| Show FAMILY DECADENCE the decadence of prominent families li in a very interesting subject forthe for the study of social octal philosophers herein here the field family perhaps the moss moat tor intellectual gifts that the country at least bt ba the present generation has baa known but with the passing away of the fawd brothers thin splendid tige is r now doomed to pass pasa also alio david dudley field fielda a most talented moo died in early manhood one of cyrus W Fiel fielda dAs sons BOOB recently passed away atter after an unsuccessful creer and the ibe other one can hereafter live jive only as aa a tolerated outlaw justice field has no heirs who can maintain mainwal a the family name nor has baa dr henry M field the rho late moses mosea taylor who in some res reBBe oto was wai our greatest grea ADAD financier cler has baa almost passed out of the memory of this community excepting persapa per bapa in baiD banking klug circles his hie grandson oar car ries on the great banking hourie with wilb which he was waa identified safely conservatively ively but without spy any of these babes of genius like suggestion such as ae that one by which taylor was enabled to stay the hand band of panic by bv creating the clearing house bouse certificates certificate the grandson does not even bear mr Tay taylora lovs name dame for he to is the son of a daughter of mr taylor who married taylors Tay lorB junior partner mr tyne the great lawyers of a generation ago have I 1 thins without a single exception left no sons to maintain maln talu their heir repute tradition alone has done that those legal giants giant giantsos of the hoffmans are extinct james T brady was a bachelor charles 0 onor left no children governor tilden s heirs beira were his nephews and nieces and they tore up his will with the exception of hamilton flab fish not one of the greater politicians of this state had bad sons who suggested the intellectual powers power of the father wright maroy marcy yao van buren morgan fenton are names known now only by trad tradition loon general J jamea simes WO alwon on webb wish the only one of our e obbra defors who created a family distin for intellectual bower the adams family the sherman and the wolcott families miliea fa are the only ones which have maintained from revolutionary days the intellectual pre emi nonce nence of the fo founders the adams adam family is the most conspicuous since the gifts which made two of its members presidents one a most successful diplomat in a most moat trying time and three none of the fourth generation charles francis henry and john quincey have bave allieen all been tor commanding intellectual gifts roger probably bequeathed a heritage of intellect that has been more influential and long continued than the he record of any other american family shoop tut but as the strain runs almost wholly through the female side of the family the name itself is not so prominent anent senator seerman and his bis brot brother ber the general were collaterally connected wm M evarts evarta and george F hoar who are grand grandsons som and chauncey M depew who to Is a collateral descendant sherman s father being his him ancestor governor boldwin of connecticut and his son the be present j justice antice of the supreme preme ou court ol et that state were direct descendants of roger Bb erman but upon the maternal sometimes the intellectual heritage has skipped for a generation or two as in the case of the Wol Wolo cotta otte one or of whom is now united states senator from colorado and another lieutenant governor of massachusetts chu sette connected with this family aud sud illustrating the literary capacity that has always been in it is bret barte although his bis relation is through the griswaldo walde who married and inter married with the Wolo otla otte there were three generations of Wol cotts cotte who were gover governors norm of cori first having balink also been a member of ing tons cabinet there were three generations of also governors of connecticut and the sons and daughters of the griswaldo and wol cotte were given and taken in marriage so BO that those of the third generation on either side had both maternal and paternal ancestors who were governors of that state the power of the Vander bilts to maintain their family influence and prestige in the commercial world rests upon a life that of the young man luan who is to be graduated from yale next june |
