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Rh Dec., 1819. till 3 March, 1831, except during the 17th congress. Mr. Storrs subsequently settled in New York city and attained a high rank ;ii tin- Kir. He was possessed of uncommon powers of di-rrimi- nation, great logical exactness, and a ready and powerful elocution, and as a debater in congress was in the first rank. Several of his speeches have been published. His brother. William Lucius, jurist, b. in Middletown, Conn., 25 March, 1795 ; d. in Hartford, Conn. ,25 June, 1801, was graduated at Yah- in is 14, and then studied law in White- stone, N. Y. In 1817 he was admitted to the bar in New York, but soon returned to his native city and there followed his profession. He was elected to the state assembly in 1827-'9 and 1834, and was speaker during the last term. In 1829 he was chosen to congress as a Whig and served from 7 Dec., 1829, till 3 March, 1833, and again from 2 Dec., 1839, till June, 1840, when he resigned to ac- cept the appointment of associate judge of the court of errors, and in 1857 was appointed chief justice. He held the professorship of law in Yale during 1846-'7, and the degree of LL. D. was con- ferred on him by Western Reserve in 1846. His decisions, which are regarded as exceedingly able, are published in the " Connecticut Reports."

'''STORRS. Richard Salter,''' clergyman, b. in Long Meadow, Mass. ,6 Feb., 1787; d. in Braintree, Mass., 11 Aug., 1873. His grandfather, John, served as a chaplain in the Revolution, and his father, Richard Salter, was pastor of the Congrega- tional church at Long Meadow, Mass. The son re- ceived 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 Will- iams in 1807. He then returned to Long Island and studied theology under Rev. Aaron Wool- worth 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 theo- li >;;ical seminary, where he was graduated in 1810. He was then ordained pastor of the 1st Congrega- tional church of Braintree, which charge he re- tained 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 Re- corder," 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 Rev. Samuel Green " (Boston. 1836), " Life and Letters of Rev. Daniel Temple '' (New York, 1855). and edited " Williston's Sacramental Meditations" (Boston, 1857). His brother, Charles Backus, clergyman, b. in Long Meadow, Mass., 15 May, 1794: d. in Braintree, Mass.. 15 Sept., 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 tin- Charleston Congregational association on 2 'Feb., . 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 the- ology 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, clergy- man, b. in Braintree, Mass., 21 Aug., 1821, was graduated at Amherst in 1839, and, after teach- ing in Monson academy and Williston seminary, studied law under Rufus Choate. Turning his at- tention to theology in 1842, he was graduat- ed at Andover semi- nary in 1845, and or- dained on 22 Oct. of that year in Brook- line, Mass., where he had been called to the charge of the Har- vard Congregational church. In 1846 he accepted the pastorate of the newly organ- ized 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