Burrage has edited “Brown University in the Civil War” (Providence, R. I., 1868); “Henry Wordsworth Longfellow's Seventy-fifth Birthday” (Portland, 1882); and “History of the Thirty-sixth Regiment of Massachusetts Vollunteers” (Boston, 1884); and is the author of “The Act of Baptism in the History of the Christian Church” (Philadelphia, 1879); a “History of the Anabaptists in Switzerland” (1882); and “Baptist Writers and their Hymns” (New York, 1888).
BURROUGHS. George Stockton. educator.
b. in Walcrlo<j, N. Y., 6 Jan., 1855. He wasirra«lu-
atcd from Princeton and from the theoiot;ieal
seminary there, after which he had charge of va-
rious I'resbyterian churches in New Kngland. In
1880 he accepted the professorship of biblical lit-
erature in Amherst college, remaining there for six
years, when he became president of Wabash col-
lege, which prospered under his charge. He re-
signed this Kisitloii in the autumn of 1809, and
accepted the presidency of nberlin college. He
has received the degrees of I). l». and LL. U.
BURROWS. Julius Cæsar. senator, b. in North
East, Erie co.. Pa., 9 Jan.. 18iJ7, received an aca-
demic education and stuilied law, which he was
practising when he entered the Union army in 1862.
He WHS eight times sent to the hous<' of representa-
tives, ami to his last term in the .Wth congress was
elected by 13,000 majority, lie resigneil his seat, 23
Jan.. 181*5, to assume the ofllce of V. S. senator, to
which he had been elected by the legislature to fill
out the unexpired term of Francis B. Stockbridge,
di^'<'a.'i«Ml. Senator Burrfiws's term of service ex-
pired in .March. 1HU9. He was re-elected.
BURTIN. Nicholas Victor, missionary-, b. in
Met/.. Als«<'.-l,orr«inp, 16 Dec. 18'28. He studied
for the Roman Catholic priesthofxl, and was or-
daineil at Marseilles in December, 1852. In June.
1854, he arrived in Canada, and was sent toCaugh-
nswaga in S<-ptember, 1855. In August. 1856, he
went to Ottawa college as pn>fe8sor of classics and
theology. Here he remained for two years until
December. 1H.V<. when he was sent again toCaugh-
nawaga as assistant pastor. He was made pastor
of the mission in .pril, 18ft4. Father Burtin is
the author of several works which an- still in
manuscript, prayers, chants, and other devotional
works in the Mohawk language, besides a history
of the mission at Caiighnawaga, which he hopes
soon to see published.
BURTON. Clarenco Monroe. lawyer, b. in
"Whiskey Diggins." Cal.. 18 Nov.. IS-'iS! He was
gradwate<l at the University of Michigan, and a/1-
mitte<l to the mt in 1874. Since that time he has
practised his profession in Detroit, and dcvoltHl
nis leisure hours to the study of the history of
Detroit and the northwest. His colle<'tion of
Americana relating to those subjects is the largest
in the country, nurnhf-riiig over lOO.fXK) Iwioks,
pamphlets, and dm-umcnts. Mr. Kurton has re-
cently nublishe<l -Sketch of the Life of .
toine de la >lothe Cadillac. Founder of l)elrr>il." n " Di-
rectory of I>etn>it tx'lween 1701 and 1710," "In
the Fixilsteps of Ca<lillac." and " A Chapter in the
Hislorv of Clevelanil. (thin."
BURTON. Mconre Willlam. Canadian jurist,
b. in Sandwich. Kent, 21 July. ISIN. He w a son
of Ailmiral Burton of the Kiiglish navy. He
came to Canada, studied law. and was ailnntted
to the Ontario bar, practising suc<'i'ssfullv in
Hamilton. He was appointed a y. C. by Ijonl
Monck in 186;t. and in 1874 he became a judge of
the court of ap|H'ai. Judge Burton served in 1885
as chairman of a commiltee then appointed for
the revision of the provincial statutes. He was ap-
pointetl chief justice and president of the supreme
court of judicature of Ontario in April, 1897.
BURTON, Lewis William. P. E. bishop, b. in
Cleveland, Ohio. 9 Nov., 1852. He was graduated
with first honors at Kenyon college in 1873, and
at the Philadelphia divinity school four years
later. He was ordained deacon in 1877 and priest
in the next year, and has been connected with All
Saints and St. Mark's, Cleveland ; St. John's,
Richmond ; and St. Andrew's, Louisville. He was
chosen bishop of I.<exingt>m. Ky.,in January, 1890,
and has since received the degree of D. 1). from
the University of the south.
BURWAS. Nathaniel, Canadian clergyman,
b. in Argentueil, Quebec, 25 July, 1839. He was
graduated at Victoria university, at Harvard, and
at Garrett biblical institute. He became a clergy-
man in the Methodist Episcopal church in 1861,
was professor of natural science in Victoria uni-
versity, and has been di'aii of its theological faculty
and professor of biblical and systematic theology
since 1873 in Gan-etl biblical institute. He is the
author of "Genesis. Nature, and Results of Sin"
(Toronto, 1878); "Wesley's Doctrine and Standard" (1881); and "Relation of Children to the Fall, the Atonement, and the Church" (1882).—His brother. John, b. in 1842, also a clergyman, has been since 1891 professor of English Bible and practical theology in 'ictoria university.
BURWELL, William Armistead (bur-rell),
legislator, b. in Met'klenburgh county, Va., 15
March, 1780; d. in Washington. D. C., 21 Feb.,
1821. He was graduated at William and Mary
college, and in the following year removed to
Franklin county, Va., which he sul>.«oquently rep-
resenled in the legislature. He was residing on
his plantation in 1804, a wealthy tobacco-planter,
when he was invited by President Jefferson to be-
come his private .secretary. Accepting the offer,
Mr. Burwell removc<l to Washington, where he
remained throughout Jefferson's ailministnition.
He was also electe<l a meml>er of the ninth con-
gress as a Democrat, and seven times re-elected,
serving from 1 Dec, 1806. until his death. While
in ctmgress Mr. Burwell handed to Josiah Quincy
an old manuscript account of Bacon's rebellion
that had been preserved in his family, with the
request that it might be preser»-ed in tlie archives
of the Ma.ssachusetts historical society, there being
at that time no similar association in Virginia.
From this record Bancroft afterward wrote his
account of the first -American rebellion. The
Virginia Burwells were descended in one line
from the Bacons, the estates originally intended
by President Nathaniel Bacon for his nephew, Na-
thaniel, "the Rclx'l," having U-en bequeathed to
the niece of the former. Mrs. Burwell, of (ilouces-
ter county, Va. Mr. Burwell enjoyed the friend-
shiji of Mr. Jefferson, who wrote for his tomb the
following epitaph : " Died at his post in Congress :
his Hisly here, his .Spirit with its Kindrwl — the
Just, the GiKxl, the Beloved of Men." — His .son,
William .MacCrpcry, journalist, b. in Botetourt
county. Va.. 4 Nov.. 1809; d. in Bcilford county,
Va., 4' .March. 1888. was graduated in 1809 at the
University of Virginia. Among his cla.ssmates
were Edgar A. Poe. .Mcxander Stephens, and Robert TiMniilw. Although he was left by his father
the heir to large estates, and hiul every inducement to lead an idle life, he had also inherited a
taste for a nuldic career, and. entering [wlitics. he
was elected to the legislature, representing his
county from 1840 till 185.'». He was a dis<-iple of
Henry Clay, a forcible thinker and a ready de-
bater.' In "1850 he was sent as an envoy to the
