Barrows
JOHN HENRY, an American educator, born in Medina, Mich., July 11, 1847; was graduated at Olivet College in 1867; subsequently studied in Yale College, Union and Andover Theological Seminaries, and at Göttingen. Pastor First Presbyterian Church, at Chicago, for 14 years; organized and was president of the World's Parliament of Religions at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, in 1893. He delivered lectures on Christianity in universities in India, under the patronage of the University of Chicago, in 1896-1897, and became President of Oberlin College in 1898. He published "The Go Gospels are True Histories" (1891); "Henry Ward Beecher, the Pulpit Jupiter" (1893); "The World Pilgrimage"; "History of the Parliament of Religions"; etc. He died June 2,