New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-06-06
THE REV. DR.. STORRS DEAD.
PASTOR EMERITUS OF CHURCH OF THE
PILGRIMS PASSES AWAY
pEAEEETITF.
PEACEFULLY

The Pev Dr. Richard SeIter Storrs died last
svertng about o'clock st his home. No. 50
Pierrepont-st.. Brooklyn. He had been IN feeble
health FOR several months but had lost strength
rnore RAPIDLY in the last three or four weeks.
His death was due TO g. gradual exhaustion Of
vital force and not to any specific cause Since
Sunday he had been sinking more and more into
< condition OF Inconsistencies until he passed
away quietly last evening. For several days
previous TO Sunday he realized that death was
near. and enc day last week he asked whether
he would die that night He was assured that
he would not and since Sunday he had not
spoken In all his Illness he suffered little.
cept from excessive weakness.
Al the deathbed Of Dr.. Storrs were his daugh-
tiers Mrs. Lewis R. Packard Mrs. Edward B.
Coe. wife Of the Rev DR.. Coe, OF the Collegiate
Church. and Mrs. Philip washburn. Of Colorado
Springs; his granddaughter. Miss Mary Pack
ard: his son-in-law. the Rev. DR.. Coe. and his
physician, Dr. Frederick H Cotton
The funeral will be held In the Church OF the
Pilgrims, OF which Dr. Storrs was pastor emeritus
on Friday afternoon at o'clock The services
viii be simple in character and Will be conducted
by the Rev Dr. Harry P. Dewey pastor-elect
Of the church: the Rev. E. H. Byington. former
" pastor Of Pilgrim Chapel, and the Rev DR.
Albert J. Lyman. OF the South Congregational
Church No address Will be made but II is
expected that q memorial service will be held in
the fall On Friday there will be only the usual
funeral service OF the Church OF the Pilgrims,
which was arranged by DR.. Storrs the reading
OF the Scriptures, prayer and the singing Of
TWO or three familiar hymns. There will be no
palIbearers The burial will be in Greenwood
Cemetery.
The death Of Mrs Storrs II January, 1898
overwhelmed the Doctor for q time, but he re-
covered somewhat from the shock. and threw
himself into his work with as much vigor as
ever and seemed 10 find relief II Il Yesterday
was the anniversary Of Mrs. storrs's birthday.
Dr. Frederick H CoIton, Dr. Storrss physi-
ian, when seen by a Tribune reporter last even
ing al his home, No 136 Montague-st, Brook
lT1 saio that the doctors death was due 10 q
E-aaual loss Of vitality, which however, did not
affect his brain His mind was clear till the
LAST thirty-six or forty-eight hours. He declined
gradually, SO gradually that IL was hardly per
ceprible from day 10 day. October l was the
beginning Of his Illness and he would at times
recover force and vtgor enough TO go out with
his family, but through Il al he had & sense Of
growing weakness There was a loss Of nervous
and muscular force, and the fact that he would
nave Oeen seventy nine years Of age next
August had something 10 do with his condition.
HIS mind was clear up 10 the last two days, and
he passed away peacefully last evening without
& struggle. almost with the going down of the
Late II September Dr. storrs made an address
in Boston before the International Congrega-
uonaI Council on the subject Of missions in
which he was deeply interested. Coming home
he preached on the following Sunday morning
and administered communion in the aftern Don
part in the Church Of the Pilgrims, and the last
tine he was in the church was when DR.. Dewey
preached there about month ago DR.. Cotton
said that Dr. srorrs had realized for several
weeks that death was near