History of Greens Farms, (Fairfield County) Connecticut United States of America

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Enoch Fitch Burr, lecturer, was born at Green's Farms, Conn., Oct. 21, 1818; a member of the same family as Aaron Burr. He was fitted for college, and was graduated class orator at Yale in 1839. The next three years he spent in post-graduate studies, including theology, science, higher mathematics and physical astronomy. In 1850 he became pastor of a Congregational church in Lyme, Conn. He received the degree of LL.D. from London, and in 1868 the degree of D.D. from Amherst college, and he was chosen lecturer on the scientific evidences of religion in that institution. At the request of a large number of the leading clergymen and laity of New York and Boston, he delivered, in 1874, a course of lectures in both cities on "The Latest Astronomy against the Latest Atheism," and later repeated the course before the Sheffield scientific school, Williams college, and other institutions. He was a voluminous writer on scientific and theological subjects. Among his published works are: Application of the Calculus to the theory of Neptune (1848); Pater Mundi (1870); Ad Fidem (1871); Ecce Coleum, or Parish Astronomy (six lectures, 1872); Doctrine of Evolution (1873); A Song of the Sea (poem 1873); The Voyage (1874); Toward the Strait Gate (1875); In the Vineyard (1876); Dio, the Athenian (1881); Celestial Empire (1885); Uuiversal Beliefs (1887); Long Ago (1888); Practical Relations (1889); Aleph, the Chaldean (1891); and Tempted to Unbelief.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

History of Greens Farms, (Fairfield County) Connecticut

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