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Title: The life of William A. Buckingham, the war governor of Connecticut, with a review of his public acts, and especially the distinguished services he rendered his country during the war of the rebellion; with which is incorporated, a condensed account of the more important campaigns of the war, and information from private sources and family and official documents
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Buckingham, Samuel G. (Samuel Giles), 1812-1898
Subjects: Buckingham, William Alfred, 1804-1875 Connecticut -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865
Publisher: Springfield, Mass., The W. F. Adams Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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etches along a ridge fiveor six miles, witii the farms running down on each sideinto the valleys, and showing a substantial and thrifty popu-lation. The inhabitants are almost entirely of New Eng-land stock, proud of their town and of its history, and notunmindful of the number and character of the Governorsthey have furnished to the State, and their long term ofservice. This is no empty boast, for they have given theState five Governors, the three TrumbuUs, Governor Bisselland Governor Buckingham together holding that office fora third of a century. The town never had a population ofquite 4,000 ; still a century ago, when Hartford had barely6,000, and Farmington, which was larger, had only 6,000,the leading characters of the State were quite as likely tobe found in such a community as elsewhere. For suchtowns were pretty sure to have an able ministry, goodschools and good society. Dr. Solomon Williams, among the most prominent ofthe New England clergy, was pastor there for fifty-four
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WILLIAM A. HUCKINGHAM. 5 years (1722-1776). He was a graduate of Harvard College,a student as well as a pastor, accustomed to read in con-nection with his family devotions and translate from eitherthe Greek or Hebrew Scriptures, and doing much to providefor the town the means of a higher education. For a longcourse of years Lebanon was distinguished for the bestgrammar school in any country town in Connecticut—theone taught by Mr. Nathan Tisdale, a Harvard graduate.This school was established chiefly by the efforts of Dr.Williams, and the consequence was that for many yearsthe town was not only remarkable for its intelligence, butfurnished more ministers of the Gospel than perhaps anyother town of its size in the State. And not alone minis-ters were educated here, but men for every profession andpursuit in life, and this school was so extensively andfavorably known that it numbered among its pupils youthfrom almost every part of the country. Such intellectualand religious influences

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