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Burnett, Richard, colonial governor. In 1652-55 he was colonial governor of Virginia. Burnett, Sawn Moses, physician, lecturer, author, was born March 16, 1847, in New Market, Tenn. In 1878 he founded the eye and ear clinic at the Central dispensary; and became opthalmic and aural surgeon to the Garfield hospital. He was president of the medical society of the District of Columbia. He was the author of a Treatise on Astigmatism. He died in 1906 in Washington, D.C. Burnett, Waldo Irving, naturalist, author, was born July 12, 1828, in Southborough, Mass. He was a naturalist of Boston, Mass. He was the author of The Cell, its Physiology, Pathology and Philosophy. He died July 1, 1854, in Boston, Mass. Burnett, Ward Benjamin, soldier, civil engineer, was born in 1811 in Pennsylvania. He was engaged with his regiment at the siege of Vera Cruz; and was in the battles of Cerro Gordo, Contreras and Churubusco during the Mexican war. He received the thanks of the state legislature and a silver medal from the city of New York; and was brevetted brigadier-general. As a civil engineer he was engaged on dry-dock construction in 1849-55. He died June 24, 1884, in Washington, D.C. Burnett, William, colonial governor, congressman, was born in Newark, N.J. He graduated at Princeton college in 1749. In 1780-81 he was a delegate from New Jersey to the continental congress. He died in 1791 in
Newark, N.J.
Bumey, Stanford
Guthrie, educator, cler-
gyman, author, was born
in 1814 in Tennesa presbyterian divine; and professor of systematic theology at Cumberland university. He is the author of Treatise on Elocution; Baptismal Regeneration; Atonement and Law Reviewed; Chart of Duty; Soteriology; Studies in Moral Science; Studies in Psychology; and Studies in Theology. see.
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Bumham,
A. RoUins, lawyer, jurist, was
bom
Nov. 24, 1849, in Manchester, England. He is an associate justice of the state supreme court of Kentucky. Bumham, Benjamin Franklin, soldier, educator, lawyer, jurist, author, was born Oct. 2, 1831, in Sharon, Vt. He graduated from
Wesleyan university in 1852; and then took up the study of law, securing his admission to practice in 1857. At the outbreak of the civil war he enlisted in the eighth regiment of Vermont volunteer infantry. In 1864 he was detailed as assistant superintendent of education of freedmen in Louisiana; and in 1865 was put in command of a company of United States colored infantry at Palmetto ranch. He was then assigned to the freedman's bureau and was charged with the task
among the negroes. returned north and took up his residence at Boston in 1867. Until 1872 he was an associate justice of the South Boston court. He is the author of Digest of Decisions of the United States Courts of Common Law Voice and Admiralty, in two volumes; from the Pews; or a Tabernacle Supplement; Leading in Law and Curious in Court; The Life of Lives; Elsmere Elsewhere; and the Records of Jesus Revised. He died May 21, 1898, in Boston, Mass. Bumham, Alfred A., lawyer, jurist, lieutenant-governor, congressman, was born March 8, 1819, in Windham, Conn. He was a member of the Connecticut state legislature in 1844-45; was subsequently appointed judge of probate for the district of Danbury; and in 1850 was again elected to the state legislature. In 1857 he was lieutenantgovernor of Connecticut; and in 1858 was again elected to the legislature, and made speaker. In 1859-63 he was a representative from Connecticut to the thirty-sixth and thirty-seventh congresses. He died in Windham, Conn. Burnham, Mrs. Clara Louise, author, was of establishing schools
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born May 25, 1854, in Newton, Mass. She is the author of No Gentlemen; A Sane Lunatic; Dearly Bought; Next Door; Young Maids and Old; The Mistress of Beech Knoll; Miss Bag's Secretary, a West Point Romance; Dr. Latimer, a story of Casco Bay; Sweet Clover; and The Wise Woman. Bumham, Daniel Hudson, designer, architect, was born Sept. 4, 1846, in Henderson, N.Y. He was the architect of the Rookery, Calumet club, the Temple, Masonic temple, Illinois trust bank. Great northern hotel and many other buildings in Chicago and elsewhere, including the Mills building of San Francisco, Ellicott square of Buffalo, the Society for savings of Cleveland, and the Land title building of Philadelphia, Pa. He was chief and director of works at the World's Columbian exposition.
Burnham, David Roe, merchant, soldier, officer, was bom Nov. 20, 1835, in Carbondale. Pa. He was educated at the Uni-
army
of northern Pennsylvania. Until 1861 he was a merchant; and since that time has been a soldier. Until 1864 he was first lieutenant and captain in the sixtyseventh regiment Pennsylvania volunteers. In 1863-64 he was ordnance officer in the third division of the third army corps; and then in the third division of the sixth army corps, army of the Potomac. In 1867 he was second lieutenant in the thirty-fifth regiment United States infantry; in 1869 was transferred to the fifteenth infantry; in 1875 became first lieutenant; and became captain time has been a soldier. Until 1864 he was retired as major United States army; and resides in Pasadena, Cal.
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Burnham, Edward Goodwin, manufacturer, statesman, was born Jan. 2, 1827, in Springfield, Mass. He was general manager of the
