Burlingame, Anson
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Nov. 14, 1820, in New Berlin, N. Y. In 1852 he was elected to the state senate; in 1853 was a member of the convention for revising the constitution of Massachusetts; and was elected a representative in the thirty-fourth, thirty-fifth, and thirty-sixth congresses. In 1861 he was appointed minister to Austria, and subsequently to China, and in 1867 accepted a diplomatic appointment from China to the European powers, as well as to the United States.
He died Feb. 23, 1870, in St. Petersburg, Russia.
BURLINGAME, EDWARD LIVER- MORE, journalist, author, was born May 30, 1848, in Boston, Mass. He traveled extensively in Japan and China in 1866, and afterward in Europe. He was on the editorial staff of the New York Tribune in 1871, and on that for the revision of the American Cyclopædia in 1872-76. In 1879 he became connected editorially with the publishing house of Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, and in 1886 was appointed editor of its new magazine. He has translated and edited Art Life and Theories of Richard Wagner. BURLINGAME, JAMES MONTGOM- ERY, lawyer, legislator, author, was born March 24, 1836, in Sterling, Conn. He was educated in the Plainfield academy, Connecticut, and the university of Michigan. During 1862-64 he taught in the Albany female seminary; in 1864-66 served in the federal army; and in 1866 he became editor of the Illinois Tribune of Decatur. During 1872-82 he was prosecuting attorney in Minnesota; city attorney of Owatonna during 1872-80. In 1885 he became a member of the Minnesota state legislature.
BURNAP, GEORGE WASHINGTON, clergyman, author, was born Nov. 30, 1802, in Merrimack, N. H. He was a unitarian clergyman of Baltimore; prominent as a controversialist; and was the author of Popular Objections to Unitarian Christianity Considered; What is a Unitarian; Lectures to Young Men; Lectures on the History, of Christianity; and Christianity, its Essence and Evidence.
He died Sept. 8, 1859, in Philadelphia, Pa.