Many Influential People are Sons of Ministers

1912

NOTED SONS OF MINISTERS

On Every Line They Have Been Widely Known in Public Life in America.

It is probable that ministers' sons have exerted more influence in the United States than in any other country. Among teachers, lawyers, doctors, scientists, men of business and in the church there are a great host who have been the sons of ministers.

Of the more notable men in our history who were sons of ministers we find in political life Cleveland, Clay, Buchanan, Arthur, Quay, Morton, Beveridge, Hughes and Dolliver; among jurists, Field and Brewer; among educators, Woodrow Wilson, Faunce, James, Carroll, Lunsbury; in history and literature, Sloan, Parkman, Bancroft, Holmes, Emerson, Henry James, Lowell, Gilder, Van Dyke; in invention and science, Cyrus W. Field, Samuel F. Morse and Agassiz; in the church, Beecher, Alexander, Hodge, Abbott, Potter, Jonathan Edwards; in philosophy, James.

In the Hall of Fame 51 famous Americans are honored. Of these 51 ten are the children of ministers: Agassiz, Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry Clay, Jonathan Edwards, Emerson, Lowell, Morse, Bancroft and Holmes.—Popular Science Monthly.

—The Daily Commonwealth, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, December 17, 1912, page 2.