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Barrow, Jr. In 1855 she began to write under the pen name of "Aunt Fanny," her books being healthy in sentiment and exceptionally well adapted to interest and instruct the young. Her stories first published separately were collected in series: "Little Pet Books" (3 vols., 1860); "Good Little Hearts" (4 vols., 1864); "Night Cap Series" (6 vols.); "Pop Gun Stories" (6 vols.); "The Six Mitten Books" (6 vols.). She died in New York city, May 4, 1894.

BARROWS, John Henry, educator, was born in Medina, Mich., July 11, 1847; son of John M. and Catherine (Moore) Barrows. He was graduated at Olivet college, Mich., in 1867; studied theology at Yale, 1867-'68; at Union, 1868-'69; at Göttingen, Germany, 1869-'74; at Andover, 1874-'75; was ordained a Congregational minister, April 23, 1875; was pastor at Lawrence, Mass., 1875-'80; at East Boston, 1880-'81; and of the First Presbyterian church, Chicago, Ill., 1881-'95. He proposed, organized and was president of the World's parliament of religion held at Chicago in 1893. He resigned his pastorate in 1895 and made a prolonged visit to Europe and the East. On Nov. 29, 1898, he accepted the presidency of Oberlin college, Ohio, assuming the office Jan. 4, 1899. Lake Forest university, Ill., conferred on him the degree of D. D. in 1892. He is the author of "Seven Lectures on the Credibility of the Gospel Histories" (1891); "Henry Ward Beecher, the Shakespeare of the Pulpit" (1893); "I believe in God, the Father Almighty" (1893); "The Parliament of Religions" (2 vols., 1894); "Christianity, the World Religion" (1898). He died at Oberlin, Ohio, June 3, 1902.

BARROWS, Samuel June, representative, was born in New York, May 20, 1845. His mother being left a widow with six children, the boy at eight years of age entered the printing-office of his cousin, Colonel Hoe, the inventor of the Hoe press. Young Barrows attended night school, and by his own efforts became proficient in telegraphy and stenography, and when still quite young was employed as a reporter on a New York daily newspaper of some repute. In 1867 he became private secretary to Wm. H. Seward at Washington, D. C., and afterwards held the same relation to Hamilton Fish. While in Washington, he studied at Columbian university, and then went to Leipzig, Germany; returning to America, he entered Harvard divinity school, graduating in 1875. His summer vacations he spent in railroad surveying and as a newspaper correspondent on the western plains, where he met and travelled with General Custer in his last campaign. In 1876, he became pastor of the Meeting House Hill church, Dorchester, Mass., and was its pastor until 1880, when he became editor of the Christian Register. He subsequently took a very active interest in prison reform. In 1895 he was secretary of the American delegation to the Paris prison congress, and when, in 1896, the United States became a member of the international prison commission, President Cleveland appointed Dr. Barrows the U. S. commissioner, and as such he joined the other commissioners in Switzerland, August, 1896, where they met to arrange for the quinquennial congress in Brussels in 1900. He was elected a representative from the 10th Massachusetts district to the 55th congress, serving 1897-'99; was an unsuccessful candidate for librarian of Congress in 1898, and was made corresponding secretary of the Prison association of New York in 1900. He acquired reputation as a Greek and Sanskrit scholar, and published several books in the writing of which he was greatly assisted by his wife, Isabella C. Barrows: "The Doom of the Majority of Mankind" (1883); "A Baptist Meeting House" (1885); "The Staybacks in Camp" (1888).

BARROWS, William, clergyman, was born at New Braintree, Mass., Sept. 19, 1815. He attended Phillips academy from 1834 to 1836, and was graduated from Amherst in 1840, after which he taught in St. Louis until 1843, when he entered the Union theological seminary. On the completion of his course in 1845 he was ordained in the Congregational ministry and installed at Norton, Mass. In 1850 he was placed over the church in Grantville, near Wellesley Hills. Thence he moved in 1856 to become pastor of the Old South church, Reading, Mass. In 1869 he was made secretary of the Congregational Sunday-school publishing society, and filled this office until 1873, when he was elected to the secretaryship of the Massachusetts home missionary society. He relinquished this work in 1880 to devote himself to the educational and religious wants of the western frontier, where he had already made eleven long tours. He was a lecturer on prehistoric America and on the colonial and pioneer history of the United States, and he wrote much on these subjects for periodicals. In 1869 he published: "Twelve Nights in a Hunter's Camp"; in 1875, "The Church and her Children," and in 1876, "Eight Weeks on the Frontier" (1876). In 1881 he accepted the pastorate of a church at New Braintree, where he remained until 1895 during which time he published: "Purgatory Doctrinally, Practically and Historically Opened," and "Oregon: the Struggle for Possession" (1884), of which the 8th edition was printed in 1888. In 1887 he issued "The Indian's Side of the Indian Question," and "The United States of Yesterday and of To-morrow." He was for seven years editor of the Congregational Review. He died Sept. 9, 1891.