Burrage, Henry Sweetser

D.D. (Brown University, 1883), Baptist; b. at Fitchburg, Ma ., Jan. 7, 1837; graduated at Brown University, Providence, R.I., 1861, and at Newton Theological Institution, Newton Centre, Ma ., 1867; studied in Halle, Germany, 1868-69; was a Baptist pastor in Waterville, Me., 1869-73; since has been editor and proprietor of Zion's Advocate, a Baptist religious paper published at Portland, Me.; since 1876, recording secretary of the American Baptist Mi ionary Union; and is also chancellor of the Maine Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. While a student of theology at Newton he entered (1862), as private, the Thirty-sixth Ma achusetts Volunteer Infantry; was promoted sergeant, sergeant-major, second lieutenant, first lieutenant, captain, brevet major; was wounded at Cold Harbor, June 3, 1864; was a istant adjutant general on the staff of the first brigade, second division, Ninth Army Corps; was a prisoner from Nov. 1, 1864, to Feb. 22, 1865; was mustered out of the service June 8, 1865, and returned to his studies at Newton, — a cla having entered and graduated in his absence. He has written, besides numerous articles, The Act of Baptism in the History of the Christian Church, Philadelphia, 1879; A History of the Anabap 42 tists in Switzerland, Philadelphia, 1882; and has edited Brown University in the Civil War, Providence, R.I., 1868; Henry Wads worth Long fellow • Seventy- Fifth Birthday. Proceedings of the Maine Historical Society, Portland, 1882; History of the Thirty-sixth Regiment Ma achusetts Volunteers, Boston, 1884.