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Barrows, Elijah Porter, S.T.D., born at Mansfield, Connecticut, Jan. 5, 1805, and graduated at Yale, 1826. Ordained in 1832, he was Pastor of First Free Presbyterian Church, N. Y., 1835-7; Professor of Sacred Literature in Western Reserve College, 1837-52; of Hebrew Language and Literature at Andover, 1853-66; and of the same at Oberlin, Ohio, 1872. His publications include Memoir of E. Judson, 1852; Companion to the Bible, 1869; Sacred Geography and Antiquities, 1872, &c. His hymn:—
Hallelujah, Christ is mine [peace in Christ] was written at Hudson, Ohio, in 1846, in 6 stanzas of 6 lines. It was taken by Mr. Trowbridge (a Missionary of the American Board) to Constantinople, and there translated into two or three languages. Its first publication in English was in the Oberlin Manual of Praise, 1880, No. 270. In this form, stanzas iii. and iv. are omitted. Dr. Barrows has also written several other hymns and versions of Psalms; but these have not come into common use.

-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)