Person:Richard Storrs (5)

"The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans"
Volume X, page 53
STORRS, Richard Salter, clergyman, was born in Braintree, Mass., Aug. 21, 1821; son of the Rev. Richard Salter and Harriet (Moore) Storrs, natives of Long Meadow, Mass.; grandson of the Rev. Richard Salter and Sarah (Williston) Storrs, and great-grandson of the Rev. John of Connecticut, a chaplain in the Revolution, and pastor for six years at Southold, Long Island, and Eunice (Conant) Storrs. His father (1787-1873), Williams college, 1807, Andover Theological seminary, 1810, served as a Congregational minister at Braintree, Mass., 1811-73; edited the Boston Recorder, 1817-25; was associate editor of the Congregationalist, 1850-56, and the author of several publications. Richard Salter Storrs, the third, attended Monson academy, and was graduated from Amherst college, A.B., 1839, A.M., 1842, and from Andover Theological seminary, 1845, meanwhile studying law under Rufus Choate, and teaching in Monson academy and Williston seminary. He was married, Oct. 1, 1845, to Mary Elwell, daughter of the Rev. Francis and Sarah Hurd (Phillips) Jenks, of Boston, Mass. She died in Brooklyn, N.Y. Jan. 7, 1898. Of their children, Harriet Moore married Louis R. Packard, of Philadelphia, Pa.; Mary Jenks was married, June 11, 1874, to the Rev. Edward Benton Coe (q.v.); and Miriam Phillips married Philip Moen Washburn, of Worcester, Mass. He was ordained to the ministry of Harvard Congregational church, Brookline, Mass., Oct. 22, 1845, and was pastor of the Church of the Pilgrims, Brooklyn, N.Y., from November, 1846, until his resignation in November, 1899, when he was made pastor emeritus, and succeeded by the Rev. Harry P. Dewey. He refused the pastorate of the Old Brick church, New York city, in 1875. Upon the 35th anniversary of his installation in the Pilgrim church, the congregation presented him with a purse of $35,000, and his 50th anniversary was marked by a week's celebration, during which the Manhattan Ministerial association gave him a memorial loving-cup, and the Hamilton club held a dinner and reception in his honor. He was one of the founders of the Independent in 1848, and was an associate editor until 1861, and in 1855 delivered the Graham lectures at the Brooklyn institute. During the civil war he was a staunch supporter of the government, and upon the close of the war was one of those commissioned immediately after Lee's surrender to visit Fort Sumter, and re-raised the stars and stripes over the fort. Dr. Storrs served on the Brooklyn Park commission, 1871-79; lectured on the method of preparation for preaching at the Union Theological seminary, New York city, 1875, and was Ely lecturer in 1879, and L.P. Stone lecturer at Princeton Theological seminary, in 1879. He was president of the Long Island Historical society from 1875-1900; president of the A.B.C.F.M. of the Congregational church, 1887-96, succeeding the Rev. Mark Hopkins; corresponding member of the Massachusetts Historical society, and in September, 1899, president of the international convention of Congregational ministers at Boston, Mass., receiving an ovation at the close of his address. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from Union college, 1853, and from Harvard, 1859; that of LL.D. from the College of New Jersey, 1874; L.H.D. from Columbia, 1887, and was a trustee of Amherst college, 1863-1900.
In addition to his many orations, he is the author of: Report on the Revised Edition of the English Version of the Bible; The Constitution of the Human Soul (1856); Conditions of Success in Preaching without Notes (1875); Early American Spirit and the Genesis of It (1875); Declaration of Independence, and the Effects of It (1876); John Wycliffe and the First English Bible (1880); Recognition of the Supernatural in Letters and in Life (1881); Manliness in the Scholar (1883); The Divine Origin of Christianity Indicated by its Historical Effects (1884); The Prospective Advance of Christian Missions (1885); Forty Years of Pastoral Life (1886); The Broader Range and Outlook of the Modern College Training (1887), and Bernard of Clairaux (1893). Dr. Storrs died in Brooklyn, N.Y. June 5, 1900.[p.53] ___________________________________