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Excerpt from Frederick Henry Hedge, Seventh Minister of the First Parish in Brookline, 1856-1872: A Sermon, Preached in the First Parish Meeting House, December 10, 1905 Frederic Henry Hedge was born of scholarly stock. His great-grandfather on his mother's side was Edward Holyoke, President of Harvard College from 1737 to 1769. His grandfather was Lemuel Hedge, minister of the town of Warwick, Mass, and a man of mark in his day. His father, Levi Hedge, was Professor of logic and philosophy at Harvard from 1810 to 1827. It will be clear where Frederic got a certain resolute tenacity of purpose if it is added that his father could not go to college for lack of funds to send more than one of the six brothers and was apprenticed to a blacksmith, 'but made his own way at last to Harvard and was graduated in 1792. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.