Henry Ward Beecher was an 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 Ward Beecher was the son of Lyman Beecher, a Calvinist minister who became one of the best-known evangelists of his age. Several of his brothers and sisters became well-known educators and activists most notably Harriet Beecher Stowe who achieved worldwide fame with her abolitionist novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Henry Ward Beecher graduated from Amherst College in 1834 and Lane Theological Seminary in 1837 before serving as a minister in Lawrenceburg, Indiana and Indianapolis, Indiana.
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