Beecher, Edward
clergyman, author, was born Aug. 27, 1803, in East Hampton, N. Y., and was a son of L.
Beecher. He was 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; and History of Opinions on the Scriptural Doctrine of Future Retribution. He died in 1895.
BEECHER, MRS. EUNICE WHITE, author, was born Aug. 26, 1812, in West Sutton, Mass., and was the wife of H.
W. Beecher. She was the author of 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; and Mr. Beecher as I Knew Him. She died in 1897.