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Burroughs, Charles (1787-1868)

Name: Burroughs, Charles (1787-1868)

Title: Rector, St. John's Episcopal Church, Portsmouth, NH 1812-
Trustee, Phillips Exeter Academy, 1835-1867
President, New Hampshire Asylum for the Insane, 1855-1868
Honorary Doctor of Divinity, Columbia University, 1833
President, Portsmouth Athenaeum
President, Howard Benevolent Society
President, General Theological Library, Boston, MA
Corresponding Member, Massachusetts Historical Society

Born: 12/27/1787

Birthplace: Boston, MA

Died: 03/05/1868

Death Location: Portsmouth, NH

Residence: Boston, MA
Billerica, MA
Philadelphia, PA
Portsmouth, NH

Nationality: American

Occupation: Episcopal Clergyman

Father: Burroughs, George

Mother: Fullerton, Mary

Spouse: Married Ann Rindge Peirce (1794-1877), April 8, 1823, Portsmouth, NH

Notes: Death Notice, New Hampshire Patriot and State Gazette, Concord, New Hampshire, March 11, 1868.

John Wentworth, The Wentworth Genealogy: English and American. Volume I. (Boston, Massachusetts: Little, Brown, and Company, 1878), 323.

Frank H. Cunningham, Familiar Sketches of The Phillips Exeter Academy and Surroundings. (Boston, Massachusetts: James R. Osgood and Company, 1883), 217-218.

James O. Lyford, Editor. History of Concord New Hampshire, From the Original Grant in Seventween Hundred and Twenty-Five to the Opening of the Twentieth Century. Volume II. (Concord, New Hampshire: The Rumford Press, 1903), 946.

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