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See also: American Congregational clergyman, was See also: born in See also: Braintree, Massachusetts, on the 21St of See also: August 1821
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He See also: bore the same name as his grandfather (1763-1819), pastor at Long Meadow, Massachusetts, from 1785 to 1819, and his See also: father (1787-1873), pastor at Braintree, Massachusetts, from 1811 to 1873 (except the years 1831-1836), both prominent Congregational ministers, who were descendants of See also: Richard Mather
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He graduated at Amherst in 1839, studied See also: law in See also: Boston under Rufus Choate, graduated at See also: Andover theological seminary in 1845, and was pastor of the 'Harvard Congregational See also: church of
See also: Brookline, Massachusetts, in 1845-1846, and of the Church of the Pilgrims in See also: Brooklyn, New See also: York, from 1846 until shortly before his See also: death in Brooklyn on the 5th of See also: June moo
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He was a conservative in See also: theology, and an See also: historical writer of considerable ability
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From 1848 to 1861 he was associate editor of the New York See also: Independent, which he had helped to establish; from 1887 to 1897 he was president ofthe American See also: board of commissioners for See also: foreign See also: missions, and he was prominent in the Long See also: Island Historical Society
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His See also: great-grandfather, See also: John
See also: Storrs (1735-1799), a See also: chaplain in the See also: Continental Army, had been pastor of the See also: Southold Church in 1763-1776 and in 1782-1787
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Dr Storrs's more important published See also: works were: John Wycliffe and the First See also: English See also: Bible (188o), The Recognition of the Supernatural in Letters and in See also: Life (1881), See also: Bernard of See also: Clairvaux (1892), and Foundation Truths of American Missions (1897)
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See See also: Charles Storrs, The Storrs
See also: Family (New York, 1886)
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