Beecher, Lyman
clergyman, author, was born Oct. 2, 1775, in New Haven, Conn. He was 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. He was the author of Sermons on Temperance; Views in Theology; Scepticism; and Political Atheism. He died Jan. 10, 1863, in Brooklyn, N. Y.