BEECHER, Lyman [1775-1863] -- clergyman, author

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He was a congregational clergyman of wide fame. While in Boston he was a zealous opponent of unitarianism, and as president of Lane Theological seminary at Cincinnati was noted as an outspoken enemy of slavery. He was a bold thinker, much in advance of his contemporaries. He was the author of Sermons on Temperance; Views in Theology; Scepticism; and Political Atheism. [Encyclopedia of American Biography]

Rev. Beecher was the progenitor of a remarkable line of religious, political and moral activists. Consider only his children,
by first wife, Roxanna Foote:

1. Catharine Esther Beecher - educator
2. William Henry Beecher
3. Edward Beecher - educator
4. Mary Foote Beecher
5. Harriet (died young)
6. George Beecher
7. Harriet Beecher Stow - abolitionist author
8. Henry Ward Beecher - influential clergyman and writer
9. Charles Beecher

by second wife, Harriet Porter:

10. Frederick (died young)
11. Isabella Holmes Beecher - educator and suffragette
12. Thomas Kinnicut Beecher
13. James Chapin Beecher

 
 

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