Background
Allen, Alexander Viets Griswold was born on May 4, 1841 in Otis, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Review Ethan and Lydia Child (Burr) Allen. Graduate Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, 1862.
Allen, Alexander Viets Griswold was born on May 4, 1841 in Otis, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Review Ethan and Lydia Child (Burr) Allen. Graduate Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, 1862.
Student Bexley Hall Seminary, Gambier, 2 years. Graduate Andover Theological Seminary, 1865. (Doctor of Divinity, Harvard, 1886, Yale, 1901).
; married Paulina Cony Smith, 1907. Ordained deacon Episcopal Church, July 5, 1865, priest, June 24, 1866. Rector Saint John"s Church, Framingham, Massachusetts, 1866-1867.
Instructor church history Episcopal Theological School, Cambridge, 1867-1869, professor 1869-1908.
Author: Continuity of Christian Thought, 1884. Jonathan Edwards, 1889.
Religious Progress, 1894. Christian Institutions, 1897.
Life and Letters of Phillips Brooks (2 volumes), 1900.
Freedom in the Church, 1907. Home: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Married Elizabeth Kent Stone, 1872 (deceased. Married Paulina Cony Smith, 1907.