March 8: Henry Ward Beecher


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March 8

“The Great Divine,” Rev. Henry Ward Beecher of Plymouth Church in Brooklyn Heights, who, according the the Pulitizer Prize-winning biography had been “The Most Famous Man in America” only to be diminished by scandal, died on this date in 1887.

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