- Richard Salter Storrs
Richard Salter Storrs (
August 21 ,1821 -June 7 ,1900 ), American Congregationalclergyman , was born inBraintree, Massachusetts .He bore the same name as his grandfather (1763-1819),
pastor atLongmeadow, Massachusetts , from 1785 to 1819, and his father (1787-1873), pastor at Braintree, Massachusetts, from 1811 to 1873 (except the years 1831-1836), both prominent Congregational ministers, who were descendants ofRichard Mather .He graduated at Amherst in 1839, studied
law inBoston underRufus Choate , graduated atAndover Theological Seminary in 1845, and was pastor of the Harvard Congregational church ofBrookline, Massachusetts , in 1845-1846, and of the Church of the Pilgrims inBrooklyn, New York , from 1846 until shortly before his death.He was a conservative in
theology , and an historical writer of considerable ability. From 1848 to 1861, he was associate editor of the "New York Independent", which he had helped to establish; from 1887 to 1897 he was president of the American board of commissioners for foreign missions, and he was prominent in theLong Island Historical Society.His great-grandfather, John Storrs (1733-1799), a
chaplain in theContinental Army , had been pastor of the Southold Church in 1763-1776 and in 1782-1787.Dr Storrs's more important published works were:
*"John Wycliffe and the First English Bible" (1880)
*"The Recognition of the Supernatural in Letters and in life" (1881)
*"Bernard of Clairvaux " (1892)
*"Foundation Truths of American Missions" (1897).References
* Charles Storrs, "The Storrs Family" (New York, 1886)
External links
*gutenberg|no=18422|name=Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z, contains Storrs' centennial speech on "The Victory at Yorktown".
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