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wold, who, after a serene and beneficent life, died at Peoria, 111., January
15, 1883. Of him it was beautifully and truly said by his Pastor :
" But the life of JOHN L. GRISWOLD was rounded and full, and a grand
success. Its years were many ;
running on and on and on, into the wisdom and
poise, the serenity and beauty, of old age, but stopping short of its infirmity and
decay, its weariness and sadness. . . . As
a structure, it was builded and fin-
ished, like some solid symmetrical edifice, upon which the capstone has been set,
and that Jias received its final stroke and polish and garnishing.
" Inherited capability and culture, character and competence, not neglected or
squandered, but improved and increased ; business sagacity and enterprise, and
thrift ; loyalty and patriotism to the nation in its peril ; attachment
to and pride in
the city where he dwelt ; social attraction and accomplishment ; fondness for home ;
devotion to kindred and friends ;
tenderness and sympathy, and generosity towards
the needy and suffering ; liberality to the church and every deserving charity ; reverence
and love for God ; and a desire to glorify Him in all things ; firm faith in
Christ, and humbly following in His footsteps—these, in brief, were the equipment
and traits and aims of him who, the other morning, went from us to the unfading
dawn.
" His home was to him an all-satisfying realm, and the wife who shared it with
him a more than Queen. Of his love for her—as romantic and gallant, as admiring
and enthusiastic, as tender and full, at the end of these forty-two years as in the first
flush and thrill of youth, ever growing and eternal—we may not speak." ^'
61 A sister of John Lynde Griswold, Catharine Aim'' (d. 1857), was
62 the wife of Peter Lorillard of New York ; a half-sister, Mary,'' is the
widow of Alfred H. Pierrepont Edwards of New York, a son of the late
Henry W. Edwards, Governor of Connecticut. -
One of the sons of George Griswold, the younger of the two New
63 York merchants, was Richard SUP (d. 1847), whose second wife and
widow, Frances Augusta (Mather), now Hves in Lyme. He left three
64 children : i. Louisa Mather,^ now the wife of General Joseph Griswold
82 In Memoriam. Words of Tribute spoken by the Rev. J. H. Morrow, at the funeral of John L.
Griswold . . . n. p., n. d.
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