Elijah Porter Barrows

Elijah Porter Barrows from a c. 1865 carte de visite photograph by George Kendall Warren

Elijah Porter Barrows (January 5, 1807 – September 14, 1888) was an American clergyman and writer. He was born in Mansfield, Connecticut.

Background

He graduated from Yale in 1826, and, after teaching school for five years at Hartford, was ordained in 1832. In 1835, he declined a position at Oberlin College, choosing instead to become pastor of the first free Presbyterian Church in New York City. Here he remained until 1837, when he accepted the professorship of sacred literature in Western Reserve College (1837–52). In 1853 he was appointed professor of Hebrew language and literature in Andover Theological Seminary, retaining the office until 1866. In 1858, his D.D. was awarded by Dartmouth College. In 1872 he accepted a like appointment at the Oberlin Theological Seminary.

Besides twenty-five articles in the Bibliotheca Sacra, he has published A Memoir of Evertin Judson (1852); Companion to the Bible (1869); and Sacred Geography and Antiquities (1872). He has also been one of the editors of the American Tract Society's Bible with Notes. He wrote the hymn "Hallelujah, Christ is mine", which has been translated into several languages. His will left some 70 volumes of his private library to Oberlin College.

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1891). Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

External links

• Works by Elijah Porter Barrows at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Elijah Porter Barrows at Internet Archive
• Sacred Geography and Antiquities (1872), the full text, University of Michigan Library.