Henry Ward Beecher

GPTKB entity

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:person
gptkbp:advocatesFor gptkb:Darwinism
temperance
reconciliation after the Civil War
gptkbp:almaMater gptkb:Amherst_College
gptkbp:associatedWith gptkb:suffragist
gptkb:Beecher_family
abolitionist movement
gptkbp:awardReceived honorary degrees from Yale and Harvard
gptkbp:birthDate 1813-06-24
gptkbp:birthPlace gptkb:Litchfield,_Connecticut,_United_States
gptkbp:burialPlace gptkb:Green-Wood_Cemetery
gptkbp:causeOfDeath stroke
gptkbp:deathDate 1887-03-08
gptkbp:deathPlace gptkb:Brooklyn,_New_York,_United_States
gptkbp:editor gptkb:The_Independent
gptkb:Christian_Union
gptkbp:education gptkb:Lane_Theological_Seminary
gptkbp:era 19th century
gptkbp:honor statue in Brooklyn, New York
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Henry Ward Beecher
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:American_Protestantism
gptkbp:influencedBy gptkb:Lyman_Beecher
gptkbp:knownFor gptkb:Plymouth_Church,_Brooklyn
support for women's suffrage
anti-slavery activism
gptkbp:memberOf gptkb:American_Anti-Slavery_Society
gptkbp:nationality gptkb:American
gptkbp:notableWork gptkb:Lectures_on_Preaching
Plymouth Church sermons
gptkbp:occupation gptkb:abolitionist
gptkb:priest
gptkb:social_reform
gptkbp:parent gptkb:Lyman_Beecher
gptkb:Roxana_Foote_Beecher
gptkbp:portrait Henry Ward Beecher by Mathew Brady, c. 1860s
gptkbp:preachedIn gptkb:Plymouth_Church,_Brooklyn
gptkb:Second_Presbyterian_Church,_Indianapolis
gptkbp:religion gptkb:Congregationalism
gptkbp:residence gptkb:Brooklyn,_New_York,_United_States
gptkbp:sibling gptkb:Catharine_Beecher
gptkb:Harriet_Beecher_Stowe
gptkb:Edward_Beecher
gptkbp:signature Henry Ward Beecher signature.svg
gptkbp:spouse gptkb:Eunice_White_Bullard
gptkbp:subjectOf gptkb:Beecher-Tilton_scandal
gptkbp:wrote gptkb:Life_of_Jesus,_the_Christ
gptkb:Norwood:_or,_Village_Life_in_New_England
gptkb:Star_Papers
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Harriet_Beecher_Stowe
gptkbp:bfsLayer 4