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Beecher
Beecher family, c. 1858–1862
Current regionMassachusetts and Connecticut
Place of originCounty Kent, England
MembersLyman Beecher

Harriet Elizabeth Beecher

Henry Ward Beecher
Connected familiesFoote family
Perkins family

Originating in

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.

Locations named after persons of this family include:

Fredrick H. Beecher
.

History

The American Beecher family began with John Beecher from

Puritan emigrants, though many of these emigrants were not content to settle in the vicinity of Boston, owing, in part, to the difference in religious opinions. In September of that year, John was a member of an expedition party to explore the surrounding lands for plantation settlement. He was one of seven men left to winter in what would become New Haven, Connecticut. John died during that winter. His bones were discovered in 1750 in digging for a cellar of a stone house. The main body of settlers arrived in New Haven harbor in April, 1638.[1]
Isaac Beecher was then fifteen years old. From him all the New Haven families of the name are said to have descended, and from whence the name has spread throughout the surrounding country, numbering, among the direct descendants, the West Haven branch of the Beecher family and the Lyman Beecher family, which would become an American religious force throughout the 19th century.

Immediate family

Lyman Beecher (1775–1863)

Lane Theological Seminary
, in Cincinnati.

Catharine Esther Beecher (1800–1878)

American educator known for her forthright opinions on female education as well as her vehement support of the many benefits of the incorporation of kindergarten into children's education.

William Henry Beecher (1802–1889)

American minister who was called "The Unlucky" because misfortune attended all his ventures.[3]

Mary Foote Beecher (1805–1900)

George Beecher (1809–1843)

Harriet Elizabeth Beecher (1811–1896)

American abolitionist and author, best known for her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), which depicts the harsh conditions for enslaved African Americans. The book reached millions as a novel and play, and became influential in the United States and Great Britain, energizing anti-slavery forces in the American North, while provoking widespread anger in the South. Stowe wrote 30 books, including novels, three travel memoirs, and collections of articles and letters. She was influential for both her writings and her public stances on social issues of the day.

Henry Ward Beecher (1813–1887)

American

Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker, known for his support of the abolition of slavery
, his emphasis on God's love, and his 1875 adultery trial. Henry attended
Lane Theological Seminary in 1837 before serving as a minister in Indianapolis and Lawrenceburg, Indiana
.

Charles Beecher (1815–1900)

American

minister, composer of religious hymns
and a prolific author.

Isabella Beecher (1822–1907)

Leader, lecturer and activist in the American suffragist movement.

Thomas Kinnicut Beecher
(1824–1900)

American preacher and the principal of several schools. He lived in

Olivia Langdon
.

James Chaplin Beecher (1828–1886)

American

Congregationalist minister and colonel for the Union Army during the American Civil War
.

Notable members

Thomas Clap Perkins (1798–1870)

American lawyer and politician.

Frederic Beecher Perkins (1828–1899)

American editor, writer, and librarian.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935)

American

semi-autobiographical short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" which she wrote after a severe bout of postpartum psychosis
.

Family tree

The following is a brief family tree of the Beecher family, and its many notable members:[4][5][6]

John Beecher
emigrated to America 1637
birth. unknown
(died 1638)		Nathaniel Foote
emigrated to America 1633
birth. abt. 1593
(died 1644)
Isaac Beecher
emigrated to America 1637
birth. 1623
(died 1690)		Nathaniel Foote
emigrated to America 1633
birth. abt. 1620
(died 1655)
Joseph Beecher
birth. 1647
(unknown)		Nathaniel Foote
birth. 1647
(died 1703)
Joseph Beecher
birth. 1670
(died unknown)		Nathaniel Foote
birth. 1682
(died 1774)
Nathaniel Beecher
birth. 1706
(died 1786)		Daniel Foote
birth. 1716
(died 1801)
David Beecher
birth. 1738
(died 1805)		Eli Foote
birth. 1747
(died unknown)
Lyman Beecher
birth. 1775
(died 1863)		Roxana Ward Foote
birth. 1682
(died 1774)


Descendants of Lyman Beecher

  • Lyman Beecher (1775–1863), son of David Beecher and Esther Hawley Lyman[7][8]
    • Catharine Esther Beecher (1800–1878) was an educator and women's-rights activist
    • William Henry Beecher (1802–1889), a Congregational minister in Ohio, New York, and Massachusetts[9]
    • Yale
      graduate; married Isabella Jones
    • Mary Foote Beecher (1805–1900), married Thomas Clap Perkins (1798–1870) in 1827; Perkins was the brother-in-law of Roger Sherman Baldwin[10]
    • Harriet Beecher (1808–1808)
    • George Beecher (1809–1843)
      Yale
      graduate, m. Sarah Buckingham in 1837
    • Calvin Stowe
      (1802–1886) in 1836
      • Harriet (Hattie) Beecher Stowe (1836–1907)
      • Eliza Tyler Stowe (1836–1912)
      • Henry Ellis Stowe (1838–1857)
      • Frederic William Stowe (1840–1871)
      • Georgiana May Stowe (1843–1890) m. Henry Freeman Allen (1838–1914)
      • Samuel Charles Stowe (1848–1849)
      • Charles Edward Stowe (b.1850) m. Susan Munroe
        • Lyman Beecher Stowe (1880–1963) m. Hilda Robinson Smith
          • David Beecher Stowe (b.1916)
            • Charles Robinson Beecher Stowe (1949–)
            • Richard Mather Anthony Stowe (1953–)
            • Henry Beecher Stowe (1964–)
          • Robinson Smith Beecher Stowe (b.1918)
            • Ellen Robinson Stowe (1956–)
        • Leslie Munroe Stowe (1883–1887)
        • Hilda Stowe (1887–1969) m. James Donnelly
    • Henry Ward Beecher (1813–1887), married Eunice White Bullard (1812–1897) in 1837; namesake of Beecher, Illinois
      • Harriet Eliza Beecher (1838–1911 m. Samuel Scoville (1834–1902)
      • Henry Barton Beecher (1842–1916) m. Harriet Jone Benedict (b. 1841)
        • Kate Eunice Beecher (1864–1890)
        • Henry (Harry) Ward Beecher (1867–1948 m. Mary (May) Frances Beecher
          • Margaret Wardington Beecher (1901–1978 m. Alfred Taussig Abeles (1891–1983)
            • Alfred Beecher Abeles (1923–1945)
            • Shirley Elling Abeles (1926–2006)
            • John Henry Abeles (1935–2010)
          • Henry Ward Beecher III (1903–1986)
          • Lyman Beecher (b. 1905)
        • Margaret Humphey Beecher (1868–1949)
      • George Lyman Beecher (b. 1844)
      • Katherine Esther Beecher (b. 1846)
      • William Constantine Beecher (1849–1928)
      • Alfred Beecher (b. 1852)
      • Herbert Foote Beecher (b. 1854)
    • Charles Beecher (1815–1900) married Sarah Leland Coffin (1815–1897) in 1840.
      • Frederick Henry Beecher (1841–1868), died at the Battle of Beecher Island,[12] Beecher Island being posthumously named after him.
      • Charles McCulloch Beecher (1843–1906)
      • Helen Louisa Beecher (1847–1901)
      • Mary Isabella Beecher (1849–1928) m. George Warren Noyes (1842–1927)
      • Esther (Essie) Lyman Beecher (1852–1867)
      • Edith Harriet Beecher (1854–1867)
    • Frederick C Beecher (1818–1820)
    • Isabella Holmes Beecher (1822–1907), m. John Hooker (1816–1901) in 1841
    • Thomas Kinnicut Beecher (1824–1900), a Congregational minister in Elmira, New York,[13] 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.
    • James Chaplin Beecher (1828–1886), colonel of the 35th United States Colored Troops.

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References

  1. ^ Hughes, Reuben Beecher (1898). Genealogy of a Branch of the Beecher Family. New Haven, CT: Hoggson & Robinson. Retrieved May 4, 2017 via Internet Archive.
  2. ^ The Washingtonian Movement
  3. ^ "The Beechers". Time. Vol. 23, no. 14. April 2, 1934. pp. 21–22..
  4. ^ Beecher family. Finding Aid Archived 2007-07-08 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ Hughes, Reuben Beecher. Genealogy of a branch of the Beecher family. New Haven, CT: Hoggson & Robinson, 1898. Accessed May 4, 2017. Internet Archive
  6. ^ Foote, Abram W. Foote Family. Vol. 1. Rutland, VT: Marble City Press, 1907. Accessed May 4, 2017. Internet Archive
  7. ^ RootsWeb
  8. ^ "FamilySearch: Lyman BEECHER (AFN: P68M-48)". Archived from the original on 2011-06-07. Retrieved 2010-04-11.
  9. ^ Stowe, Lyman B. Saints, Sinners and Beechers, p.141
  10. ^ Harrison, Bruce. Descendants of Sir Robert Drake, p.181
  11. ^ Lane, Ann J. To Herland and Beyond; p.27
  12. ^ U.S.Army Historical Register 1789–1903, vol.1 p.457
  13. ^ "Pages in the History of Elmira". Archived from the original on 2010-09-24. Retrieved 2008-11-04.

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