History of Greenwich, (Fairfield County) Connecticut United States of America

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Frances Dana (Barker) Gage, author, was born in Marietta, Ohio, Oct. 12, 1808; daughter of Col. Joseph and Elizabeth (Dana) Barker. Her father, a native of New Hampshire, was a pioneer settler of Marietta, where she acquired her education. She was married in 1829 to James L. Gage, a lawyer practising at McConnellsville, Ohio, where she resided until 1853. She became interested in public affairs and lectured frequently on temperance, woman suffrage and antislavery. In 1853 she removed to St. Louis, Mo., where her advocacy of anti-slavery subjected her to various annoyances including the burning of her home, three times, by incendiaries. She travelled in Cuba, St. Thomas and Santo Domingo, in 1857-58, and subsequently returned to Ohio and engaged in journalism. During the civil war she rendered invaluable service as a nurse, also devoting much time to instructing the freedmen. She was superintendent of the refuge for freedmen at Paris Island, S.C., in 1863-64, and was an agent of the Sanitary commission at Memphis, Vicksburg and Natchez. A stroke of paralysis in 1867 compelled her to abandon the lecture platform. She was a frequent contributor to periodical literature under the pen-name "Aunt Fanny." She published: Poems (1872); Elsie Magoon (1873); and Steps Upward (1873). She died at Greenwich, Conn., Nov. 10, 1884.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Joel Harvey Linsley, educator, was born in Cornwall, Vt., July 16, 1790; son of Judge Joel Linsley, a native of Woodbur, Conn., who removed to Vermont in 1775. He was graduated at Middlebury college, A.B., 1811, A.M., 1814; taught school in Winsor, Vt., 1811-12; tutored at Middiebury, 1813-15; was admitted to the bar in 1815 and practised in Middlebury, Vt., 1815-21. He was a resident licentiate at Andover Theological seminary, 1821-22; a missionary in South Carolina, 1823-24; was ordained to the Congregational ministry, Feb. 25, 1824; pastor of the South church, Hartford, 1824-32; the Park Street church, Boston, 1832-35; the first president of Marietta college, Ohio; trustee and president of the beard, and professor of moral and intellectual philosophy, 1835-46, and pastor of the Second church, Greenwich, Conn., 1846-68. He raised a large endowment for Marietta, and served as agent of the Society for the Aid of Western colleges. He was a corporate member of the A.B.C.F.M., 1843-68, and a fellow of Yale, 1864-68. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from Middlebury in 1837. He is the author of Lectures to the Middle Aged. He died at Greenwich, Conn., March 22, 1868.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor