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Stowe, Harriet Elizabeth Beecher 1811-1896
Author; born in Litchfield, Conn., June 14,
Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe. 1811; sister of Henry Ward Beecher and wife of Rev. Calvin E. Stowe; was educated at Hartford, Conn., and taught school there and at Cincinnati.
She married at the latter place when twenty-two years old, and afterwards lived in Andover, Hartford, and Brunswick, Me., also spending much time in Florida.
Her most famous work, Uncle Tom's cabin, was first published in the Washington National era in 1851.
This book is credited with having a most powerful bearing on the Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln.
Among her other successful works were Dred; The minister's Wooing; My wife and I; We and our neighbors; Old town folks; Poganuc people; Agnes of Sorrento; Pink and White tyranny, etc. She died in Hartford, Conn., July 1, 1896.