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Prime, Nathaniel Scudder

clergyman, author, was born April 21, 1785, in Huntington, L. I. He was a presbyterian clergyman of Newburgh, N. Y., and the author of Familiar Illustration of Christian Baptism; and History of Long Island. He died March 27, 1856, in Mamaroneck, N. Y.

PRIME, SAMUEL IRENÆUS, clergyman, journalist, author, was born Nov. 4, 1812, in Ballston, N. Y. He was a presbyterian clergyman, editor of The New York Observer for forty-five years.

He was the author of Fifteen Years of Prayer; Irenæus Letters; The Old White Meeting-House; Life in New York; Annals of the English Bible; Songs of the Soul; Life of S. B. F. Morse; Prayer and Its Answer; Walking with God; Travels in Europe and the East; The Bible in the Levant; The Alhambra and the Kremlin; and Under the Trees. died July 18, 1885, in Manchester, Vt.

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