Background
Prime, Edward Dorr Griffin was born on November 2, 1814 in Cambridge, Washington County, New York, United States. Son of Review Nathaniel Scudder and Julia Ann (Jermain) Prime.
Prime, Edward Dorr Griffin was born on November 2, 1814 in Cambridge, Washington County, New York, United States. Son of Review Nathaniel Scudder and Julia Ann (Jermain) Prime.
Graduate Union College, 1832. Graduate Princeton Theological Seminary, 1838. Honorary Doctor of Divinity.
Jefferson College, 1857.
Ordained to ministry Presbyterian Church, 1839. Pastor Scotchtown church in New York, 1847-1851. Associate editor, contributor New York Observer, 1854-1885, editor, 1853, 85-86.
Served as chaplain United States diplomatic mission, Rome, Italy, traveled in Europe, 1845-1855.
Author: Calvinism and Missions: An Address before the Synod of New New York January 1853; Around the World: Sketches of Travel through Many Lands and Over Many Seas, 1872.
Married Maria Darlington Wilson, September 26, 1839. Married second, Abbie Davis Goodell, June 14, 1860.