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May 14, 2018 · Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887), American Congregational clergyman, was an outstanding preacher and lecturer. He was probably the best known and most influential Protestant minister in the United States between 1850 and 1887.
The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher, by Debby Applegate (Doubleday) - The Pulitzer Prizes. This website uses cookies as well as similar tools and technologies to understand visitors' experiences.
Henry Ward Beecher. Prominent Congregational minister, abolitionist and social reformer, Henry Ward Beecher embodied the transition of American Protestantism from stern Calvinism to a...
Henry Ward Beecher was regarded as the most popular Christian minister in the United States for more than 30 years of his life. From the 1850s to the 1880s, Beecher spoke to large congregations every week.
The Most Famous Man in America, web resource of Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Henry Ward Beecher by Debby Applegate.
After two pastorates in Indiana, he moved in 1847 to the newly organized Congregational Plymouth Church in Brooklyn, New York. 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.
(June 24, 1813-Mar. 9, 1887). Beecher was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, son of the famous Presbyterian minister and revivalist Lyman Beecher. A graduate of Amherst College and Lane Theological Seminary, in 1837 Beecher became pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Lawrenceburg, Indiana.
