Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Beecher, Lyman

BEECHER, LYMAN, an American clergyman, born in New Haven, Conn., Oct. 2, 1775. His ancestors were Puritans. He graduated from Yale in 1796, and became pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Easthampton, L. I.; then of a Congregational church in Litchfield, Conn., in 1810; and then of the Hanover Street Congregational Church in Boston, Mass. In 1832 he became President of Lane Theological Seminary, near Cincinnati, O. His influence throughout the country was very great, especially on the questions of temperance and of slavery. His sermon on the death of Alexander Hamilton, in 1804, with his "Remedy for Dueling" (1809). 'I'd much toward breaking up the practice of dueling in the United States. His collected "Sermons and Addresses" were published in 1852. He died in Brooklyn, N. Y., June 10, 1863.