Henry Ward Beecher: An American PortraitPickle Partners Publishing, 2017 M01 12 - 413 pages First published in 1927, this is the acclaimed biography of Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887), the American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer and speaker best known for his support of the abolition of slavery. It was written by former American diplomat, journalist, author and humanitarian Paxton Hibben (1880-1928). “Mr. Hibben has written a great biography, and one of lasting value. It is not merely interesting; it is profound. But its historical scholarship does not lie like a leaden weight on the book; for Hibben’s style is graceful and delicate, sometimes almost gay. He is so saturated with Beecher knowledge that he writes without effort. In reading it one feels that Paxton Hibben understands Beecher better than anybody has ever understood him, and that this book is a permanent contribution to American history.”—W. E. Woodward |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 94
Page
... young gentlemen of Judge Tapping Reeve's Law School look out from their classroom upon the windows of the young ladies of the Female Academy. And once a month they meet, in Deacon Buel's ballroom or Old Grove Catlin's tavern, to dance ...
... young gentlemen of Judge Tapping Reeve's Law School look out from their classroom upon the windows of the young ladies of the Female Academy. And once a month they meet, in Deacon Buel's ballroom or Old Grove Catlin's tavern, to dance ...
Page
... Beecher's household. There is something infinitely pathetic in the picture ... Beecher dead was a tremendously more potent influence upon Henry Ward than ever she ... young ladies of Miss Sally Pierce's Female Academy.{44} It was quite a ...
... Beecher's household. There is something infinitely pathetic in the picture ... Beecher dead was a tremendously more potent influence upon Henry Ward than ever she ... young ladies of Miss Sally Pierce's Female Academy.{44} It was quite a ...
Page
... Beecher house, even after its capacity had been doubled by spending what was left of poor Roxana's tiny fortune.{45} There was Grandma Beecher ... young Henry Ward—there would scarcely have been room for them. But Aunt Esther might just as ...
... Beecher house, even after its capacity had been doubled by spending what was left of poor Roxana's tiny fortune.{45} There was Grandma Beecher ... young Henry Ward—there would scarcely have been room for them. But Aunt Esther might just as ...
Page
... children. It was not, however, for the sake of his children that Lyman Beecher went to Boston to “buy him a wife,” as the young ladies of the Female Academy maliciously put it.{49} He scarcely seems to have known very clearly how many ...
... children. It was not, however, for the sake of his children that Lyman Beecher went to Boston to “buy him a wife,” as the young ladies of the Female Academy maliciously put it.{49} He scarcely seems to have known very clearly how many ...
Page
... family, and set young Henry Ward in a way to have a new mother of rare parts and wide connections. But throughout his life, Henry Ward Beecher had little luck with women. He had none in his step-mother. Harriet Porter had passed the ...
... family, and set young Henry Ward in a way to have a new mother of rare parts and wide connections. But throughout his life, Henry Ward Beecher had little luck with women. He had none in his step-mother. Harriet Porter had passed the ...
Contents
PART IVSPRING TIDE 135 | |
CHAPTER XVI1860 136 | |
CHAPTER XVIIENGLAND 146 | |
CHAPTER XVIIIFORT SUMTER 158 | |
CHAPTER XIXLIVINGSTON STREET 172 | |
CHAPTER XXFALTER 186 | |
PART VCLIMAX 201 | |
CHAPTER XXVFALL 240 | |
PART VINEW LIFE 251 | |
CHAPTER XXVI1874 252 | |
CHAPTER XXVIICITY COURT 263 | |
CHAPTER XXVIIIHELL 278 | |
CHAPTER XXIXDELMONICOS 286 | |
CHAPTER XXXREDEMPTION 297 | |
ACKNOWLEDGMENT 311 | |
CHAPTER XXI1870 202 | |
CHAPTER XXIITHE UPPER ROOM 212 | |
CHAPTER XXIIIREMSEN STREET 222 | |
CHAPTER XXIVYALE 229 | |
SOURCES CITED 312 | |
REQUEST FROM THE PUBLISHER 326 | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Abolitionists adultery American Amherst anti-slavery audience Auto Birney Bonner Boston Bowen Brooklyn brother Bullard called Calvin Calvin Fletcher Catherine Charles Christ Christian Union Cincinnati congregation editor Elizabeth Elizabeth Cady Stanton Elizabeth Tilton emotional England Eunice Beecher Family Biog feel felt Frank Moulton Frémont God’s hand Harriet Harriet Beecher Stowe Hattie heart Henry Ward Beecher husband ibid Independent Indianapolis John Judge Fullerton July Ketcham knew ladies Lawrenceburgh letter Lib Tilton Lincoln Litchfield live Lyman Beecher mind minister moral Mount Pleasant N. Y. Sun N. Y. Tribune never Pastor Plymouth Church political preached preacher Presbyterian President Scandal Sept sermons slave slavery Society stood story suffrage Synod Theodore Tilton Theodore’s things thought told took truth Victoria Woodhull Ward’s Wendell Phillips whole wife William woman women wrote Yale Lectures York young Beecher