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 . d in this country, Eu-rope, and South America. Hehas lectured extensively on sec-ular as well as religious sub-jects, and is the author of sev-eral volumes, including OurSeven Chur


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 . d in this country, Eu-rope, and South America. Hehas lectured extensively on sec-ular as well as religious sub-jects, and is the author of sev-eral volumes, including OurSeven Churches, and A WellConsidered Estimate of the He has introduced many noveland successful methods of church work. He editeda department known as Miscellany, first in theElmira Advertiser and afterward in the Ga-zette of the same city. In these papers he discuss-ed current questions of the day, and took advancedviews on many subjects which were largely has been, against his will, nominated for publicoffice by each of the several political parties, but al-ways by the minority. BEECHER, James Chaplin, clergyman, wasborn in Boston, Mass., Jan. 8, 1838, the seventh sonof Lyman Beecher. He was educated in Lane sem-inary, Walnut Hills, near Cincinnati, O., of whichinstitution his father was president. He enteredDartmouth college, from which he was graduated in1848, and at once took up the study of theology at. ^^iL^ Episcopal Church.


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