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Dennison reveals how one man helped to shape the scholarly study of nature and its institutionalization in the West at the turn of the century

The Beechers Richmond Lattimore and a host of otherThe Reverend Lyman Beecher was once called ""the father of more brains than any other man in America."" Among his eleven living children were a celebrity novelist, a college president, the most well known preacher in America, a suffragist, a radical abolitionist, a pioneer in women's education, and the founder of home economics. Rejecting many of their father's Puritan beliefs, the deeply religious Beechers nevertheless embraced his quest to exert