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	Henry Ward Beecher - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Henry was the eighth child of Roxana Foote and Lyman Beecher, pastor of an established Congregationalist church in Litchfield, Connecticut.
		Beecher died of a cerebral hemorrhage and is buried in Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery.
		Beecher, Illinois, is his namesake, although he declined to come to the town's dedication in 1871.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Henry_Ward_Beecher (1540 words)

	Henry Ward Beecher
		Henry War Beecher was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, the son of Lyman Beecher, a prominent Congregationalist minister and educator.
		Beecher graduated from Amherst College in 1834 and studied at Lane Theological Seminary where his father was serving as president.
		In 1854 Beecher and his congregation were strongly opposed to the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, and launched a fund-raising drive to purchase rifles to arm the antislavery forces in the territories.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h729.html (398 words)

	AMAsearchdetail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Henry Ward Beecher was born in Litchfield, Connecticut.
		In 1847 Beecher moved to New York to become pastor of the Plymouth Congregational Church in Brooklyn, and from this platform he achieved national recognition.
		Beecher favored Woman Suffrage, advocated the theory of evolution, and was a leader in the antislavery movement.
	www.fofweb.com /onfiles/ama/amasearchdetail.asp?recordpin=4008 (134 words)

	American Passages - Unit 6. Gothic Undercurrents: Authors
		Born in Litchfield, Connecticut, Henry Ward Beecher was the son of the preacher Lyman Beecher and the brother of the novelist Harriet Beecher Stowe.
		Beecher graduated from Amherst in 1834 and attended Lane Theological Seminary in Cincinnati.
		Publicly vocal on contemporary issues, Beecher was a leader in the antislavery movement, a proponent of women's suffrage, and an advocate of the theory of evolution.
	www.learner.org /amerpass/unit06/authors-1.html (318 words)

	HarpWeek \| Elections \| 1864 Biographies
		In 1847 Beecher was hired as a minister by Plymouth Church, recently founded by liberal Congregationalists in Brooklyn, New York.
		Guns used by the antislavery forces in Kansas were sarcastically referred to as "Beecher’s Bibles." He campaigned for the new antislavery Republican party and soon became influential in its ranks.
		Beecher interpreted the thesis as dovetailing nicely with his view of progress in the cultural and religious realms, and his lectures emphasized the compatibility of science and religion.
	elections.harpweek.com /1864/bio-1864-Full.asp?UniqueID=2&Year=1864 (794 words)

	Beecher Bibles
		He (Henry W. Beecher) believed that the Sharps Rifle was a truly moral agency, and that there was more moral power in one of those instruments, so far as the slaveholders of Kansas were concerned, than in a hundred Bibles.
		read the Bible to Buffaloes as to those fellows who follow Atchison and Stringfellow; buy they have a supreme respect for the logic that is embodied in Sharp's rifle.
		Although Beecher's Bible is the most common name for the Sharps and considerable numbers were shipped as books and Bibles, there is some evidence they were also shipped as other items, such as machinery and medicine.
	www.kshs.org /portraits/beecher_bibles.htm (202 words)

	Books at Random House of Canada \| The Most Famous Man in America by Debby Applegate
		Beecher inserted himself into nearly every important drama of the era—among them the antislavery and women’s suffrage movements, the rise of the entertainment industry and tabloid press, and controversies ranging from Darwinian evolution to presidential politics.
		In 1872 Beecher was accused by feminist firebrand Victoria Woodhull of adultery with one of his most pious parishioners.
		Beecher survived, but his reputation and his causes—from women’s rights to progressive evangelicalism—suffered devastating setbacks that echo to this day.
	www.randomhouse.ca /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780385513968 (814 words)

	Beecher, Henry W.
		Henry Ward Beecher was born on June 24, 1813, in Litchfield, Connecticut.
		Beecher so opposed slavery that, following passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854, he sent rifles to anti-slavery forces participating in “Bleeding Kansas.” These guns became known as “Beecher's bibles,” because they arrived in Kansas in crates marked “bibles.” During the American Civil War, Beecher's church equipped an entire regiment of Union soldiers.
		The Plymouth Church directors concluded that Beecher was innocent of the accusation, and he remained minister of the church until his death on March 8, 1887.
	www.ohiohistorycentral.org /entry.php?rec=54 (336 words)

	AmericanHeritage.com / The Sex Scandal of the Nineteenth Century
		As a minister and influential public figure, Beecher weighed in on pretty much every important debate during his lifetime—and he also happened to be the main player in one of the biggest sex scandals of his time, a scandal so big that some say it generated more headlines than the entire Civil War.
		Beecher, of whom this is the first major biography in decades, wore his hair long and flowing, and open-necked shirts and ill-fitting suits.
		Her husband, originally an assistant to Beecher at the Independent, a newspaper where the latter was a star contributor, developed suspicions about the relationship between his wife and her minister and badgered Elizabeth until she admitted to an affair.
	www.americanheritage.com /people/articles/web/20060622-henry-beecher-ward-debby-applegate-sex-scandal-harriet-beecher-stowe-abolitionism.shtml (1019 words)

	African American Registry: Henry W. Beecher spoke against slaverry!
		The eighth son of the Rev. Lyman Beecher, was from Litchfield, Connecticut, the brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe, he was educated at the Lane Theological Seminary before becoming a Presbyterian minister in Lawrenceburg and Indianapolis.
		Beecher condemned the passing of the Kansas-Nebraska bill from his pulpit and helped to raise funds to supply weapons to those willing to oppose slavery in those territories.
		These rifles became known as “Beecher's Bibles.” John Brown and five of his sons were some of the volunteers who headed for Kansas.
	www.aaregistry.com /african_american_history/1653/Henry_W_Beecher_spoke_against_slaverry (242 words)

	Our people pages
		Henry Ward Beecher, the eighth son of the Rev. Lyman Beecher, was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, on 24th June, 1813.
		The brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe, he was educated at the Lane Theological Seminary before becoming a Presbyterian minister in Lawrenceburg (1837-39) and Indianapolis (1839-47).
		Beecher moved to Plymouth Church, Brooklyn in 1847.
	www.livinglifefully.com /people/henrywardbeecher.htm (251 words)

	Beecher: Abolitionist, preacher, lover \| csmonitor.com
		Beecher was also ambitious, starting out ministering to a tiny flock in rural Indiana, moving up to Indianapolis, and finally on to Brooklyn's prestigious Plymouth Church, where some of the nation's leading merchants and intellectuals worshiped.
		Beecher continually attacked the "sin" of slavery, but, as Applegate points out, he was far less radical than abolitionists such as William Lloyd Garrison and John Brown.
		Beecher's gradualism, however, perfectly suited the fledgling Republican Party; he was a major booster of Abraham Lincoln's 1860 candidacy.
	www.csmonitor.com /2006/0711/p16s01-bogn.html (868 words)

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		Beecher was born on June 24, 1813 in Litchfield, Connecticut, the youngest son of Lyman and Roxana Beecher.
		Beecher quickly imposed his energetic preaching style upon Plymouth Church and the congregation grew in number as the young minister became known for his dynamic and affective style, which appealed not just to local Brooklynites, but to ferry-loads of Manhattan residents and tourists from throughout the country.
		Beecher was a prominent figure in the anti-slavery movement and a key supporter of the Union during the War and many in his congregation followed suit.
	www.brooklynhistory.org /sgml/Beecher.sgm (8388 words)

	New York Observer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The comparison is not only apt (Beecher and Whitman were close contemporaries and fellow Brooklyn residents, and the poet much admired the preacher; both conveyed optimism toward the American experiment in language brimming with roving, restless energy), it’s also useful, serving to acquaint the reader with the nearly forgotten (Beecher) via the widely familiar (Whitman).
		Beecher lived in Brooklyn Heights, where “Until five in the afternoon, a man of working age … seemed as rare as hen’s teeth.” As pastor to the Brooklyn bourgeois and nouveau-riche “shoddy aristocracy,” Beecher was one such tooth.
		The rifles were dubbed “Beecher’s Bibles.” He was an early Republican favoring the extinction of slavery, yet not radical enough to call himself an abolitionist.
	www.observer.com /printpage.asp?iid=12979&ic=Books+5 (1421 words)

	Henry Ward Beecher
		Lyman Beecher, was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, on 24th June, 1813.
		The brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe, he was educated at the Lane Theological Seminary before becoming a Presbyterian minister in Lawrenceburg (1837-39) and Indianapolis (1839-4
		Beecher condemned the passing of the Kansas-Nebraska bill from his pulpit and helped to raise funds to supply weapons to those willing to oppose slavery in these territor
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USASbeecher.htm (219 words)

	beecher
		The rifles, too, were placed in crates marked "Bibles" so that they would not arouse suspicion on their journey west.
		This is where the term "Beecher's Bibles" came into being.
		This is Henry Ward Beecher, and it all links back to this small community and stone church.
	www.kansasphototour.com /beecher.htm (532 words)

	Beecher Bible & Rifle Colony Bibliography, Kansas State Historical Society
		"Beecher Bible and Rifle Church of Wabaunsee Resolution." House Journal Proceedings of the House of Representatives of the Legislature of the State of Kansas.
		N.A. "Eightieth Anniversary of the Beecher Bible and Rifle Colony at Wabaunsee, May 30, 1936." Wabaunsee County Truth 13 (July 1936): 1-4.
		"Beecher Bible and Rifle Church." The Architecture of the United States.
	www.kshs.org /research/collections/documents/bibliographies/colonies/beecher_bible_rifle.htm (502 words)

	Footnoting and Beecher's Bibles (Morris) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		"Bibles", and even, as H-S says hidden under a layer of bibles.
		congregation furnished a shipment of 25 Sharps rifles and 25 Bibles.
		"Beecher's Bible" Church; it is in Waubansee county, which raised a
	www.h-net.org /~shear/thread/footnoting_and_beecher_s_bibles.htm (339 words)

	Harriet Beecher Stowe, Lyman Beecher, and Henry War Beecher by the Mathew Brady Studio
		Harriet Beecher Stowe, Lyman Beecher, and Henry Ward Beecher
		In this photograph, Harriet Beecher Stowe sits with her father, Lyman Beecher (1775–1863), and her brother, Henry Ward Beecher (1813–1887).
		In Kansas, Sharps rifles became known as Beecher’s Bibles.
	www.civilwar.si.edu /slavery_stowe5.html (129 words)

	Beecher Bible Rifle Colony
		This series consists of printed and typescript histories of the "Beecher Bible and Rifle Colony," correspondence about the colony, and photographs of the church built by the members of the colony.
		The Beecher Bible and Rifle Colony consisted of a group of Connecticut citizens who gathered together to emigrate to the Kansas Territory to support the free soil/anti-slavery movement there.
		Officially known as the Connecticut Kansas Colony, it became popularly known as the Beecher Bible and Rifle Colony after Rev. Henry Ward Beecher raised money to purchase 25 rifles for the colony members and one of his parishioners donated 25 Bibles.
	www.uri.edu /library/special_collections/registers/manuscripts/burtbock/seriesV.html (238 words)

	Dr. B's Homepage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Mormons are characterized by their preference to be set apart from the rest of the community, apparent in their views, which were antebellum in the time the religion was born.
		"Beecher’s Bibles": Because the abolitionist government in Kansas was organized in 1856, a pro-slavery posse armed with guns mobbed through the town.
		Harriet Beecher Stowe: Stowe was an abolitionist writer who wrote powerful novels attacking slavery both before and after the Civil War in such novels as Dred, A Tale of Great Dismal Swamp (1856) and The Minister’s Wooing (1859).
	myschoolonline.com /page/0,1871,999-126152-1-77900,00.html (10761 words)

	March 8: Henry Ward Beecher died
		Audiences flocked to hear Henry Ward Beecher despite controversy--or because of it.
		Like his sister Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry was a strong opponent of slavery.
		Obviously, he was a popular spokesmen for a liberal theology; but just what he actually believed is hard to pin down as it shifted over the years.
	chi.gospelcom.net /DAILYF/2003/03/daily-03-08-2003.shtml (696 words)

	OpinionJournal - Thinking Things Over
		Such was the influence "Uncle Tom's Cabin" that Lincoln is said to have called Harriet Beecher Stowe "the little woman who started this great war." The Rev. Lyman Beecher was father to Harriet and Henry Ward and also Edward, pastor of Park Street Church when Garrison spoke there.
		Henry Ward Beecher, though, was brought to Brooklyn specifically to found an antislavery congregation.
		A major financial backer was Lewis Tappan, the wealthy businessman prominently featured in Stephen Spielberg's "Amistad." The film displayed the religious element as an almost comical band of protestors, though Tappan, the brains and money behind the court decision freeing the Amistad slaves, was a man from a deeply religious background.
	www.opinionjournal.com /columnists/rbartley?id=90000435 (1063 words)

	The Gospel of Love
		Preachers and commentators, even the most influential, are particularly prone to this fate, for their power lies in spoken or hastily written words -- words addressed to occasions that burn bright for those experiencing them but that may not resonate beyond the given moment.
		Congregants from Manhattan came to his Plymouth Church in Brooklyn in what were known as "Beecher Boats," and Beecher's embrace of abolition during the Civil War era earned him the privilege of delivering the first remarks as Union troops reclaimed Fort Sumter.
		The verdict on Beecher's significance in the history of American religion, though, is clear.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/06/AR2006070600968.html (833 words)

	Across Five Aprils: People: Henry Ward Beecher
		The brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry Beecher was born in Litchfield, Connecticut on June 24, 1813.
		During the American Civil War, Beecher’s church raised and equipped a volunteer regiment that fought for the Union.
		After the war, however, he spoke in favor of reconciliation.
	www.kenanderson.net /educate/html/beecher3.html (162 words)

	Types of Cartridges
		It was used in the Sharps Sporting and Military Arms before and during the Civil War.
		Every student of arms history is familiar with the Sharps "Beecher's Bibles".
		These were the rifles sent into Kansas in 1857 in boxes labeled "Beecher's Bibles".
	www.cartridgeid.com /Types.html (1129 words)

	Bleeding Kansas
		By the summer of 1855, approximately 1,200 New Englanders had made the journey to the new territory, armed to fight for freedom.
		The abolitionist minister Henry Ward Beecher furnished settlers with Sharps rifles, which came to be known as "Beecher's Bibles."
		Rumors had spread through the South that 20,000 Northerners were descending on Kansas, and in November 1854, thousands of armed Southerners, mostly from Missouri, poured over the line to vote for a proslavery congressional delegate.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/aia/part4/4p2952.html (1284 words)

	Bleeding Kansas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		These organizations helped to establish Free-State settlements in Topeka, Manhattan, and Lawrence.
		The abolitionist preacher Henry Ward Beecher collected funds to arm like-minded settlers with Sharps carbines, leading the precision rifles to become known as "Beecher's Bibles".
		By the summer of 1855, approximately 1,200 New Englanders had made the journey to the new territory, armed and ready to fight.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bloody_Kansas (1226 words)

	Intercollegiate Studies Institute - Forum - The War for Righteousness - Part III
		Gladden was captivated by Beecher's proclamation that he would give his own life "cheerfully and easily" for a slave's freedom.
		Foreshadowing the pulpit rhetoric of nearly sixty years later, Beecher on the eve of the Civil War urged his congregation to sacrifice themselves, claiming that "a heroic deed, in which one yields up his life for others, is his Calvary."
		Apparently just about anything could be "consecrated to the service of God and of humanity," for this was the church that had sent "Beecher's Bibles" to the Kansas Territory in 1854 and that would declare war on Germany in 1917 ahead of Wilson and the Congress.
	www.isi.org /forum/war_for_righteousness/gamble3.html (2603 words)

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