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Barrows, Homer a Congregational minister, was born at Wareham, Mass., Dec. 19, 1806. He graduated at Amherst College in 1831; at Andover Theological Seminary in 1834; was pastor at Lakeville, then at Middleborough, Mass., 1836-42; at Norton, Mass., 184245; at Dover, N. H., 1845-52; Wareham, 1852-59; Plaistow, N. H., 1859-69; and Lakeville, 1869-72. He then … Continue reading “Barrows, Homer”

Barrows, George Wellington a Congregational minister, was born at Bridport, Vt., Feb. 23, 1817. He entered Middlebury College, but did not complete the.course; graduated at Union Tlheological Seminary, N. Y., in 1844; was ordained pastor at Salisbury, Vt., in 1845, where he labored until 1863; was twice elected to the Legislature of Vermoit; was installed … Continue reading “Barrows, George Wellington”

Barrows, Elijah Porter, D.D a Presbyterian minister, was born in Mansfield, Connecticut, January 5, 1805; graduated from Yale College in 1826; was principal of the Hartford Grammar School, 1826-31; ordained evangelist at Simsbury, Connecticut, in 1832; pastor of the Dey Street Presbyterian Church, New York, 1835- 37; professor of sacred literature in Western Reserve College, … Continue reading “Barrows, Elijah Porter, D.D”

Barrows, Eleazer Storrs a Presbyterian minister, was born Jan. 18, 1790, in Mansfield, Conn. He graduated at Middlebury, Vt., in October, 1811; spent 1811-12 in Castleton, Vt., 1812-15 in the Carolinas, and studied divinity at Princeton in 1815-16, acting a portion of 1815 as tutor in Middlebury College. He preached in Middletown, N. Y., 1816-17; … Continue reading “Barrows, Eleazer Storrs”

Barrows, Comfort E., D.D a Baptist minister, was born at Attleborough, Massachusetts, December 11, 1831. He graduated from Brown University in 1858, and from the Newton Theological Institution in 1861; was ordained December 25 of the same year pastor at South Danvers (now Peabody), Massachusetts, and in 1865 became pastor of the First Church at … Continue reading “Barrows, Comfort E., D.D”

Barrows, Allen a Baptist minister, was born in Hebron, Me., July 7, 1807, and was a graduate of Waterville College in the class of 1834. He was ordained the September following his graduation as pastor of the Baptist Church at Hallowell Cross Roads (no w Manchester), Me., where he remained one year, and then removed … Continue reading “Barrows, Allen”

Barrows are mounds of earth which have in many countries been raised over the remains of the dead. Their use was prevalent among many of the ancient inhabitants of Europe. Virgil attributes it to the ancient Romans, and Herodotus mentions it as being a practice among the Scythians. Many monuments of this kind are to … Continue reading “Barrows”

Barrowolough, William an English Wesleyan minister, and a young man of deep piety and promising gifts, was appointed by the Wesleyan Missionary Society to Sierra Leone in November, 1855. He labored there for three months, was seized with a fever, and died,-much lamented, April 3, 1856. See Minutes of the British Conference, 1856. Fuente: Cyclopedia … Continue reading “Barrowolough, William”

Barrowists a name which was sometimes applied to the Brownists (q.v.), after one of their leaders. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Barrowes (Or Barrowe), Henry a Brownist, was executed at Tyburn with John Greenwood, April 6, 1592, for writing and publishing sundry seditious books and pamphlets tending to the slander of the queen and government. He wrote, A Brief Discoverie of the False Church; as is the Mother, so is the Daughter (Lond. 1590): and Platfbrm … Continue reading “Barrowes (Or Barrowe), Henry”