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Burke, Charles H – Burleigh, Henry G

Burke, Charles H

business man, was born Dec. 14, 1850, in Milford, N. H.

He is president and stockholder in the Nashua Iron and Brass Foundry company; president of the Nashua Boot and Shoe Manufacturing company, and director of the Second national bank. In 1876 he was elected to the New Hampshire state legislature; and in 1888 was elected mayor of Nashua, N. H.

Burke, Edarus Aedanus

jurist, congressman, was born June 16, 1743, in Ireland. In 1778 he was appointed a judge of the supreme court of South Carolina; and was a representative in congress from that state from 1789 to 1791. He died March 30, 1802, in Charleston, S. C. con-

Burke, Edmund

journalist, gressman, was born Jan. 23, 1809, in Westminster, Vt. He was a member of congress in 1839-45; and commissioner of patents in 1845. He was the owner and editor of The Spectator of Newport, N.

H., where he died Jan. 25, 1882.

Burke, James Francis

lawyer, was born Oct, 21, 1867, at Petroleum Center, Pa. He founded the American Republican College league, and became its first president, establishing a branch organization in every leading university of the United States. He began the practice of law in Pittsburg in 1893.

Burke, John Edmund

clergyman, was born Jan. 22, 1852, in Brooklyn, N. Y.

Becoming deeply interested in the spiritual condition of the colored Roman catholics of that city, and realizing their great need of church accommodation, he, in 1878, voluntarily resigned his pastoral charge to devote himself to supplying this want of the colored Roman catholics.

Burke, John William

clergyman, journalist, was born Oct. 1, 1826, in Watkinsville, Ga. For twenty-five years he published the Christian Advocate; and was public printer of the state of Georgia for a number of years.

Burke, Maurice Francis

R. C. bishop, was born May 15, 1845, in Ireland. He was assistant at St. Mary's church, Chicago, for the three subsequent years, and afterward pastor of St. Mary's church, Joliet, Ill., till 1887, when he became bishop of Cheyenne, Wyoming territory.

Burke, Stevenson

lawyer, jurist, railroad president, was born Nov. 26, 1826, in St. Lawrence county, N. Y. Since 1887 he has been president of the Toledo and Ohio Central railroad; and of the Kanawha and Michigan railway, at Cleveland, Ohio. For seven years during 1862-69 he was judge of common pleas.

Burleigh, Charles

physician, genealogist, was born Feb. 26, 1855, in Lewiston, Maine. This eminent physician is the author of the Burleigh and Guild Genealogies, and a prolific contributor to historical and genealogical publications.

Burleigh, Edwin C

state legislator, governor, was born Nov. 27, 1843, in Linneus, Maine. In 1885 he was elected treasurer of the state of Maine; re-elected in 1887; and in 1888 was elected its governor.

Burleigh, George Shepard

author, was born March 26, 1821, in Plainfield, Conn. He is the author of Anti- Slavery Hymns; The Maniac and Other Poems; and Signal Fires, or The Trail of The Pathfinder.

Burleigh, Henry G

state legislator, congressman, was born June 2, 1832, in Canaan, N. Y. He was a representative in the state legislature in 1875; was elected a representative, from New York, to the forty-eighth congress without opposition; and was re-elected to the fortyninth congress.