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William Henry Beecher. (1802-89) was a dyspeptic minister who was called "The Unlucky" because misfortune attended all his ventures. Of his wedding he wrote: "Was married. . . . No company, no cake, no cards-nothing pleasant about it." William begat six children. Edward Beecher (1803-95) was for a time president of Illinois College. In a best-selling theological work called The Conflict of Ages he carried on the family trend away from orthodoxy. Said his father: "Edward, you've destroyed the Calvinistic barns, but I hope you don't delude yourself that the animals are going into your...
Henry Ward Beecher (1813-87). One of his earliest letters was: "Der Sister. We ar al wel. Ma haz a baby. The old sow had six pigs." He was educated at Sister Catherine's Hartford Female Seminary, Boston Latin School, Mount Pleasant Collegiate Institute. Amherst College and Lane Theological College. As a missionary preacher he lectured Indiana frontiersmen on gambling, drinking and wenching. In 1861 Beecher became editor of the Independent and was drawn into the most unfortunate part of his career. His assistant, a brilliant, erratic journalist named Theodore Tilton, and the owner of the paper...
...Charles Beecher (1815-1900) was the family musician, a hymn-writer and also a heretic...
...Isabella Beecher Hooker (1822-1907) was a pioneer Suffragist, called by Susan B. Anthony "The soundest constitutional lawyer in the country.'' She stormed the Senate Judiciary Committee, resolute in black silk, and in 1888 assembled in Washington the first international convention of women...
Thomas Kinnicut Beecher (1824-1900) founded in Elmira, N. Y. one of the first "institutional churches'' in the U. S., complete with gymnasium, library, theatre, dancing and billiard rooms. One of his jobs was to regulate the Elmira town clock...