Burlingham, Aaron H., D.D.—Dr. Burling- ham was born Feb. 18, 1822, in Castile, N.Y.

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Burlingham, Aaron H., D.D.—Dr. Burling- ham was born Feb. 18, 1822, in Castile, N.Y. He was graduated from Madison University in 1848, and from the Theological Seminary of Hamilton in 1850, and in the same year he was ordained as pastor over the Grant Street Baptist church of Pittsburgh, Pa. After one year he accepted the pastorate of the Baptist church of Owego, N. Y. Two years afterwards he took charge of the Harvard Street Baptist Boston, Mass. In 1853 he was chosen chaplain of the State Senate. In 1856 he moved to New York, and became pastor of the South Baptist church. This settlement continued nine years, but the labor was so arduous that he resigned and went to Europe. For sey- eral months he filled the pul- pit of the celebrated Ameri- can chapel in Paris. After a year’s residence abroad visiting various places of historical interest he returned, and accepted a call from the Second Baptist church of St. Louis, Mo. This command- ing position he held for several years, with credit to himself and the continual growth of the church. As a lecturer he drew large and delighted audi- | ences. His course of lectures on the “ Women of the Bible,” delivered in St. Louis, attracted great attention, and was highly spoken of by the secular press. From St. Louis he went to Brooklyn, N. Y., and took the pastoral charge of the Willowby Avenue Baptist church, and in 1879 he was chosen district secretary of the American Baptist Missionary Union for New York. : From the Baptist Encyclopedia by William Cathcart