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TYNG, STEPHEN HIGGINSON 30986, Tuttle had been a bishop for 56 years and had been involved in the consecrationof 70 bishops.BibliographyA. Reminiscences of a Missionary Bishop (New York, 1906).B. ANB 22, 890–91; DAB 19, 75; DARB, 566–67; ECUS, 231–34; EDC, 530–31; NCAB6, 58–59; SH 12, 44; NYT, 18 April 1923; Kenneth L. Holmes, “Bishop DanielSylvester Tuttle in the West,” HMPEC 23 (1954): 54–64; James W. Beless Jr.,“Daniel S. Tuttle: Missionary Bishop of Utah,” Utah Historical Quarterly 27(1959): 359–78; Charles F. Rehkopf, “The Episcopate of Bishop Tuttle,” Bulletinof the Missouri Historical Society 18 (1962): 207–30; David L. Holmes, “TheDomestic Missionary Movement in the Episcopal Church in the Nineteenth Century,”in Beyond the Horizon, ed. Charles R. Henery (Cincinnati, 1985).TYNG, STEPHEN HIGGINSON (1 March 1800, Newburyport, Mass.–3 September1885, Irvington-on-Hudson, N.Y.). Education: Graduated from HarvardCollege, 1817; studied for the ordained ministry under Alexander V. Griswold,1819–21. Career: Worked in business, 1817–19; rector, St. John’s Church inGeorgetown, Washington, D.C., 1821–23; rector, Queen Anne’s parish, PrinceGeorge’s County, Md., 1823–29; rector, St. Paul’s Church, Philadelphia, 1829–34; rector, Church of the Epiphany, Philadelphia, 1834–45; rector, St. George’sChurch, New York, 1845–78.Stephen H. Tyng, a leading evangelical clergyman, was born in Newburyport,Massachusetts, in 1800. Following his graduation from Harvard College in 1817,he initially embarked on a commercial career, but after undergoing a religiousconversion, he decided to enter the ordained ministry of the Episcopal Churchinstead. He studied under Alexander V. Griswold,* bishop of the Eastern diocese,who ordained him a deacon in March 1821. He was ordained a priest by JamesKemp, the bishop of Maryland, three years later. Tyng served parishes in Washington,D.C., Maryland, Philadelphia, and New York City during his 57 years ofactive ministry.A major figure in the evangelical party of the Episcopal Church, Tyng emphasizedthe importance of a conversion experience, personal morality, and cooperationwith other Protestants across denominational lines. He was a dedicatedsupporter of many of the institutions of the evangelical “Benevolent Empire” ofthe mid-nineteenth century: the American Bible Society, the American Tract Society,temperance societies, and the Sunday school movement. At St. George’sChurch in New York in the early 1860s, he became involved in an evangelisticmission to poor people living on the lower east side of the city. He was alsoconsidered to be one of the great preachers of the Episcopal Church. Large congregationsflocked to hear his sermons, and when he served at St. Paul’s Churchin Philadelphia, it was popularly known as “Tyng’s Theatre.” He was the editorof two leading evangelical newspapers—the Episcopal Recorder (Philadelphia)and the Protestant Churchman (New York)—and during the period when he