Travels in Europe and the East: A Year in England, Scotland, Ireland...; Volume 2
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Samuel Irenaeus Prime: Autobiography and Memorials
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Irenaeus Letters. Originally Published in the New York Observer
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The Life of Samuel F.B. Morse, LL. D. Inventor of the Electro-Magnetic Recording Telegraph
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Samuel Irenæus Prime was an American Presbyterian clergyman, editor, and author.
Background
He was born on November 4, 1812 at Ballston, New York, United States, but grew up at Cambridge, New York, where in 1813 his father, Nathaniel Scudder, son of Benjamin Youngs Prime, became pastor of the Presbyterian church. His mother was Julia Ann Jermain, of Sag Harbor, Long Island. The Prime family had been prominent in Long Island since the days of Samuel's great-grandfather, Ebenezer, minister of the Presbyterian church at Huntington from 1723 to 1779.
Education
Samuel graduated from Williams College at the age of seventeen, and after some teaching studied in Princeton Theological Seminary (1832 - 33).
Career
In 1834 he took charge of the Presbyterian church at Ballston Spa, New York, where he was ordained on June 4, 1835. Soon forced by illness to leave his church, he taught for a while at Newburgh, and then became pastor at Matteawan, New York, only to meet failure of health again after two years.
In 1840 he became assistant editor of the New York Observer, and went to live at Newark, New Jersey. His connection with this paper was interrupted in 1849, but in 1851 he returned, to be its editor.
He lived in Brooklyn from 1850 to 1858, and thenceforth in New York City. To the Observer, a religious weekly of Presbyterian affiliations, Prime gave broad scope and unfailing interest. He took sides emphatically and in good temper on numerous subjects, religious, educational, literary, political. His "Irenæus" letters, weekly essays of varied contents, many reporting his travels, were a great attraction. They were later published in two series, Irenæus Letters (1882, 1885).
Prime conducted from 1853 the "Editor's Drawer" in Harper's Magazine. This repository of anecdotes and bits of wit and humor, gathered far and wide, he made a popular institution. He died in Manchester, Vermont.
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Personality
He was always busy; he radiated good cheer, and was full of jokes and stories. Through a very large correspondence he helped many people with counsel and money.
Connections
On October 15, 1833, he was married to Elizabeth Thornton Kemeys, who lived less than a year thereafter; and on August 17, 1835, to Eloisa L. Williams of Ballston Spa.