Samuel June Barrows
1845–1909
American minister, reformer, and editor. Worked as a stenographer, reporter for the New York Tribune, and private secretary to the secretary of state, William H. Seward. Educated at Columbian University, Washington. Became a Unitarian and attended Harvard Divinity School from 1871. Minister in Dorchester, Mass., from 1876. Editor of the Christian Register, 1880–96. A supporter of women’s rights, prison reform, assimilation of Native Americans, and vocational education for African Americans.
Source
ANB.
Bibliography
ANB: American national biography. Edited by John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes. 24 vols. and supplement. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1999–2002.
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