Henry Ward Beecher
Born: June 24, 1813, Litchfield, Connecticut.
Died: March 8, 1887, Brooklyn, New York.
Buried:
Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York
Phoebe Knapp and Thomas Hastings lie nearby.
Brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Charles Beecher, his major contribution to hymnology was his Plymouth Collection of Hymns and Tunes (New York: AMS. Barnes and Burr, 1855); it is named after Plymouth Church, in Brooklyn, New York, where he was pastor.
Hymns