Sarah E. Barrows
Sarah E. Barrows (b. Mole) (1852-1940) was born in Williamstown,
Massachusetts, and died in Berkeley, California. In 1875 she married John Henry Barrows,
1847-1902, in Williamstown. Over his career he was a professor at the University of
Chicago in Chicago, Illinois; pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago; and
president of Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio. He was also chairman of the General
Committee on the World's Parliament of Religions in Chicago in 1893. Barrows herself
attended the World's Parliament of Religions, including the Christian Science Congress,
where she met Mary Baker Eddy's student Edward A. Kimball and reported favorably upon
the Christian Science paper read by Eddy's student Septimus J. Hanna. Barrows' husband
died in 1902, and sometime around 1912 she moved to Berkeley, where she remained for the
rest of her life. There she was a member of the First Congregational Church and of the
Town and Gown Club.
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Sarah E. Barrows
Sarah E. Barrows (b. Mole) (1852-1940) was born in Williamstown,
Massachusetts, and died in Berkeley, California. In 1875 she married John Henry Barrows,
1847-1902, in Williamstown. Over his career he was a professor at the University of
Chicago in Chicago, Illinois; pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago; and
president of Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio. He was also chairman of the General
Committee on the World's Parliament of Religions in Chicago in 1893. Barrows herself
attended the World's Parliament of Religions, including the Christian Science Congress,
where she met Mary Baker Eddy's student Edward A. Kimball and reported favorably upon
the Christian Science paper read by Eddy's student Septimus J. Hanna. Barrows' husband
died in 1902, and sometime around 1912 she moved to Berkeley, where she remained for the
rest of her life. There she was a member of the First Congregational Church and of the
Town and Gown Club.
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