Carrie T. Burritt

Carrie T. Burritt
Burritt, from a 1927 newspaper
Born
Carrie Amelia Turrell

(1870-01-07)January 7, 1870
West Webster, New York, U.S.
DiedJune 2, 1955(1955-06-02) (aged 85)
Woodstock, New York, U.S.
OccupationsWriter, church worker, educator
SpouseEldon Grant Burritt

Carrie Amelia Turrell Burritt (January 7, 1870 – June 2, 1955) was an American writer, educator, and church worker. She was president of the Woman's Missionary Society of the Free Methodist Church of North America from 1927 to 1939,[1] and wrote a history of the denomination.

Early life and education

Turrell was born in West Webster, New York, the daughter of Orville Anson Turrell and Mary Frances Strong Turrell.[2] Her father died in 1876, when she and her sister were young children. She trained to be a teacher in Rochester, New York,[3] and received an honorary master's degree from Greenville College in 1927.[4][5]

Career

Turrell was a schoolteacher in Rochester as a young woman.[3] She was active in Free Methodist women's mission work in Illinois by 1906.[6] In 1918, she taught at a national week-long School for Missions conference in Winona Lake, Indiana.[7] She taught at Greenville College while her husband was the president there.[8] She was also active in the temperance movement.[9]

In the 1920s, Burritt was a vice-president of the Council of Women for Home Missions.[10] She was president of the Woman's Missionary Society of the Free Methodist Church of North America from 1927 to 1939.[11][12]

Publications

  • "Hindrances to Missions" (1912)[13]
  • "Our Young People: The Watchword of the Hour" (1912)[14]
  • "David Livingstone: His Years of Preparation" (1913)[15]
  • The Story of Fifty Years (1935)[16]

Personal life and legacy

Turrell married Eldon Grant Burritt in 1893; they had a son, Burton.[1][3] Her husband, who was president of Greenville College for over twenty years, died in 1927,[17] and her son was a newspaper editor who died in 1945.[18] She died in 1955, at age 85, at a rest home in Woodstock, New York.[2] A chapel at Spring Arbor University[12] and a dormitory at Greenville University were named for her.[19][20]

References

  1. 1 2 "Mrs. Carrie T. Burritt Concludes Visit Here". The Greenville Advocate. 1941-05-12. p. 2. Retrieved 2026-04-30 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. 1 2 "Mrs. Carrie T. Burritt". The Morning Star. 1955-06-04. p. 3. Retrieved 2026-04-30 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. 1 2 3 Burritt, Lewis L. The Burritt family in America : descendants of William Burritt of Stratford, Connectucut, 1635-1940. Family History Library. p. 166.
  4. ↑ Tenney, Mary A. (1942). "Still abides the memory". University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Greenville, Ill. : Tower Press of Greenville College. pp. 134, 229–230.
  5. ↑ "College Honors Beloved Couple During the Week". The Greenville Advocate. 1927-06-02. p. 1. Retrieved 2026-04-30 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ↑ "Central Illinois Conference" The Free Methodist (October 9, 1906): 10.
  7. ↑ "Winona, 1918". Mission Studies. 36 (4): 116. April 1918.
  8. ↑ Greenville College Record. Greenville College. 1929. p. 10.
  9. ↑ "Tells Dangers of Cigarettes; Carrie T. Burritt Reads Paper Before W. C. T. U. Meeting". The Greenville Advocate. 1917-01-11. p. 5. Retrieved 2026-04-30 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ↑ "Woman's Home Mission Bulletin" The Missionary Review of the World 52(5)(May 1929): 389.
  11. ↑ The New Handbook of the Churches. Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. 1930. pp. 132–133.
  12. 1 2 Bolton, Robbie; Panak, Susan (2023-05-08). Spring Arbor University. Arcadia Publishing. p. 31. ISBN 978-1-4671-0931-4.
  13. ↑ Burritt, Carrie T. (March 1912). "Hindrances to Missions". The Missionary Tidings. 16 (3): 19–20.
  14. ↑ Burritt, Carrie T. (June 1912). "Our Young People: The Watchword of the Hour". The Missionary Tidings. 16 (6): 17–18.
  15. ↑ Burritt, Carrie T. (March 1913). "David Livingstone: His Years of Preparation". The Missionary Tidings. 17 (3): 14–15.
  16. ↑ Burritt, Carrie T. (Carrie Turrell) (1935). The story of fifty years. Internet Archive. Winona Lake, Ind. : Light and Life Press.
  17. ↑ Times, Special to The New York (1927-08-27). "Eldon Grant Burritt; President of Greenville College for 20 Years Dies at 58". The New York Times. p. 13. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2026-04-29.
  18. ↑ "Funeral of Burton T. Burritt is Held Monday Afternoon". The Greenville Advocate. 1945-08-30. p. 7. Retrieved 2026-04-30 – via Newspapers.com.
  19. ↑ "Residence Halls". Dorm Life at Greenville University. Retrieved 2026-04-29.
  20. ↑ "$275,000 Loan for Addition to Girls Dorm at College Here OKed". The Greenville Advocate. 1957-05-02. p. 1. Retrieved 2026-04-30 – via Newspapers.com.
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