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Burton, Ernest De Witt

educator, author, was born in 1856 in Ohio.

He is a professor of sacred literature in the university of Chicago; and the author of Records and Letters of the Apostolic Age; Syntax of Moods and Tenses in New Testament Greek; and A Harmony of the Four Gospels, BURTON, FREDERICK RUSSELL, composer, was born Feb. 23, 1861, in Jonesville, Mich. He held editorial positions on leading newspapers in Boston, Troy and Fall River, and for five years was a reporter for the New York Sun. In 1889 he went to England and became assistant editor of the London edition of the New York Herald. He returned to New York in 1892 and has since devoted himself to writing fiction and composing music.