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TORREY, Joseph, clergyman, born in Rowley, Massachusetts, 2 February, 1797 ; died in Burlington, Vermont, 26 November, 1867. He was graduated at Dartmouth in 1816, and at Andover theological seminary in 1819, and was pastor of a Congregational church in Royal-ton, Vermont, in 1824-'7. He was professor of Greek and Latin in the University of Vermont in 1827-'42, of intellectual and moral philosophy in 1842-'67, and its president in 1862-'6. (See illustration below.) Harvard gave him the degree of D. D. in 1850. He is the author of a posthumous volume of lectures entitled" A Theory of Fine Art" (New York, 1874) ; edited "Remains of President James Marsh" (1843) and "Select Sermons of President Worthington Smith" (1861), to both of which he prefixed memoirs ; and translated Neander's "General History of the Christian Religion and Church," which may be considered the principal work of his life (5 vols., Boston, 1854).--His daughter, Mary Cutler, author, born in Burlington, Vermont, 28 May, 1831, was educated in private schools and by her father. She is the author of "America," a dramatic poem (New York, 1863), and has edited Joseph Torrey's "Theory of Fine Art" and his revised edition of N ean-de'r's "Church History" (Boston, 1872), herself preparing the index volume (1881).
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