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...there was born to the Rev. Lyman Beecher, a small contradiction, who was christened, after due consideration, Henry Ward. He was a contradiction because, although the son of a pious, even a studious clergyman, he spent his very early youth in moody or riotous behavior; his school work was invariably bad, his appearance and disposition uncouth, his only talents those of a buffoon. Later, still a contradiction, he spent his days in disseminating simultaneously the word of God and a most horrible scandal...
...James H. Blood, whom she divorced. She then moved to Manhattan where she became engaged in the brokerage business with her sister, Tennessee Claflin; published a paper know as Woodhull and Claflin''s Weekly. In 1872 they published an article on the personal morality of Henry Ward Beecher, created a furor, were arrested, acquitted. In the same year, she, as Mrs. Woodhull, was nominated as a candidate for the presidency of the U. S. by the Equal Rights Party, was defeated. Shortly after the two sisters removed to England where Victoria became Mrs. John Biddulph Martin; Tennessee...
...Haven, Conn., June 9.--The establishment of a department for personnel study at Yale University, made possible by a gift of $300,000 from C. H. Ludington '87, of Philadelphia, was announced today by President James Rowland Angell. The Yale Corporation has approved the appointment of Albert Beecher Crawford, who has supervised the activities of the Bureau of Appointments since, 1919, as Director of the department. Mr. Crawford will have the rank of Professor...
...identity of "Pinky" and Mrs. Hunt was established more than a year ago by Dr. J. Stanley Durkee, then president of Howard University, now pastor of Plymouth Church. Hearing that Beecher's "Pinky" was living in Washington, Dr. Durkee sought out Mrs. Hunt, found that she remembered details of her life in Brooklyn. She also had in her possession a copy of the bill of sale executed in 1860. "I am just as certain that Mrs. Hunt is 'Pinky' as I am of my own personality," said Dr. Durkee last week...
...Henry Ward Beecher preached in 1877: "The nature of God is to suffer for others rather than to make them suffer." This sounded blasphemous at the time. He was as rampant in politics. President Hayes' administration he called "a bread pudding." A Republican from the earliest years of that party, he left it when in 1884 James G. Blaine ran for the Presidency against Grover Cleveland. He called himself a "Mugwump," a political purist. Pastor Beecher was full-blooded; dared not eat red meat. His only outdoor exercise was croquet. He died of aponlexy...