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Stowe (LYMAN BEECHER American writer)

LYMAN BEECHER, American writer, born at Saco, Maine, in 1880. He was educated at Harvard.

From 1909 to 1910 he was assistant editor of the "Circle Magazine"; from 1910 to 1913 secretary and vice-chairman of the Public Service Commission of New York; from 1913 to 1915 secretary of the National Association of Junior Republics; from 1915 to 1918 secretary of the Department of Public Charities, New York City. Besides contributing articles to many magazines and lecturing on social, political, and educational subjects, he was the co-author of "Har- STOWE riet Beecher Stowe-Story of Her Life" (1912); "Citizens Made and Remade" (1912); "Booker T. Washington" (1916); "The Inside Story of Austro-German Intrigue" (1919).