Lyman Beecher was a notable American Presbyterian clergyman from Colonial New Haven, Connecticut. - AsNotedIn
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| 1775/10/12 | Esther Hawley Lyman, wife of David Beecher, gives birth to a son, Lyman Beecher, in New Haven, Connecticut. | Born | |||||
| 1793/09/00 | Fitted for college by the Rev Thomas W Bray, Lyman Beecher begins attending Yale College. | Education | Yale Old Campus | New Haven, CT | |||
| 1795/00/00 | On vacations as a student at Yale, Lyman Beecher visits his aunt, Catherine Lyman, and her husband, Lot Benton. Mr and Mrs Benton adopted Lyman when he was a child. | Family Home | Benton-Beecher House | Guilford | |||
| 1797/06/00 | Lyman Beecher graduates from Yale College. | Education | Yale Old Campus | New Haven, CT | |||
| 1798/00/00 | Lyman Beecher attends Yale Divinity School under the tutelage of Timothy Dwight. | Education | Yale Old Campus | New Haven, CT | |||
| 1810/00/00 | Rev Lyman Beecher becomes pastor of the First Congregational Church (lost). | Vocation | First Congregational Church of Litchfield | Litchfield, CT | |||
| 1814/00/00 | Rev Lyman Beecher's fame as a preacher attracts people to the church. Six sermons on intemperance that he delivers in the church in 1814 are widely republished and are considered to have been influential in advancing the cause of temperance. | Vocation | First Congregational Church of Litchfield | Litchfield, CT | |||
| 1826/00/00 | While in Litchfield Beecher gains widespread attention for his preaching against Unitarianism, which he regarded as heresy. Beecher's eloquence in his opposition to Unitarianism led to his being invited in 1826 to serve a church in Boston. | Vocation | First Congregational Church of Litchfield | Litchfield, CT | |||
| 1829/00/00 | Lyman Beecher sells the Benton property, left to him by Lot Benton, to the Congregational church who move the building by 35 yoke of oxen to its present location on Whitfield Street. A new meeting house will be constructed in its place. | Home | Benton-Beecher House | Guilford | |||
| 1831/00/00 | St John the Evangelist, Bowdoin St, is built for the Bowdoin Street Congregational Society, led by the Rev Dr Lyman Beecher. | Vocation | St John the Evangelist Church and Rectory | Boston | |||
| 1863/01/10 | Lyman Beecher dies in Brooklyn, New York. He is buried in Grove Street Cemetery in New Haven, Connecticut. | Died | Grove Street Cemetery | New Haven, CT |
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