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 . <-yt*^UA/La- ix^.tJ^^ OP AMBRICAN BIOGRAPHY. 131. BEECHER, Charles, clergyman, was born atLitchfield, Conn., Oct. 7, 1815, the fifth son of Ly-man and Roxana (Poote) Beecher. He
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 . <-yt*^UA/La- ix^.tJ^^ OP AMBRICAN BIOGRAPHY. 131. BEECHER, Charles, clergyman, was born atLitchfield, Conn., Oct. 7, 1815, the fifth son of Ly-man and Roxana (Poote) Beecher. He was educatedat the Boston Latin school, and at the Lawrenceacademy in Groton, Mass.; entered Bowdoin college,from which he was graduated in 1834. At the timeof his graduation his fatherwas the president of Lane sem-inary, Cincinnati, and here hestudied theology, and was or-dained pastor of a Presbyte-rian churcli at Fort Wayne,Ind., in 1844. On account ofhis liberal views hi was dis-missed in 1851, and becamepastor of a Congregationalchurch in Newark, N. J. Heremained with this people fortliree years. The Congrega-tional church at Georgetown,Mass., was his next clianged his residence toFlorida in 1870, and remainedthere for seven years. Whilethere he served two years asstate superintendent of publicinstruction. He was a super-ior musician, and selected andarranged the Plymouth Collection. Like hisbrothers, he has been author of several works, in-clu
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