Burke, Charles H – Burling, Gilbert
Burke, Charles H
business man, was born Dec. 14, 1850, in Milford, N. H.
He is president and stockholder in the Nashua Iron and Brass Foundry company; president of the Nashua Boot and Shoe Manufacturing company, and director of the Second national bank. In 1876 he was elected to the New Hampshire state legislature; and in 1888 was elected mayor of Nashua, N. H.
Burke, Edarus Aedanus
jurist, congressman, was born June 16, 1743, in Ireland. In 1778 he was appointed a judge of the supreme court of South Carolina; and was a representative in congress from that state from 1789 to 1791. He died March 30, 1802, in Charleston, S. C. con-
Burke, Edmund
journalist, gressman, was born Jan. 23, 1809, in Westminster, Vt. He was a member of congress in 1839-45; and commissioner of patents in 1845. He was the owner and editor of The Spectator of Newport, N.
H., where he died Jan. 25, 1882.
Burke, James Francis
lawyer, was born Oct, 21, 1867, at Petroleum Center, Pa. He founded the American Republican College league, and became its first president, establishing a branch organization in every leading university of the United States. He began the practice of law in Pittsburg in 1893.
Burke, James L
lawyer, legislator, was born March 24, 1850, in Gordon county, Ga. In 1872 he was a member of the educational examining board of Gadsden, Ala.; deputy clerk of circuit court in 1874 and the same year established the Etowah Shield. In 1876 he was admitted to the bar at Guntersville, Ala., of which city he has been twice mayor. In 1884- 85 he represented Marshall county in the general assembly of Alabama; and in 1896 received the democratic nomination for state senator. He was a soldier in the confederate army; the youngest member of the nineteenth regiment Alabama infantry; and was wounded at Chickamauga before he was fourteen years old.
Burke, John Edmund
clergyman, was born Jan. 22, 1852, in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Becoming deeply interested in the spiritual condition of the colored Roman catholics of that city, and realizing their great need of church accommodation, he, in 1878, voluntarily resigned his pastoral charge to devote himself to supplying this want of the colored Roman catholics.
Burke, John William
clergyman, journalist, was born Oct. 1, 1826, in Watkinsville, Ga. For twenty-five years he published the Christian Advocate; and was public printer of the state of Georgia for a number of years.
Burke, Maurice Francis
R. C. bishop, was born May 15, 1845, in Ireland. He was assistant at St. Mary's church, Chicago, for the three subsequent years, and afterward pastor of St. Mary's church, Joliet, Ill., till 1887, when he became bishop of Cheyenne, Wyoming territory.
Burke, Robert Emmet
soldier, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Aug. 1, 1847, in Tallapoosa county, Ala.
He volunteered as a private in company D, tenth Georgia cavalry, at the age of sixteen, and served until the close of the war. He removed to Texas in 1866 and located at Jefferson; and was admitted to the bar in November, 1870. He was elected county judge in 1878, serving three consecutive terms; and was elected district judge in 1888, and was re-elected in 1892 without opposition. He was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a democrat.
Burke, Stevenson
lawyer, jurist, railroad president, was born Nov. 26, 1826, in St. Lawrence county, N. Y. Since 1887 he has been president of the Toledo and Ohio Central railroad; and of the Kanawha and Michigan railway, at Cleveland, Ohio. For seven years during 1862-69 he was judge of common pleas.
Burke, Thomas
physician, lawyer, governor, author, was born in 1747, in Ireland. In 1776 he was a member of the provincial congress at Halifax, and a volunteer at the battle of Brandywine. He was a delegate to the continental congress from 1777 to 1781; in the latter year was chosen governor of North Carolina; while in that position was seized by the tories as a prisoner of state, and, being transferred to Charleston, was sent, by General Leslie, to James' island on parole, where he was detained as a hostage. Becoming exasperated, after four months' imprisonment, he determined to escape, in which purpose he was successful. He addressed a letter to General Leslie, informing him of his reasons for withdrawing, but considered himself subject to the disposal of the British authority; an exchange was effected by General Greene, and he returned to his position as governor; tired from public life the next year. He died Dec. 2, 1783, in Hillsborough. re-
Burkhart, Joseph Elijah
soldier, farmer, clergyman, was born Jan. 3, 1838, in Butler, Pa. During the civil war he enlisted as a private soldier in company A, sixth regiment Pennsylvania heavy artillery, and served till the close of the war. In 1872 he was ordained a clergyman in the united brethren church, and followed that calling for twelve years. He has been a delegate several times to the Kansas congressional conventions; and in 1892 was a republican candidate for the legislature. He has filled the editor's chair on several Kansas newspapers; and contributed extensively to the periodical press and several of his poems have been incorporated in standard works.
Burks, Edward C
lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born May 20, 1821. In 1842 he graduated from the law department of the university of Virginia. During 1861-63 he served as a member of the Virginia state legislature. In 1876 he was elected judge of the supreme court of appeals. He was president of the Virginia State Bar association; and in 1895 became editor-in-chief of the Virginia Law Register. He died July 4, 1897, in Bedford City, Va., which is in the county of his birth.
Burleigh, Charles
physician, genealogist, was born Feb. 26, 1855, in Lewiston, Maine. This eminent physician is the author of the Burleigh and Guild Genealogies, and a prolific contributor to historical and genealogical publications.
Burleigh, Charles C
abolitionist, lawyer, journalist, author, was born Nov. 10, 1810, in Plainfield, Conn. He, with his brother, edited an abolitionist newspaper called The Unionist. He was one of the earliest advocates of women's rights and of liberalism in religion, as he was also of temperance principles, in behalf of which he spoke frequently. He was the author of Thoughts on the Death Penalty (1845), and a tract on the Sabbath, which advanced anti-Sabbatarian views.
He died June 14, 1878, in Florence, Mass.
Burleigh, Edwin C
state legislator, governor, was born Nov. 27, 1843, in Linneus, Maine. In 1885 he was elected treasurer of the state of Maine; re-elected in 1887; and in 1888 was elected its governor.
Burleigh, George Shepard
author, was born March 26, 1821, in Plainfield, Conn. He is the author of Anti- Slavery Hymns; The Maniac and Other Poems; and Signal Fires, or The Trail of The Pathfinder.
Burleigh, Henry G
state legislator, congressman, was born June 2, 1832, in Canaan, N. Y. He was a representative in the state legislature in 1875; was elected a representative, from New York, to the forty-eighth congress without opposition; and was re-elected to the fortyninth congress.
Burleigh, John H
manufacturer, congressman, was born Oct. 9, 1832, in South Berwick, Maine. He commanded a ship on foreign voyages seven years; left the sea in 1853 and engaged in manufacturing. He was a member of the state house of representatives in 1862, 1864, 1866, and 1872; delegate-at-large to the national republican convention at Baltimore in 1864; and was elected to the forty-third and forty-fourth congresses as a republican.
Burleigh, Walter A
congressman, was a delegate from the territory of Dakota to the thirty-ninth congress, and re-elected to the fortieth congress.
Burleigh, William
lawyer, congressman, was born in Rockingham, N.
H. He was a representative in congress from South Berwick, Maine, for two terms, from 1823 to 1827. He died in July, 1827.
Burleigh, William Henry
journalist, poet, was born Feb. 2, 1812, in Woodstock, Conn. He is an anti-slavery journalist of Hartford and elsewhere who won some notice as a poet. He died March 18, 1871, in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Burleson, Rufus Columbus
clergyman, college president, was born Aug. 7, 1823, near Decatur, Ala. He was educated at the Nashville university and the Western Baptist Theological institute. After graduating in 1847 he immediately became pastor of the First baptist church of Houston, Tex. After three years of eminent success, he elected president of Baylor uniwas versity, which position he has filled for nearly half a century. Only two men in the United States have held the responsible position as long as Dr. Burleson. He has instructed over eight thousand students, male and female, many of whom now occupy the most eminent positions in Texas and the adjoining states. He has preached and lectured on education in every town and city in Texas; and although seventy-five years of age he toils every day, and enjoys vigorous health.
Burleson, Solomon S
lawyer, missionary, was born Jan. 31, 1833, in Cortland, N. Y. He studied medicine under his father; taught school; and was admitted to the bar in 1855. In 1858 he moved to Wabasha, Minn., where he published the Minnesota Patriot, and the North Pepin Independent; and also successfully practiced law, and became district attorney. In 1862 he entered holy orders and became missionary to the Oneida Indians, in northern Wisconsin.
He died in 1896.
Burling, Gilbert
painter, was born in 1843. He excelled in studies of game birds. He died in 1875.