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Name: Lyman Beecher
Birth Date: October 12, 1775
Death Date: January 10, 1863
Place of Birth: New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Place of Death: Brooklyn, New York, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: clergyman, reformer, pastor, educator

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Biography of Lyman Beecher
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A Presbyterian clergyman, Lyman Beecher (1775-1863) was one of the outstanding American preachers and revivalists before the Civil War. He achieved national fame as reformer, educator, and central figure in theological controversies. Lyman Beecher was...


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Lyman Beecher Quotes
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Eloquence is logic on fire. Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. I can work out a good character much faster than anyone can lie me out of...


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Lyman Beecher Information
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Lyman Beecher (October 12, 1775 – January 10, 1863) was a Presbyterian clergyman, temperance movement leader, and the father of several noted leaders, including Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry Ward Beecher, Charles Beecher, Edward Beecher, Isabella...


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Policy Review
Church without state. (19th Century minister Lyman Beecher)
03/01/1996: 873 words, approx. 3 pages
Lyman Beecher, father of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Henry Ward Beecher, was an influential reformer and clergyman who encouraged civic responsibility based on religious values. He pushed for the development of volunteer societies and associations, such as the American Temperance Society, which promoted citizenship,...
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The Boston Globe
The Scandal That Split The Beechers
09/29/2002: 687 words, approx. 2 pages
HARTFORD - Being the youngest sister in the Beecher clan could not have been easy: There was so much to live up to. The Rev. Lyman Beecher had 11 children who survived to adulthood. Among them were Catharine Beecher, who founded a number of...
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The New York Observer
19th-Century Demigods Separated by the East River
6/25/2006: 1,495 words, approx. 5 pages
“A mixture of Yankee transcendentalism and New York rowdyism and, what must be surprising to both these elements, they here seem to fuse and combine with the most perfect harmony.” This is how scholar Charles Eliot Norton assessed Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass in 1855,...
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The New York Observer
19th-Century Demigods Separated by the East River
6/25/2006: 1,495 words, approx. 5 pages
“A mixture of Yankee transcendentalism and New York rowdyism and, what must be surprising to both these elements, they here seem to fuse and combine with the most perfect harmony.” This is how scholar Charles Eliot Norton assessed Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass in 1855,...
 


 

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