Harriet Beecher Stowe - Andover, MA - Grave of a Famous Person on Waymarking.com

“The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.”
- Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe was born in 1811 in Litchfield Connecticut, the daughter of clergyman Lyman Beecher. Her family was rather large: She had a dozen brothers and sisters, many of whom became prominent minsters, authors or social activists. The Beecher family moved on several occasions ending up in Cincinnati in the early 1830s. It was during this time that Harriet met and married her husband Calvin Stowe and also where she experienced first-hand the pro-slavery Cincinnati Riots of 1836.

After they moved to Maine, Harriet Beecher Stowe began work on her novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” which dramatized the hardships of slavery in the South. Published in 1852, the novel became an instant success and fueled the already growing abolitionist movement and propelled Stowe to celebrity status. After the outbreak of the Civil War, Harriet Beecher Stowe traveled to Washington DC where she met President Abraham Lincoln who supposedly said to her “So you are the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war.” Though probably not true, it does capture the affect the book had on popular opinion of the day.

Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote many other essays, stories and novels but none achieved the status of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” She died at the age of 85 and was buried next to her husband in the small cemetery at the Phillips Academy in Andover Massachusetts. Calvin Stowe had previously taught at the Theological Seminary which was once associated with the Academy.
(Sources: wikipedia.com, biography.com.)

Description: See Long Description above. Date of birth: 06/14/1811 Date of death: 07/01/1896 Area of notoriety: Literature Marker Type: Monument Setting: Outdoor Visiting Hours/Restrictions: none Fee required?: No Web site: [Web Link]

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