Burlingame, Anson – Burnett, Peter Hardeman
Burlingame, Anson
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Nov. 14, 1820, in New Berlin, N. Y. In 1852 he was elected to the state senate; in 1853 was a member of the convention for revising the constitution of Massachusetts; and was elected a representative in the thirty-fourth, thirty-fifth, and thirty-sixth congresses. In 1861 he was appointed minister to Austria, and subsequently to China, and in 1867 accepted a diplomatic appointment from China to the European powers, as well as to the United States.
He died Feb. 23, 1870, in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Burlingame, Edward Liver- More
journalist, author, was born May 30, 1848, in Boston, Mass. He traveled extensively in Japan and China in 1866, and afterward in Europe. He was on the editorial staff of the New York Tribune in 1871, and on that for the revision of the American Cyclopædia in 1872-76. In 1879 he became connected editorially with the publishing house of Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, and in 1886 was appointed editor of its new magazine. He has translated and edited Art Life and Theories of Richard Wagner.
Burlingame, James Montgom- Ery
lawyer, legislator, author, was born March 24, 1836, in Sterling, Conn. He was educated in the Plainfield academy, Connecticut, and the university of Michigan. During 1862-64 he taught in the Albany female seminary; in 1864-66 served in the federal army; and in 1866 he became editor of the Illinois Tribune of Decatur. During 1872-82 he was prosecuting attorney in Minnesota; city attorney of Owatonna during 1872-80. In 1885 he became a member of the Minnesota state legislature.
Burnap, George Washington
clergyman, author, was born Nov. 30, 1802, in Merrimack, N. H. He was a unitarian clergyman of Baltimore; prominent as a controversialist; and was the author of Popular Objections to Unitarian Christianity Considered; What is a Unitarian; Lectures to Young Men; Lectures on the History, of Christianity; and Christianity, its Essence and Evidence.
He died Sept. 8, 1859, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Burnell, Barker
state legislator, congressman, was born in Nantucket, Mass. When only twenty-two years of age he was chosen a member of the house of representatives in his native commonwealth; and a few years later passed into the senatorial body, where, in spite of his youth, he became a leading member. He sat also in the convention which framed the present constitution of Massachusetts; took an active part in the Harrisburg convention of 1840; and served as a representative in congress from Massachusetts from 1841 to 1843. He died June 4, 1843, in Washington, D. C.
Burnell, George W
lawyer, jurist, was born in December, 1838, in St.
Albans, Vt. In 1862 he enlisted in the union army, taking part in the numerous engagements of the armies of the Potomac and James, as sergeant, lieutenant and captain. In 1865 he moved to Oshkosh, Wis., where he engaged in the practice of the law, and was for several terms district attorney of Winnebago county. He was appointed to the circuit judgeship by Governor Rusk in 1884.
Burnes, Daniel Dee
lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 4, 1851, in Ringgold, Mo. He was elected to the fiftythird congress as a democrat.
Burnes, James Nelson
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Aug. 22, 1833, in Morgan county, Ind. He was a presidential elector in 1856; circuit attorney in 1857; and in 1868 was unanimously elected judge of the court of common pleas, and served four years. He then engaged in railroad construction and other business; and was elected a representative from Missouri to the fortyeighth and forty-ninth congresses as a democrat.
Burnet, David G
Texan politician, was born April 4, 1789, in Newark, N. J.
In 1836 he gave over the government of Texas into the hands of Houston, the constitutionally elected president. He was afterward elected vice-president, and, after the admission of Texas into the union, lived in retirement near the battlefield of San Jacinto. He remained in the south during the civil war, and at its close was elected, in 1866, to the United States senate from Texas, but congress refused to admit him. After that he resided in retirement on his plantation near Houston. He died Dec. 5, 1870, in Galveston, Texas.
Burnet, Jacob
lawyer, jurist, United States senator, author, was born Feb. 22, 1770, in Newark, N. J. He was a member of the first legislative council of Ohio in 1799. In 1821 he was appointed one of the judges of the supreme court of Ohio, which commission he resigned in December, 1828, and was immediately afterward elected to the senate of the United States, to fill a vacancy, serving until 1831. He was the first president of the Astronomical Society of Cincinnati, and was for many years the president of the Colonization Society of Hamilton county. In 1847 he published a volume entitled Notes on the Early Settlement of the Northwestern Territory, which contained much interesting information, especially as to Ohio, the progress of which he witnessed from a territory. He died May 10, 1853, in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Burnet, Robert
agriculturist, soldier, was born Sept. 22, 1762, in Little Briton, N. Y. He served in the revolutionary war and was promoted to the rank of major. He died Dec. 1, 1854.
Burnet, William
colonial governor, was born March, 1688, in Holland. He was governor of Massachusetts from 1725 to 1729. He died Sept. 7, 1729.
Burnet, William
physician, congressman, was born Dec. 13, 1730, in Elizabeth, N. J. He held at different times various offices in the state government, was elected to congress under the confederation in 1776; was a member of congress in 1780-81; and surgeon-general of the eastern district of the United States from 1776 till the close of the revolutionary war. He died Oct. 7, 1791, in Newark, N. J.
Burnett, Cynthia S
educator, temperance reformer, was born May 1, 1840, in Hartford, Ohio. She studied four years in the Western Reserve seminary, graduating therefrom in 1868. She then taught Latin in the Orwell Norman institute, and three years later filled the chair of languages in Beaver college. She has since become a popular lecturer and organizer in the cause of temperance. She is now preceptress in the Farmington college, of Ohio.
Burnett, E
congressman, was born March 16, 1849, in Boston, Mass. He was elected to the fiftieth congress as a democrat.
Burnett, Edwin Clark
physician, was born Jan. 19, 1854, in Mansfield, Ohio. In 1884 he moved to St. Louis, Mo., where he soon established a large and lucrative practice.
Burnett, Mrs. Frances Eliza
(HODGSON), author, was born Nov. 24, 1849, in England. She is a popular writer of fiction, whose first successful book was That Lass o' Lowrie's, a powerful tale of Lancashire life. Her other works, of varying degrees of excellence, include Earlier Stories, first and second series; Haworth; A Fair Barbarian; Through One Administration; Louisiana; Esmeralda; Vagabondia, Surly Tim, and Other Stories; The Pretty Sister of Jose; A Lady of Quality. As a writer for young people her success has been very marked; and besides Little Lord Fauntleroy, the most popular of all her books, her juvenile writings comprise Sara Crewe; Piccino and Other Child Stories; Little Saint Elizabeth; Two Little Pilgrims' Progress; Giovanni and the Other; and The One I Knew the Best of All, an autobiographic tale.
Burnett, Frank C
soldier, merchant, congressman, was born March 19, 1842, in Wyoming, Pa. He enlisted in the fifty-second Pennsylvania volunteers; was promoted, and, after serving through the peninsular campaign, was discharged in 1863, on a surgeon's certificate of disability. He was in mercantile pursuits from 1864 to 1869; then engaged in banking; and was elected a representative in the forty-second congress to fill a vacancy.
Burnett, Henry Clay
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Oct. 5, 1825, in Essex county, Va. He was a representative in the thirty-fourth and thirtyfifth, thirty-sixth and thirty-seventh con-. gresses. He was expelled for treasonable conduct in 1861, and took part in the rebellion. He died Oct. 1, 1866, in Hopkinton, Ky.
Burnett, James G
poet, was born in 1868, in New York. He was the author of Love and Laughter, a collection of poems. He died in 1893.
Burnett, James Kennedy
orchardist, legislator, was born Jan. 24, 1862, in San Louis, Cal. He received the rudiments of his education in the public schools, and attended the university of the Pacific and the university of Southern California. He is a successful orchardist of Paso Robles, Cal.; was a delegate of the people's party to the national convention of 1896; and in 1897 served with distinction in the thirty-second session of the state assembly of the California legislature.
Burnett, John
lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born July 4, 1831, in Pike county, Mo. He has had a varied and successful career as a lawyer; has defended at different times thirty different men charged with the crime of muraer, none of whom were hung, and only five convicted of any offense. He has been county judge, circuit judge, supreme court judge, and served with distinction as a state senator of the Oregon legislature, taking an active part on some of the most important committees.
Burnett, Peter Hardeman
lawyer, governor, author, was born Nov. 15, 1807, in Nashville, Tenn. He was a California lawyer, who was the first governor of that state. He was also a judge of the United States court for the territory of Oregon. He was the author of The Path Which Led a Protestant Lawyer to the Catholic church; The American Theory of Government; Recollections and Opinions of an Old Pioneer; and Reasons Why We Should Believe in God. He died in 1895.