Caswall, Henry

11 May 1810–17 Dec. 1870. Clergyman, professor, author. Born at Yateley, Hampshire, England. Son of Robert Clarke Caswall and Mary Burgess. Moved to U.S. to study at newly founded Kenyon College in Gambier, Knox Co., Ohio, 1828. First ordained graduate of Kenyon College. Married Mary Batchelor, 19 Oct. 1830, in Knox Co. Worked as professor of divinity at Kemper College, in St. Louis. Met with JS in Nauvoo, Hancock Co., Illinois, in attempt to expose JS as fraud, Apr. 1842. Returned to England, 1842. Authored The City of the Mormons, 1842; The Prophet of the Nineteenth Century, 1843; and Mormonism and Its Author, 1851. Appointed as vicar of Figheldean, Wiltshire, England. Served mission to Africa. Returned to England. Returned to U.S., ca. 1869. Died at Franklin, Venango Co., Pennsylvania.