his study on Salem Street went forth many of his hooks and essays. Dr. Gladden's "Sunday Afternoon," an ably conducted monthly, won a high place during its short existence. "Marion Harland" was once a resident of this city, and here wrote some of her books. George K Merriam, Clark W. Bryan, Edward Bellamy, S. B. Griffin, Rev. A. D. Mayo, are only a few of the writers that might be mentioned. From Springfield stock have come nine college presidents, —of Yale, Harvard, Columbia, Amherst, Princeton, Trinity, Dickinson, and Beloit.
      Samuel Bowles was for years an important element of Springfield life. To a large degree, it is owing to his influence that it is the city of wholesome moral sentiment which it is. He was emphatically a citizen of his native town, and its interests and good name were ever dear to his heart. Often those who would have worked mischief stood in fear of Mr. Bowles. He was thoroughly democratic, and he always struck according to his convictions, regardless of any tie.
      His influence was not local merely, it was national. "His thought was the thought of thousands of men at the breakfast-table, and the irritation of other thousands." In 1860 a copy of the Springfield Republican, mailed to a man in Georgia, was returned by the post-office authorities, stamped "Incendiary document." Demagogues and schemers found in him an implacable foe. At eighteen years of age he urged his father to make the Republican a daily. The paper had been