List of Famous people with last name Beecher

Henry K. Beecher

First Name Henry
Last Name Beecher
Born on February 4, 1904
Died on July 25, 1976 (aged 72)

Henry Knowles Beecher was a pioneering American anesthesiologist, medical ethicist, and investigator of the placebo effect at Harvard Medical School.

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Thomas Beecher

First Name Thomas
Last Name Beecher
Born on January 1, 1640
Died on October 10, 1709 (aged 69)

Colonel Thomas Be(e)cher JP was an Irish politician and soldier. The family's surname varies in its spelling, caused by its pronunciation.

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Henry Ward Beecher

First Name Henry
Last Name Beecher
Died on March 8, 1887

Henry Ward Beecher was an American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker, known for his support of the abolition of slavery, his emphasis on God's love, and his 1875 adultery trial. His rhetorical focus on Christ's love has influenced mainstream Christianity to this day.

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Lyman Beecher

First Name Lyman
Last Name Beecher
Died on January 10, 1863

Lyman Beecher was a Presbyterian minister, American Temperance Society co-founder and leader, and the father of 13 children, many of whom became noted figures, including Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry Ward Beecher, Charles Beecher, Edward Beecher, Isabella Beecher Hooker, Catharine Beecher, and Thomas K. Beecher.

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Catharine Beecher

First Name Catharine
Died on May 12, 1878

Catharine Esther Beecher was an American educator known for her forthright opinions on female education as well as her vehement support of the many benefits of the incorporation of kindergarten into children's education. She published the advice manual The American Woman's Home with her sister Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1869.

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Charles Emerson Beecher

First Name Charles
Last Name Beecher
Born on October 9, 1856
Died on February 14, 1904 (aged 47)

Charles Emerson Beecher was an American paleontologist most famous for the thorough excavation, preparation and study of trilobite ventral anatomy from specimens collected at Beecher's Trilobite Bed. Beecher was rapidly promoted at Yale Peabody Museum, eventually rising to head that institution.

"Quiet, unassuming, modest in a very marked degree, simple, without affectation, entirely free from all eccentricities, conscientious and painstaking in every thing he had to do. In the words of Professor Chittenden, Director of the Sheffield Scientific School '.. .. to those who knew Professor Beecher intimately no words of appreciation will be deemed too extravagant, for close association only brought more clearly to view the many mental traits that testified to the strength of character and of mind that helped to make Professor Beecher one of the strong men of the Scientific School.' "

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Michael Beecher

First Name Michael
Last Name Beecher
Born on April 8, 1674
Died on January 1, 1726 (aged 51)

Michael Beecher was an Irish politician.

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William Beecher

First Name William
Last Name Beecher
Born on April 24, 1628
Died on December 5, 1694 (aged 66)

Sir William Beecher was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1667 to 1679.

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