Burritt, Elihu – Burton, George Dexter
Burritt, Elihu
reformer, linguist, author, was born Dec. 8, 1811, in New Britain, Conn. He was a famous linguist who was called The Learned Blacksmith, from the fact that much of his education was obtained while working at the forge in Worcester, Mass. He was a noted peace reformer, and was for some years consul at Birmingham. Few of his writings have the literary quality to any extent, and they form rather dry reading. He was the author of Sparks from the Anvil; A Voice from the Forge; Peace Papers for the People; Olive Leaves; Thoughts of Things at Home and Abroad; Hand -book of the Nations; A Walk from John O'Groat's to Land's End; The Mission of Great Sufferings; Walks in the Black Country; Lectures and Speeches; Ten-Minute Talks; Chips from Many Blocks; and Prayers and Devotional Meditations. He died March 9, 1879, in New Britain, Conn.
Burritt, James
lawyer, jurist, United States senator, was born April 25, 1772, in Providence, R. I. He was attorney-general of the state of Rhode Island from 1797 to 1813; was a member and speaker of the assembly in 1814; was chief justice of the state in 1816 and was elected to the United States senate in 1816. He died Dec. 25, 1820, in Washington, D. C.
Burroughs, Charles
clergyman, author, poet, was born Dec. 27, 1787, in Boston , Mass. He was for thirty years president of the New Hampshire insane asylum and was for nearly forty years annually elected president of the Portsmouth athenæum. He was elected in 1842 corresponding member of the Massachusetts historical society, and was president of the general theological library of Boston from its establishment until his death. He published Memoirs of Horace B. Morse (1829), and The Poetry of Religion, and Other Poems. He died March 5, 1868, in Portsmouth Portsmouth, N. H.
Burroughs, George Stockton
clergyman, educator, college president, was was born Jan. 6, 1855, in Waterloo, N. Y. minister and educator was professor of biblical literature in Amherst college from 1886-92, when he was elected president of Wabash college of Crawfordsville, Ind. He is a director of the American Institute of Hebrew, and of the American Institute of Sacred Literature.
Burroughs, John
author, poet, was born April 3, 1837, in Roxbury, N. Y. born April 3, 1837, in Roxbury, N. Y.
He is a noted essayist of New York, whose keen, sympathetic studies of nature have been very popular both in America and England.
He is the author of Wake-Robin; in; Winter Sunshine; Birds and Poets; and Wild Honey; Pepacton; Fresh Fields Fresh Fields; Signs and Seasons; In- Study. door Studies; Riverby; Whitman: A
Burroughs, John Curtis
educator, was born Dec. 7, 1818, in Stamford, , was born Dec. 7, 1818, in Stamford, N. Y. In 1855 he began a movement in the interests of higher education, which resulted in the establishment, in 1857, of the university of Chicago. In 1856 he accepted the presidency of the university of Chicago, which he resigned in 1874.
Soon afterward he was appointed a member of the Chicago board of education, and in 1884 he was elected assistant superintendent of public schools in that city.
Burroughs, Silas M
state legislator, congressman, was born in New York. , congressman, was born in New York.
He served four years in the legislature of that state; and was elected a representative to the thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth congresses. He died June 3, 1860, in Medina, N.
Y.
Burrowes, George
clergyman, au- Trenton, N. J. He is a presbyterian clerthor, poet, was born April 3, 1811, in gyman of San Francisco, and professor of Hebrew in the Presbyterian seminary there. He is the author of Commentary on the Song of Solomon; Octorara, a Poem, and Occasional Pieces; and Advanced Growth in Grace.
Burrows, Daniel
congressman, was born in Groton, Conn. He was a representative in congress from Connecticut from 1821 to 1823.
Burrows, Joseph H
state legislator, congressman, was born May 15, 1810, in England. He was a representative in the state legislature from 1870 to 1874, and from 1878 to 1880. He was elected a representative from Missouri to the fortyseventh congress.
Burrows, Julius C
lawyer, congressman, United States senator, was born Jan. 9, 1837, in North East, Pa. He was an officer in the union army in 1862-64; and prosecuting attorney of Kalamazoo county in 1865-67. He was elected a representative to the forty-third, fortysixth and forty-seventh congresses; and elected a delegate at large from Michigan to the national republican convention at Chicago in 1884. He was elected to the forty-ninth, fiftieth and fifty-first gresses, twice elected speaker pro tempore of the house of representatives during the fifty-first congress, and was elected to the fifty-second, fifty-third and fiftyfourth congresses as a republican. He resigned his seat in the house in 1895 to assume the office of United States senator from Michigan for term expiring in 1899. con-
Burrows, Lansing
clergyman, journalist, was born April 10, 1843, in Philadelphia, Pa. He is editor of the American Baptist Year Book; is one of the leading pulpit orators of the country; and has won repute as a powerful minister in the best churches of the north and south.
Burrows, Lorenzo
congressman, was born in Connecticut. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1849 to 1853; and in 1855 was elected comptroller of New York.
Burrus, John Houston
educator, lawyer, was born Feb. 22, 1849, near Murfreesboro, Tenn. He received his education in private schools and at the Fisk university. He has attained prominence as an able lawyer of Nashville, Tenn. During 1877-79 he was an instructor in the Fisk university and during 1883-93 was president of the Ahorn A. and M. college of Rodney, Miss.
Burt, Armistead
lawyer, congressman, was born Nov. 16, 1802, in Edgefield, S. C. He was a representative in congress from South Carolina from 1843 to 1853; and during a part of the thirtieth congress officiated as speaker of the house of representatives. He was a delegate to the New York convention of 1868. He died Oct. 30, 1883, in Abbeville, S. C.
Burt, Francis
governor, was born in 1809 in Pendleton, S. C. He was appointed third auditor of the treasury by President Pierce, but resigned that office in 1854 to accept the governorship of Nebraska. He died Oct. 18, 1854, in Bellevue, Neb.
Burt, Grinnell
railroad president, was born Nov. 7, 1822, in Bellvale, N. Y.
He has been president of the Lehigh and Hudson railroad and the Cincinnati, Van Wert and Michigan railroad. He has been identified with many projects for bridging the Hudson, and has held many responsible public positions.
Burt, Mary Elizabeth
educator, author, was born in Lake Geneva, Wis.
She was a member of the board of education in Chicago for three years. She is the author of Literary Landmarks; Stories from Plato and other Classic Writers.
Burt, Nathaniel Clark
clergyman, author, was born April 23, 1825, in Fairton , N. J. He was a presbyterian clergyman of Ohio; and was the author of Hours Among the Gospels; The Far East; and The Land and Its Story, the Sacred Geography of Palestine. He died March 4, 1874, in Rome, Italy.
Burt, William A
surveyor, was born June 13, 1792, in Worcester, Mass.
He became United States deputy surveyor and in 1840-47 surveyed northern Michigan. He originated the idea of the solar compass; and also introduced important improvements in geological surveying. He was a judge of the Michigan circuit court and member of the legislature for several terms, and was chief mover in the construction of the Sault Ste. Marie canal.
He died Aug. 18, 1858. a
Burton, Asa
clergyman, author, was born Aug. 25, 1752, in Stonington, Conn.
He was congregational clergyman, pastor at Thetford, Vt., for more than fifty years; and was the author of Essays on Some of the First Principles of Metaphysics, Ethics, and Theology. He died May 1, 1836, in Thetford, Vt. was
Burton, Charles Germman
soldier, lawyer, jurist, congressman, born April 4, 1846, in Cleveland, Ohio. He enlisted as a private in company C, nineteenth Ohio infantry, and was a corporal in company A, one hundred and seventyfirst Ohio National guards, during the one hundred days' campaign of 1864. He moved to Nevada, Mo., in 1871; has been circuit attorney and judge of the twenty-fifth circuit; was a delegate to the national republican convention at Chicago in 1884; and was elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a republican. In 1893 he was department commander of Missouri G. A. R.
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.
Burton, George Dexter
inventor, was born Oct. 26, 1855, in Temple, N. H.
He is the inventor of the Burton stock car; inventor and president of the American Electric Forge company, operating the Burton Electric Liquid system of heating and working metals and ores.
He has lectured upon the subject of Heating and Working Metals by Electricity before the Harvard Lecture club of the Jefferson physical laboratory of the Harvard college; before the Franklin institute of Philadelphia, Pa.; before the Society of Arts of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and various other learned scientific bodies. His liquid process of heating and welding by an electric current has been successfully adopted.