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Catharine Esther Beecher

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Catharine Esther Beecher 1800-1878, American educator, b. East Hampton, N.Y.; daughter of Lyman Beecher. She first taught in New London, Conn., and in 1824 founded a girls' school in Hartford. Later she organized the Western Female Institute in Cincinnati (1832) and similar institutions in Quincy, Ill., Milwaukee, and Burlington, Iowa. Author of works on religion, health, and domestic science (which she introduced in her schools), Beecher was indefatigable in the promotion of liberal education for women, although she opposed woman suffrage. Bibliography: See biographies by M. E. Harveson... Read more
Catharine (Esther) Beecher
...popular Treatise on Domestic Economy (1841) helped standardize domestic practices while reinforcing the belief that a woman's proper place was in the home. Catharine (Esther) Beecher Catharine (Esther) Beecher Catharine (Esther) Beecher Read more
Henry Ward Beecher
...son of a minister, he was the brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Catharine Esther Beecher . After graduating from Amherst College and later...acquitted and returned to his church. Henry Ward Beecher Henry Ward Beecher Henry Ward Beecher Read more

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