Word: haz
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Dates: during 1934-1934
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Henry Ward Beecher (1813-87). One of his earliest letters was: "Der Sister. We ar al wel. Ma haz a baby. The old sow had six pigs." He was educated at Sister Catherine's Hartford Female Seminary, Boston Latin School, Mount Pleasant Collegiate Institute. Amherst College and Lane Theological College. As a missionary preacher he lectured Indiana frontiersmen on gambling, drinking and wenching. In 1861 Beecher became editor of the Independent and was drawn into the most unfortunate part of his career. His assistant, a brilliant, erratic journalist named Theodore Tilton, and the owner of the paper...