Mrs. HARRIET SMITH SANFORD, wife of Rev. Wm. H. Sanford. Daughter of Rev. Ethan Smith.

Mrs. Sanford has given us the following account of her father and herself:

"DEAR MADAM:—According to your request, I enclose a photograph of my father and also of myself, the last one I had taken except in groups. I was born in Hopkinton, N. H., September 12th, 1807; and was married in 1830, to Rev. Wm. H. Sanford, by whom I had five sons and one daughter.

With regard to my father. Rev Ethan Smith, he enlisted in the Revolutionary Army when he was about eighteen years of age and served about six months. He was then so young that I do not recollect hearing him allude to his army life except being at West Point when the army was betrayed by Arnold. He graduated at Dartmouth College and entered the Congregational ministry at Haverhill, N. H. He died at my house in Boylston, in the eighty-seventh year of his age and the sixtieth of his ministry. He was well-known as a theological writer. His 'Smith on the Prophecies' had an extensive circulation and was very popular, as was his 'Key to the Revelation.' His 'Views of the Trinity' was used for sometime as a text book at Andover Seminary. I have written these items not knowing whether you will care for them or not, but thinking you can do what you please with them. I feel a deep interest that the memory of our Revolutionary ancestors should be preserved and honored as far as possible, and sincerely hope that you may be successful in your undertaking."

Mrs. Sanford's grandfather, the Rev. David Sanford of Medway, Mass., also served four years as a Chaplain in the army, having resigned his pastorate for that purpose. After leaving the army, he returned to his parish and continued the honored and beloved pastor there during the remainder of his long-life.