Burroughs, Charles
clergyman, author, poet, was born Dec. 27, 1787, in Boston , Mass. He was for thirty years president of the New Hampshire insane asylum and was for nearly forty years annually elected president of the Portsmouth athenæum. He was elected in 1842 corresponding member of the Massachusetts historical society, and was president of the general theological library of Boston from its establishment until his death. He published Memoirs of Horace B. Morse (1829), and The Poetry of Religion, and Other Poems. He died March 5, 1868, in Portsmouth Portsmouth, N. H.
BURROUGHS, GEORGE STOCKTON, clergyman, educator, college president, was was born Jan. 6, 1855, in Waterloo, N. Y. minister and educator was professor of biblical literature in Amherst college from 1886-92, when he was elected president of Wabash college of Crawfordsville, Ind. He is a director of the American Institute of Hebrew, and of the American Institute of Sacred Literature.