The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-08-18
Che autlaad Daily 6lohe.
MONDAY, AUGUST 10. 1873.
obituary..
RICHARD sALTER sToRRs, d. d

RICHARD sALTER sToRRs, ID. ID.
Richard 3. Storrs, u. d., who died al
his residence in Braintree Mass, on Mon.
day, was born in Longmcadow, Conn, in
February 1887. He was a son of Richard
s. Storrs, who was minister at Longmeadow
| from 1885 to his death Oct. 8, 1879 aged
o.. The recently deceased DR.. Storrs
graduated at Williams College in 1907 and
has been pastor of the first Congregational
Church in Braintree since 1871. A Pas
toratc of sixty years is something unique
in this country. The family seem to have
been remarkable in several respects. Three
generations s., the randfathcr-father and
son; each bearing the same name Richard
Sail clergymen having long Pastorates.
The father of DR.. Sto.rs was settled over
the church in Longmeadow thirty four
years and his eloquent son Il. S. Storrs
Jr., has been Pastor of the church of
the Pilgrims in Brooklyn, n. Y twenty
seven years, but neither of these can be
classed with the remarkable term of SER
vice of the venerable man who has lust
passed. On the first Sunday of July, the
sixty-first anniversary of his settlement over
the Congregational Church OF Braintree
was celebrated. AS the venerable Pastor
moved with feeble steps up the long aisle,
he was greeted with Aud Land Sync on
the organ. Overcome by the touching re-
ception, the old man threw himself on the
sofa and wept like a child OF all that were
present at his settlement July 8, 1911, none
remained to see the present anniversary.
He was formerly editor of the Boston Re
corder-also co-editor of the Congyega-
tiondlist and contributed to the Pdnapoiist,
Home Monthly etc. He published a
memoir of Rev. Samuel Green in Boston
and some 90 single sermons. lie received
the degree of d. D., from Williams Col
lcge in 1885. His eventful life, devoted to
the duties of his profession and spent in II
single field of labor, reminds Of the early
Puritan clcrgymen of New England, and
to be like them, in life, deeds and influence,
was not improbabfy. The very ideal which
DIR. Storrs might have sought.
GEORGE y. SANDERS.
George N. Sanders died very suddenly
of heart disease, at his residence in New
York on Tuesday, in the sixty second year
of his age Mr.. Sanders was born in Lex
ington. Ky. February 81, 1912. His grand
father, Colonel George Nicholas, for whom
he was named is known as the proposer of
the Kentucky resolutions and the adoption
by Virginia of the Federal Constitution
against the opposition OF Patrick Henry.
His father, Lewis Sanders, was Il man of
much rcpute in the West. Mr.. Sanders
own entrance to political life was at the or
ganization of the first mass-neeting in IA
vor of the annexation of Texas. He was
Consul at London under Pierce, and Navy
Agent at New York under Buchanan.
When Douglas was Presidential candi-
date Mr. Sanders was his strong adherent
and friend. His sympathies and efforts
were for the South all through the war, and
near its close he, with Horace Greeley at
tempted to bring about those peace nego-
tiatons at Niagara which Mr.. Lincoln
avoided. Since that time Mr.. Sanders has
been out of active political life. He was
widely known, and gained by his generous
disposition and social character many per-
sonal friends among his most direct political
opponents. He leaves widow and two
sons, both lawyers in this city. His funeral
will 'ls place from st. AIMS Church to-
morrow.