Charles Beecher
Charles Beecher | |
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Lawrence Academy | |
| Occupation(s) | Minister, composer of religious hymns and author |
| Spouse |
Sarah Leland Coffin
(m. 1840; died 1897) |
| Children | 6 |
| Parent(s) | Lyman Beecher Roxana Foote Beecher |
| Relatives | Harriet Beecher Stowe (sister) Henry Ward Beecher (brother) Catharine Beecher (sister) James Chaplin Beecher (brother) |
Charles Beecher (October 1, 1815 – April 21, 1900) was an American
Early life
Beecher was born in
He attended
Career
In 1851, he moved east and ministered to the First Free Presbyterian Church in
In 1863 he was relieved of his preaching duties in the Congregational Church for preaching against orthodox doctrine. Specifically, he was convicted of teaching contrary to Scriptural articles of faith in promoting the errors of the preexistence and apostasy of human souls, the offer of salvation to the unrepentant after their deaths, that Jesus was an angel combined with the divinity of the Second Person of the Trinity and a human body, that Jesus' sufferings were not vicariously atoning but only morally persuasive, and that God was not impassible but had changeable passions.[6]
Following the
Musical interests
He also published two music texts and was one of the music editors for his brother Henry's 1855 Plymouth Collection. He published several antislavery tracts, including A Sermon on the Nebraska Bill (1854) and The God of the Bible Against Slavery (1855). His travel journal was re-published in 1986 by the Stowe-Day Foundation under the title Harriet Beecher Stowe in Europe.[9]
Personal life
In 1840, Beecher married Sarah Leland Coffin (1815–1897), a daughter of Nathaniel Coffin and Mary King (
- Comanche War. The island was posthumously named after him.[13]
- Charles McCulloch Beecher (1843–1906), who married Anna Melinda Clary Johnson (1849–1911), the aunt of Robert Livingston Johnson.[13]
- Helen Louisa Beecher (1847–1901)[13]
- Mary Isabella Beecher (1849–1928), who married George Warren Noyes (1842–1927).[14]
- Esther "Essie" Lyman Beecher (1852–1867), who died young.[13]
- Edith Harriet Beecher (1854–1867), who died young.[13]
Beecher died in Georgetown, Massachusetts on April 21, 1900.[2]
Published works
Beecher's major publications include:
- The Incarnation, or, Pictures of the Virgin and her Son (1849)
- The Duty of Disobedience to Wicked Laws (1851)
- David and his Throne (1855)
- Pen Pictures of the Bible (1855)
- The Life of David King of Israel (1861)
- Autobiography, Correspondence, etc. of Lyman Beecher (1863)
- Redeemer and Redeemed (1864)
- Spiritual Manifestations (1879)
- The Eden Tableau, or, Object Bible-Teaching (1880)
- Patmos; or, the Unveiling (1896)
Notes
- ^ "Litchfield Ledger – Charles Beecher". ledger.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org. Retrieved 19 January 2022.
- ^ a b c d e Times, Special to The New York (22 April 1900). "DEATH LIST OF A DAY. | The Rev. Charles Beecher". The New York Times. Retrieved 19 January 2022.
- ^ "CHURCH BREACH HEALED; Plymouth's Pastor to Speak in the Pilgrim's Sanctuary. STORRS AND BEECHER PARTED For Thirty Years the Congregations Held Aloof, Then a Period of Reconciliation Came". The New York Times. 1 March 1900. Retrieved 19 January 2022.
- ^ "DEATHS IN BEECHER FAMILY; Half Brother and Sister Pass Away on the Same Day. Mrs. M.F. Beecher Perkins Lived at Hartford and the Rev. Thomas K. Beecher at Elmira". The New York Times. 15 March 1900. Retrieved 19 January 2022.
- ^ Bowdoin College Peucinian Society (1838). Catalogue. p. 26. Retrieved 19 January 2022.
- ^ Journal, the Boston (26 July 1863). "The Trial of Rev. Charles Beecher.; HE IS CONVICTED OF HERESY. RESULT". The New York Times. Retrieved 19 January 2022.
- ISBN 978-1-4656-1561-9. Retrieved 19 January 2022.
- ^ College, Pennsylvania State (1900). Annual Report of the Pennsylvania State College for the Year ... p. 67. Retrieved 19 January 2022.
- ISBN 978-1-58729-729-8. Retrieved 19 January 2022.
- ^ Putnam, Eben (1896). Porter Leaflets: Devoted to the History Everywhere and of Whatever Family ... V. 1, No. 1-12, Mar. 1896 – June 1897. p. 51. Retrieved 19 January 2022.
- ISBN 978-0-7385-0976-1. Retrieved 19 January 2022.
- ^ Perley, Sidney (1893). The Dwellings of Boxford, Essex County, Mass. Essex Institute. Retrieved 19 January 2022.
- ^ a b c d e f College, Bowdoin (1911). Obituary Record of the Graduates of Bowdoin College and the Medical School of Maine. pp. 12–14, 404. Retrieved 19 January 2022.
- ^ of 1897, Harvard College (1780-) Class (1912). Fourth Report. Rockwell and Churchill Press. pp. 301–302. Retrieved 19 January 2022.
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References
- The Duty of Disobedience to Wicked Laws. A Sermon on the Fugitive Slave Law
- Biography at the Cyber Hymnal
- Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1900). . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.
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