New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-04-08
OBITUARY.
THE REV. DIR. EDWARD d. G. PRIME.

THE REV. DIX. EDWARD ID. q. PRIME.
Edward Dorr Griffin Prime died at his residence. in
this city yesterday morning. For than thirty
two years he associated with his brother. the
Rev. DR.. S. Irenaeus Prime, in the editorial work
Iof "The New-York Observer The year after his
brothers death, July 49, 1885, his health became so
infrm that he was compelled TO withdraw from the
duties and responsibilities of editorial life. but able
10 interest himself in oongcal pursuits and associa-
tons until within few days. when the serious Illness
Of his wife and increasing nmities proved greater
burden than he could bear. lie was the third son OF
the Rev. DR.. Nathaniel S. Prime, and was born at
Cambridge, n. Y. on November 2, 1914 In COM
mon with bis older brothers, he received his preparatory
education at the Washington Academy, In his natVc
town, under the immediate instruction OF MS iather'
lie entered Union College during the presidency Oh the
Rev. Dr.. Eliphalet Mott who was then in his NIL
vigor and celebrity as educator He was grad
ucd in 1892, In his eighteenth year. taking one Oh inc
honors OF his class-the Latin Grafton.
After his graduation he spent three years IN teac
ing assistant TO his father in the Mount Pleasant
Academy. He began the study of medicine under
DR.. Adrian X. Hoffman, then surgeon Oh inc state
prison at Sing Sing, but in the sutumh Oh 1000 ho
decided to devote his life to the ministry ana entered
the Theological Seminary at Princeton AFTER three
years course at this institution he was graduated IN
the class of 1885, and was licensed to preach on
May 10 of that year by the Presbytery OF North
River. In December he was called TO become an as
slstant to the Rev. Methuselah Baldwin, pastor Of the
Presbyterian Church Of Scotchtown Orange County,
n. " and was ordained collegiate pastor on June H.
1889. On the death Of Mr.. Baldwin, February -,
1947, he became sole pastor. On the 10th OF Sep
TENDER, $780, he married Maria Darlington daughter
of John S. Wilson, of Princeton N. j. In November.
1850, accompanied by his wife, he went to New
Orleans to spend the winter for his health. On
arriving there he accepted invitation to supply the
pulpit of the Lafayette Square Presbyterian Church for
six months, during the absence OF the pastor, the
Rev. DIR. William A. Scott who was then travelling
in Palestine and Egypt. The following May he left
NewO Orleans to attend the meeting of the Presbyterian
General Assembly in st. Louis commissioner from
the PTesbytery OF Hudson. While he was on the
Mississippi the cholera made its appearance on the
steamer and several deaths occurred. Mrs. Prime
suddenly attacked, and within twenty four hours
from the appearance of the first symptoms the disease
had passed through all its stages. She died on the
steamer Iowa, May 10, 1851.
The following winter Mr.. Prime resigned his pastoral
charge and went to Augusta, Ga. On returning to the
North in May, he took charge 0f-the Presbyterian
church I'm Eighty-sxth-st New York, for year. In
April 1853 TO enable his brother IrenaeuS to recruit
his health by foreign travel, he took his place as
Editor Of The New York Observer" with which paper
he had correspondent for many years under the sigma
ture Of Euscbus" After the return OF his brother
they were associated in editorial labor until the death
Of Irenaeus, In 1850 He spent the winter OF 1oo4oo
in Rome, officiating as chaplain OF the American En-
bassy, under the appointment of the American and
Foreign Christian Union. The following Summer nc
travelled extensively in Europe returning TO New
York In october and rcsumlng his duties OIL The I'd
server" .
In 1857 he received the degree OF d, d. from Jefer-
son College, Pennsylvania on the 18th Of June 1o6O
he married Abbie Davis, daughter of the Rev. Dr.
William GoOdcll, of COnstantinOple.
Dr. Edward Primes literary activity was not con
fired to his editorial labors. Besides contributing
largely to several volumes which were issued without
his name, he published the following: Around the
World Forty Years in the Turkish Empire; Or
Memoirs OF the Rev. William Goodel. d. D., Late MIS-
sonarv OF the A. b. c. L. VI. at COnstantnope,"
Calvnjsm and Missions" an address before the synod
OF New York October 10, 1852: Civil and Religious
Liberty in Turkey Notes, Genealogical. Biographical
and photographed, of the Prime Family