<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>Catharine Esther, 1800–78, U.S. educator: advocated educational rights for women.</li><li>Edward, 1803–95, U.S. clergyman, educator, and abolitionist.</li><li>Henry Ward, 1813–87, U.S. preacher and writer.</li><li>Lyman, 1775–1863, U.S. preacher and theologian (father of Catharine Esther Beecher, Edward Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Henry Ward Beecher).</li></ul>