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Henry Caswall
1810–1870
An English-born Episcopal clergyman and energetic 19th-century writer, he crossed the Atlantic young and built a career around teaching, ministry, and religious debate. He is often remembered now for his sharp accounts of American church life and his encounters with early Mormonism.
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The City of the Mormons; or, Three Days at Nauvoo, in 1842
by Henry Caswall
About the author
Born in Yateley, Hampshire, in 1810, Henry Caswall left England for the United States as a teenager and graduated from Kenyon College in 1830. He was ordained in the Episcopal Church soon afterward, and his career combined parish work, teaching, and a steady flow of writing on religion and church affairs.
Caswall wrote widely on Anglican and American religious life, publishing books such as America and the American Church and The City of the Mormons. Modern readers are especially likely to meet him through his critical writings about Joseph Smith and the Latter-day Saints, which grew out of his visit to Nauvoo in the 1840s.
He later spent periods in both the United States and England and died in 1870. His books reflect a lively, argumentative voice and offer a vivid window into the religious controversies of the nineteenth century.