Barrows, Comfort E, Dd

Barrows, Comfort E., D.D.

a Baptist minister, was born at Attleborough, Massachusetts, December 11, 1831. He graduated from Brown University in 1858, and from the Newton Theological Institution in 1861; was ordained December 25 of the same year pastor at South Danvers (now Peabody), Massachusetts, and in 1865 became pastor of the First Church at Newport, R.I. He died there, December 26, 1883. Besides articles for reviews and papers, Dr. Barrows published several sermons and addresses. See R.I. Biog. Encyclop. pages 531. (J.C.S.)