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Elisabeth G. Stryker

A late-19th-century writer of concise religious biography, remembered for a vivid account of missionary Samuel J. Mills. Her work has stayed in circulation through public-domain editions and audiobook recordings.

1 Audiobook

A Story of One Short Life, 1783 to 1818

A Story of One Short Life, 1783 to 1818

by Elisabeth G. Stryker

About the author

Elisabeth G. Stryker was an American writer best known for A Story of One Short Life, 1783 to 1818, a short biography of Samuel J. Mills first published in Chicago in 1888 by the Woman's Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions of the Northwest.

Library and public-domain records also connect her name with Life of Henry Martyn, Missionary to India and Persia, 1781 to 1812, a volume published the same year. Modern catalog and audiobook listings give her life dates as 1856–1936.

Clear biographical details about her personal life are hard to confirm from readily available sources, so most of what survives publicly centers on her religious and historical writing. What is clear is that her work was written to inform and encourage readers through the lives of Protestant missionaries, and it continues to be read in reprint and audio form today.