Great-grandfather, John Storrs (1735-1799), a chaplain in the Continental Army, had been pastor of the Southold Church in1763-1776and in 1782-1 787. Dr Storrs's more important published works were: John Wycliffe and the First English Bible (1880), The Recognition of the Supernatural in Letters and in Life (1881), Bernard of Clairvaux (1892), and Foundation Truths of American Missions (1897).
See Charles Storrs, The Storrs Family (New York, 1886).