Burrows, John Lansing, D.D., son of Sandel Burrows, a naval officer of the war of 1812. was born in New York in: 1814.

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Burrows, John Lansing, D.D., son of Sandel Burrows, a naval officer of the war of 1812. was born in New York in: 1814. His father died of yellow fever at. Mobile in 1822, after which he be- came the ward of his grandfather, Nathaniel Bur- rows, of Bucks Co., Pa., who educated him with much care. He finished his education at Andover, Mass. In 1835 he was ordained to the ministry in Poughkeepsie, and became assistant pastor of a church in New York City. In 1836 he removed to Kentucky, and engaged in teaching at Shelbyville, and subsequently at Elizabethtown. * In 1839 he took charge of the church at Owenshorough, and also organized and took charge of the church at Hen- derson. In 1840 he became pastor of Sansom Street church in Philadelphia. In 1844 he founded the Broad Street church, same city, and was its sue- cessful pastor for ten years. In 1854 he accepted the pastorate of the First Baptist church in Rich- mond, Va., a relation which he sustained for twenty years. He returned to Kentucky in 1874, and hecame pastor of the Broadway Baptist church in Louisville, where he still ministers (1880). Dr. Burrows has a national fame as a graceful and eloquent pulpit orator, an easy, elegant writer, and a man of varied Jearning and extensive read- ing, and, best of all, Dr. Burrows has been one of the most useful men in the ministry of our denom- ination. From the Baptist Encyclopedia by William CathcartPhotos from findagraveSee insights and adsBoost postLikeCommentShare