Beebee, Alexander M., LL.D., was born in Newark, N.J., Sept. 29, 1783.

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10/05/2022  · Daily Baptist Encyclopedia Post by Jim Curran

Beebee, Alexander M., LL.D., was born in Newark, N.J., Sept. 29, 1783. He graduated with honor at Columbia College, N. Y., in the class of 1802. After leaving college Mr. Beebee studied law with Ogden Hoffman, Sr., haying Washington Irving and James K. Paulding as fellow-students. With Mr. Irving he formed a friendship which only death ended. He practiced law in New York till 1807, when he transferred his business to Skan- eateles. ‘There he followed his profession for fif- teen years, and became a leading member .of the bar of Onondaga County. While living in Skaneateles he lost his first child, and his distressed heart found no rest till Jesus in- spired in it the hope of heaven. He joined a Baptist church seven miles from his residence, the nearest one to his house. Now the legal profession had lost its attractions, In 1824 there was no Baptist newspaper in the State of New York, and only three or four in the United States. In 1825, Mr. Beebee accepted the editorship of a very small sheet called the Baptist Register, and ‘soon the paper in- creased in size and in subscribers, and it became a great blessing to the rapidly-growing Baptist de- nomination in Central New York. Mr. Beebee conducted the Register until a short period before his death, in November, 1856. ‘“‘ Mr. Beebee was one of the noblest and gentlest of men, a burning anda shining light in our Zion, He belonged by birth and social position to the aristocracy of intel- lect and wealth in the metropolis. He was a man of broad intellect, generous culture,” childlike faith, and boundless charity, and of such loyalty to Christ that he would sacrifice nothing which he taught for the gift of a globe or the smiles of all humanity. In 1852 Madison University conferred the degree of LL.D. upon Mr. Beebee.No insights to showBoost a post

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