Hereditary descent : its laws and facts applied to human improvement / by O.S. Fowler.

  • Fowler, O. S. (Orson Squire), 1809-1887.
Date:
1848
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    Franklin's sister, whose mother was of course a Folger. At New London, Ct., in 1837, the author saw a grand-daughter of Franklin, whose likeness and configuration of body were closely analogous to those of her philosophical grandfather. The maiden name of Lucretia Mott, so widely known as the Quaker preacher, was Folger, and she is from the same Folger stock from whom Franklin undoubtedly inherited his physical and mental peculiarities. Her forehead, like his, and like those of John Tappan, and Walter and George Folger, is high, broad, bold, projecting, expansive, and indented in the middle, and her face, like theirs, has that same square-cor- nered aspect which all Franklin's front likenesses show him to have possessed. THE WOODBURY STATURE. Levi Woodbury, ex-Secretary and Senator, has a peculiar form both of body and face, large, round-favored, fleshy, and especially developed at the abdomen. In 1843 a professional applicant for the author's services gave her name as Wood- bury. Her likeness and personal appearance bore so close resemblance to this distinguished statesman—she being large, portly, fleshy, and similarly formed—that I.inquired whether she was related to Levi Woodbury, and was answered that she was his cousin ; that she resembled her father, Levi's brother, that Levi resembled his, and of course her, grandfather, and that the Woodburys were generally known by their family resemblance to each other and to their ancestors—two brothers who settled in Beverly, Mass., seven generations back. THE WEBSTER STATURE AND LIKENESS In 1840, a customer entered my office whom I supposed to be, and called Webster, supposing him to be Daniel. He was the sixteenth cousin of Daniel already cited. He had the same general structure and configuration peculiar to Daniel, the same carriage, about the same slowness but power of motion, the same height and weight, color and coarseness of hair, form and color of eyes, and extraordinary vital and mus- cular apparatus, and the same form and expression of counte- nance.