sentences:  Prominent residents, including the Reverend Lyman Beecher, Senator Uriah Tracy, Colonel Benjamin Tallmadge, Julius Deming, and the Oliver Wolcott family, had family, social, political and business networks which helped attract students to Litchfield.These well-known men also gave occasional lectures and talks to the students.The Reverend Beecher taught religion in exchange for free tuition for his children.