History of West Nottingham, (Cecil County) Maryland United States of America

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George Burrowes, educator, was born in Trenton, N. J., April 3, 1811. He was graduated at the College of New Jersey in 1832 and in theology at Princeton in 1835. He was tutor at the College of New Jersey, 1834-35; was ordained by the presbytery of New Castle, Dec. 13, 1836, and was pastor at West Nottingham, Md., 1836-50. He was professor of Latin and Greek languages at Lafayette, 1850-55; and pastor at Newtown, Pa., 1857-59. In 1859 he connected himself with the Presbyterian board of education and removed to the Pacific slope where he determined upon San Francisco as the seat of the first Presbyterian institution of learning on the coast and founded City college, commencing the school with four pupils and an empty treasury. He resigned the presidency of the college in 1865, leaving two hundred pupils, two teachers and property valued at $200,000. He returned east and was professor of Biblical instruction at Lafayette, 1865-69, founder and principal of University Mound school, 1869-73; and professor of Hebrew and Old Testament literature, San Francisco Presbyterian theological seminary, 1872-94. He received the degree of D.D. from Washington college, Pa, in 1853. He read the Greek testament through over three hundred times. He is the author of: Commentary on the Songs of Solomon (1853); Octorara (1855): and Advanced Growth in Grace (1885). He died in San Francisco, Cal., April 19, 1894.

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

History of West Nottingham, (Cecil County) Maryland

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