Harriet Beecher and Calvin Ellis Stowe

Hatte, I was just at their home on Wednesday! :)

Unrelated, but the Stowe Center has volumes containing *500,000* names, addresses, and occupations of British and Irish women who signed anti-slavery petitions to give to Harriet during her trips there. It's a genealogist's dream, but no one has ever typed them up! If anyone in the Hartford area wants to help me start something, let me know.

And Katherine Seymour Day, her grand-niece, would be very proud of you. :) She was the family member who saved all of their history.

Remember that I'm named for Harriet (Hattie) Hawley Stowe, my great grandmother, who I feel sure was named for Harriet Beecher Stowe, her distant cousin :) These families are all fascinating.

I wish I could do more so I'm hoping that others who are descendants or interested in this era and these thought leaders (like you are) will pitch in.

I'm interested in them largely due to their influence in Hartford. Katharine Seymour Day (who I so need to expand and MP) was way ahead of her time when it came to historic preservation, and she did incredible work in that arena for the city. We will always be grateful to her for her influence. And Isabella Beecher Hooker just fascinates me to no end, especially her rebellious streak, which I think was more than just a streak. :)

Harriet had a daughter who went by Hattie (we should change the display name on Harriet Beecher Stowe), but I don't think Harriet the author ever went by the name. The daughter could be where your great-grandmother got the Harriet->Hattie idea from.

Something we need to figure out is how to handle all of the duplicates in that tree. :/ As they say at the Stowe Center, "everyone comes in here a Beecher" (meaning everyone is always trying to find a connection, especially to Harriet), so the duplication is rampant, even outside of private trees. I think they're all going to need to be MPed to help ward some of that off.

I am positive that Harriet Beecher Stowe's display name is Harriet Beecher Stowe. I only used "Harriet Beecher" when I put her in a statement about her being married. I would never use "Hattie" for her.

Maybe you are confused with my great grandmother?

Yes I was thinking that we need to merge duplicates and MP all the folks in these families who have rampantly repeated names like Samuel Stowe.

I am still trying to figure out how my great grandmother got the middle name "Hawley". As far as "Hattie" goes, it was the customary nickname for "Harriet" back in the day.

Okay, I understand now and I changed the daughter's display name. I also found Rev. Calvin Ellis Stowe's first wife, thanks to Ivy Smith who created the profile and attached it, Eliza Tyler

No, I was saying that the author's daughter went by "Hattie." Unless I'm not understanding you?

There's a citation for her as Hattie at http://www.harrietbeecherstowecenter.org/hbs/stowe_family.shtml

So I was saying that we could have Harriet Beecher Stowe and Hattie Beecher Stowe as display names.

Same time replying! :)