Howard Duffield

George Howard Duffield (April 9, 1854 — January 5, 1941) and the Princeton Theological Seminary in 1877. In November 1888, he received an honorary Doctor of Divinity from Princeton.

Career Duffield was a Presbyterian minister, first at Leacock Presbyterian Church in Leacock Township, Pennsylvania, then the Presbyterian Church of Beverly, New Jersey, followed by the Westminster Church in Detroit, and finally in 1891 the Old First Presbyterian Church in Manhattan (founded in 1716), at 11th Street and Fifth Avenue, which was merged with the Madison Square Presbyterian Church in 1918. Duffield "believed in the importance of the preached word and embraced the notion of an outdoor pulpit, allowing him in the summers to preach to crowd's on Old First's lawn." In 1916, which was also his twenty-fifth year in the pulpit, he published A Bird's Eye View of the Twelve Months' Work at the Old First Church: Reports of the Boards, Societies and Clubs of the Old First Presbyterian Church in the City of New York. Beginning in 1922, he served two terms as the Society's 49th President, succeeding Alfred Wagstaff Jr.

Personal life In May 1877, Duffield was married to Catherine Nash Greenleaf (1852—1936), a daughter of Thomas Greenleaf and Eleanor (née Leal) Greenleaf. Both Catherine and her brother James Leal Greenleaf, a prominent landscape architect, were Mayflower descendants. Together, they lived at 36 Washington Square West and were the parents of:

George Greenleaf Duffield, who died in infancy. He was buried at the Princeton Cemetery in Princeton, New Jersey.