Cook County IL Archives Biographies.....Burrell, David James 1844 - 
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Author: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary

BURRELL, David James, clergyman, was born at Mount Pleasant, Pa., Aug. 1, 
1844. His father was one of the early settlers of Illinois, having located at 
Freeport in 1850. In 1860 he entered Phillips academy, Andover, Mass., and was 
graduated from Yale college, in 1867 being awarded the De Forest gold medal 
for oratory. He then entered the Union theological seminary, where he was 
graduated in 1871 and at once entered upon the work of the ministry in 
connection with the city missions of Chicago. He accepted the pastorate of the 
Second Presbyterian church at Dubuque, Iowa, in 1876, where he remained eleven 
years. He then accepted a call from Westminster Presbyterian church at 
Minneapolis, Minn., and also the presidency of Macallister college. In 1891 he 
assumed the pastorship of the Marble collegiate church of New York city. He 
contributed liberally to current literature, both secular and religious, and 
published, The Great Religions, The Gospel of Gladness, and The Morning 
Cometh, and in connection with his brother, Rev. Jos. Dunn Burrell, Hints and 
Helps, for the years 1892, 93 and 94. He had charge of the international 
lesson column of the Chicago Interior for eleven years, filled the chairs of 
Greek and Hebrew in the German theological seminary of the northwest, and had 
a seat on the board of trustees of the United society of the Dutch reformed 
churches.

Additional Comments:
Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans.
Vol. I-X. Rossiter Johnson, editor. Boston MA: The Biographical Society. 1904.

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