STRONG, Paschal Neilson, clergyman, born in Setauket, Suffolk County, New York, 16 February, 1793; died in St. Croix, Wisconsin, 7 April, 1825. He was graduated at Columbia in 1810, at the head of his class, studied theology under Dr. John M. Mason, and was ordained as one of the pastors of the Collegiate Dutch Reformed church, New York, 14 July, 1816. In 1824 he was seized with a pulmonary affection, which was the cause of his early death. He had received the degree of D. D., and served as a trustee of Columbia in 1822-'25. During his short pastorate he obtained a reputation as a pulpit orator. Dr. Strong published "The Pestilence a Punishment for Public Sins: a Sermon preached after the Cessation of the Yellow Fever " (New York, 1822), which attracted much attention.--His brother, Thomas Norris, clergyman, born in Cooperstown, New York, 20 April, 1797; died in Flatbush, Long Island, New York, 14 June, 1861, was graduated at Columbia in 1816, studied at Princeton theological seminary, and was pastor of the Dutch Reformed church in Flatbush from 1822 till his death. He published a " History of the Town of Flatbush" (New York, 1842).