Bennet Tyler, who was a president of Dartmouth. They moved to Walnut Hills, Cincinnati, Ohio. Eliza died on August 26, 1834. Eliza was a good friend of Harriet Elizabeth Beecher. In January 1836, he married Harriet. Her father was Dr. Lyman Beecher, president of Lane Theological Seminary. They lived in Cincinnati after their marriage and moved to Brunswick, Maine in 1850, during a period of unrest due to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. The family moved to Andover, Massachusetts in 1852, the final move for Stowe's career. In 1864, owing to failing health and increasing infirmities, he resigned his professorship and moved to Hartford, Connecticut. He was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1865. Harriet wrote her acclaimed novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852). In 1853 and 1856, he visited Europe with Harriet. His childhood stories served as the basis for Harriet's books Oldtown Folks (1869) and Sam Lawson's Old Fireside Stories (1872). They had a winter house in Florida along the St. Johns River. It sat on a 90-acre property orange grove. Following months of ill health, Stowe died on August 22, 1886 in Hartford, Connecticut. He is buried in the cemetery of Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. The Underground Railroad While in Cincinnati, the Stowes provided shelter for northward-bound freedom seekers on the Underground Railroad and Harriet's brothers and Stowe helped them on their journey to Canada. Cincinnati riots of 1836 sent angry mobs, led by the agents of exasperated and desperate slave-holders, to hunt down free blacks in the streets of Cincinnati. As references in William Lloyd Garrison's radical abolitionist paper, The Liberator, document, although Stowe privately decried slavery, he was no abolitionist. He believed slavery was sanctioned by the Bible and that, through Christian education, slavery would gradually fade away. He was, instead, an advocate of colonization of free Blacks in Liberia as a "solution" to slavery. It was only after his wife Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin was published in 1852 that Stowe began, haltingly, to change his stance regarding slavery, first as a signatory to a petition of New England clergy in opposition to the Kansas–Nebraska Act, issued in 1854. Notes References Sources External links Calvin E. Stowe, Britannica Harriet Beecher Stone family Calvin E. Stowe, Encyclopedia.com Bowdoin College alumni Bowdoin College faculty 1802 births 1886 deaths American biblical scholars Andover Newton Theological School alumni Dartmouth College faculty Lane Theological