STORRS, Richard Salter, clergyman, born in Long Meadow, Massachusetts, 6 February, 1787 ; died in Braintree, Massachusetts, 11 August, 1873. His grandfather, John, served as a chaplain in the Revolution, and his father, Richard Salter, was pastor of the Congregational church at Long Meadow, Massachusetts The son received his early education at home and entered Yale in 1802, but, his health failing, he taught in the Clinton academy in East Hampton, L. I., where he had been invited at the suggestion of Lyman Beecher. Meanwhile he continued his studies, and, entering the senior class, was graduated at Willlams in 1807. He then returned to Long Island and studied theology under Reverend Aaron Woolworth in Bridgehampton. A year later he was licensed by the Suffolk presbytery and had charge of the parishes of Islip and Smithtown, but soon retired from this work and entered Andover theological seminary, where he was graduated in 1810. He was then ordained pastor of the 1st Congregational church of Braintree, which charge he retained until his death, except during an interval of five years, when he was engaged in the service of the Home missionary society of Massachusetts. The degree of D.D. was conferred on him by Williams in 1835, and by Amherst in the same year. During 1817-'25 he was editor of the " Boston Recorder," and he was senior associate editor of the "Congregationalist." in 1850-'6. Dr. Storrs was also a contributor to the " Panoplist," the " Home Monthly," and, other periodicals, and in addition to about twenty sermons, published " Memoir of Reverend Samuel Green" (Boston, 1836), "Life and Letters of Reverend Daniel Temple " (New York, 1855), and edited " Williston's Sacramental Meditations" (Boston, 1857).--His brother, Charles Baekus, clergyman, born in Long Meadow, Massachusetts, 15 May, 1794; died in Braintree, Massachusetts, 15 September, 1833, was educated at Munson academy and at Princeton, but left college at the close of his junior year on account of his health. He studied theology in Bridgehampton, L. I., and was licensed to preach by the Long Island presbytery in 1813. For a year he had charge of two small churches on Long Island, but, his health failing, he returned to his father's home. On his recovery he was graduated at Andover theological seminary in 1820, and was ordained as an evangelist by the Charleston Congregational association on 2 February, 1821. For two years he labored as a missionary in South Carolina and Georgia, when his health again failed him. In 1822 he gathered a church in Ravenna, Ohio, and continued there for six years. He then accepted the professorship of theology in Western Reserve college, and in 1831 was inaugurated president of that institution, which place he held until his death. He published an address on his induction into the presidency. --" Richard Salter's son, Richard Salter, clergyman, born in Braintree, Massachusetts, 21 August, 1821, was graduated at Amherst in 1839, and, after teaching in Monson academy and Williston seminary, studied law under Rufus Choate. Turning his attention to theology in 1842, he was graduated at Andover seminary in 1845, and ordained on 22 October of that year in Brook-line, Massachusetts, where he had been called to the charge of the Harvard Congregational church. In 1846 he accepted the pastorate of the newly organized Church of the Pilgrims in Brooklyn, where he has since remained. The degree of D. D. was conferred on him by Union college in 1853 and by Harvard in 1859, that of LL.D. by Princeton in 1874, and that of L. H. D. by Columbia in 1887. In 1855 he delivered the Graham lectures, before the Brooklyn institute, "On the Wisdom and Goodness of God," his subject being "The Constitution of the Human Soul," and in 1879 he delivered the L. P. Stone lectures at Princeton theological seminary, He also gave the lectures on "Preaching without Notes," at the Union theological seminary, in New York, in 1875, and those on the "Divine Origin of Christianity," in the same institution, in 1881, which were repeated before the Lowell institute in Boston. Dr. Storrs has attained reputation as one of the most eloquent pulpit orators in the United States. In 1873 he made an address on the "Appeal of Romans to educated Protestants" before the Evangelical alliance. He is well known for his historical studies, and has delivered frequent addresses on public occasions. In 1875 he made the address before the New York historical society on its seventieth anniversary, in 1876 the centennial oration in New York city, and in 1881 the + B K oration at Harvard. Dr. Storrs was elected a trustee of Amherst in 1863, and since 1873 has been president of the Long Island historical society. In 1887 he was chosen president of the American board of commissioners for foreign missions. He was one of the editors of "The Independent" from 1848 till 1861, and, in addition to numerous articles in periodicals, prepared a "Report on the Revised Edition of the English Version of the Bible." His published works further include "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" (Brooklyn, 1886), and "The Broader Range and Outlook of the Modern College Training" (1887).