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George Lewis Prentiss
1816–1903
A 19th-century Presbyterian minister and teacher, he wrote with the warmth of a pastor and the patience of a biographer. His books preserve the lives, faith, and public concerns of his era, including the story of his wife, author Elizabeth Prentiss.
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The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss
by George Lewis Prentiss
About the author
Born in Maine in 1816, George Lewis Prentiss was an American Presbyterian minister, educator, and religious writer. Sources agree that he graduated from Bowdoin College and later studied theology in Germany at Halle and Berlin before beginning his pastoral work.
He served churches in New Bedford, Massachusetts, and in New York City, where he became known as a preacher among the New School Presbyterians. He was also closely connected with Union Theological Seminary in New York and wrote historical and biographical works as well as sermons and public addresses.
Prentiss is especially remembered today for books that combined faith, memory, and biography, including A Memoir of S. S. Prentiss and The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss. That last work helped preserve the life of his wife, the beloved author of Stepping Heavenward. He died in 1903.