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Burnett, Frank C – Burnham, Hiram

Burnett, Frank C

soldier, merchant, congressman, was born March 19, 1842, in Wyoming, Pa. He enlisted in the fifty-second Pennsylvania volunteers; was promoted, and, after serving through the peninsular campaign, was discharged in 1863, on a surgeon's certificate of disability. He was in mercantile pursuits from 1864 to 1869; then engaged in banking; and was elected a representative in the forty-second congress to fill a vacanсу.

Burnett, Henry Clay

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Oct. 5, 1825, in Essex county, Va. He was a representative in the thirty-fourth and thirtyfifth, thirty-sixth and thirty-seventh con-. gresses. He was expelled for treasonable conduct in 1861, and took part in the rebellion. He died Oct. 1, 1866, in Hopkinton, Ky.

Burnett, James G

poet, was born in 1868, in New York. He was the author of Love and Laughter, a collection of poems. He died in 1893.

Burnett, James Kennedy

orchardist, legislator, was born Jan. 24, 1862, in San Louis, Cal. He received the rudiments of his education in the public schools, and attended the university of the Pacific and the university of Southern California. He is a successful orchardist of Paso Robles, Cal.; was a delegate of the people's party to the national convention of 1896; and in 1897 served with distinction in the thirty-second session of the state assembly of the California legislature.

Burnett, Peter Hardeman

lawyer, governor, author, was born Nov. 15, 1807, in Nashville, Tenn. He was a California lawyer, who was the first governor of that state. He was also a judge of the United States court for the territory of Oregon. He was the author of The Path Which Led a Protestant Lawyer to the Catholic church; The American Theory of Government; Recollections and Opinions of an Old Pioneer; and Reasons Why We Should Believe in God. He died in 1895.

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 ophthalmic and aural surgeon to the Garfield hospital.

He was president of the Medical society of the District of Columbia. He is a noted lecturer, and the author of a work entitled Treatise on Astigmatism.

Burnett, Waldo Irving

naturalist, author, was born July 12, 1828, in Southborough, Mass. He was a naturalist of Boston, and the author of The Cell, its Physiology, Pathology, and Philosophy. He died July 1, 1854, in Boston, Mass.

Burnett, William

congressman.

He graduated at Princeton college in 1749, and was a delegate from New Jersey to the continental congress in 1780 and 1781.

He died in 1791.

Burney, Stanford Guthrie

educator, clergyman, author, was born in 1814, in Tennessee. He is a Cumberland 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.

Burnham, Curtis F

lawyer, state legislator, financier, was born May 24, 1820, in Richmond, Ky. He was elected to the state legislature; and in 1852 was a presidential elector. In 1875 he was appointed assistant secretary of the treasury.

Burnham, Hiram

soldier, was born in Maine. At the second battle of Fredericksburg he distinguished himself for bravery and courage, and again at Gettysburg. In April, 1864, he was made brigadier-general, and during the campaign from the Wilderness to Petersburg he bore a conspicuous part. He was killed in battle Sept. 29, 1864.