New England Magazine - March 1900 - Page 102
New Ipswich Historical Society
Recap of Page 101
March 1900 - Page 102
…fatherless in infancy. As his mother was in poor circumstances she decided to apprentice the boy, when he should be old enough, to learn the shoemaker's trade; but a very different fate was awaiting him. When quite a young boy he was stricken with some hip disease and his life was despaired of for some time. One day an aged clergyman came to see the boy. During this visit the old man knelt down by the bedside and prayed fervently that the sick child might recover and become a minister of the gospel. These words were the first inspiration. to that calling which Samuel Lee followed in after years. Though lamed for life, he recovered, and the minister's prayer was granted. Samuel Lee became a pupil of "Peter Parley" and was in his youth a school teacher, receiving seven dollars a month for salary, and going about on crutches from one farmhouse to another to "board out" the rest of his stipend. He left two well-known theological works, his "Eschatology," which is a text-book in the New Haven Divinity School, and "The Bible Regained," dedicated to his "beloved and only daughter, Sarah Fiske Lee," herself a genealogist of considerable note…
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On this day - January 13, 1898
William Jurian Kaula diary - no diary entry
On this day - January 13, 1909
James Roger diary entry
13th (Wednesday)
Hard frost 1 above zero wind east bright and cool, clouding down in evening, may have snow. David painting wheels in brooder house. Daniel and him brought up the tables for Grange supper tomorrow night, then went to Greenville for some grain brought two copies of local paper “Greenville Tribune” Mr. Blanchard called today for cemetery bill.
Thanks for sending me Kim Black's excellent blog on the Rogers. I was unaware of the NIHS blogs. I thought James, Hamish, nd David were brothers. Now I understand the relationship and the reason for all the Hamish letters. Hamish was a young man reporting back to his parents his recent adventures. It is interesting that James never told us what Hamish was doing. In any case, the letters were important to James since they are mentioned so frequently.