Beecher Family - Family Tree

Family Tree

The following is a brief family tree of the Lyman Beecher family, and its many notable members :

1. Lyman Beecher (1775–1863), son of David Beecher and Esther Hawley Lyman, married first to Roxana Foote (1775–1816) in 1799 and had 9 children; Yale graduate

i. Catharine Esther Beecher (1800–1878) was an educator and women's-rights activist

ii. William Henry Beecher (1802–1889), a Congregational minister in Ohio, New York, and Massachusetts

iii. Edward Beecher (1803–1895) helped organize Illinois' first anti-slavery society, Yale graduate; married Isabella Jones

iv. Mary Foote Beecher (1805–1900), married Thomas Clapp Perkins (1798–1870) in 1827; Perkins was the brother-in-law of Roger Sherman Baldwin

1. Frederick Beecher Perkins (b.1828), library director in Boston, MA and San Francisco, CA, and author; married Mary Ann Fitch Westcott. They had four children including

i. Charlotte Perkins (1860–1935), feminist; married Charles Walter Stetson in 1884 and had one child, divorced in 1894; married her first cousin George Houghton Gilman in 1900 (see below)

2. Emily Baldwin Perkins (1829–1912), married Edward Everett Hale in 1852 and had eight sons and one daughter, Ellen Day Hale (1855–1940), an artist

3. Charles E. Perkins (b. 1832),

4. Catherine Beecher Perkins (b.1836), married William Charles Gilman. They had four children, including

i. George Houghton Gilman

v. Harriet Beecher (1808–1808)

vi. George Beecher (1809–1843) Yale graduate, married Sarah Buckingham in 1837

vii. Harriet Elizabeth Beecher (1811–1896), wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin; married Calvin Stowe (1802–1886) in 1836

viii. Henry Ward Beecher (1813–1887), married Eunice White Bullard (1812–1897) in 1837; namesake of Beecher, Illinois.

ix. Charles Beecher (1815–1900) married Sarah Leland Coffin (1815–1897) in 1840. Their son, Lt Frederick H Beecher, died at the Battle of Beecher Island, Beecher Island being posthumously named after him.

By his second wife Harriet Porter (1790–1835), whom he married in 1817:

x. Frederick C Beecher (1818–1820)

xi. Isabella Holmes Beecher (1822–1907), married John Hooker (1816–1901) in 1841

xii Thomas Kinnicut Beecher (1824–1900), married Olivia Day (1826–1853) in 1851, and married Frances Juliana Jones (1826–1905) in 1857. A Congregational minister in Elmira, New York

xiii. James Chaplin Beecher (1828–1886), colonel of the 35th United States Colored Troops