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General, and fell in the battle of The Wilderness in 1864. Another
35 daughter of Samuel and Jerusha (Wolcott) Wolcott was Sophia,^ born
in 1786; who married Martin son of Chief Justice Ellsworth, her third
36 cousin. The eldest adult son of the same parents was Elihu,^ born in
1784; who married: first, in 1806, Rachel McClintock daughter of Rev.
Dr. David M'^Clure of South Windsor, and granddaughter of Rev. Dr.
Benjamin Pomeroy of Hebron, Conn.; secondly, in 1823, Juliana daughter
of Erastus Wolcott, his third cousin; and, thirdly, in 1835, Sarah C.
daughter of Dea. John Crocker of Derry, N. H.
Elihu (36) Wolcott, in his forty-sixth year, removed to Jacksonville,
111., then a settlement of pioneers of civilization, but already selected as
the seat of Illinois College; and there he lived till his death in 1858.
" Moral questions which have since convulsed the nation were then pressing
for discussion, and Mr. Wolcott occupied no doubtful position. He never
stood in fear of his fellow-men, and his sympathy with the cause of freedom
and humanity was earnest, practical and outspoken ; the oppressed and the
weak found in him a steadfast protector and benefactor." The late Rev.
Dr. Sturtevant, President of Illinois College, said of him at his funeral
" From the very infancy of this place he has had his home among us, and his
strong and peculiar character has made its impression upon this community. He
came with his interesting family. ... In all this period, approaching the lifetime
of a human generation, he has evinced a uniformity, steadiness and consistency of
character seldom surpassed. Three traits of character seem to me to have distin-
guished him : intuitive insight and discernment of principles ; the power of giving
to his convictions a concise, lucid and often irresistible expression in language ; and
an inflexible steadfastness in adhering to his convictions."
The eldest son of Elihu Wolcott, by his first wife, was our friend the
37 late Rev. Dr. Samuel^ Wolcott, the author of the memorial-volume of
which this monograph is an abstract. After many years of useful labor in the
vineyard of his Lord, not long before his death, he retired to Longmeadow,
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