Item 0009 - Letter, 5 January 1887

Rev. Richard Salter Storrs was born on August 21, 1821, in Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts.

He was a Congregational clergyman. He graduated from Amherst College (1839) and Andover Theological Seminary (D.D., 1845). He also spent some time studying law in Boston. He served as pastor at the Harvard Congregational Church of Brookline, Massachusetts (1845–1846) and the Church of the Pilgrims in Brooklyn, New York, from 1846 until his death. He helped establish the New York Independent and became its associate editor (1848-1861). He was president of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (1887-1897) and the Long Island Historical Society (1873-1900). In addition to his work in the church, Storrs was a writer and historian. He published many of his sermons, addresses, and books, e.g., "John Wycliffe and the First English Bible" (1880), "The Recognition of the Supernatural in Letters and in Life" (1881), and "Foundation Truths of American Missions" (1897).

In 1845, he married Mary Elwell Jenks (1824–1898). He died on June 5, 1900, in Brooklyn, Kings, New York.