STORRS, RICHARD SALTER (1821-1900)

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STORRS, RICHARD SALTER (1821-1900) , American Congregational clergyman, was born in Braintree, Massachusetts, on the 21St of August 1821. He bore the same name as his grandfather (1763-1819), pastor at Long Meadow, 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 of Richard

Mather

. He graduated at Amherst in 1839, studied law in Boston under Rufus Choate, graduated at Andover theological seminary in 1845, and was pastor of the 'Harvard Congregational church of Brookline, Massachusetts, in 1845-1846, and of the Church of the Pilgrims in Brooklyn, New

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, from 1846 until shortly before his death in Brooklyn on the 5th of June moo. He was a conservative in theology, and an historical writer of considerable ability. From 1848 to 1861 he was associate editor of the New

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Independent, which he had helped to establish; from 1887 to 1897 he was president ofthe American board of commissioners for foreign missions, and he was prominent in the Long Island Historical Society. His

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-grandfather, John Storrs (1735-1799), a chaplain in the Continental 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 (188o), The Recognition of the Supernatural in Letters and in Life (1881),

Bernard

of Clairvaux (1892), and Foundation Truths of American Missions (1897).
See Charles Storrs, The Storrs Family (New York, 1886).

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