The Earle family : Ralph Earle and his descendants

420 THE EARLE FAMILY [Ninth
[2903-4] . Caroline9 Earle (John? John? Ralph? Ralphs
William^ Ralphs Williams Ralph 1
), dau. of John and
Caroline (Smith) Earle, b. March 23, 1847, in Boston,
Mass. ; m. Jan. 16, 1873, Joseph, son of Nicholas and
Harriet Grose, of Roche, Cornwall, England, and lived
in New York city. She d. March 28, 1885.
The following obituary notice of her appeared in the New York
Evening Post of March 30th, 1885 :
"Mrs. Grose, who died suddenly on Saturday last after a very brief
illness, was the daughter of John Earle, a well-known, now retired,
merchant of Boston, and wife of Joseph Grose, of the firm of Megroz,
Portier, Grose & Co., of this city. She was a woman of rare
accomplishments and of unusual and marked character. She completed
her school education at Mme. Mears's in Madison Avenue,
and afterward took the Harvard course for women, being among the
very first to take advantage of the privilege thus extended to her sex.
She was a finished musician and linguist, being thoroughly trained
in German, French, Spanish, and Italian, and possessing a wide
knowledge of Greek and Latin classic literature. Her scholarship
was not, however, of that kind which distracted her attention from
the great problems of modern life, and she was active in many movements
for the amelioration of the condition of those about her.
Every great social question made demands on her attention which
were invariably followed up by some practical suggestion or act.
She was during the latter years of her life a devoted Swedenborgian
and the most prominent figure of the Swedenborgian community
in this city. Her knowledge of the literature and theory of her
church was exhaustive, and she was justly regarded as an authority
in all matters relating to them, her strongly speculative mind having
found an answer for its most imperious questions in the writings of
Swedenborg, and she devoted herself to the dissemination of his
teachings. She was a woman of rare sweetness as well as unusual
strength and breadth of character."
Their children were :
3820-1. Ethelind E. Grose, b. Oct. n, 1873
3821-2. Elinor Grose, b. Feb. 3, 1876.
3822-3. Virginia Grose, b. July 12, 1877.
3823-4. Miriam Grose, b. Sept. 14, 1S79.
; d. March 14, 1876.
Earle (John? Johns Ralph? Ralphs
[2904-5] . Edward?
Williams Ralphs William S Ralph1 ), son of John and
Caroline (Smith) Earle, b. April 1, 1849, in Boston,