William James Roe,
Notable American Houses
(c/1905)
“ Differing in nothing from the multitudes of New England farm-steads, surrounded by the usual revenue of barns and sheds and outbuildings, this home of the sedate and serious Quaker family, nurtured the man in all the arduous and homely ways which have done so much to rear men whose influence has been felt far and deep in all our political life. ”
William James Roe,
Notable American Houses
(c/1905)
“ Who will not understand all I mean that has seen the lovely if lowly ministrations of his daughter among the poor, oppressed with the most horrible of afflictions of the body—the poor of the awful East Side of the City of New York? Who will not honor the father for the work of Rose Hawthorne-Lathrop? ”
William James Roe,
Notable American Houses
(c/1905)
“ He knew, as they seemed not to know, how inherent in the heart of the race, and especially of that branch of the race which we call—not altogether properly—the Anglo-Saxon, was the strenuous respect for precedent, and protest against coercion. Whittier sang the song of peace and good will to men, of a vast charity and the largest philanthropy. ”
