=Beecher, Catherine Esther.= _L. I._, 1800-1878. Daughter of L. Beecher, _infra_. A New England educator of much celebrity at one time, who wrote with the ardour of sincerest conviction. Domestic Economy; Physiology and Calisthenics; Letters to the People; Religious Training of Children; Domestic Service, True Remedy for the Wrongs of Woman. _See Mrs. Hale’s Woman’s Record._ _Har._ =Beecher, Charles.= _Ct._, 1815-1900. Son of L. Beecher, _infra_. A Congregational clergyman. Patmos; Pen Pictures of the Bible; The Eden Tableau; Redeemer and Redeemed. He edited his father’s Life and Correspondence. _Har. Le._ =Beecher, Edward.= _L. I._, 1803-1895. Son of L. Beecher, _infra_. A Congregational clergyman of Illinois, and later of Brooklyn, whose attainments must be considered as the most solid of those of any of the famous children of Lyman Beecher. In his Conflict of Ages (1853) was struck the earliest note of the liberal theology now dominant in the Congregational churches. The more important of his other works include Papal Conspiracy Exposed; Baptism; History of Opinions on the Scriptural Doctrine of Future Retribution. _Ap._ =Beecher, Mrs. Eunice White [Bullard].= _Ms._, 1812-1897. Wife of H. W. Beecher, _infra_. From Dawn to Daylight: a Simple Story; Motherly Talks with Young Housekeepers; All around the House, or How to Make Homes Happy; Letters from Florida; Mr. Beecher as I Knew Him. _Ap._ =Beecher, Henry Ward.= _Ct._, 1813-1887. Son of Lyman Beecher, _infra_. A Congregational clergyman widely famous as the pastor of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, 1847-87. He was an earnest, large-hearted man, though not a deep thinker, and his cheerful influence upon middle-class American thought was very extensive. His literary work can hardly be said to possess enduring excellence, and much of it is already forgotten, graphic and picturesque as it often is. Eyes and Ears; Life Thoughts; Star Papers; Yale Lectures on Preaching; Lectures to Young Men; Speeches on the American Rebellion; Doctrinal Beliefs and Unbeliefs; Life of Jesus the Christ. His only novel, Norwood, is a collection of successful character studies rather than a finished story. _See Parton’s Famous Americans; Lives by Lyman Abbott, 1883; J. Howard, 1887; Barrows, 1893; Henry Ward Beecher: a Study, 1891; Mr. Beecher as I Knew Him, by his wife; North American Review, vol. 144._ _Ap. Fo. Har._ =Beecher, Lyman.= _Ct._, 1775-1863. A Congregational clergyman of wide fame. While in Boston he was a zealous opponent of Unitarianism, and as president of Lane Theological Seminary at Cincinnati was noted as an outspoken enemy of slavery. He was a bold thinker, much in advance of his contemporaries. Sermons on Temperance; Views in Theology; Scepticism; Political Atheism. _See Life and Correspondence, edited by Charles Beecher, 1864._ _Har._ =Beecher, Thomas Kinnicut.= _Ct._, 1824-1900. Son of L. Beecher, _supra_. A Congregational clergyman of Elmira, N. Y. Our Seven Churches.