THE BEECHERS: America's Most Influential Family

Among Reverend Lyman Beecher's 11 living children were a celebrity novelist, a college president, the most well-known preacher in America, a suffragist, a radical abolitionist, a pioneer in women's education, and the founder of home economics. Rejecting many of their father's Puritan beliefs, the religious Beechers nevertheless embraced his quest to exert moral influence. Photos.