Eunice Beecher, the wife of the famous Reverend Henry Ward Beecher, suffered severe injuries when the two-wheel chaise she was driving to meet her husband at a railroad depot in New York, smashed into the steps of the Brooklyn Bank. She struck her head and was rendered unconscious. A servant was also slightly injured. Though some newspapers reported her near death, she was fully recovered in a week and lived to be 85. (By John Osborne)
Source Citation
William Constantine Beecher, Samuel Scoville, Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher, A Biography of Rev. Henry Ward Beecher (New York: Charles L. Webster and Co., 1888), 385-386.
