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Burroughs, John Curtis

educator, was born Dec. 7, 1818, in Stamford, N. Y. In 1855 he began a movement in the interests of higher education, which resulted in the establishment, in 1857, of the university of Chicago. In 1856 he accepted the presidency of the university of Chicago, which he resigned in 1874.

Soon afterward he was appointed a member of the Chicago board of education, and in 1884 he was elected assistant superintendent of public schools in that city.