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Identifier: americanhomesgar41907newy (find matches)
Title: American homes and gardens
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture, Domestic Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York : Munn and Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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icut, of the rise of foreign missions andof much of the political history of the State in the days ofthe Revolution; the Rev. Noah Porter, D.D., whose pas-torate of the First Church of Christ continued for sixty years; who served under the personal orders of General Washing-ton and who yielded his life to the cause of independence;the Hon. Timothy Pitkin, Moderator of the General Asso-ciation, Trustee of Dartmouth College and Fellow of YaleCollege; and Deacon Edmond Hooker, who kept the OldRed College, which not only counted among its studentsyoung men of the town, but Southern young gentlemen, whocame to Farmington to be fitted for college. The largest and most prominent family, from its earliestsettlers to the present time, is the Cowles family, whose rep-resentatives have been leading figures in all of its forms ofsociety, for they have always been the wealthiest and mostinfluential people of the place. Colonel George Cowles,who subsequently became a brigadier and then a major gen-
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