(Editor’s note: Lyman Beecher was a pastor who had 13 famous children, among them abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” and Edward Beecher, the first president of Illinois College in Jacksonville. This excerpt is from a new book, “The Beechers: America’s Most Influential Family.”) When Edward [Beecher] first met Elijah Lovejoy at […]