Morgan County IL Archives Biographies.....Beecher, William Henry 1802 - 1889
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Author: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary

BEECHER, William Henry, clergyman, was born at East Hampton, N.Y., Jan. 15, 
1802; the eldest son of Lyman and Roxana (Foote) Beecher. His father directed 
his studies until he entered Andover theological seminary. He was ordained a 
clergyman in the Congregational church in 1830, and took his first pastorate 
at Newport, R.I. In 1833 Yale college conferred upon him the honorary degree 
of A.M. He went to Ohio in 1837 and located in Putnam, Muskingum county. He 
remained in the Western Reserve some years, engaged in missionary work, and 
returned to New York to fill a pastorate at Batavia. He returned to Ohio and 
preached at Toledo, where he established a church, of which he was pastor for 
several years, and was made president of Illinois college, Jacksonville, in 
1843. The climate undermined his health, and he returned east and labored in 
Reading and North Brookfield, Mass., at which latter place he also served as 
postmaster. Upon the death of his wife he took up his residence with his 
daughters, Mary and Roxana, in Chicago, where he died June 23, 1889.

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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