Lyman Beecher Stowe

Born in Saco, Maine, in late 1880, he was the son of Charles Edward Stowe and the grandson of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Library and catalog records identify him as an author and editor, and his books include Booker T. Washington, Builder of a Civilization (with Emmett J. Scott) and Saints, Sinners and Beechers, a lively account of the wider Beecher family.

Archival records also show him as a researcher and correspondent with a strong interest in literary and historical subjects. Collections at Harvard, Yale, the New York Public Library, and the Library of Congress connect him with Beecher family papers and research on figures such as Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the actress Charlotte Cushman.

He died in 1963. Although he is less widely known than some of the relatives he wrote about, his work remains useful for readers interested in the Beecher-Stowe family, American biography, and the reform culture that shaped their world.