Charitable Bequests

Impact the Future—Make a Planned Gift Giving Today

Your legacy can help ensure the legacy of the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center. Support a more just and equitable future by making a planned gift today!

MAKE A BEQUEST

A simple way to make that impact

There are many ways in which you can show your support by making a planned gift. One of the easiest ways is through a charitable bequest, simply naming the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center as a beneficiary in your will. It’s simple, flexible, and entirely revocable!

A few lines in your will can set up a gift to the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center. If you already have a will or living trust, you can add a bequest to the Stowe Center by preparing a simple codicil to your will or amendment to your trust. Your bequest could be a dollar amount, a specific asset such as artwork, or a percentage of your estate. A bequest could also be made from the residue of your estate or what is left after gifts have been made to your heirs. A bequest does not take effect until your death, though if you let us now that you intend to give we can celebrate your gift now! It is a gift that does not affect your current assets or cash flow.

Your bequest can support any of the initiatives you feel most passionate about at the Stowe Center. And, if your circumstances change, you can easily change your will.

Sample Bequest Language
The Harriet Beecher Stowe Center can provide your attorney sample language when drafting a bequest. Please contact our Development office for more information.

CASEY GRAMBO
cgrambo@stowecenter.org
860-522-9258 ext. 320

School Group Interest Form

School Group Interest Form 2024

Thank you so much for your interest in a group tour at the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center! Please help us schedule your visit by answering the questions below.

School name:

Please suggest three dates and times when your group would like to visit. (Note: the Stowe Center is closed on Sunday and Tuesday.)

Contact Teacher Name:

Contact Teacher Email:(Required)

Contact Teacher Phone Number:(Required)

Number of students expected to attend:(Required)

Please enter a number from 8 to 40.

Please identify the grade level(s) of attending students:(Required)

Likely number of chaperones (including other teachers):

The Stowe Center requires one adult per every 10 students.

Are there special student, teacher, or chaperone accommodations that can help us serve you best?

Do you plan to have lunch on site?

Yes, please.

No, thank you.

Are you interested in scheduling a joint visit with our neighbor, The Mark Twain House and Museum?

Yes, please

No, thank you.

If yes, have you already contacted The Mark Twain House?

Yes

Adult Group Interest Form

Group Tour Interest Form 2022

Thank you so much for your interest in a group tour at the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center! Please help us schedule your visit by answering the questions below.

Group Name:

Name of Primary Contact:(Required)

Contact Email:(Required)

Contact Phone Number:(Required)

What date would you like to visit? (The Stowe Center typically books group tours for Thursday through Sunday visits.)

Expected number of visitors:(Required)

Please enter a number from 20 to 42.

Please indicate the number of adults, seniors, and children expected in your group:

Are there special accommodations that can help us serve you best?

Are you interested in a joint visit with our neighbor, The Mark Twain House and Museum?

Yes, please.

No, thank you.

If yes, have you already contacted The Mark Twain House?

Yes

Isabella Beecher Hooker

Isabella Holmes Beecher Hooker (1822-1907)
An ardent member of the woman’s suffrage movement, Isabella Holmes Beecher Hooker joined in the cause along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.

Isabella was the first child of Lyman Beecher and his second wife, Harriet Porter Beecher.

Isabella began her education at Catharine Beecher’s Hartford Female Seminary and lived with her sister Mary Perkins. In 1841 she married John Hooker, a descendant of Thomas Hooker, the founder of Hartford. John Hooker was a lawyer and an abolitionist.

In the early 1860s Isabella got involved in the woman’s suffrage movement. Isabella joined Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony as a member of the National Woman’s Suffrage Association in 1869. She was a founding member of the Connecticut Woman’s Suffrage Association. Isabella’s ideas of equality were influenced by John Stuart Mills’ On Liberty and the Subjection of Women.

In 1871, Isabella organized the annual convention of the National Woman’s Suffrage Association in Washington D.C. and presented her argument before the Committee on the Judiciary of the United States Senate. Her husband, John Hooker, believed in his wife and supported her activities. He helped Isabella draft a bill to the Connecticut Legislature giving married women the same property rights as their husbands. The bill passed in 1877. Isabella annually submitted a bill granting women the right to vote, but it did not pass in her lifetime.