Prominent Son
His son Francis Wayland III (1826-1904) was lieutenant-governor of Connecticut from 1869-1870, and became a professor and Dean of the Yale Law School.
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“The soldier here, as everywhere in Canada, appeared to be put forward, and by his best foot. They were in the proportion of the soldiers to the laborers in an African ant-hill.... On every prominent ledge you could see England’s hands holding the Canadas, and I judged from the redness of her knuckles that she would soon have to let go.”
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