Lyman Beecher
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Lyman Beecher was an American Presbyterian minister and abolitionist. He fathered 13 children, over half of whom became writers or ministers, including Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry Ward Beecher, Charl
Painting c. 1842
Lyman Beecher
Photograph by Mathew Brady
Beecher with his children Harriet Beecher Stowe and Henry Ward Beecher, taken sometime after 1858.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Henry Ward Beecher was an American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker, known for his support of the abolition of slavery, his emphasis on God's love, and his 1875 adultery trial
Lyman Beecher
…American Presbyterian minister and abolitionist. He fathered 13 children, over half of whom became writers or ministers, including Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry Ward Beecher, Charles Beecher, Edward Beecher, Isabella Beecher Hooker, Catharine Beecher, and Thomas K. Beecher. According to his son Henry, Beecher was "largely…
Beecher, between 1855 and 1865
A daguerreotype of Beecher as a young man
Plymouth Church in 1866
Henry Ward Beecher, ca. 1861–1897, from the Louis Prang & Company Collection of the Boston Public Library