States", dated December 25, 1829, calling on women to send petitions to Congress protesting the removal. In response, Beecher published a "Circular Addressed to the Benevolent Ladies of the U. In the bill, Jackson requested that Congress approve the use of federal money to resettle southeastern American Indians, including the Cherokee, to land west of the Mississippi River. The protest was the first national campaign on the part of women in the United States. In 18, Beecher led a women's movement to protest the Indian Removal Bill of President Andrew Jackson. Thereafter they were served with more palatable food. She accepted the invitation, and the excellent dinner changed her views. Ten of her pupils invited her to dine with them at a restaurant. She was constantly making experiments, and practicing them upon the girls, weighing all their food before they ate it, holding that Graham flour and the Graham diet were better for them than richer food. The last was never published, although printed and used as a college textbook. The private girls' school had many well-known alumni.Ĭomprehending the deficiencies of existing textbooks, she prepared, primarily for use in her own school, some elementary books in arithmetic, a work on theology, and one on mental and moral philosophy. To provide educational opportunities for others, in 1823 Beecher opened the Hartford Female Seminary in Hartford, Connecticut, where she taught until 1832.
Heartbroken, she never married.Īlexander Metcalf Fisher (1794-1822) Female seminary Fisher, head of the Mathematics Department at Yale College, but he died at sea before the wedding took place. Catharine was engaged to marry Alexander M. Beecher became a teacher in 1821 at a school in New Haven, Connecticut. She took over the domestic duties of her household at the age of 16, following her mother's death. She taught herself subjects not commonly offered to women, including math, Latin, and philosophy. The experience left her longing for additional opportunities for education. Beecher was educated at home until she was ten years old, when she was sent to a private school in Litchfield, Connecticut, where she was taught the limited curriculum available to young women.
Among her siblings were writer and abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe, along with clergymen Henry Ward Beecher and Charles Beecher.
Biography Early life and education īeecher was born September 6, 1800, in East Hampton, New York, the daughter of outspoken minister and religious leader Lyman Beecher and Roxana (Foote) Beecher.
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