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William Ashley (Billy) Sunday was born on November 19, in Iowa, USA, 1862.
He never saw his father. Billy, as he is better known, was born four months after his father had marched away to fight in the Civil War – never to return to see this third child. Billy lived with him mum, in a [...]

This is the day that … Lyman Beecher was born in Connecticut, in 1775.
He has been described as “the father of more brains than any other man in America”, a reference to his 13 children.  These included the famous preacher, Henry Ward Beecher, and the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe.  As a [...]

This is the day that … Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard was born in New York State, in 1839.
She was the middle of three children born to Josiah and Mary Willard in Churchville.
Being a red-headed tomboy, she preferred to be called “Frank”, but the day came when she outgrew that stage. “Next to being an [...]