Lyman Beecher

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Lyman Beecher was a prominent 19th-century American Presbyterian minister and revivalist leader known for his influential role in the Second Great Awakening and his strong advocacy of temperance and social reform.

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instanceOf Christian clergyman
Presbyterian minister
human
revivalist
social reformer
temperance advocate
birthDate 1775-10-12
birthPlace New Haven, Connecticut
child Catharine Beecher
Edward Beecher
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Henry Ward Beecher
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
deathDate 1863-01-10
deathPlace Brooklyn, New York
educatedAt Yale College
Yale Divinity School
employer Lane Theological Seminary
familyName Beecher
givenName Lyman
influenced Harriet Beecher Stowe
Henry Ward Beecher
influencedBy Jonathan Edwards
New England theology
memberOf American Temperance Society
movement Second Great Awakening
name Lyman Beecher
notableFor advocacy of temperance
anti-Catholic activism
leadership in the Second Great Awakening
support for Protestant moral reform
notableWork Plea for the West
Six Sermons on Intemperance
Views in Theology
occupation educator
minister
theologian
positionHeld pastor of Bowdoin Street Church, Boston
pastor of East Hampton Presbyterian Church
pastor of Hanover Street Church, Boston
pastor of Litchfield Congregational Church
president of Lane Theological Seminary
religion Presbyterianism
Protestantism
sexOrGender male
spouse Harriet Porter Beecher
Lydia Beals Jackson Beecher
Roxana Foote Beecher
workLocation Connecticut
Massachusetts
Ohio


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