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Stowe, Calvin Ellis

educator, clergyman, author, was born April 6, 1802, in Natick, Mass. In 1824 he graduated from Bowdoin college; and then entered educational work. In 1830 he had the editorial charge of the Boston Recorder; and during 1831-33 was in the chair of languages at Hanover. He then filled the chair of biblical literature in the Lane seminary of Cincinnati, Ohio, where he remained for seventeen years.

He was the author of an Introduction to the Study of the Bible; and has also made numerous and valuable contributions to literary and religious periodicals. His other works are, Origin and History of the Books of the Bible; Elementary Instruction in Europe; and Lectures on the Sacred Poetry of the Hebrews. He was the husband of the noted Harriet Beecher Stowe. He died Aug. 22, 1886, in Hartford, Conn.

STOWE, MRS. HARRIET ELIZABETH [BEECHER], author, poet, was born Jan. 14, 1812, in Litchfield, Conn. In 1850 she removed to Brunswick, Maine, and, having by this time become deeply impressed with the wrong of slavery, she wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin for The National Era at Washington, in which paper it appeared serially from June, 1851, till April, 1852.

The Minister's Wooing, a novel of the early days of the republic, must rank as her finest work. The quality of her other work is uneven, its highest level being represented by Oldtown Folks; The Pearl of Orr's Island; Dred; The Chimney Corner; and Religious Poems, among which is the well known hymn, Still, Still with Thee. Her lesser works comprise, My Wife and I; Sam Lawson's Fireside Stories; We and Our Neighbors; Little Foxes; The Mayflower, and Other Sketches; Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands; Our Charley; Agnes of Sorrento, an Italian novel; House and Home Papers; Stories about Our Dogs; Queer Little People; Daisy's First Winter; Men of Our Times, biographical sketches; The American Woman's Home (with Catherine Beecher); Little Pussy Willow; Pink and White Tyranny; Palmetto Leaves; Betty's Bright Idea; Footsteps of the Master; Bible Heroines; Poganuc People; and A Dog's Mission.

She died in 1896.