Later Life
Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge presented a bell to his parish in South Hadley, Massachusetts. Tradition says that Colonel Woodbridge went to the foundry and cast fifty silver dollars into the molten metal to give the bell a silvery tone. The memory of Colonel Woodbridge was honored with the following quotes:
The duties of his command he performed in a manner highly creditable to himself and to the advantage of the cause which he had espoused. At the call of his country during the Revolutionary War, he often and promptly exerted his military talents and ardor in vindicating the rights, the independence, and laws of his country.
The name of Ruggles Woodbridge, already mentioned, is among the proudest associations of the town . He was a man of great wealth, was a Colonel in the Revolution, and for many years exercised a commanding influence in the town.
The Woodbridge home, known as 'Sycamores', served as a dormitory for Mount Holyoke College (South Hadley, MA) from 1915-1970. The mansion, built in 1788 by Colonel Woodbridge, is on the National Register of Historic Places.
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Famous quotes containing the word life:
“...we never worked for white people in their homes. No, sir, not even once! That is one of the accomplishments in my life of which I am the most proud, yes, sir!”
—Annie Elizabeth Delany (b. 1891)
“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?”
—Bible: New Testament, Matthew 6:25.26.
Jesus.