About Edward Beecher
Edward Beecher (August 27, 1803 – July 28, 1895) was an American theologian, the son of Lyman Beecher and the brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Henry Ward Beecher. == Biography == Beecher was born August 27, 1803, in East Hampton, New York. He graduated from Yale College in 1822. After this, he studied theology at Andover Theological School. In 1826, he became the pastor of Park Street Church in Boston, Massachusetts. Beecher hoped to inspire more Biblical purity among parishioners and, as a result, disciplinary actions at the Park Street Church were at an all-time high under Beecher's tenure. He married Isabella (Porter) Jones in 1829 and together they had eleven children. In 1830, he became the first president of Illinois College at Jacksonville, Illinois, where he remained president for 14 years. He was a close friend of Elijah P. Lovejoy and helped organize the first anti-slavery society in Illinois. His wife, Isabella, wrote to his sister, Harriet Beecher Stowe, to inspire her to write Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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