Beecher, Henry Ward, 1813-1887 (Personal Name)

His The Beecher book of days, 1886.

Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895: From the Colonial Period to the Age of Frederick Douglass, accessed June 9, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Beecher, Henry Ward; abolitionist, congregational clergyperson, social reformer, essayist; born 24 June, 1813 in Litchfield, Connecticut, United States; studied at Mount Pleasant Classical Academy, in Amherst, Massachusetts (1827); attended Amherst College (1830-1834) and the Lane Theological Seminary, Ohio (1834-1837); was pastor in two Congregational churches: Lawrenceburg and Indianapolis, Indiana and Plymouth Church, in Brooklyn, New York (1847); traveled the reform lecture circuit, East Coast and trans-Appalachian West; became advocate of abolition (1950s); was referred as "one the boldest thinkers and bravest speakers in America"; participated in events of abolitionist causes; after the Civil War, sided with Unionists against the Radical Republicans; died 08 March, 1887 in Brooklyn, New York)

Individual was an abolitionist.