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Henry Ward Beecher   /hˈɛnri wɔrd bˈitʃər/   Listen
Henry Ward Beecher

noun
1.
United States clergyman who was a leader for the abolition of slavery (1813-1887).  Synonym: Beecher.






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"Henry Ward Beecher" Quotes from Famous Books



... Major-General William T. Sherman, whose military operations compelled the rebels to evacuate Charleston, or, in his absence, under the charge of Major-General Q. A. Gilmore, commanding the department. Among the ceremonies will be the delivery of a public address by the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher. ...
— The Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman, Complete • William T. Sherman

... all the record I have of this particular trip. The Mr. Beecher referred to was the father of Henry Ward Beecher. ...
— Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals - In Two Volumes, Volume I. • Samuel F. B. Morse

... imagination making my evening visits to the patients in the New-York Infirmary; while all the members present (and there were unusually many; I think, six or seven) discussed the question the next day among their circles of friends, whether Henry Ward Beecher or a physician of high standing should make the ...
— A Practical Illustration of Woman's Right to Labor - A Letter from Marie E. Zakrzewska, M.D. Late of Berlin, Prussia • Marie E. Zakrzewska

... 15, 1820, when Susan B. Anthony was born, Emerson was a youth of seventeen; Henry Ward Beecher was a child of seven and Harriet Beecher Stowe a year his junior; Wendell Phillips was nine, Whittier thirteen, and Wm. Lloyd Garrison fifteen years of age. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was four years old, and Lucy Stone, Julia Ward Howe and James Russell Lowell were Miss Anthony's ...
— The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) • Ida Husted Harper

... the championship of Canada. He was a personality of the city of the sixties. The author of the curious volume thought it necessary to tell of his career as he told of the career of A.T. Stewart, and Henry Ward Beecher, and the particular Astor of the day, and the particular Vanderbilt, Fernando Wood, and Leonard W. Jerome, and George Law, and James Gordon Bennett, the elder, and Daniel Drew, and General Halpin, and half a dozen more ...
— Fifth Avenue • Arthur Bartlett Maurice



Words linked to "Henry Ward Beecher" :   abolitionist, clergyman, man of the cloth, emancipationist, reverend



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