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Identifier: reviewofreviewsw06newy (find matches)
Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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inability to realize her own ideal. But herdaughter, writing of her after fifty years of wide ex-perience of men and women, said: For mingledstrength and tenderness, sweetness and light, I havenever met her superior. Her supreme gift of moth-erliness reached, in her childrens estimation, theheight of actual genius. THE WILLARD FAMILY. Mrs. Willard was a native of Vermont, where shewas bom in 1805. Five years after Waterloo wasfought she began to earn her living as school-teacher near Rochester. Tliey were a long lived family. Herfather lived to l)e eighty-six, her grandmother ninety-seven ; Mrs. Willard herself lived to be eighty-s(!ven.It was a sturdy stock, with sound minds in soundbodies, with the light of humor laughing in their ey(;s,and the imperious conscience of t(ie New EnglandPuritan governing th(dr life. Mr. Willard, father ofFrances, traced his ancestry up to one Major SimonWillard, a Kentish yeoman who crossed the Atlanticin 1634. The Willards are an old English family,.
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MISS WILLARDS MOTHER. whose name occurs five times in Doomsday Book.The first American Willard was one of the famousfounders of the town of Concord, and a notable figurein early New England history. From him MissWillard comes eighth in direct line of descent.Among the famous Willards was Samuel, who op-posed the persecution of the witches, and Solomon,the Architect of Bunker Hill Monument, whose chief characteristic was that he w^anted to do every-thing for everybody for nothing. The Willardsserved in the Revolutionary War, and always borethemselves valiantly alike in council chamber and infield. Miss Willards father was born the same yearas her mother, in the same State. They married inOgden, N. Y., when they were six-and-twenty, andremained in New York until after Frances was born.They had five children. The first-born died in in-fancy ; the second was the son Oliver, afterward 430 THE REPIEIV OF REVIEWS. -editor of the Chicago Evening Post; the third was a•daughter, who died just

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