Samuel June Barrows (1845–1909)

American minister, reformer, and editor. Worked as a stenographer, reporter for the New York Tribune, and private secretary to the secretary of state, William H. Seward. Educated at Columbian University, Washington. Became a Unitarian and attended Harvard Divinity School from 1871. Minister in Dorchester, Mass., from 1876. Editor of the Christian Register, 1880–96. A supporter of women’s rights, prison reform, assimilation of Native Americans, and vocational education for African Americans.