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1775 - Born on the 12th of October in New Haven, Connecticut.
Worked as a boy in an uncle's blacksmith shop and on his farm.
1797 - Graduated from Yale, having studied theology under Timothy Dwight.
1798-1810 - Preached in the Presbyterian church at East Hampton, Long Island and ordained in 1799.
1810-1826 - Congregational Church at Litchfield, Connecticut.
1814 - A series of six sermons on intemperance, which were reprinted frequently and greatly aided temperance reform.
1826-1832 - Hanover Street Church of Boston.
1833-1834 - Second Presbyterian Church of Cincinnati, Ohio.
President of the newly established Lane Theological Seminary at Walnut Hills, Cincinnati.
1832-1850 - Professor of didactic and polemic theology.
1836 - Accused of being a moderate Calvinist and was tried for heresy, but was acquitted.
He lived in Boston for a short time, devoting himself to literature.
1863 - He died on the 10th of January in Brooklyn, New York.
Father of Henry Ward Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe.
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