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Edward Dorr Griffin was born January 6, 1770 in East Haddarn, Connecticut, the son of a prosperous farmer, George Griffin, and his wife, Eve Dorr.
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Edward Dorr Griffin was born January 6, 1770 in East Haddarn, Connecticut, the son of a prosperous farmer, George Griffin, and his wife, Eve Dorr.
Upon his graduation from Yale College in 1790 he secured the principalship of an academy at Derby, Connecticut, intending ultimately to study law, but a serious illness and a fall from a horse precipitated him into the ministry.
In New Haven he read theology under the younger Jonathan Edwards, who instilled in him the undiluted Edwardsian Calvinism and the Edwardsian penchant for revivals.
He was licensed to preach October 31, 1792; supplied several pulpits in Connecticut until his ordination as pastor at New Hartford, June 4, 1795; was assistant to Alexander McWhorter at the First Presbyterian Church, Newark, New Jersey, 1801-07, and pastor after McWhorter’s death 1807-09; and was professor of pulpit eloquence in Andover Theological Seminary, 1809-11, pastor of the Park Street Congregational Church, Boston, 1811-15, and pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church, Newark, New Jersey, 1815-21.
He helped to found the American Bible Society and was active in the United Foreign Missionary Society, his famous sermon on the Kingdom of Christ (1805, 1808, 1821) being one of the landmarks in the missionary movement.
As a pulpit orator and champion of unyielding orthodoxy he was renowned but hardly popular in every quarter. So disliked was he by the authorities of Harvard College that they resorted to every imaginable shift, including two amendments of their charter, to prevent him from exercising his functions as a member ex officio of the board of overseers. At Andover he was criticized for extravagance; in Boston his strict Calvinism found little acceptance and finally led to a breach in his congregation; and in Newark his opponents managed to affront him by cutting down his salary.
At this latter juncture he accepted the presidency of Williams College and was inaugurated November 14, 1821. The Amherst secession had just taken place, and Williams - what was left of it - seemed on the point of dissolution. To Griffin belongs the honor of having saved the college. After a hurried examination he decided that what was needed to put it on its feet was a new professor, a new building, and a revival of religion. Raising $25, 000 he employed a professor of rhetoric and built a new chapel (now Griffin Hall), but the third ingredient in his tonic had an effect quite unforeseen. Distracted parents, hearing of the “gracious visitation” at Williams, sent their incorrigible sons to the Berkshire institution to be simultaneously reclaimed and educated.
The college was soon so overstocked with young ruffians that order was maintained only by drastic measures. What really preserved the college was Griffin’s physical presence, which alone was enough to inspire confidence and even awe.
Though his sermons and addresses were seldom better than mediocre, his polished rhetoric and magnificent voice made them sound like works of genius. Over occasions of ceremony he presided with the aplomb of a Lord Chancellor on the woolsack. In his composition there was a tinge, also, of romanticism; it was he who first directed attention to the natural beauty of the country around Williamstown. In 1836, on account of increasing ill health, he retired; a year later he died of dropsy of the chest at his daughter’s home in Newark.
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He was six feet three inches tall, weighed 250 pounds, and with his symmetrical proportions, ruddy cheeks, and white hair was strikingly handsome.
He married Frances, daughter of the Rev. Joseph Huntington and adopted daughter of Governor Samuel Huntington, May 17, 1796.