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Stephen Morrell Griswold
1835–1916
A firsthand witness to the life of Brooklyn’s famous Plymouth Church, this memoirist captured decades of worship, controversy, and change from inside one of America’s best-known congregations. His recollections offer a close view of Henry Ward Beecher and the church community that grew around him.
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Sixty years with Plymouth Church
by Stephen Morrell Griswold
About the author
Born in 1835, Stephen Morrell Griswold is best remembered for Sixty Years with Plymouth Church (1907), a memoir drawn from his long connection with Plymouth Church in Brooklyn, New York. The book preserves his personal memories of the church’s early years and of its celebrated pastor, Henry Ward Beecher.
Griswold wrote as someone who had been closely involved in church life for decades, and his account is valued for its eyewitness perspective. Rather than offering a distant history, he describes the people, events, and atmosphere of a congregation that played an important role in nineteenth-century American religious life.
He died in 1916. Today, his work remains of interest to readers curious about Brooklyn history, American Protestant culture, and the world surrounding Beecher and Plymouth Church.