fill the mitre save as worn over a wig. President Luther of Trinity College gave the copyist every facility for copying this portrait for Yale and was much interested in the prospect of having the portrait of the old Tory hung in the Yale Dining Hall with the portraits of many Yale worthies. The painting and its carved oak frame was presented to the University by the author and was hon- orably hung in the Yale Dining Hall.
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THE RIGHT REVEREND JOHN WILLIAMS (1817- 1899) FOURTH BISHOP OF CONNECTICUT
(See Section XLIII, pages 384-389)
Augustus St. Gaudens, the sculptor, posed the Bishop for a series of pho- tographs made in the forepart of 1893 by George C. Cox of New York. It was hoped, at the time, that Mr. St. Gaudens would be commissioned to do a statue of the Bishop. It was a project of the Misses Kingsbury of Water- bury, and the author once talked with Bishop Williams' successor, Bishop Brewster, about such a statue, but the project was never carried out. Bishop Brewster had hoped that such a statue might be placed in the beauti- ful Chapel at Trinity College in Hartford, but that revival of the project did not take place until after the death of Mr. St. Gaudens. What Anglican prelate, American or English, had such a grand prelatical air as Bishop Williams ?
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THE GLEBE HOUSE, WOODBURY, CONNECTICUT
(See Section XLIII, pages 384-389)
The Glebe House, Woodbury, where a small group of Episcopal clergymen met in 1783 and chose Dr. Jeremiah Leaming to go to England for Episcopal consecration, with Reverend Samuel Sea- bury as an alternate. Restored 1924-5 by a committee under the able leadership of the late Miss Annie Burr Jennings, of Fairfield, who did so much to preserve the memorials of her nation and state. The house, supposed to have been built about 1750, was occupied at the time of the historic Tory meeting by the Reverend John Marshall, then minister of the church in Woodbury.
The Mecca of the Protestant Episcopal Church in America, the Woodbury shrine is increasingly visited by the curious as well as by the faithful. Already the rooms have been furnished with many interesting relics, books, and manuscript material, reflecting the day when the house witnessed the secret meetings of a handful of Tory ministers, whose names are to this day known only in part. When the writer first visited the house, it was tenanted by a family of color.
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A SNAPSHOT OF PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AND THE AUTHOR
(See Section LII, pages 436-439)
"Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon 'em."
The subject of this conversation was not "Hale and André."
From a snapshot (of unknown origin) made at New Haven, April 15, 1915, when Mr. Roosevelt was in New Haven for the funeral of Professor Thomas R. Lounsbury.
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JOHN FERGUSON WEIR, N.A. (Section LIX, pages 469-476)
Portrait of John Ferguson Weir, N.A., first Director of the Yale School of the Fine Arts. Painted 1912 by John White Alexander, N.A., President of the National Academy of Design. Presented by friends and pupils of Professor Weir to the School on his retirement, June, 1913. Size of canvas, 44" x 54".
"I count the portrait among my 'miscellaneous works' because I originated the idea and myself secured the co-operation and services of Mr. Alexander, and put the project 'over.'" (Page 469. )
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DR. ENEAS MUNSON, SENIOR
From the portrait by J. William Jennys, in the possession of Yale University
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DR. ENEAS MUNSON, SENIOR (1734-1826) Yale College 1753 (B.A.)
Dr. Munson, Yale 1753, a great friend of Hale during his undergraduate days, was born in New Haven June 13, 1734, and died here June 16, 1826. His house stood at about the present intersection of West Chapel Street and York Street, only a short distance from the old College Yard, and Hale was a frequent visitor in it.
Dr. Munson settled in the practice of medicine in New Haven in 1760 and enjoyed a high reputation as long as he lived. He was president of the Medical Society of Connecticut and a professor in the Medical School of Yale from its organization to his death. During the Revolutionary War he was often a member of the Legislature. He was celebrated as a wit and is said to have been the only person in the community who had the temerity to talk back, so to speak, to the first President Dwight, who so far domi- nated every gathering in which he took part that he was known as "Pope Dwight." The story of Dr. Munson and his career may be found in a two-volume work, "The Munson Record" (1895).
It was no small compliment to Hale, a college boy, to be given so much attention by Dr. Munson, a man of wide interests and already an outstanding citizen of New Haven. We get an attrac- tive picture of Hale and Munson from the notes supplied by the latter's son, Dr. Munson, Junior, to the first issue of the American Historical Magazine, January 1836.
In the next issue of the same magazine is a long poem entitled "To the Memory of Capt. Nathan Hale," which contains one of our most attractive and informing pictures of Hale. The poem has been attributed to Timothy Dwight, but Professor Dexter assured me that Dwight did not write it. Dr. Munson was a classical scholar and wrote verse, and there is much in the poem pointing to Dr. Munson as its author. The writer made an extended effort some years ago to find the papers of Ebenezer Baldwin, founder and editor of the magazine, but without success. The author is satisfied that the poem was written by Dr. Munson.
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Reproduced from "The Munson Record" (1895), Vol. II, p. 1140 THE HOUSE OF DR. ENEAS MUNSON, SR.
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THE HOUSE OF DR. ENEAS MUNSON, SR. (1734-1826, Yale College 1753) (Section LV, pages 447-458)
The house of Dr. Eneas Munson, Sr. (1734-1826, Yale College 1753) stood at the intersection of York and West Chapel Streets.
Hale often "stood in this house," to use a homely old expression of which the writer is fond. Within easy walking distance of the College yard, we can imagine Hale's "frequent visits" to see Dr. Munson, probably the most original and entertaining member of the community. We know from the record left by "young Æneas" how warmly Hale was welcomed by the Munson household.
Beyond all doubt, moreover, Hale often was a caller at the Rector's house (see pp. 367-372 and plate 37) on College Street, where President Stiles lived. We are safe too, to include in "New Haven" houses familiar with Hale's footsteps, the Hillhouse Man- sion on Grove Street, later Grove Hall, now destroyed, to which, no doubt, he was often taken by his friend and classmate, James Hillhouse, destined to have a great and useful career.
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A RARE MUNSON ITEM [From the Author's Collection of Photographs]
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A RARE MUNSON ITEM (Section XLVII, pages 400-405)
The "Eagle's Wing Chair" of Dr. Eneas Munson, Sr. The two treadles, one for each foot, operate the fan. You work your feet to cool your head. Dr. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) had such a chair and probably told Dr. Munson about the "gadget," when on one of his visits to New Haven, whereupon, it is sur- mised, Munson had this chair made on the same principle. The chair, in perfect working order, is owned by one of Dr. Munson's descendants living in New Haven. In 1753, Franklin bought a bit of land on what is now the Old Yale Campus, intending to set up a printery, but the plan miscarried. An adopted son of Yale (Hon. M.A. 1753), a tablet recording Franklin's ownership of a part of its site might appropriately be placed on Lawrance Hall, now standing on the land in question. I learn from my friend, Mr. R. T. H. Halsey, that at one time Franklin intended to give his library to Yale.
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3. View of NEW HAVEN and FORT HALE.
a. West Rock. b Long Wharf. a New Haven Gymnasium . d Steam boat Office e East Rock. g Tomlinson's Grudge h Fort Hale
FORT HALE PARK
FORT HALE PARK
(Section XXXVI, pages 337-345)
New Haven and Fort Hale, from John Warner Barber's "His- tory and Antiquities of New Haven," published New Haven, 1831.
Fort Hale, the most prominent object in the above view, is situ- ated on an isolated rock, two miles from the end of Long Wharf. It is so named from Captain Nathan Hale, who sacrificed his life for his country in the Revolutionary War. (See Barber's "Con- necticut Historical Collections," 1838.)
AN OLD VIEW OF FORT HALE (Section XXXVI, pages 337-345)
In Fort Hale, New Haven had the first memorial to the patriot, who as a Yale man spent four of the happiest years of his life here. The author was the prime mover in securing Fort Nathan Hale Park from the Federal Government for the use of the City, as well as in having the statue of Hale erected on the Yale Campus. This statue is one of the chief attractions for all visitors to New Haven. Many of the Hale half-tones used in this book were prepared in the first instance for the author's "Hale and Wyllys."
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THE ABRAHAM BRADLEY HOUSE ON STATE STREET
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THE ABRAHAM BRADLEY HOUSE ON STATE STREET
Built 1808
The Abraham Bradley House on State Street, built 1808; archi- tect unknown. The author had full notes on this house and intended to write it up for this book, hoping to show that Peter Banners designed it, but he cannot find his notes and must content himself with showing just the picture of what was probably one of the finest houses ever built in New Haven. The author is not able to date the photograph or to say when the degradation of this beautiful fabric began. It used to be one of the show-places on his own list, but even then it had been shorn of much of its beauty. I recall taking to see it, among others, Mr. Cass Gilbert, Mr. Frederick Law Olmsted, Mr. Norman Morrison Isham and Mr. William Sumner Appleton, all of whom were interested in it and full of admiration for it. Mr. J. Frederick Kelly studied and measured it, as did students of architecture in the University, but by that time its glory had passed, most of its interior finish having been demolished.
The author recalls being shown, in the basement of a house on Orange Street, a fine mantel-piece retrieved from the house, but what became of it he never knew.
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THE RALPH ISAACS HOUSE ON WATER STREET
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THE RALPH ISAACS HOUSE ON WATER STREET BUILT IN 1771
Governor Baldwin knew this house well and called it the "grand- est house" in New Haven. He told me, too, that if I could find in the City Hall the old volume containing the records kept during the Revolution by the Committee of Inspection, I would discover much more about Isaacs. I found the book, but I was then much more interested in Abel Buel, the engraver, who had a romantic history too, and I do not recall that I made any particular search at that time for items about Isaacs. I wish the Historical Society might be persuaded to print this book for the benefit of local historians.
My own notes about the Isaacs House, its builder and its history, are not now available. So I venture to quote two pertinent foot- notes from my book "Hale & Wyllys." They in turn quote from the narrative of the gossipy Madam Lee (Anstis Updike), a lady of quality from Wickford, Rhode Island, who in company with her brother rode her Narragansett pacer to Hartford for the festivities attendant upon the inauguration as Governor of Samuel Hunting- ton. On their way home they stopped in New Haven. Madam Lee's famous account of her trip is printed in full in "Hale & Wyllys." I know of no narrative of a century and a half ago that is equally informing of the social life of the period.
The two footnotes follow :
Mrs. Ingersoll was a tall, handsome woman and very dressy. She was Grace, a daughter of Ralph Isaacs (1741-1799, Yale College 1761), a native of Norwalk, who settled in New Haven as early as 1763 and became a successful merchant, trading with the West Indies. His house on Water Street, built in 1771 in imitation of the house of a West Indian planter, with its private dock and formal garden, was one of the finest, as well as one of the grandest, houses ever built in New Haven, and no New Haven house was so saturated with the romantic spirit. The body of the house was forty feet square; it had a wide central hallway, with a winding staircase and mahogany balustrade, and the floors upstairs and down were of Cuban mahogany, in the Spanish fashion. Isaacs (like many merchants) was a Loyalist in sympathy.
At Church we were introduced to Colonel Ingersoll. Jonathan Ingersoll (1747-1823, Yale College 1766) was a member of this distinguished family, which for so many years gave intellectual
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and social "tone" to New Haven, and he was one of the ornaments of it, albeit he "laboured under a palsical affection" and "was quite an indifferent person in appearance," as Madam Lee says, and little seems to have escaped her sharp eyes. Mr. Dexter has a flattering account of him in Vol. III of his "Annals," pp. 187-9.
It was this Jonathan Ingersoll, as Madam Lee herself notes, who had married Grace Isaacs, daughter of Ralph Isaacs. Their daughter Grace married Pierre Grellet, Treasurer of France under Napoleon I and, as told in the reminiscences of Samuel Griswold Goodrich, (1793-1860) better known as Peter Parley, was much admired at the French Court. Governor Ingersoll once showed me her portrait by Sully, painted with her harp, now, I believe, in the collection of the Historical Society. Of Mrs. Ingersoll and her sister, Mrs. Evan Malbone, Madam Lee says: "They were the handsomest ladies that I ever saw."
Ralph Isaacs' sister Esther married Benjamin Woolsey, of the Yale class of 1744. They had two daughters, the younger of whom married President Timothy Dwight (Yale College 1769). Dwight's sister married William W. Woolsey, father of Theodore Dwight Woolsey. It thus appears that the Isaacs blood is in the families of Ingersoll, Dwight, and Woolsey. More about all of these old worthies will be found in Dexter's "Yale Biographies and Annals."
Soon after Ralph Isaacs took the oath of allegiance to the United States he sold his beautiful, albeit exotic, house in New Haven and removed to his farm on Cherry Hill, Branford, where he died. The place is now known as Sagal-Lou. Any day the passing motorist can see a herd of thoroughbreds grazing there on the green hillsides.
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COLONEL JOHN MONTRESOR (1736-1799)
[From the portrait by John Singleton Copley ] (Section XXXVII, pages 346-352)
Colonel John Montresor (1736-1799), Chief Engineer of his Brittanic Majesty's forces in America, who befriended Hale on the morning of his execution by inviting him to his tent and furnishing him with writing mate- rials. Montresor saw Hale hanged and preserved his last words, which a day or so later he communicated to Hale's friend and comrade-at-arms, Captain William Hull (1753-1825, Yale College 1772), of Derby.
A life-size enlargement of Copley's portrait of Montresor has been hung in the Dining Room of the Hale House in Coventry, along with pictures of Hull, Hempstead, Hillhouse, Bostwick, Alden, and other intimate friends of Hale. The courage and humanity of Montresor is the only thing that brightens the tragedy of that September morning.
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STATUE OF NATHAN HALE
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STATUE OF NATHAN HALE Old Yale Campus
(Section L, pages 416-433)
Nathan Hale, born at Coventry, Connecticut, June 6, 1755, "resign'd his life a sacrifice to his country's liberty at New York Sept. 22d, 1776." His last words were, "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."
The Rev. Dr. Horace Bushnell ( 1802-1876, Yale College 1827) eulogized Hale as "the mournful flower of patriotism, the young scholar of Coventry."
Gov. Richard D. Hubbard (1818-1884, Yale College 1839), in his moving address at the dedication of the Hale statue in the Capitol at Hartford in 1883, described Hale as "the Lycidas of our historic dead."
The Rev. Dr. Theodore T. Munger (1830-1910, Yale College 1851) characterized Hale as "coming nearest the full ideal of heroic patriotism to be found in American history," and as the "truest hero in Yale's lists and her most beautiful and precious gift to the Country."
The statue (an ideal conception, not a portrait) was designed for Yale University in 1898 by Bela Lyon Pratt ( 1867-1917) (a native of Connecticut), but not executed and erected until 1914. when it was placed in front of Connecticut Hall, in which Hale roomed as an undergraduate 1769-1773.
"The poetic and deeply illustrative statue of Nathan Hale on the Yale Campus is highly esteemed by a small circle particularly interested in art; but the great majority of an exceptionally enlightened community is probably still unaware that this is a work of extraordinary merit."-(Arthur Kingsley Porter ( 1883-1933, Yale College 1904) in the Yale Review, April, 1918, p. 605.)
A replica in bronze of the figure at Yale was erected in 1923 (June 22d) at Hale's birthplace in South Coventry ; it stands but a few rods from the spot where the masonry of Hale's actual birth- house lies under the sod. The main body of the present house was built in 1776 by Nathan's father, Deacon Richard Hale (1717- 1802), but the inner portion of the ell is older and formed a part of the original homestead of about 1746.
This photograph was made in Mr. Pratt's studio in Boston from the design when in the clay. The plaster model from which the two bronze figures were cast is now in the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island, to which it was presented by Mr. Pratt.
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PREACHER AND AVTITOR PROPHET OF THE FREEDOM OF FAITH
CIAM OF
THEODORE THORNION MVVNIGER DD AINO DOAIN ADECCOA
REV. DR. THEODORE THORNTON MUNGER
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REV. DR. THEODORE THORNTON MUNGER (1830-1910, Yale College 1851)
(Sections LVII and LVIII, pages 462-468)
The author is pleased to place this half-tone of the memorial tablet to Dr. Munger next to the half-tone of the statue of Hale, because in a sermon preached June 12, 1898, Dr. Munger sug- gested that such a statue be placed on the Yale Campus. Follow- ing this suggestion and at the instance of the author, Dr. Munger presented the matter to the Yale Corporation of which he was then a member, and the Corporation at once appointed a committee to secure such a statue. Dr. Munger was, of course, a member of the committee and was active in many ways in promoting its work. The author hoped that Dr. Munger might deliver an address on the dedication of the statue but, alas, he died some years before the statue was ready, and it was finally decided to omit all dedi- catory ceremony and let the figure tell its own story. That was, indeed, the wish and suggestion of the author.
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Dorable fione preferde the monumen Aal xecord. Nathan Hale Efq. a Capt in the army of the United States who was born June 6-1755 and recery d the firft honors of Yale College Sept 1773 refign d his life a facrifice to his country 's liberty at New York Sept 22- 1776 Etatis22 Mr. Richard Hale Jun- boli Feb. 200 1767 died of a confuinption in the Ifland of St. Euftatia Teb. 12- 1793 aged 37 Years they were fons of Deac Richard & Mrs Elilabeth Hale of Cov- entry Two Daughters of Mr. Richard Hale lun- and Mrs. Mary Hale one hajn'd Mary born July 6" 1787 and thed Dee 10 - 1791 the other Polly bom Jan 25- 1792 and died Oct 2- Their bodies fleep bencath 1793
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HALE CENOTAPH AT COVENTRY
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HALE CENOTAPH AT COVENTRY
(Section VI, pages 124-143)
Cenotaph at Coventry, erected about 1794, to the memory of Nathan Hale and his brother Richard. The first eight lines of the inscription constitute a rarely felicitous statement. Who could better this eulogy of a confessed spy !
The old burying ground in Coventry is now called the Nathan Hale Cemetery, and many visitors suppose that this stone marks the actual burial place of Hale, whereas no one knows to this day where he was buried more than that it was somewhere on Manhat- tan Island. This cenotaph was put up by his stricken father and to this day testifies to the old man's grief. How little he thought that his son would become, next to the flag, the symbol of patriotism.
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