Anecdotes of Henry Ward Beecher

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Henry ward beecher, the eighth child of Lyman and Roxana Foot Beecher, was born in Litchfield, Conn., June 24, 1813. From the days of Hannah Beecher, a widow who settled in New Hampshire in 1638, eighteen years after the landing of the Pilgrims, down to the present celebrated family of preachers and litterateurs, extends a long line of New England anoes tors, nearly all of whom were remarkable for physical prowess or intellectual vigor.