BARROWS. SAMUEL JUNE (1845—). An American author and philanthropist. He was horn in New York City, May 26, 1845. After finishing his school days Ile learned telegraphy and shorthand and became a newspaper reporter. From 1867 to 1869 he was secretary to William H. Seward; in 1870 and 1871, in the bureau of rolls and archives, State Department. Washing ton; 1871-74, a student in the Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge. Mass., acting also as Boston correspondent of the New York Tribune, and in the summer of 1873 he went in this capacity on the Yellowstone Expedition with Generals Stan ley and Custer: and in that of 1874 on the Black Hills Expedition. In 1874 and 1875 he was a student in Leipzig: B.D. (Harvard. 1875). In 1876 he became pastor of the First Church (Uni tarian). Dorchester, Boston, Mass.; in 1881, edi tor of The Christian Register. Boston: in NOG, commissioner of the United States on thelnlerna tiona I Prison Committee. He was a member of the Fifty-fifth Congress (1897-99). and repre
sented the House of Representatives at the Inter parliamentary Congress on Arbitration at Brus sels (1897) , Christiania (1899), and Paris (1900). In the autumn of 1900 he became cor responding secretary of the Prison Association of New York. Besides editing the biography of Rev.
Thomas J. Mumford (Boston. 1879), an antiqua rian report on the Records of the First Church, Dorchester, 163-17.36 (1880), the memorial of Ezra Abbot, D.D., LL.D. (Cambridge, 1884), and Theodore Parker's West Roxbury Sermons, 1837 48 (1892), and writing elaborate reports for the United States Government on penological matters, he has published The Doom of the Ma jority of Mankind (1883) ; A Baptist Meeting House; The Staircase to the Old Faith. the Open Door to the Yew (1885) ; and (with Mrs. Bar ro•s) The Shaybacks in Camp (1887) ; The isles and Shrines of Greece (1898).