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Originating in New England, one particular Beecher family in the 19th century was a political family notable for issues of religion, civil rights, and social reform. Notable members of the family include clergy (Congregationalists), educators, authors and artists. Many of the family were Yale-educated and advocated for abolitionism, temperance, and women's rights. Some of the family provided material or ideological support to the Union in the American Civil War. The family is of English descent.
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Locations named after persons of this family include: Beecher, Illinois, named after Henry Ward Beecher and Beecher Island, named after Lt. Fredrick H. Beecher.
Family tree
The following is a brief family tree of the Lyman Beecher family, and its many notable members :
1. Lyman Beecher (1775–1863), son of David Beecher and Esther Hawley Lyman , married first to Roxana Foote (1775–1816) in 1799 and had 9 children; Yale graduate
i. Catharine Esther Beecher (1800–1878) was an educator and women's-rights activist ii. William Henry Beecher (1802–1889), a Congregational minister in Ohio, New York, and Massachusetts iii. Edward Beecher (1803–1895) helped organize Illinois' first anti-slavery society, Yale graduate; married Isabella Jones iv. Mary Foote Beecher (1805–1900), married Thomas Clapp Perkins (1798–1870) in 1827; Perkins was the brother-in-law of Roger Sherman Baldwin v. Harriet Beecher (1808–1808) vi. George Beecher (1809–1843) Yale graduate, married Sarah Buckingham in 1837 vii. Harriet Elizabeth Beecher (1811–1896), wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin; married Calvin Stowe (1802–1886) in 1836 viii. Henry Ward Beecher (1813–1887), married Eunice White Bullard (1812–1897) in 1837; namesake of Beecher, Illinois. ix. Charles Beecher (1815–1900) married Sarah Leland Coffin (1815–1897) in 1840. Their son, Lt Frederick H Beecher, died at the Battle of Beecher Island, Beecher Island being posthumously named after him.By his second wife Harriet Porter (1790–1835), whom he married in 1817:
x. Frederick C Beecher (1818–1820) xi. Isabella Holmes Beecher (1822–1907), married John Hooker (1816–1901) in 1841 xii Thomas Kinnicut Beecher (1824–1900), a Congregational minister in Elmira, New York, married Olivia Day (1826–1853), the daughter of the president of Yale, Jeremiah Day, in 1851, and after her untimely death married her cousin Frances Juliana Jones (1826–1905), one of the granddaughters of Noah Webster, in 1857. xiii. James Chaplin Beecher (1828–1886), colonel of the 35th United States Colored Troops