Introduction
Born: August 4, 1833, Mansfield, Connecticut.
Died: 1918, probably in Norwichtown, Connecticut.
Buried: New Storrs Cemetery, Storrs, Connecticut.
Born: August 4, 1833, Mansfield, Connecticut.
Died: 1918, probably in Norwichtown, Connecticut.
Buried: New Storrs Cemetery, Storrs, Connecticut.
John was the son of Andrew Barrows and Sarah Storrs, and husband of Clarissa Storrs Freeman.
He attended Amherst College, and studied divinity at East Windsor Hill, Connecticut, and Andover, Massachusetts.
After graduation, he worked in parishes in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. After six years at the First Church of Exeter, New Hampshire, he went into the mission field in Turkey.
He returned to America in 1880 to serve pastorates in Atkinson, New Hampshire; Newington, Connecticut; and Road Church in Stonington, Connecticut.
After retirement, he lived with his eldest daughter Alice and her family in Norwich, Connecticut.
At sunset oft along the lower sky
The sombre clouds reflect no ray of light,
But dark appear, as if approaching night
Were heralded by them; yet such as high
Above them move, in wondrous beauty lie
Across the wide expanse; these fill our sight
With rapture as we gaze. The lofty height
Now seems a world to which we fain would fly;
For more than fairest day, it is the sun
Reflected in a glory that he hides
Until this hour. And thus the Christian shows
The beauty of life in him begun,
When in the heavenly places he abides,
And Christ, the light, in his dark bosom glows.
John Otis Barrows (1833–1918)
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