Beech'er, Catherine

ESTHER, an American authore , and oldest daughter of Dr. Lyman Beecher, в. 1800. For 10 years she was directre of a ladies' seminary at Hartford, Conn., during which time she published a Manual of Arithmetic and a series of elementary books of instruction in Theology, and Mental and Moral Philosophy. In 1832, she removed with her father to Cincinnati, and for two years acted as principal of an institution devoted to female instruction in that city. Being compelled by failing health to resign this labor, Mi B. devised a plan for the promotion of female Christian education, through a National Board, with normal schools and competent teachers. The completion of this scheme has been the object of her life, and for its promotion she has written, among other works, Domestic Service; Duty of American Women to their Country; Treatise on Domestic Economy; Physiology and Calisthenics (1856); and Common Sense applied to Religion (1857). D. 1878. Beecher, CHARLES, an American divine and writer, b. 1815, brother of the preceding. His works include the Incarnation, or Pictures of the Virgin and her Son (1849); Pen Pictures of the Bible (1855), .