Burchard, Samuel Dickinson – Burke, Bartemas
Burchard, Samuel Dickinson
clergyman, was born Sept. 6, 1812, in Steuben, N. Y. He was very successful as a pastor and lecturer, and was at different times chancellor of Ingham university and president of Rutgers female college. He stigmatized the democrats as the party of Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion. He died Sept. 25, 1891, in Saratoga, N. Y. was
Burd, George
congressman, born in 1794. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania, from 1831 to 1835. He died Jan. 13, 1844, in Bedford, Pa.
Burden, James Abercrombie
manufacturer, inventor, was born Jan. 6, 1833, in Troy, N. Y. He became president of the Burden Iron company of Troy and New York. He has obtained eighteen patents for inventions of his own for machines used in the manufacture of iron, one of the most important being that for making horse and mule shoes, this machine producing seventy finished shoes per minute, punched with holes and prepared in every other way, ready for the horse's foot. In 1883 he became president of the Hudson River Ore and Iron compa- His iron foundries and machine ny. shops give employment to three thousand men. He has declined nominations as mayor of Troy, member of congress, and other offices, but has been twice a presidential elector.
Burdett, Charles
journalist, author, was born in 1815, in New York. He was the author of Life of Kit Carson; The Second Marriage; The Beautiful Spy; Margaret Moncrieffe; Emma, or The Lost Found; Marion Desmond; The Gambler; The Adopted Child; Trials and Triumphs; Never too Late; and Chances and Changes.
Burdett, Samuel S
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Feb. 21, 1836, in England. In 1861 he entered the volunteer army as a private, and in 1864 was promoted to captain. He was a presidential elector in 1864 from Iowa; in 1865 emigrated to St. Clair county, Mo.; in 1866 was made circuit attorney for the seventh judicial district; and was a delegate to the Chicago convention of 1868. He was elected a representative from Missouri to the forty-first congress; and in 1874 he was appointed commissioner of the general land office in Washington.
Burdette, Robert Jones
journalist, author, lecturer, was born July 30, 1844, in Greensborough, Pa. After serving as a private through the war he returned to Peoria, where he was employed as clerk in the postoffice. Subsequently he became a proof-reader on the Peoria Transcript, and later filled the position of night editor on the same newspaper. In 1874 he was engaged on the Burlington Hawkeye, where he soon gained for himself and the journal a world-wide reputation. Ten years later he left the editorial staff of the Hawkeye and engaged himself with the Brooklyn Eagle. greatest success of Mr. Burdette has been as a lecturer; several of his humorous books, however, have attained fair circulations. His principal works are Hawkeyes; Rise and Fall of the Mustache; Innach Garden and Other Comic Sketches; and Life of William Penn. The
Burdick, Charles Williams
lawyer, public official, legislator, was born Aug. 15, 1860, in Toledo, Ohio. He is one of the foremost lawyers of the west at Cheyenne, Wyo. He was a member of the Wyoming constitutional convention; a member of the upper house in the eleventh territorial legislature; has been state auditor; and filled with distinction the office of secretary of state.
Burdick, Theodore Weld
soldier, congressman, was born Oct. 7, 1836, in Evansburg, Pa. He was deputy treasurer and recorder of Winneshiek county from 1854 until 1857, and treasurer and recorder from 1857 until 1862, when he resigned to recruit a company for the union army. He was commissioned a captain, and served throughout the war. After being mustered out he returned to Decorah and became cashier of the First national bank of that place; and was elected a representative from Iowa to the forty-fifth congress as a republican.
Burford, John H
lawyer, jurist, was born Feb. 29, 1852, in Parke county, Ind. He is associate justice of the supreme court at El Reno, O. T.; and for a number of years was registrar of land office at Oklahoma City.
Burgdorf, August C
educator, college president, was born July 12, 1838, in Germany. He has taught school in Illinois and Missouri, and for a number of years was principal of the Lutheran academy of St. Louis, Mo., which position he resigned to become president of Walther college of the same city.
Burgdorff, William F
merchant, was born March 19, 1846, in Germany. He attended the public schools and the Blackburn university. He is asuccessful merchant of Carlinville, Ill., of which city he has been mayor; and is president of the Carlinville national bank.
In 1896 he was the republican candidate for state senator for the thirty-sixth district.
Burger, Louis
soldier, architect, was born Feb. 6, 1821, in Bavaria. In 1854 he organized the engineer corps of the fifth regiment of the New York state national guards, and was elected captain.
During the civil war he commanded his regiment in the short campaign of 1861.
He died May 25, 1871, in New York city.
Burges, Gideon Albert
clergyman, college president, author, was born May 29, 1854, in Providence, R. I. He is the president of Parker college of Winnebago City, Minn., and the author of The Free Baptist Cyclopedia.
Burges, Tristam
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Feb. 26, 1770, in Rochester, Mass. In 1818 he was elected chief justice of Rhode Island; occupied the chair of oratory in Brown university; and was a representative in congress from Rhode Island from 1825 to 1835. He died Oct. 13, 1853, in Providence, R. I.
Burgess, Alexander
bishop of the diocese of Quincy, Ill., was born Oct. 31, 1819, in Providence, R. I. When the new diocese of Quincy, Ill., was formed he was chosen to be its first bishop, and was consecrated in 1878. He published a memoir of his brother, the first bishop of Maine, in 1869, and is also the author of various sermons, addresses, and Sundayschool literature, with some carols and hymns.
Burgess, Dempsey
soldier, congressman. He was a member of the provincial congress of North Carolina; a lieutenant-colonel of the militia; and a representative in congress from North Carolina from 1795 to 1798.
Burgess, Ebenezer
clergyman, author, was born April 1, 1790, in Wareham, Mass. He was the agent of the American colonization society in Africa from 1817-18, assisted in founding the colony of Liberia, and in 1818-19 was the society's agent in the United States. He published The Dedham Pulpit; and The Burgess Genealogy. He died Dec. 5, 1870, in Dedham, Mass.
Burgess, Edward
architect, author, was born June 30, 1848, in West Sandwich, Mass. He was a noted naval archi tect of Boston, and the author of English and American Yachts.
Burgess, George
bishop, author, poet, was born Oct. 31, 1809, in Providence, R. I. He was the first protestant episcopal bishop of Maine, and the author of Pages from the Ecclesiastical History of New England; The Christian Life; The Book of Psalms in English Verse; The Last Enemy Conquering and Conquered; and Strife of Brothers, poem. He died April 23, 1866, in the West Indies. a
Burgess, John William
educator, author, was born Aug. 26, 1844, in Cornersville, Tenn. He is the dean of the school of physical science in Columbia. college, and the author of the American University: When Shall it Be, Where Shall it Be, and What Shall it Be? Political Science and Comparative Constitutional Law; and The Middle Period.
Burgess, Neil
actor, was born June 18, 1851, in Boston, Mass. He made a marked success as Widow Bedott in the play Widow Bedott's Papers, and for the subsequent seven years it was one of the most valuable pieces in his repertoire.
Burk, John Daly
lawyer, author, was born in 17-, in Ireland. He was an Irish author who came to America in 1796, and for the last years of his life was a lawyer in Virginia. He was the author of History of the Late War in Ireland; History of Virginia; Bunker Hill, a once popular tragedy; and Bethlem Gaber, an historical drama. He died April 11, 1808, near Campbell's Bridge, Va.
Burk, John Junius
lawyer, jurist, was born in 1800, in Virginia. He went to Louisiana, where he studied law, and was for many years a prominent lawyer there, and judge of the state court. He died July 17, 1866, in Baton Rouge, La.
Burk, Joseph Cornelius
lawyer, jurist, was born Nov. 18, 1857, in St.
Louis, Mo. In 1895 this eminent lawyer was elected judge of the superior court. of Keokuk, Iowa.
Burke, Andrew H
governor, was born May 15, 1850, in New York city. In 1884 he was elected treasurer of Cass county, N. D., and in 1890 was elected governor of that state.
Burke, Bartemas
lawyer, legislator, was born Aug. 29, 1845, in Richmond, Ind. He received his education in the Hartsville university. He served three years as a union soldier during the civil war; was an eye-witness of the surrender of Vicksburg by Pemberton to Grant; was taken prisoner in the Red river campaign; and made one of the most notable escapes of the war from Camp Ford prison, Tex., to the union lines at Natchez. He was prosecuting attorney for seven years in Indiana; and in California has been school trustee; assistant district attorney; postmaster of Santa Cruz; commissioner of Torrens Land Transfer Reform; and during 1892-96 was state senator in the California legislature from the twenty-ninth district.