Harriet L. Staples, daughter of Seth P. Staples (one of the founders of Yale Law School), married Sutherland Douglas in December 1827. They lost their only son in 1830, and the same year her husband traveled to Europe for his declining health. He died in London on May 6, 1831, at age 26.
Harriet married Right Rev. Benjamin B. Smith, D. D., who was then and for many years Bishop of Kentucky.
"Mrs. Smith, for years a pupil of Rev. Claudius Herrick, in New Haven, was herself, for twenty years, a teacher of many of the daughters of prominent families in Kentucky and the Southwest, and, as has been justly said, 'was well fitted for her position, by the highest culture and advantages of education and society, but especially by the blessed fruits of the Spirit, full of faith and courage, prudent and wise, trusting fully in God, devoted to her husband and his work until she was called to go up higher.'"
She died on November 4, 1878, at her home at 653 Lexington Avenue, New York.
Source: Summary of the Record of the Class of 1822, Yale College, to the Closing of 1879 (New Haven, Connecticut: Hoggson & Robinson, 1879), p. 25.
Harriet married Right Rev. Benjamin B. Smith, D. D., who was then and for many years Bishop of Kentucky.
"Mrs. Smith, for years a pupil of Rev. Claudius Herrick, in New Haven, was herself, for twenty years, a teacher of many of the daughters of prominent families in Kentucky and the Southwest, and, as has been justly said, 'was well fitted for her position, by the highest culture and advantages of education and society, but especially by the blessed fruits of the Spirit, full of faith and courage, prudent and wise, trusting fully in God, devoted to her husband and his work until she was called to go up higher.'"
She died on November 4, 1878, at her home at 653 Lexington Avenue, New York.
Source: Summary of the Record of the Class of 1822, Yale College, to the Closing of 1879 (New Haven, Connecticut: Hoggson & Robinson, 1879), p. 25.
Harriet L. Staples, daughter of Seth P. Staples (one of the founders of Yale Law School), married Sutherland Douglas in December 1827. They lost their only son in 1830, and the same year her husband traveled to Europe for his declining health. He died in London on May 6, 1831, at age 26.
Harriet married Right Rev. Benjamin B. Smith, D. D., who was then and for many years Bishop of Kentucky.
"Mrs. Smith, for years a pupil of Rev. Claudius Herrick, in New Haven, was herself, for twenty years, a teacher of many of the daughters of prominent families in Kentucky and the Southwest, and, as has been justly said, 'was well fitted for her position, by the highest culture and advantages of education and society, but especially by the blessed fruits of the Spirit, full of faith and courage, prudent and wise, trusting fully in God, devoted to her husband and his work until she was called to go up higher.'"
She died on November 4, 1878, at her home at 653 Lexington Avenue, New York.
Source: Summary of the Record of the Class of 1822, Yale College, to the Closing of 1879 (New Haven, Connecticut: Hoggson & Robinson, 1879), p. 25.
Harriet married Right Rev. Benjamin B. Smith, D. D., who was then and for many years Bishop of Kentucky.
"Mrs. Smith, for years a pupil of Rev. Claudius Herrick, in New Haven, was herself, for twenty years, a teacher of many of the daughters of prominent families in Kentucky and the Southwest, and, as has been justly said, 'was well fitted for her position, by the highest culture and advantages of education and society, but especially by the blessed fruits of the Spirit, full of faith and courage, prudent and wise, trusting fully in God, devoted to her husband and his work until she was called to go up higher.'"
She died on November 4, 1878, at her home at 653 Lexington Avenue, New York.
Source: Summary of the Record of the Class of 1822, Yale College, to the Closing of 1879 (New Haven, Connecticut: Hoggson & Robinson, 1879), p. 25.
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