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board of education, and later serving as assistant superintendent of the Chicago pubho schools. The degree of S.T. D. was conferred upon him by the University of Rochester, in 1858, and that of LL.D. by Madison University in 1869. He died in Chicago, 111.. April 21. 1893.

BURROWES, George, educator, was born in Trenton, N.J., April 8, 1811. He was graduated at the College of New Jersey in 1833 and in the- ology at Princeton in 1835. He was tutor at the College of New Jersey, 1834-'35; was ordained by the ijresbj^tery of New Castle, Dec. 13, 1836, and was pastor at AVest Nottingham, Md., 1836-"50. He was professor of Latin and Greek languages at Lafayette, 1850-'55; and pastor at Newtown, Pa., 1857-'59. In 1859 he connected himself with the Presbyterian board of education and removed to the Pacific slope where he determined upon San Francisco as the seat of the first Presbyterian institution of learning on the coast and founded City college, commencing the school with four pupils and an empty treasury. He resigned the presidency of the college in 1865, leaving two hundred pupils, two teachers and property valued at §300,000. He returned east and was professor of Biblical instruction at Lafayette, 1865-'69, founder and principal of University Mound school, 1869-'73; and professor of Hebrew and Old Testament literature, San Francisco Presby- terian theological seminary, 1872-'94. He re- ceived the degree of D.D. from Washington college. Pa, in 1853. He read the Greek testa- ment through over three hundred times. He is the autlior of : Commentary on the Songs of Sol- omon (1853) : Octorara (1855) : and Advanced Growth in Grace (1885). He died in San Fran- cisco, Cal., April 19. 1891.

BURROWES, Thomas H., educator, was born at Strasburg, Lancaster county. Pa., Nov. 16, 1805. He was educated at Quebec, Canada, and at Trinity college. Dublin, Ireland. In 1831 and 1832 he was elected to the house of representa- tives of the Pennsylvania legislature, and in 1835 Governor Ritner appointed him secretary of the commonwealth, in which office he may be said to have initiated the free-school system of education in Pennsylvania. In 1851 he began the publica- tion of the Pennsylvania School Journal, which, by act of the legislature, was, in 1855, made the organ of the school department of the state. In 1854 he prepared for the state the descriptive mat- ter for " Pennsylvania School Arcliitecture," and after 1856 lie drafted most of the important school laws passed by the Pennsylvania legislature, in- cluding the normal school law. In 1858 he was elected mayor of Lancaster, and in 1860 was ap- pointed state superintendent of common schools of Pennsylvania. In 1864 he was made superin- tendent of the soldier's orphan schools of Penn-

sylvania, and esla'lislied similar institutions throuj;liout the state. Five years later he was elected president of tlie Pennsylvania agricultural college. He died at State College, March 25, 1871.

BURROWS, Julius C, senator, was born at Northeast, Erie county. Pa., Jan. 9, 1837. He received a common-school and academic edu- cation, studied law, and during the civil war served as an officer in the Union army, 1 863-'64. At the close of the war he removed to Michigan, and was prosecuting attorney of Kalamazoo county, 1865-67. He declined the position of supervisor of internal revenue for Michigan and Wisconsin in 1867. He was elected in 1872 to represent his district in the national house of representatives in the 43d, and was again elected to the 46th and 47th congresses. President Arthur appointed him solicitor of the United States treasury department, but he declined to serve. He was a delegate-at-large from Michigan to the national Republican convention at Chicago in 1884 ; was again a representative in Congress, serving in the 49th, 50th, 51st, 52d, 53d, and 54th congresses. He resigned his seat Jan. 23, 1895, to become U. S. senator, being elected to fill the un- expired term of Francis B. Stockbridge, deceased. He was re-elected in 1898 for the term expiring March 3, 1905. He served on the house commit- tee on ways and means, supported the McKinley tariff bill and was chairman of the .senate com- mittee on revision of the laws, and a member of the finance and other committees.

BURROWS, William, naval officer, was born in Kensington, Pa., Oct. 6, 1785, son of Lieutenant- Colonel Burrows, a marine naval officer. He received a midshipman's warrant in 1799, was as- signed to the Portsmouth, and in 1803 he was trans- ferred to the Constitution, as acting lieutenant, serving in that capacity throughout the Tripolitan war. In 1808, in command of a gunboat, he was engaged on the Delaware river in enforcing the embargo law, and in 1809 was appointed 1st lieu- tenant of the Hornet. Finding himself outranked by his former subordinates, he resigned his com- mission, but it was not accepted. Secretary Ham- ilton granting him a furlough of a year, during which he visited India, and at its close was assigned to the command of the sloop Enterprise. On Sept. 1, 1813, while off the coast of Portland, Me., he fell in with the British brig Boxer, and captured her after an engagement of forty -five minutes. Burrows was mortally wounded, but lived long enough to receive the surrender of the Boxer, whose commanding officer. Captain Blythe, had fallen in the early moments of the action. Blythe and Burrows were buried in adjoining graves in Portland, and Congress recognized his gallantry by awarding a gold medal to his nearest male relative. His death occurred Sept. 5, 1813.