author
William Constantine Beecher
1849–1928
Best known for helping preserve the story of one of America’s most famous 19th-century preachers, this writer came from the remarkable Beecher family and is associated with a major biography of Henry Ward Beecher. His surviving work offers a close, personal window into a household that shaped American religious and literary life.
1 Audiobook
A Biography of Rev. Henry Ward Beecher
by William Constantine Beecher, Mrs. H. W. Beecher, Samuel Scoville
About the author
Born in 1849, William Constantine Beecher was a member of the prominent Beecher family, a name closely tied to American religious, reform, and literary history. He was the son of the well-known minister Henry Ward Beecher and is remembered today chiefly through book and library records that connect him to writings about his family.
His best-known work is A Biography of Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, published in 1888 and credited to William Constantine Beecher alongside Samuel Scoville and Eunice White Beecher. That book helped document the life and influence of Henry Ward Beecher soon after his death, giving later readers a source shaped in part by family knowledge and proximity.
William Constantine Beecher died in 1928. Although not as widely known as some other members of the Beecher family, his name remains part of the historical record through that biography and related archival references.