Eunice White Beecher

Eunice White Beecher
Born	Eunice White Bullard (1812-08-26)August 26, 1812 West Sutton, Massachusetts
Died	March 8, 1897(1897-03-08) (aged 84) Stamford, Connecticut
Pen name	A Minister's Wife
Occupation	Author
Notable works	From Dawn to Daylight: A Simple Story of a Western Home
Spouse	Henry Ward Beecher
Relatives	Dr. Artemas Bullard

Eunice White Beecher (née Bullard; pen name, A Minister's Wife; August 26, 1812 – March 8, 1897) was a United States author.[1]

Biography

Eunice White Bullard born in West Sutton, Massachusetts, August 26, 1812. She was the daughter of Dr. Artemas Bullard and Lucy Maria White,[2] and was educated in Hadley, Massachusetts. When Henry Ward Beecher, a clergyman, settled in his pastorate in Lawrenceburg, Indiana, in 1837, he returned east to marry Eunice, having been engaged to her for over seven years.[1]

Beecher was a contributor, chiefly on domestic subjects, to various periodicals, and some of her articles were published in book form. During a long and tedious illness in her earlier married life, she wrote a series of reminiscences of her first years as a minister's wife, afterward published with the title From Dawn to Daylight: A Simple Story of a Western Home (1859) under the pen name of 'A Minister's Wife'. She also published Motherly Talks with Young Housekeepers (New York, 1873), Letters from Florida (1878), All Around the House; or, How to Make Homes Happy (1878), and Home (1883).[1]

She died in Stamford, Connecticut, March 8, 1897.[1]

References

1. Appletons, 1900
2. "Sutton Births". Vital records of Sutton, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849. Worcester, Massachusetts: Franklin P. Rice. May 12, 2024. p. 25.

Attribution

• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1900). "Beecher, Lyman" . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.