A Memoir of Theodore Strong, LL. D

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Excerpt from A Memoir of Theodore Strong, LL. D : Prepared at the Request of the National Academy of Science, and Read Before That Body Thursday Evening, April 17, 1879 Theodore Strong, one of the original corporate members of this Academy, was born on the 26th day of July, 1790, and died on the first day of February, 1869, in the seventy-ninth year of his age. His birth took place at South Hadley, Massachusetts, at the house of his uncle, Col. Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge, a prominent citizen of that place, who virtually adopted him as his own son. His father and grandfather both bore the name of Joseph Strong, and were Congregational ministers, descended from Elder John Strong of Northampton, whose descendants, generally worthy of their Puritan ancestry, are scattered all over the land, and often found, as they have ever been, occupying positions of trust and responsibility. One of them is at this moment an honored associate of my own on the bench of the Supreme Court, being in the same 'degree of descent as the subject of this memoir, - namely, the sixth degree from their common ancestor. From this respectable lineage Theodore Strong inherited his vigorous constitution, as well as those solid elements of character which made him as eminent in purity and honor as he became in the walks of science. His mother was Sophia Woodbridge, daughter of Rev. John Woodbridge of South Hadley, the ninth generation of a succession of ministers bearing the same name. So that, on either side, Theodore Strong came from genuine Puritan stock. 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.