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Beecher, Henry Ward, 1813-1887

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Personal name headingBeecher, Henry Ward, 1813-1887
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Biography/History noteIndividual was an abolitionist.
Associated countryUnited States
Birth date1813-06-24
Death date1887-03-08
Place of birthLitchfield (Conn.)
Place of deathBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Field of activityAntislavery movements
AffiliationMount Pleasant Classical Institution (Amherst, Mass.) Amherst College Lane Theological Seminary
Congregational Church (Lawrenceburg, Ind.) Congregational Church (Plymouth, Ind.)
Profession or occupationClergy Essayists Social reformers
Found inHis The Beecher book of days, 1886.
Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895: From the Colonial Period to the Age of Frederick Douglass, accessed June 9, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Beecher, Henry Ward; abolitionist, congregational clergyperson, social reformer, essayist; born 24 June, 1813 in Litchfield, Connecticut, United States; studied at Mount Pleasant Classical Academy, in Amherst, Massachusetts (1827); attended Amherst College (1830-1834) and the Lane Theological Seminary, Ohio (1834-1837); was pastor in two Congregational churches: Lawrenceburg and Indianapolis, Indiana and Plymouth Church, in Brooklyn, New York (1847); traveled the reform lecture circuit, East Coast and trans-Appalachian West; became advocate of abolition (1950s); was referred as "one the boldest thinkers and bravest speakers in America"; participated in events of abolitionist causes; after the Civil War, sided with Unionists against the Radical Republicans; died 08 March, 1887 in Brooklyn, New York)