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Burr, Aaron
clergyman, educator, author, was born Jan. 4, 1716, in Fairfield, Conn. He was a presbyterian clergyman, and was president of Princeton college.
He married a daughter of Jonathan Edwards, and his son was the noted Vicepresident Aaron Burr. His Latin Grammar was long in use at Princeton as the Newark Grammar. His only other work was The Supreme Divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ. He died Sept. 24, 1757.
Burr, Alfred E
journalist, was born March 27, 1815, in Hartford, Conn.
In 1841 he became the sole owner and proprietor of The Times of Hartford, Conn.
Burr, Clement Franklin
farmer, legislator, was born Feb. 22, 1849, in Worthington, Mass. He is a successful farmer; has held numerous public offices of trust in his native city; and has served with distinction as a representative in the general court of the Massachusetts state legislature.
Burr, George Lincoln
educator, clergyman, was born in 1857, in New York. He has been a professor of history at Cornell university since 1892; and is the author of The Literature of Witchcraft; The Fate of Dietrick Flade; and Charlemagne.
Burr, Henry Aaron
manufacturer, inventor, was born in 1810, in Canaan, N.
Y. In 1845 he began to experiment with hat-making machines, finally obtaining a patent and beginning the manufacture of hats. His invention was eminently successful, giving him a virtual monopoly of the industry until his patents expired in 1872. He died Dec. 25, 1884, in New York.
Burr, Porter Wiley
lawyer, jurist, was born Feb. 1, 1852, in Mercer, Maine. He received his education in the Griswold college and the Iowa state university. He has attained prominence as a successful lawyer of Charles City, Iowa; has served with distinction as city attorney and mayor of that city. He has also been judge of the twelfth judicial district of Iowa; and takes a prominent part in public affairs.
Burr, Willard
musician, composer, was born Jan. 7, 1852, in Ravenna, Ohio.
He is a noted physician of Boston, Mass.; and the composer of much chamber music, numerous piano pieces, and songs.
Burr, William Hubert
civil engineer, author, was born in 1851, in Connecticut. He is a civil engineer of prominence; and has been professor of engineering at Columbia college since 1893. He is the author of Stresses in Bridge and Roof Trusses; The Theory of the Masonry Arch; and Elasticity and Resistance of the Materials of Engineering.
Burrage, Henry Sweetser
soldier, clergyman, journalist, author, was born Jan. 7, 1837, in Fitchburg, Mass. He is the editor of Zion's Herald, Portland, Maine; and the author of Brown University in the Civil War: The Act of Baptism in the History of the Christian Church; History of the Anabaptists in Switzerland; History of Baptists in New England; History of the 37th Massachusetts Regiment; and Baptist Hymn Writers and their Hymns.
Burrall, William Porter
lawyer, state senator, railroad president, was born in 1806, in Canaan, Conn. He practiced law in his native town until October, 1839, when he was chosen president of the Housatonic Railroad company, and removed to Bridgeport, Conn. He removed to Salisbury, Conn., in 1859; subsequently represented that town several times ir the general assembly; and was also a member of the state senate. He died March 3, 1874, in Hartford, Conn.
Burrell, Jonathan
soldier, was born in 1753. In 1776 he joined the northern army under Schuyler. His talents soon procured him the appointment of assistant paymaster. He was afterward assistant postmaster-general; and cashier of the United States branch bank of New York. He died Nov. 18, 1834, in Goshen, N. Y.