Au­gust 4, 1833, Mans­field, Con­nec­ti­cut.

1918, prob­ab­ly in Nor­wich­town, Con­nec­ti­cut.

Barrows 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. His works in­clude:

• On Horse­back in Cap­pa­do­cia (Con­gre­ga­tion­al Sun­day-School and Pub­lish­ing So­ci­e­ty, 1884)
• Boarding Round, In­ter­est­ing Ex­per­i­enc­es of a Young Yank­ee School­mas­ter, 1915
• Turkey’s Treat­ment of the Ar­men­i­ans, in Out­look mag­a­zine, Ju­ly 5, 1916
• In the Land of Ar­a­rat, 1916

• The Magazine of Poetry, Volume V, 1893, p. 178

1. How Glor­i­ous Is the Day
2. How Sweet the Mu­tu­al Love
3. I Plead Thy Love
4. In Thee, in Thee Con­fid­ing
5. O Christ, to Thee I Live