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Richard Sutton Rust was born in Ipswich, Massachussets, the son of Nathaniel Rust, Jr. , and his second wife, Mary (Sutton) Kimball. He was descended from Henry Rust who emigrated from England and settled in Hingham, Massachussets, as early as 1635. Richard's father, a cordwainer and dealer in boots and shoes, died when the boy was but six years old; his mother, when he was nine.
Rust tried working on an uncle's farm, then cabinetmaking, but, eager for an education, he bought back a part of his time of apprenticeship and entered Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachussets Expelled with several students who refused to resign from an antislavery society, he became a student at Canaan, N. H. , in an academy which admitted Negroes. When local opposition closed this, he went to Wilbraham Academy, Wilbraham, Massachussets, and from there to Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, from which he received the degree of A. B. in 1841.
While a student, Rust earned money by giving antislavery lectures. He was received into the New England Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church on trial in 1844, and ordained elder in 1846.
Transferred to the New Hampshire Conference in 1846, he became principal of the New Hampshire Conference Seminary (now Tilton School) and state school commissioner. He made some improvements in the school system, but soon returned to preaching. Rust's early concern for the Negro became his dominating interest. Transferred to the Cincinnati Conference in 1859, he was made president of Wilberforce University, a school for Negroes, serving until it was sold to the African Methodist Episcopal Church in 1863.
For the next two years he was president of Wesleyan Female College, Cincinnati. He shared the intense local interest in the early Contraband Relief Association, later the Western Freedmen's Aid Commission, of which he became corresponding secretary in 1865. When, finally, the many relief societies were united into the American Freedman's Union Commission, Rust became a member of the western branch of the executive committee. He soon grew dissatisfied with the work of this large, undenominational body, however, for he was sectarian in his interests, violently prejudiced against the "Romanists, " and insisted that the mission of the teacher sent to the South was to evangelize as well as educate.
In 1866 he became the general field agent of the Freedmen's Aid Society and served there for two years, and then as corresponding secretary for over twenty years. He vigorously directed and helped in the work of securing funds, overseeing schools in operation and suggesting improvements, selecting sites for new schools, planning buildings, and keeping the needs of the society constantly before the laity. One of these schools, Rust University at Holly Springs, Miss. , was renamed for him.
It was estimated in 1882 that the teachers sent out from these institutions had taught more than three-fourths of a million children. When, in 1892, he finally retired, he was still alert, impressive though grizzled in appearance, and forceful in address. He died in Cincinnati in his ninety-second year.
Rust was known as the founder and editor of The American Pulpit (1845 - 48), a collection of sermons including a few of his own. He helped to organize the Freedmen's Aid Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, at Cincinnati. His other famouse publications included: Freedom's Gifts: or Sentiments of the Free (1840), a compilation, including two contributions of his own; Method of Introducing Religion into Common Schools; and The Freedmen's Aid Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church (1880); he also edited and contributed to Isaac W. Wiley, Late Bishop of the M. E. Church, a Monograph (1885).
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In 1841 Rust married Sarah A. Hubbard. After her death he married, in 1875, Elizabeth A. Lownes.
