Background
Burrows, Lansing was born on April 10, 1843 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of of John Lansing (Doctor of Divinity) and Adelaide (Van Benthuysen) B., both of Knickerbocker descent.
Burrows, Lansing was born on April 10, 1843 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of of John Lansing (Doctor of Divinity) and Adelaide (Van Benthuysen) B., both of Knickerbocker descent.
Educated Richmond College, Virginia. Wake Forest College, North Carolina, class of 1861. Master of Arts, Princeton, 1871, Madison University, 1871.
(Doctor of Divinity, Bethel College, Russellville, Kentucky, 1882.
Doctor of Laws, Union University, Tennessee, 1896).
Enlisted C.S.A., April 25, 1861. Sergeant Richmond Fayette Artillery. 1st sergeant Sands Battery.
Artillery instructor West Virginia campaign, 1861-1862.
Special duty Naval Ordnance Bureau. Reënlisted, 1863, Company East, 6th Alabama (Battle’s Brigade), Rhodes’ Division.
Captured, Winchester, Virginia, September 19, 1864. At Fort Delaware until near close of the war.
Out of hospital to volunteer on retreat to Appomattox. ordained Baptist ministry, 1867.
Pastor, Stanford, Kentucky, 1867, Lexington, Missouri, 1868-1869, Bordentown, New Jersey, 1870-1876, Newark, New Jersey, 1876-1879, Lexington, Kentucky, 1879-1883, Augusta, Georgia, 1883-1899, Nashville, Tennessee, 1899-1909, Americus, Georgia, 1909-1916. Secretary Southern Baptist Convention and denominational statistician, 1881-1914. President Southern Baptist Convention, 1914-1916.
Mason.
Married Lulie Rochester (died 1901).