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Griffith, Samuel Newell

educator, clergyman, was born May 12, 1833, in Pike, Wyoming county, N. Y. He was educated at the Lawrence university of Appleton, Wis., from which institution he graduated in 1861; and from that time until 1864 he filled the chair of mathematics in his alma mater. He then attended the Garrett Biblical institute of Evanston, Ill.; graduated in 1867, and has since attained success as an eminent clergyman of the methodist episcopal church. During 1867-70 he preached in Chicago and vicinity; and in 1870-72 was principal in the Mosley school of that city. In 1872-75 he served as pastor of the Kalamazoo methodist episcopal church; and during 1875-88 filled pastorates in Summerfield, Milwaukee, Fond du Lac, Racine, Appleton and Stevens Point.

From 1883-92 he filled pastorates in North Dakota; and in 1892-97 in western Wisconsin. In 1891 he was a delegate to the second ecumenical methodist conference, held at Washington, D. C.