The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . CyrS^^^ fra^^tly^ua.,£j2 ^yt^^t^ OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. 129 BEECHER, Henry Ward, clergyman, wasbom in Litchfield, Conn., June 24,1813,.the fourthson of Lyman and Roxaua (Poote) Bee
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . CyrS^^^ fra^^tly^ua.,£j2 ^yt^^t^ OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. 129 BEECHER, Henry Ward, clergyman, wasbom in Litchfield, Conn., June 24,1813,.the fourthson of Lyman and Roxaua (Poote) Beecher. Hismother died when he was but three years old;his stepmother, under whose guardianship hischildhoods days were spent, was an Episcopal-ian. Both parents were devoted Christians, hisfather one of the most influential of New Eng-land pastors in an important transition period ofher historj. His home training was of the severeNew England type, alleviated, however, by an ir-repressible sense of humor in his father, and apoetic and mystical spirit in his stepmother. Hewas graduated from Amherst college in 1834, in histwenty-first year. He did not stand hlgli in col-legiate studies; was characterized there, as through-out his life, by following the bent of his own inclina-tion rather than any course marked out for him byothers. But that course he followed with diligence,energy, and a pati
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