Beecher (Lyman) is born in New Haven, Connecticut

Lyman Beecher comes to Boston when he is named minister of the Hanover Street Church on January 10, 1826. He and his family live at 18 Sheafe Street (42 Green Street), and his daughter Amy subsequently writes, “When Dr. Beecher came to Boston, Calvinism or Orthodoxy was the despised and persecuted form of faith. . . and Unitarianism reigned in its stead.” Beecher becomes Boston’s leading evangelical preacher, and his son, Edward, becomes minister at Park Street. Lyman Beecher leaves Boston for Ohio in 1832, and dies in Brooklyn on January 10, 1863.