1811–1896

Harriet was the daugh­ter of Con­gre­ga­tion­al min­is­ter Ly­man Beech­er and Rox­an­na Foote, sis­ter of Hen­ry Ward Beech­er, and wife of Cal­vin El­lis Stowe, a pro­fess­or at  Lane The­o­lo­gi­cal Sem­in­a­ry (mar­ried 1836). Her mo­ther died when she was four years old.

At age 13, Stowe be­gan at­tend­ing a girls’ school in Hart­ford, Con­nec­ti­cut. In 1832, her fa­mi­ly moved to Cin­cin­na­ti, Ohio, where her fa­ther be­came head of Lane The­o­lo­gi­cal Sem­in­a­ry. In 1850, she be­came a pro­fess­or at Bow­doin Co­lege, Bruns­wick, Maine.

Stowe wrote do­zens of books, in­clud­ing Un­cle Tom’s Ca­bin, an anti-slavery no­vel pub­lished in 1852. Most of her hymns appeared in her bro­ther Hen­ry’s 1855 Ply­mouth Col­lect­ion.

• Bailey, pp. 496–98
• Findagrave, ac­cessed 15 Feb 2018
• Julian, p. 1096

1. Abide in Me, O Lord
2. Knocking, Knock­ing, Who Is There?
3. Still, Still with Thee
4. That Mys­tic Work of Thine
5. When Winds Are Rag­ing