 Aware of her past advocacy and her professional success, the members of the Eighty-Fifth elected Claflin colonel.On November 2, 1872, "Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly" published a report that triggered the famous adultery trial of Henry Ward Beecher.Henry Ward Beecher was the son of the famous Calvinist theologian Lyman Beecher and the brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe.