Rev. George Duffield, D.D. and Isabella Bethune

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Husband Rev. George Duffield, D.D. ^{1 2}

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           Born: 4 Jul 1794 - Strasburg, Lancaster Co, PA 2
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           Died: 26 Jun 1868 - Detroit, Wayne Co, MI 3
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         Father: George Duffield (      -      ) 1 4
         Mother: Unknown (      -      )

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       Marriage: 1817 - New York City, NY 3

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Wife Isabella Bethune ³

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         Father: [Father] Bethune (      -      )
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General Notes: Husband - Rev. George Duffield, D.D.

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For seventeen years he was the pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

He graduated at the early age of sixteen years, at the University of Pennsylvania, then under the Presidency of S. McDowell, LL.D. He read theology, and was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of Philadelphia, on the 20th of April, 1815. He immediately thereupon entered upon the duties of his profession, in which he faithfully continued to labor up to the day of his death.
In 1837 he was called to the Broadway Tabernacle as the successor of the Rev. Charles G. Finney. In 1838 he was called to the First Presbyterian congregation of Detroit, a position he at once accepted, and continued as the sole pastor thereof until April 27th, 1865, when the Rev. N. S. McCorkle was installed as associate pastor. He was honored with the title of Doctor of Divinity by the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Duffield was very regular and assiduous in his clerical ministrations, preaching regularly to his congregation, except when temporarily disabled, up to the period of his death. Even during the cholera epidemic of 1849, he steadily stood his post, and being severely prostrated by the malady, and from the effects of a chronic disease to which he had long been subject, he, at the earnest solicitation of his friends, accepted a leave of absence and went abroad for a year, and then returned completely restored to health.
In his own denomination, Dr. Duffield's learning and ability made him one of its most eminent divines. He ranked in the same category with Drs. Lyman Beecher, Albert Barnes, S. H. Cox, Bethune, Spring, and Sprague.

1 Alfred Nevin, D.D., LL.D., Men of Mark of the Cumberland Valley, Pa. 1776-1876 (Philadelphia, PA: Fulton Publishing Co., 1876), Pg 91.

2 Alex. Harris, A Biographical History of Lancaster County (Lancaster, PA: Elias Barr & Co., 1872), Pg 170.

3 Alex. Harris, A Biographical History of Lancaster County (Lancaster, PA: Elias Barr & Co., 1872), Pg 171.

4 Alex. Harris, A Biographical History of Lancaster County (Lancaster, PA: Elias Barr & Co., 1872), Pg 165.