Henry Ward Beecher





Henry Ward Beecher

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born
in The United States
June 24, 1813

died
March 08, 1887

gender
male

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About this author

Henry Ward Beecher (June 24, 1813 – March 8, 1887) was a prominent, theologically liberal American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, abolitionist, and speaker in the mid to late 19th Century.

An 1875 adultery trial in which he was accused of having an affair with a married woman was one of the most famous American trials of the Nineteenth century.


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