Clergyman; born in
New Haven, Conn., Oct. 2, 1775; was graduated at Yale in 1797, and ordained in 1799.
In 1832 he accepted the presidency of lance Seminary.
Cincinnati, and served the seminary in that capacity twenty years. He had seven sons, all of whom became Congregational clergymen — William, Edward, George.
Henry Ward, Charles,
Thomas, and James.
His daughters were
Catharine Beecher,
Harriet Beecher Stowe,
Mary Beecher Perkins, and
Isabella Beecher Hooker.
He died in
Brooklyn, Jan. 10, 1863.
