TIEECHER, LYMAN, D.D. (ante). b. New Haven, Oct. 12, 1775; d. Brooklyn, Jan. 10, 1868: descended from one of the New Ilaven colony of 1638. He lost his father when an infant and was adopted as a son by Lot Benton; graduated from Yale in 1797, and next year became pastor of the Presbyterian church at East Hampton, Long Island, and there married Roxana Foote. who increased their slender menus by school. Mr. B.'s sermon on the death of Alexander Hamilton (killed in a duel with Aaron Burr in 1804) gave him immediate fame that rapidly increased until lie was recognized as one of the foremost preachers in the country. In 1S10, he went to Litchfield, Conn., where he was pastor of the Congregational church sixteen years. In 1814, he delivered and printed a series of sermons in favor of temperance, which added greatly to his repu tation for eloquence and power. He was also foremost in the Unitarian controversy which pervaded eastern :Sew England. In 1826, he became pastor of the Hanover
street Congregational church, Boston. In 1832, he became president of Lane theological seminary, a new institution near Cincinnati, 0., and held the office for twenty years, during ten of which he was pastor of the second Presbyterian church iu Cincinnati. In 1835, he was tried by his presbytery for teaching false doctrines, but was acquitted on appeal to the synod. When the Presbyterian church separated, he went with the new school branch. In 1852, he returned to Boston, intending to revise and publish his writings, but his mental powers faded, and not very long afterwards be retired from public work. He was married three times, and had thirteen children, of whom all but three are now living (1880). George, a clergyman, was killed in 1843 by the accidental discharge of his gun. Dr. B.'s works have been published in three volumes.