Burnside, John – Burrill, Thomas Jonathan
Burnside, John
planter, was born about 1800, in Ireland. At the time of his death he was the largest sugar-planter in the United States. About 1852 he began to invest money in sugar lands, and eventually owned ten of the finest plantations in the sugar district of Louisiana, and the finest residence in New Orleans.
In spite of the loss of more than two thousand slaves, he was among the first to try sugar-planting with free labor on a large scale, and his success had much influence in re-establishing the broken industries and credit of the south. He died June 29, 1881, in White Sulphur Springs, Va.
Burnside, Thomas
jurist, congressman. He was an associate justice of the supreme court of Pennsylvania; and was a representative in congress from that state from 1815 to 1816, when he resigned.
He died March 25, 1827, in Germantown, Va.
Burnz, Eliza B
educator, was born Oct. 31, 1823, in England. For three years she conducted classes in New York at the Mercantile library; and from 1872 to 1889 instructed the free evening classes at Cooper union, which were established solely at her instigation. She was the organizer of the League for Short Spelling, and is now its president.
Burr, Aaron
clergyman, educator, author, was born Jan. 4, 1716, in Fairfield, Conn. He was a presbyterian clergyman, and was president of Princeton college.
He married a daughter of Jonathan Edwards, and his son was the noted Vicepresident Aaron Burr. His Latin Grammar was long in use at Princeton as the Newark Grammar. His only other work was The Supreme Divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ. He died Sept. 24, 1757.
Burr, Aaron
soldier, statesman, vice-president of the United States, was born Feb. 6, 1756, in Newark, N. J. In 1777 he was appointed lieutenantcolonel, and distinguished himself as an able and brave officer. He was appointed attorneygeneral of New York in 1789; and from 1791 to 1797 was a member of the United States senate. At the election of president of the United States for the fourth presidential term Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr had each seventy-three votes, and the choice was decided by congress, on the thirty-sixth ballot, in favor of Jefferson for president and Burr for vice-president.
On the 12th of July, 1804, Colonel Burr gave Alexander Hamilton, long his professional rival and political opponent, a mortal wound in a duel. He died Sept. 14, 1836, on Staten Island, N. Y.
Burr, Albert G
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born in 1829, in Illinois. He was elected to the Illinois legislature in 1861; was a member of the state constitutional convention of 1862; and author of the address to the people accompanying the constitution. He was re-elected in 1863; and was elected a representative from Illinois to the fortieth and fortyfirst congresses. In 1877 he was elected judge of the seventh circuit of the state, and was re-elected in 1879 for the full term of six years. He died June 10, 1882, in Carrollton, Ill.
Burr, Alfred E
journalist, was born March 27, 1815, in Hartford, Conn.
In 1841 he became the sole owner and proprietor of The Times of Hartford, Conn.
Burr, Clement Franklin
farmer, legislator, was born Feb. 22, 1849, in Worthington, Mass. He is a successful farmer; has held numerous public offices of trust in his native city; and has served with distinction as a representative in the general court of the Massachusetts state legislature.
Burr, Enoch Fitch
clergyman, author, was born Oct. 21, 1818, in Green's Farms, Conn. He has been a congregational clergyman of Lyme, Conn., since 1850; and is the author of Pater Mundi; Ad Fidem; Doctrine of Evolution; Ecce Cœlum; Sunday Afternoons for Little People; About Spiritualism; Toward the Strait Gate; Ecce Terra; Work in the Vineyard; From Dark to Day; Facts in Aid of Faith; Celestial Empires; Universal Beliefs; Long Ago as Interpreted by the 19th Century; Tempted to Unbelief; Dio the Athenian; The Voyage, and Other Poems; and Aleph, the Chaldean.
Burr, George Lincoln
educator, clergyman, was born in 1857, in New York. He has been a professor of history at Cornell university since 1892; and is the author of The Literature of Witchcraft; The Fate of Dietrick Flade; and Charlemagne.
Burr, Henry Aaron
manufacturer, inventor, was born in 1810, in Canaan, N.
Y. In 1845 he began to experiment with hat-making machines, finally obtaining a patent and beginning the manufacture of hats. His invention was eminently successful, giving him a virtual monopoly of the industry until his patents expired in 1872. He died Dec. 25, 1884, in New York.
Burr, Porter Wiley
lawyer, jurist, was born Feb. 1, 1852, in Mercer, Maine. He received his education in the Griswold college and the Iowa state university. He has attained prominence as a successful lawyer of Charles City, Iowa; has served with distinction as city attorney and mayor of that city. He has also been judge of the twelfth judicial district of Iowa; and takes a prominent part in public affairs.
Burr, Theodosia
was born in 1783, in New York city. After her mother's death in 1794 Theodosia became mistress of her father's house and the companion of his leisure hours. On Feb. 2, 1801, she married Joseph Alston, a wealthy and talented young planter of South Carolina, who in after years became governor of his native state. The devotion of Theodosia to her father approached idolatry; through all the disasters of his career she clung to him with unshaken fidelity. She and her husband were cognizant of her father's scheme to become emperor of Mexico; her son was to be the heir to the throne, and when Burr was brought to trial at Richmond his daughter was there, and, by the power of her beauty and intellectual graces, did much to stay the torrent of popular indignation and secure a favorable verdict. She died at sea, in January, 1813.
Burr, Willard
musician, composer, was born Jan. 7, 1852, in Ravenna, Ohio.
He is a noted physician of Boston, Mass.; and the composer of much chamber music, numerous piano pieces, and songs.
Burr, William Hubert
civil engineer, author, was born in 1851, in Connecticut. He is a civil engineer of prominence; and has been professor of engineering at Columbia college since 1893. He is the author of Stresses in Bridge and Roof Trusses; The Theory of the Masonry Arch; and Elasticity and Resistance of the Materials of Engineering.
Burrage, Henry Sweetser
soldier, clergyman, journalist, author, was born Jan. 7, 1837, in Fitchburg, Mass. He is the editor of Zion's Herald, Portland, Maine; and the author of Brown University in the Civil War: The Act of Baptism in the History of the Christian Church; History of the Anabaptists in Switzerland; History of Baptists in New England; History of the 37th Massachusetts Regiment; and Baptist Hymn Writers and their Hymns.
Burrall, William Porter
lawyer, state senator, railroad president, was born in 1806, in Canaan, Conn. He practiced law in his native town until October, 1839, when he was chosen president of the Housatonic Railroad company, and removed to Bridgeport, Conn. He removed to Salisbury, Conn., in 1859; subsequently represented that town several times ir the general assembly; and was also a member of the state senate. He died March 3, 1874, in Hartford, Conn.
Burrell, Jonathan
soldier, was born in 1753. In 1776 he joined the northern army under Schuyler. His talents soon procured him the appointment of assistant paymaster. He was afterward assistant postmaster-general; and cashier of the United States branch bank of New York. He died Nov. 18, 1834, in Goshen, N. Y.
Burrell, J. M
jurist, was born in Pennsylvania. He was appointed a judge of the United States court for the territory of Kansas.
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.
Burrill, James
statesman, was born April 25, 1772, in Providence, R. I. He was attorney-general of Rhode Island from 1797 till 1813. He was a member of the legislature in 1813, speaker in 1814, and chief justice of the state supreme He was chosen United court in 1816.
States senator in 1817; but died before the expiration of his term. He died Dec. 25, 1820, in Washington, D. C.
Burrill, Thomas Jonathan
naturalist, was born April 25, 1839, in Pittsfield, Mass. From 1877 till 1884 he was dean of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; and in 1885-86 president of the American Society of Microscopists. He edited the biennial reports of the university of Illinois during the years 1874 to 1886, and has written many papers and pamphlets, among which are The Bacteria; and the Uredineæ, or Parasitic Fungi of Illinois.