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a Congregational minister, was born at Bridport, Vt., Feb. 23, 1817. He entered Middlebury College, but did not complete the.course; graduated at Union Tlheological Seminary, N. Y., in 1844; was ordained pastor at Salisbury, Vt., in 1845, where he labored until 1863; was twice elected to the Legislature of Vermoit; was installed at Elizabethtown, N. Y., in 1864, and remained pastor there until his death, Sept. 26, 1881. Mr. Barrows was a man of firmness and decision, sweetness and evenness of temper, good sense, and perfection of character. His sermons were terse, forceful, and sound. See Minutes of the General Assn. of New York, 1881, p. 41.