Bro­ther of Har­ri­et Beech­er Stowe and Charles Beech­er, his ma­jor con­tri­bu­tion to hymn­ol­o­gy was his Ply­mouth Col­lection of Hymns and Tunes (New York: AMS. Barnes and Burr, 1855); it is named af­ter Ply­mouth Church, in Brook­lyn, New York, where he was pas­tor.

• Julian, p. 58