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STORRS, RICHARD SALTER (1821-1900)

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 969 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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STORRS, See also:RICHARD See also:SALTER (1821-1900) , See also:American Congregational clergyman, was See also:born in See also:Braintree, See also:Massachusetts, on the 21St of See also:August 1821. He See also:bore the same name as his grandfather (1763-1819), pastor at See also:Long Meadow, Massachusetts, from 1785 to 1819, and his See also: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 See also:Mather. He graduated at See also:Amherst in 1839, studied See also:law in See also:Boston under See also:Rufus See also:Choate, graduated at See also:Andover theological See also:seminary in 1845, and was pastor of the 'Harvard Congregational See also:church of See also:Brookline, Massachusetts, in 1845-1846, and of the Church of the Pilgrims in See also:Brooklyn, New See also:York, from 1846 until shortly before his See also:death in Brooklyn on the 5th of See also:June moo. He was a conservative in See also:theology, and an See also:historical writer of considerable ability. From 1848 to 1861 he was See also:associate editor of the New York See also:Independent, which he had helped to establish; from 1887 to 1897 he was See also:president ofthe American See also:board of commissioners for See also:foreign See also:missions, and he was prominent in the Long See also:Island Historical Society. His See also:great-grandfather, See also:John Storrs (1735-1799), a See also:chaplain in the See also:Continental See also:Army, had been pastor of the See also:Southold Church in 1763-1776 and in 1782-1787. Dr Storrs's more important published See also:works were: John Wycliffe and the First See also:English See also:Bible (188o), The Recognition of the Supernatural in Letters and in See also:Life (1881), See also:Bernard of See also:Clairvaux (1892), and See also:Foundation Truths of American Missions (1897). See See also:Charles Storrs, The Storrs See also:Family (New York, 1886).

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