Burton, George W – Bush, Stephen
Burton, George W
physician, surgeon, was born July 22, 1836, in Lawrence county, Ind. He was one of the originators of the South Central and Normal school of Mitchell, Ind. He served with distinction during the civil war; and served on the medical staff.
Burton, Henry S
soldier, was born in 1818 in New York. He was brevetted brigadier-general in 1865 for services at the capture of Petersburg. He died April 4, 1869, in Fort Adams, R. I.
Burton, Hutchins G
lawyer, congressman, governor, was born in Granville county, N. C. In 1810 he represented Mecklenburg in the state legislature, and in 1816 the county of Halifax. For several years he was attorney-general of the state; and served as a representative in congress from North Carolina from 1819 to 1824. He was elected governor of North Carolina from 1824 to 1827. He died April 21, 1836, in Iredell county, N. C.
Burton, John E
miner, was born Oct. 19, 1847, in New Hartford, N. Y. He originated the American Fiber company, which aims to produce merchantable fiber from every form of vegetable which contains fiber, and became the chief promoter of the Aguan Navigation and Improvement company, whose object is to connect the Aguan River with the Caribbean sea.
Burton, Lewis William
bishop of Lexington, Ky., was born Nov. 9, 1852, in Cleveland, Ohio. From April 13, 1884, until July 15, 1893, he was rector of St.
John's church, Richmond, Va.
Burton, Richard Eugene
journalist, author, poet, was born in 1859 in Hartford, Conn. He is a journalist of Hartford, Conn.; and the author of Dogs and Dog Literature; Dumb in June, and Other Poems; Memorial Day and Other Poems; and Men of Progress.
Burton, Robert
soldier, congressman, was born in 1747, in Mecklenburg county, Va. He was a planter, removed to Granville about 1775, and served in the revolutionary army, attaining the rank of colonel. From 1787 till 1788 he was a member of congress under the confederation. In 1801 he was a member of a commission to fix the boundary between the Carolinas and Georgia. He died April 10, 1825, in Granville county, N. C.
Burton, Theodore E
lawyer, congressman, was born Dec. 20, 1851, in Jefferson, Ohio. He began the practice of law at Cleveland in 1875. He was a member of the fifty-first congress, but was defeated for re-election in 1890; and was elected to the fifty-fourth and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.
Burton, Warren
author, was born Nov. 13, 1800, in Wilton, N. H. He was an educational writer of Boston; and the author of Cheering Views of Man and Providence; My Religious Experience at my Native Home; The Divine Agency in the Material Universe; Uncle Sam's Recommendations of Phrenology; The District School as it Was; Helps to Education; Culture of the Observing Faculties in the Family and School; and Scenery Showing. He died June 6, 1866, in Salem, Mass.
Burton, William
governor, was born in Delaware. He was elected governor of that state in 1859, holding the office until 1863.
Burton, William
clergyman, was born Sept. 5, 1874, in England. Since 1895 he has filled pastorates in Wilmot, S. D.; and in the First Presbyterian church of Langford, in that state.
Burton, William Evans
actor, author, was born Sept. 24, 1804, in London, England. He was a popular comedian of New York city; and the author of The Actor's Alloquy; Waggeries and Vagaries; and Cyclopædia of Wit and Humor. He died Feb. 10, 1860, in New York.
Burum, Peter Grove
merchant, financier, was born June 13, 1839, in Blount county, Tenn. He is president of the Commercial bank; president of the Augusta Steamboat company; vice-president of the Augusta Exchange; and treasurer of the Augusta opera house.
Burwell, William A
congressman. He was a representative in congress from Virginia from 1806 to 1821. He died Feb. 16, 1821, in Washington City.
Busch, Carl
musician, was born March 29, 1862, in Denmark. He is a leading musician of Kansas City, Mo.; and for five seasons he has conducted the Kansas City Orchestral and Choral society.
His orchestral suite Reverie Pastorale, which was played at the Music Teachers' National association concerts in Detroit, at once put him in the front rank of American composers.
Busche, Charles F
manufacturer, state senator, was born Jan. 17, 1857, in Germany. He came to America in 1860, and since 1864 has resided in St. Louis, Mo., where he is a wholesale baker and president of the Confectioner and Baker Publishing company. In 1888 he was elected to the Missouri state senate; was re-elected in 1892, and again in 1896.
Busby, George H
congressman, was born July 10, 1794, in Darstown, Pa.
He was a representative in congress from Ohio from 1851 to 1853.
Busenbark, W. R
railroad president, was born in March, 1855, in Ann Arbor, Mich. Since 1894 he has been president of the Suwanee River railway.
Busey, Samuel Thompson
soldier, banker, congressman, was born Nov. 16, 1835, in Greencastle, Ind. He was first sergeant and first lieutenant of the Urbana Zouaves in 1861-62; was town collector in 1862; was commissioned second lieutenant in the recruiting service by Gov. Yates in June, 1862, and helped to organize the seventy-sixth Illinois volunteer infantry, and became colonel and was brevetted brigadier-general. He was mayor and president of the board of education of Urbana in 1880-89; organized Busey's bank in 1867, and conducted its business twenty-one years. He was elected to the fifty-second congress as a democrat.
Bush, Asahel
merchant, banker, was born June 4, 1824, in Westfield, Mass.
He is now one of the most extensive land proprietors in America. He is connected with banks in Portland, Seattle and Tacoma; is controlling owner of the First National bank of Salem, and has a large interest in mills in Oregon City and Portland. In 1851 he began the publication of The Oregon Statesman in Salem, an influential paper of the early days.
Bush, Charles Platte
state senator, lieutenant-governor, was born March 18, 1809, in Danby, N. Y. He was a member of the constitutional convention of Michigan; four years a member of the legislature; four years a member of the state senate; and lieutenant-governor of the state of Michigan. He was a presidential elector; delegate to several democratic national conventions; the leader of the movement that located the capital of Michigan at Lansing; and one of the original platters of that city. He died July 4, 1857, in Lansing, Mich.
Bush, Edward A
clergyman, was born June 5, 1839, in Canada. In 1864 he was rector of St. Francis college, Loretto, Pa., where he remained until 1868, when he was called to St. Michael's seminary. He became rector of St. Peter's church of Allegheny, Pa., in 1894; and soon after promoted to the vicar generalship of the diocese.
Bush, George
theologian, author, was born June 12, 1796, in Norwich, Vt.
He was a Swedenborgian clergyman and a professor of Hebrew in the university of New York. Beside Commentaries on Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Joshua, Judges, and the Psalms, his writings include Life of Mohammed; New Church Miscellanies; Priesthood and Clergy Unknown to Christianity; Mesmer and Swedenborg; Treatise on the Millennium; and The Resurrection of Christ. He died Sept. 19, 1859, in Rochester, N. Y.
Bush, Isaac W
educator, merchant, business man, was born April 20, 1835, in Danby, N. Y. He received his education at the Michigan State Normal school.
He has traveled extensively throughout America and British Columbia; and is now a successful merchant of Howell, Mich., where he has been supervisor, justice of the peace, postmaster and commissioner of schools for his county. He was one of the organizers of the Detroit and Lansing Railroad company, of which he was director and secretary of the board of directors. He received the democratic nomination for state senator.
Bush, J. O. A
journalist, legislator, was born Dec. 1, 1854, in Pike county, Ark. He is a successful journalist of Prescott, Ark., served with distinction in the thirty-first general assembly of Arkansas, and was the author of the law passed by that body to build state railroads.
Bush, James S
physician, legislator, was born Feb. 8, 1816, in New York. He practiced medicine in Scottsville, La.; represented his district a number of years in the state legislature; and helped to pass the ordinance of secession. He served in the confederate army as a surgeon, and died in 1867 at Trenton, La.
Bush, Joseph
artist, was born in 1793 in Franklin, Ky. His most noted paintings are those of Zachary Taylor, Gov. John Adair, Dr. Benj. W. Dudley and Judge Thomas B. Moore. He died Nov. 11, 1865, in Lexington, Ky.
Bush, Norton
artist, was born Feb. 22, 1834, in Rochester, N. Y. Most of his life has been spent in San Francisco. He was elected, in 1877, director of the San Francisco Art association, of which he had been a member since 1874, and was president of the Sacramento Bric-à-Brac club from 1879 till 1882. Among his works are Mount Diablo, and City of Panama. His Summit of the Sierras is in the Crocker gallery, Sacramento, and his Lake Nicaragua in the Stanford gallery of San Francisco. more
Bush, Rufus T
merchant, philanthropist, was born in Tompkins county, N. Y. He attained success as a noted merchant of Chicago; donated the Hall Memorial library, supplied with than one thousand volumes, to Ridgeway, Mich.; and wrote a short, pithy volume of European travels. He died Sept. 15, 1890, in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Bush, Stephen
clergyman, was born May 30, 1818, in Nassau, N. H. In 1853 he became pastor of the Presbyterian church of Cohoes, N. Y.; and in 1868-74 was pastor of the presbyterian church of Green Island, N. Y.