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Burrell, Orlando

soldier, jurist, congressman, was born in Bradford county, Pa. He raised a company of cavalry in 1861; was elected captain of it, and joined the first regiment Illinois cavalry.

He was elected county judge in 1873, and re-elected in 1877; and was elected sheriff in 1886. His occupation has been farming and stock raising. He was elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a republican.

BURRILL, ALEXANDER MANS- FIELD, jurist, author, was born in 1807, in New York. He was a noted New York jurist; and the author of Practice of the Supreme Court of New York; Law Dictionary and Glossary; Law and Practice of Voluntary Assignments; and Circumstantial Evidence. He died Feb. 7, 1869, in Kearney, N. J.

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