Morgan County IL Archives Biographies.....Beecher, Edward 1803 - 1895
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Author: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary

BEECHER, Edward, educator, was born at East Hampton, L.I., N.Y. Aug. 27, 1803, 
son of Lyman and Roxana (Foote) Beecher. He was graduated at Yale in 1822; 
fitted for the ministry at Andover, Mass., and New Haven, Conn., and was a 
tutor in the Hartford high school and at Yale, in 1825. He was pastor of the 
Park St. Congregational church, Boston, Mass., 1826-30, president of Illinois 
college, Jacksonville Ill., 1830-44, pastor of the Salem St. church, Boston, 
1844-55, and of the Congregational church at Galesburg, Ill., 1855-70. He was 
also professor of Biblical exegesis in the Chicago theological seminary, 
became assistant to his brother in the editorial management of the Christian 
Union at Brooklyn, N.Y. in 1872, and pastor of the Congregational church at 
Parkville, N.Y. in 1885. He was also editor-in-charge of the Congregationalist 
for several years. He was run over by a railroad train in 1888 and although he 
had his leg amputated, entirely recovered from the shock. The degree of D.D. 
was conferred upon Mr. Beecher by Marietta college in 1841. His best known 
works are: The Conflict of Ages and The Concord of Ages, in which he announces 
the view that man is in a progressive state; the present life being the 
outcome of a former one, and the preparation of another life after death. 
Evil, however, will continue in the future life, and the struggle between it 
and good will still go on until some far-off future, when evil will be finally 
subdued, and universal harmony be forever established. The utterance of such 
radical views in regard to the future life necessarily made a profound 
impression upon the thought of the day and aroused much comment. His 
publications include: Address on the Kingdom of God (1827); Six Sermons on the 
Nature, Importance and Means of Eminent Holiness throughout the Church (1835); 
Statement of Anti-slavery Principles (1837); History of the Alton Riots 
(1838); Baptism: its Import and Modes (1850); The Conflict of Ages (1853); The 
Concord of Ages (1860); History of Opinions on the Scriptural Doctrines of 
Future Retribution (1878), and The Papal Conspiracy (1885). He died at his 
home in Brooklyn, N.Y., July 28, 1895.

Additional Comments:
Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans.
Vol. I-X. Rossiter Johnson, editor. Boston MA: The Biographical Society. 1904.

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