Surname: Griffin Forename(s): Edmund Dorr b. 10 September 1804. d. 31 August 1830. Nationality: American. VIAF.
Poet, clergyman, and professor. Born in Wyoming, Pennsylvania, but moved to New York
with his family at the age of 2. Educated at Columbia College and the General Seminary
of the Protestant Episcopal Church. Ordained a deacon in 1826. Travelled to France,
Netherlands, England, Scotland, Switzerland, and Italy (1828-1830). Returned to the
United States and became a professor of history and composition at Columbia College.
Biographical information: WorldCat; Remains of the Rev. Edmund D. Griffin, G. & G. & H Carvill et. al., 1831; William B. Sprague, D. D., Annals of the American Pulpi; or Commemorative Notices of Distinguished American Clergymen
of Various Denominations, vol. 5, Robert Carter & Brothers, 1861, p. 669-72. (AC, CC).