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    most notably Harriet Beecher Stowe, who achieved worldwide fame with her abolitionist novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. Henry Ward Beecher graduated from Amherst...
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    family include: Beecher, Illinois, named after Henry Ward Beecher and Beecher Island, named after Lt. Fredrick H. Beecher. The American Beecher family began...
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    Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry Ward Beecher, Charles Beecher, Edward Beecher, Isabella Beecher Hooker, Catharine Beecher, and Thomas K. Beecher. According...
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  • Henry Beecher may refer to: Henry K. Beecher (1904–1976), American anesthesiologist and medical ethicist Henry Ward Beecher (1813–1887), American Congregationalist...
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    The Henry Ward Beecher Monument, a statue of Henry Ward Beecher created by the sculptor John Quincy Adams Ward, was unveiled on June 24, 1891, in Borough...
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    Township, it was originally named Washington Center. Named for Henry Ward Beecher, Beecher was founded in 1870 and incorporated as a village in 1884. Originally...
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    adultery trial of Henry Ward Beecher. Beecher was the son of the famous Calvinist theologian Lyman Beecher and the brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe. He was...
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    Minister Henry Ward Beecher raised funds to buy rifles for the free-staters: Beecher's Bibles were sent to the territory. Henry W. Beecher believed that...
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    Tilton and Henry Ward Beecher became close friends, a relationship that has been described as both passionate and physical.: 82  Tilton and Beecher worked...
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  • America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher is a 2006 biography of the 19th-century American minister Henry Ward Beecher, written by Debby Applegate...
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    Congregational Plymouth Church in Brooklyn, New York, whose pastor was Henry Ward Beecher, a prominent abolitionist. After gaining freedom, the Edmonsons were...
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    Colony or the Beecher Rifle Colony. The settlers were inspired by a sermon given by well-known abolitionist Henry Ward Beecher and Beecher gave money to...
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  • Luther F. Beecher (1813–1903), cousin of Henry Ward Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe. At least three publications credit the poem to Luther Beecher in printings...
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    became ministers: including Henry Ward Beecher, who became a famous preacher and abolitionist, Charles Beecher, and Edward Beecher. Harriet enrolled in the...
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    2, 1872, Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly published a story featuring Henry Ward Beecher's affair with Theodore Tilton's wife, Elizabeth Richards Tilton. The...
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    designed by Joseph C. Wells. Under the leadership of its first minister, Henry Ward Beecher, it became the foremost center of anti-slavery sentiment in the mid-19th...
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    1872, Woodhull publicly criticized well-known clergyman Henry Ward Beecher for adultery. Beecher was known to have had an affair with his parishioner Elizabeth...
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    assistant of Henry Ward Beecher. He gave the 1869 commencement speech for the Irving Literary Society. In 1874 Tilton filed a complaint against Beecher for "criminal...
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    Lyman Beecher and Roxana (Foote) Beecher. Among her siblings were writer and abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe, along with clergymen Henry Ward Beecher and...
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    Brothers, Publishers. pp. 734, 681. Beecher, William C.; Scoville, Rev. Samuel (1891). A biography of Rev. Henry Ward Beecher. London: Sampson Low, Marston...
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    Harriet Beecher Stowe, the 19th century abolitionist and writer most famous for her groundbreaking novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, Henry Ward Beecher, pastor...
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    sexual relationship with Henry Ward Beecher. Bowen did not sue Beecher for adultery; the famous adultery case against Beecher was brought by Theodore Tilton...
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  • surname to Beecher in his 20s. This change was said to be for the name recognition of influential 19th-century Beechers—preacher Henry Ward Beecher and author...
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    dedicate it to peace, Union, and liberty, now and forevermore." — Rev. Henry Ward Beecher Later that night President Lincoln would be shot at Ford's Theatre...
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    of the Pilgrims and was originally pastored by Henry Ward Beecher, brother of author Harriet Beecher Stowe. In 1835, French author Alexis de Tocqueville...
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  • Catharine Beecher, educator Charles Beecher, minister Edward Beecher, theologian Harriet Beecher Stowe, abolitionist and novelist Henry Ward Beecher, clergyman...
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    abolitionist clergyman Henry Ward Beecher, Congregationalist theologians Lyman Abbott and Newell Dwight Hillis (who followed Beecher as the second and third...
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    speeches and activities of Henry Ward Beecher, the pastor of Plymouth Church, now the Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims. Beecher was a nationally known figure...
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    house in 1836. Harriet's brother, Henry Ward Beecher, also resided in the Cincinnati Beecher House. Rev. Henry Ward Beecher was an early leader in the women's...
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    Presbyterian. On May 13, 1839, Henry Ward Beecher was installed as the first minister, the brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Beecher would go on to become one...
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