ROSBOROUGH, JAMES E. (1839-1913)

ROSBOROUGH, JAMES E., teacher, and Presbyterian minister, Tabusintac and Burnt Church, 1888-92; b. Prince William, N.B., 1839, s/o William Rosborough and Martha Christie; m. 1873, Sarah E. Blair, of Fredericton (a sister of Andrew G. Blair, premier of New Brunswick); d. Prince William, 26 Jan 1913.

James Rosborough was educated at the Provincial Normal School and the University of New Brunswick (BA 1869, MA 1882). After he received his BA he took a teaching position at Harkins Academy. He was still in Newcastle in May 1870, when he addressed the Mechanics' Institute, but he departed soon afterwards to study for the ministry.

Rosborough received his ministerial training in Halifax and at the Princeton Theological Seminary, and was ordained in 1873. He was based at Musquodoboit Harbour and Shelburne, N.S., respectively until July 1888. He was then called to Tabusintac and Burnt Church, where the pulpits had been vacant for several years. Three months following his arrival, on 4 October 1888, a new Presbyterian church was dedicated at Tabusintac. He stayed for four years.

When Rosborough resigned at Tabusintac and Burnt Church he returned to Musquodoboit Harbour, and he was based there until his retirement in 1908. He later lived on a farm at the place of his boyhood, in Prince William, N.B. His only named survivor in 1913 was his wife, Sarah E. Blair.