Background
Burgin, Samuel H. C. was born on September 7, 1871 in Ridgeway, Missouri, United States. Son of Henry S. and Sarah E. (McCammon) Burgin.
Burgin, Samuel H. C. was born on September 7, 1871 in Ridgeway, Missouri, United States. Son of Henry S. and Sarah E. (McCammon) Burgin.
Educated Woodland College (Independence, Missouri), Central College (Fayette, Missouri), and by private study. Doctor of Divinity, Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas, 1914.
Ordained minister, M. East. Church, South., 1897. Pastor Campbell Saint Church (now Institutional, of Kansas City, Missoury), Saint Paul, Butte, Montana, Windsor, Missouri, Centenary Chapel (Fayette, Missouri), Travis Park Church, San Antonio, Texas, 1909-1910. Presiding elder San Antonio District, 1910-1914.
Pastor Trinity (later First Church), Dallas, Texas, 1914-1920 (projected movement for erection of new First Church).
Executive secretary General Board Church Extension, Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Louisville, Kentucky, 1920-1922. Became pastor Laurel Heights Church, San Antonio, Texas, 1922.
Member of the board of trustees Westmoreland College, San Antonio. Mason (32 degree, Knights Templar, Shriner).
Married Lora East. Miller, of Kansas City, Missoury, October 18, 1899 (died August 22, 1913). Married second, Elizabeth Kilpatrick, of Corinth, Mississippi, March 11, 1916. Children: Herschel Steele, Ruth Evangeline, Miller Strange.