Rev. John F. Burrows, D.D., Page 1

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BURROWS was called to the pastorate of the Chester Presbyterian Church, on May 2d, 1889, where he remained in the faithful performance of his duty until the Master called him home to glory, April 10th, 1894.</FONT></div> <div>      The Rev. John F. Burrows, D.D., was born at Arnold, in Nottinghamshire, England, December 25, 1831, and died in Chester, New York, April 10, 1894, in the 63rd year of his age.  (Aged 62 years, 3 months and 15 days.)</div> <div>      His father, John Burrows, died before his recollection of him, leaving him an only child.  His mother's brother, Thomas Burrows, came to this country a few years after, and, having made a home for himself in Philadelphia, sent for his sister, Sarah Burrows and her son John, then about twelve years old.  Here they lived until about the year '57, when they removed to near Williamstown, Gloucester County, New Jersey, where the mother died about five years ago, and where the uncle still lives, an aged man.</div> <div>      His uncle was a manufacturer, but John loved his books and aspired to college.  He finished his preparation in Wilmington, Del., in a school conducted by the Rev. Samuel M. Gayley, a then famous teacher.  He entered Lafayette College and was graduated with the class of `57.  Having early made a profession of his faith in Christ, at the age of seventeen his heart was tilled with a desire to preach to his fellow men the great salvation by which he himself was saved.</div> <div>      At intervals from his preparations for college to his graduation he had taught.  For this avocation he was apt, and spent his first year out of college in the same employ in the Parocial school in Newton, Pa., under the principalship of the Rev. George Burrows, D.D., now Professor in the Theological Seminary in San Francisco, Cal. He entered Princeton Theological Seminary in `58, graduating in due course in '61.  This fondness for teaching and his constant desire to be useful led him to have in his second charge a class of boys, in which several prepared wholly or in part for college, and of that number three are now in the Gospel ministry and one is Christian physician.</div> <div>      Soon after completing his studies he accepted a call to the Second Presbyterian Church of Amwell, Hunterdon County, N. J., and was ordained and installed there by the Presbytery of Raritan, November 26, 1861.  His first pastorate was a very happy one among an intelligent and appreciative people, and continued seven years until 1868, when he accepted a call to the Presbyterian Church at Milford, N.J., in the same county, where he remained five years, until 1873, winning universal and enduring esteem and confidence; when he accepted a call to the Third Presbytertan Church of Williamsport, Pa., where he labored faithfully and successfully for eleven years until 1884.</div> <div>      He closed this his longest pastorate by accepting a call to Olean, N. Y.  Here he continued the good citizen, the genial gentleman, the true friend, the wise counselor, the faithful Pastor, the eloquent preacher, until the latter part of the year 1889, when he accepted a call to the Presbyterian Church of Chester, N. Y., where for more than five years he has lived the same devoted Christian life and preached the same pure Gospel down to the day of his death.</div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <A HREF="pg21.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Rev. John F. Burrows, D.D., Page 2"><U>Next Page</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="pg1.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Table of Contents"><U>Table of Contents</U></A></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>