STRONG, Nathan, clergyman, born in Coventry, Connecticut, 16 October, 1748; died in Hartford, Connecticut, 25 December, 1816. His father, of the same name, was pastor at Coventry, Connecticut The son was graduated at Yale in 1769, and was tutor there in 1772-'3. He had begun to study law, but abandoned it for divinity, and on 5 January, 1774, was ordained pastor of the 1st church in Hartford. He acted as a chaplain in the Revolutionary army, and served the patriot cause ably with tongue and pen. Princeton gave him the degree of D. D. in 1801. Dr. Strong was a man of wide erudition, and great natural powers. His sermons were clear and pithy, and he had great facility in extemporizing. In 1795 he invested part of the estate that his father had left in a mercantile establishment, where failure involved him in pecuniary difficulties. He projected and sustained the " Connecticut Evangelical Magazine," which was continued from 1800 till 1815; and he also was the chief founder of the Connecticut missionary society in 1798, and its principal manager till 1806. Besides separate discourses, he published " The Doctrine of Eternal Misery consistent with the Infinite Benevolence of God, '"in reply to a work by Reverend Dr. Joseph Huntington (Hartford, 1796), and two volumes of "Sermons " designed to give aid and direction to revivals (1798 and 1800). He also projected and was the principal compiler of the " Hartford Collection of Hymns," several of which he wrote (1799).--His brother, Joseph, clergyman, born in Coventry, Connecticut, 21 September, 1753 ; died in Norwich, Connecticut, 18 December, 1834, was graduated at Yale in 1772, and was for fifty-six years pastor of the 1st church in Norwich. He was known for his wide information, winning manners, and the fervency and solemnity of his prayers. Princeton gave him the degree of D.D. in 1807. He published several single discourses.