A Memoir Of The Life Of Samuel Austin Hitchcock Of Brimfield Mass

Author : Charles McEwen Hyde
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ISBN 13 : 9781330667606
Total Pages : 28 pages
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Download or read book A Memoir of the Life of Samuel Austin Hitchcock, of Brimfield, Mass (Classic Reprint) written by Charles McEwen Hyde and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-04 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Memoir of the Life of Samuel Austin Hitchcock, of Brimfield, Mass In these days of general social extravagance in living and of reckless expenditure of money for private and public uses, it is well to notice such honorable exceptions to the prevailing spirit and habits of the times as may serve to check these characteristic tendencies, recalling us to higher ideals of life, and to a juster appreciation of its true significance and worth. The record of such a life as that of Samuel Austin Hitchcock is here presented to the readers of the Congregational Quarterly, not because of its approximation to the highest ideal, so much as because of its contrast to present prevailing notions and usages. His is not a name, indeed, that will be associated with the great intellects or the heroic spirits that have, through their connection with the institutions of New England, exerted a world-wide influence on the thoughts and actions of men; but the organizations which his munificence has originated or fostered will bear the impress of his spirit, and perpetuate his influence far onward into the future. Samuel Austin Hitchcock was born in Brimfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts, January 9, 1794. His father, Gad Hitchcock, was a native of Union, a town in Connecticut adjoining Brimfield, and in early life served the usual apprenticeship in the tailor's trade with Mr. Gates, a clothier, of East Brimfield; but for many years he was a hatter by trade. The two occupations named were in those days more intimately connected even than in the ready-made clothing-stores of our modern New England villages. As these trades of the olden times failed to give him the means of livelihood, he evinced the universal adaptability of the self-reliant sons of New England, in his readiness to do any work that offered itself day by day. He was fortunate in his choice of a wife, Keziah Bates, daughter of Lieut. Samuel Bates, of East Brimfield. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.