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    Elizabeth Richards Tilton

    Birth: 1834

    Death: 4-14-1897

    Nickname: Lizzy

Biography

"American Folk Figure. The wife of civil rights activist Theodore Tilton, her affair with Reverend Henry Ward Beecher, her pastor, at Plymouth Church, in Brooklyn Heights, became on of the most famous scandals of 19th century America."

Letter References

Letter from Frances Adeline Seward to Lazette Miller Worden, August 20, 1857

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