Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe was born on June 14, 1811 in Litchfield, Connecticut. She was the seventh child of Lyman and Roxana Beecher. Harriet was an author, philanthropist, and an abolitionist. Her father, Lyman Beecher, was a Calvinist, and pastor of the Congregational Church. Her mother, Roxana Foote, had eight children, and was the minister's first wife. However, she died when Harriet was only four years old. At this point Harriet's oldest sister Catherine assumed a mother's role in the family. Harriet paid many long visits to her mother's house in Nutplains, Connecticut where her Aunt Harriet Foote would often reprimand her. Within approximately two years the Beecher children had a new mother named Harriet Porter Beecher, and she bore three more children for Lyman.…
