Show TEE BEECHER FAMILY Tha question was raised recently whether Henry Ward B Beeclier Was younger or older than his slater Mrs Stowe It was found that Mrs Stowe was born in 1812 and Mr Beecher in 1S1G he is a little more than a year the younger Catherine Beecher was born nearly twelve years before her betterknown sister While Catherine lost her lover Prof Fisher of Yale college by shipwreck when she was still very young Mrs Stowe married lit appear a widower if we are to trust Mr ED Mansfields Memories Mem-ories which say that Prof Stowe had for a first wife a handsome New England lady Mr Stowe wag ten years older than his wife who wrote her great work at the age of 40 and her second important novel Dred at the age of 44 The Beecher family seem to owe their literary vitality to their transplantation trans-plantation to the west where theIr father Lyman Beecher vent about 1832 and he remained there many years Mrs Stowe lived in Cincinnati about seventeen years or till the time she planned Uncle Tom which novel was not J drawn from eastern or Virginia t slave sources but from Kentucky and the escaping slaves who came up through Onio and Indiana Among these was < < Eliza Harris whose feat of crossing the river i with her child on floating cake3 of j J ice is fully testified to in the recently published reminiscences of Levi Coffin the president of the Western Underground railroad who sheltered Tribune shel-tered her at his house Chicago I I |