History of Searsville, (Hampshire County) Massachusetts United States of America

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Lorenzo Sears, clergyman, educator and author, was born at Searsville, Mass., April 18, 1838; son of Nathaniel and Cordeila (Morton) Sears; grandson of Rufus and Priscilla (Sears) Sears and of Dexter and Hannah (Munson) Morton; and a descendant of the immigrants: Richard (1590?1676) and Dorothy (d. 1678) Sears of Yarmouth, Mass., and of George (1590?1624) and Juliana (d. 1665) (Carpenter) Morton of Plymouth, Mass. He was graduated at Yale in 1861, and at the General Theological seminary, New York city, 1864; was admitted to the diaconate in 1864, and advanced to the priesthood in 1865; and held rectorships in Connecticut, Rhode Island and New Hampshire, 1864?85. He was married to Adeline daughter of James T. and Sophia (Knight) Harris of Wyoming, R.I., Jan. 2, 1866. He was professor of rhetoric and English literature in the University of Vermont, 1885?88; librarian, 1886?88; associate professor of rhetoric, Brown university, 1890?92, and in 1892 associate professor of rhetoric and oratory, and of American literature in 1895. He received the honorary degree of A.M. from Trinity in 1887, and L.H.D. in 1892. He is the author of: The History of Oratory (1896); The Occasional Address, Its Composition and Literature (1897); Principles and Methods of Literacy Criticism (1898): "An Historical Introduction to the 'Library of Modern Eloquence'" (1901); American Literature in the Colonial and National Periods (1902). He is also the author of various pamphlets and reviews.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

History of Searsville, (Hampshire County) Massachusetts

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