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Harriet Beecher Stowe was born on June 14, 1811 in Litchfield Connecticut. She was the seventh of nine children. Her Father was the well-known Congregational minister Lyman Beecher. Harriet’s mother, Roxana Beecher, died when her daughter was five years old. The first twelve years of her life were spent in Litchfield, which was a famous resort of ministers, judges, lawyers and other men of superior accomplishments. Around the age of twelve she moved to Hartford where her sister, Catherine, had opened a school. While there she was known as an absent minded and moo