Charles Scudder Barrett

Princeton Class of 1871

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CHARLES SCUDDER BARRETT, D.D.,

Son of the Rev. Dr. Gerrish and Catherine R. (Cooley) Bar- rett, was born June 29, 1850, in Springfield, N.Y. He made a public confession of his faith in the Ewing Presbyterian Church, New Jersey, at the age of eighteen. His preparatory studies were pursued in the Classical Seminary of William S. Cooley in Philadelphia, and he graduated from Princeton University in 1871. He studied in the University of Edinburgh from 1871 to 1872 and in the University of Berlin from 1872 to 1873 as mental science fellow of Princeton University. He took the first year of his theological course in the Free Church College of Edinburgh, 1873-74. Entering the Seminary at Princeton in the latter year as a middler, he completed his theological course there, graduating in 1876. He was licensed by the Presbytery of New Brunswick November 2, 1877, and ordained by the Presbytery of Otsego September 13, 1882. He was stated supply of the church at Buel, N.Y., residing in Cheriy Valley, N.Y., from December 1879 to January 1883; was pastor of the Hampden Church, Baltimore, Md., from February 8, 1883, to April 26, 1891. At this time ill health caused him to give up his work for two years. From January to May 1893 he was assistant pastor of the First Church of Colorado Springs, Colo. He was stated supply of the Second Church, Colorado Springs, from May 1893 to May 1897; pastor of the church at Waterville, N.Y., from October 27, 1897, to October 25, 1902 ; associate pastor of the First Church of Baltimore, Md., from February until September 1904; stated supply of the Light Street Church, Baltimore, from April to September 1905 ; acting chaplain of the Sanitarium of Clifton Springs, N.Y., from January to April 1906, and stated supply of St. Paul's Church, Laurel Springs, N.J., from February 1907 until October 1924. He continued his residence in Laurel Springs until his death, May 24, 1925, in Atlantic City, N.J., caused by his accidentally falling from a window of his hotel. He had been totally blind for ten years before his death, which occurred in the 75th year of his age. He was buried in the Harleigh Cemetery of Camden, N.J. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from New Windsor College, Maryland, in 191 .

He was married March 8, 1905, in Brooklyn, N.Y., to Mary Melville MacRossie, who with one son survives him.