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Nathaniel Clark Burt, D. D., was born in Fairton, April 23, 1825. He was the son of Daniel L. and Sarah Clark Burt. He graduated at the College of New Jersey, valedictorian of his class in 1846, and at Princeton Theological Seminary in 1850; installed pastor of the Franklin Street Church, Baltimore, 1855, and of the Broadway Street Church, Cincinnati, in 1860, and retained this charge eight years. On account of ill health he traveled in 1866 through Europe, Egypt and Syria. When the same cause impelled him to resign his pastoral charge in 1868, he was elected president of the Ohio Female College and he well fulfilled the duties of the office two years, as long as failing health permitted. In the summer of 1870 he sailed with his family for Europe, and remained there, mainly in the southern part, until his death, which occurred in Rome, March 4, 1874. He made a free and excellent use of his pen as well as of his speech. He was the author of "Redemption�s Dawn," "Hours Among the Gospels," "The Far East," and "The Land and its Story." He was scholarly, eloquent, and spiritual. He wrote much for periodicals, both secular and religious.
