Richard Salter Storrs

Background

Storrs, Richard Salter was born on February 6, 1787 in Longmeadow, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Richard Salter and Sarah (Williston) Storrs.

Education

Attended Yale, 1802; graduate Williams College, 1807. Graduate Andover Theological Seminary, 1810.

Career

3d, Anne Stebbins, October 18, 1835. In charge of Clinton Academy, circa 1803. Licensed by Suffolk Presbytery, circa 1808.

Missionary work in Georgia as agent American Education Society, circa 1809.

Ordained and installed as pastor First Congregational Church, Braintree, Massachusetts, 1811, pastor, 1811-1873. Promoter Sunday Schools, temperance societies.

Secretary American Tract Society, 1820-1825. Director American Education Society, 1821-1830.

Officer of Massachusetts Missionary Society.

Editorial writer Recorder (later Boston Recorder), 1816-1824. Editor The Congregationalist, 1850-1856. Author: American Slavery and the Means of its Removal, 1844.

Achievements

• Richard Salter Storrs has been listed as a noteworthy clergyman, editor by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

• Other Work

  • Author: American Slavery and the Means of its Removal, 1844.

Connections

Married Sarah Woodhull, April. Married second, Harriet Moore, September 16, 1819, m.

Father:

Richard Salter Storrs

Mother:

Sarah (Williston) Storrs

Spouse:

Harriet Moore

Spouse:

Sarah Woodhull