Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1895 — DR. EDWARD BEECHER. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

DR. EDWARD BEECHER.

He Was the Associate of His Brother, the Groat Plymouth Divine. The Rev. Dr. Edward Beecher was when he died in his 92nd year. The venerable clergyman had enjoyed good health all his life and sank gradually into a state of coma, which continued for ten hours before his death, as in the case of his most distinguished brother, Henry Ward Beecher. Edward Beecher was the third son of the famous Dr. Lyman Beecher by his first wife, and was born at Easthampton, L. 1., on August 27, 18011. He was prepared for college under his father’s care, and was graduated from Yale in 1822. For the tout following years he was tutor in the Hartford High School and at Yale. All through his life he was an ardent advocate of physical culture and healthy athletics, and while a tutor at Yale he incurred the criticism of his superiors by engaging in a game of quoits with the pupils. Later on an article from his pen in the Christian Spectator on “The Duty of an Equitable Culture of All the Powers,’’ in which he made a strong plea for healthy physical culture, attracted wide attention and gave a marked stimulus to *’ cultivation of college sports.

Dr. Beecher began his career as a minister in 1826 as the pastor of the Park Street Congregational Church in Boston. He retired from this charge in 1880 to become the President of the Illinois College at Jacksonville, where he remained for fourteen years. In 1844 be accepted a call to the Salem Church in Boston. His second Boston pastorage terminated in 1856, when ho took charge of the Congregational Church at Galesburg, 111. He remained there until 1862, when ho came to Brooklyn to assist his brother, Henry Ward Beecher, in the editorial management of the Christian Union. While engaged on the Christian Union he organized several Congregatlonalist churches in New Jersey. In 1785 he again put on the ministerial harness, and took charge of the little Congregational Church at Parkville, L. 1. From the time of his arrival in Brooklyn in 1872 his home was In the Mason street house in Brooklyn, and in spite of his advanced agehe made almost dally trips to Parkville to attend to his pistoral duties. One night in April, 1889, while returning from Parkville after prayer meeting services, he was run over by a train at the Culver station at Ninth avenue and Twentieth street, and had one leg so badly crushed that it had to be amputated. To the surprise of the doctors he survived his injuries, and within a few months was restored apparently to his usual robust health. His widow was a Miss Jones, and they celebrated their sixty-fifth wedding anniversary on October 27.1894. Their two sons are the Rev. Fred. W. Beecher, o» Angelica, N. Y., and Eugene F. Beecher, of Brooklyn.

THE LATE DR, EDWARD BEECHER.