HENRY WARD BEECHER

Hold yourself to a higher standard than anyone expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

Henry Ward Beecher (June 24, 1813 – March 8, 1887) was a prominent, Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer. abolitionist, and speaker in the mid to late 19th century. An 1875 adultery trial in which he was accused of having an affair with a married woman was one of the most notorious American trials of the 19th century. In 2007, The most focus famous man in America. A Biography of Henry Ward Beecherby Debby Applegate won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.