He was a Baptist minister with an earned A. B. degree and an honorary D. D.
"Rev. John F. Burbank...spent most of his youth in Portland. Immediately on his conversion he decided to enter the Christian ministry. He spent three years in Waterville, and graduated at Columbia College, Washington, D. C. He took the full three years' course at Newton (Theological Seminary), and was ordained pastor of the church in Taunton, Mass., where he continued for a year, and then settled at Webster, Mass. He found that his health would not permit him to exercise his calling, and, having purchased a farm near Worcester, Mass., he retired to it to recruit his failing strength. Here he resided, preaching as he felt able, and trying to make his life a useful one in the cause of his master.
"He was much respected by his fellow-citizens, filling several offices of honor and trust, and among them at one time that of president of the Common Council of the city of Worcester."
Source: Geo. Burbank Sedgley, 1928 Burbank Genealogy quoting from Cathcart, Baptist Encyclopedia.
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John Burbank
He was a Baptist minister with an earned A. B. degree and an honorary D. D.
"Rev. John F. Burbank...spent most of his youth in Portland. Immediately on his conversion he decided to enter the Christian ministry. He spent three years in Waterville, and graduated at Columbia College, Washington, D. C. He took the full three years' course at Newton (Theological Seminary), and was ordained pastor of the church in Taunton, Mass., where he continued for a year, and then settled at Webster, Mass. He found that his health would not permit him to exercise his calling, and, having purchased a farm near Worcester, Mass., he retired to it to recruit his failing strength. Here he resided, preaching as he felt able, and trying to make his life a useful one in the cause of his master.
"He was much respected by his fellow-citizens, filling several offices of honor and trust, and among them at one time that of president of the Common Council of the city of Worcester."
Source: Geo. Burbank Sedgley, 1928 Burbank Genealogy quoting from Cathcart, Baptist Encyclopedia.
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John Burbank
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