PRIME, EDWARD DORR GRIFFIN (1814-91). An American clergyman and journalist. He was born at Cambridge, N. Y.. and graduated from Union College in 1832. Ile studied at the Theo logical Seminary at Princeton. where he com pleted the course in 1S3S. After some years with the Presbyterian Church of Scotchtown, N. Y., in 1849 he went to New Orleans for the benefit of his health, and then assumed the pastorate for a year of the Presbyterian Church in Eighty-sixth Street, New York City. In 18.53 lie became substitute editor of the New York Observer, while his broth er. Samuel trem ens. was in Europe. After the brother's return the two maintained an editorial association until 1885. Ile eonthmed to edit the paper for a year after his brother's death. lle made several extended journeys abroad, spent the winter of 1854-55 in Rome, and made a journey round the world in 1869-70 with the special ob ject of studying the religious condition of East ern countries. He published: Around the World (1872); Forty Years in the Turkish Empire; or Memoirs of leer. William Goodell (1876); Civil and Religious Liberty in Turkey ( 1S75) : and Notes, Genealogical, Biographical, and Bibliogra phical, of the Prime Family (privately printed, New York, 1888).
r PRIME, SAMUEL 'BENXI'S (1S12-85). An American clergyman, traveler, and writer. He was born at Ballston, N. Y., and graduated from Williams College in 1829. Three years later he entered Princeton Theological Seminary, but a severe illness compelled him to abandon his theo logical course in the first year. He was licensed
to preach by the Presbytery of Bedford in 1833, and in 1835 was installed pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Ballston Spa. N. Y.. but again illness compelled a change of occupation and he became principal of the academy at Newburgh. N. Y. He resumed preaching in 1837. being located at Mat teawan, N. Y., but three years later entered upon the chief work of his life as editor of the New York Obserrer, a paper of which he afterwards came to be the principal owner. He was for a time one of the secretaries of the American Bible Society, a corresponding secretary of the Evan gelical Alliance, the founder and president of the New York As-tociation for the Advancement of Science and Art, president and trustee of Wells College, and a trustee of Williams College. He died at Manchester. Vt. Besides a large number of books of religious character he published: Life in New York (1846) ; Travels in Europe and the East (1855): Letters from Switzerland (186n); The Power of Prayer (185S) ; American Wit and Humor (1859) ; The Alhambra and the Kremlin (1873); Life of Samuel F. B. Morse (1875); Irentrus Letters (1880, 1885).
For his life, consult the autobiography in Ire ?urns Letters, series ii. (New York, 1885), and the sketch with bibliography in Notes Genealo gical. Biographical, and Bibliographical of the Prime Family, by E. D. G. Prime (privately printed, New York. 1888).