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 Burrage has edited &ldquo;Brown University in the Civil War&rdquo; (Providence, R. I., 1868); &ldquo;Henry Wordsworth Longfellow's Seventy-fifth Birthday&rdquo; (Portland, 1882); and &ldquo;History of the Thirty-sixth Regiment of Massachusetts Vollunteers&rdquo; (Boston, 1884); and is the author of &ldquo;The Act of Baptism in the History of the Christian Church&rdquo; (Philadelphia, 1879); a &ldquo;History of the Anabaptists in Switzerland&rdquo; (1882); and &ldquo;Baptist Writers and their Hymns&rdquo; (New York, 1888).

'''BURROUGHS. George Stockton.''' educator. b. in Walcrlo<j, N. Y., 6 Jan., 1855. He wasirra«lu- atcd from Princeton and from the theoiot;ieal seminary there, after which he had charge of va- rious I'resbyterian churches in New Kngland. In 1880 he accepted the professorship of biblical lit- erature in Amherst college, remaining there for six years, when he became president of Wabash col- lege, which prospered under his charge. He re- signed this Kisitloii in the autumn of 1809, and accepted the presidency of nberlin college. He has received the degrees of I). l». and LL. U.

'''BURROWS. Julius Cæsar.''' senator, b. in North East, Erie co.. Pa., 9 Jan.. 18iJ7, received an aca- demic education and stuilied law, which he was practising when he entered the Union army in 1862. He WHS eight times sent to the hous<' of representa- tives, ami to his last term in the .Wth congress was elected by 13,000 majority, lie resigneil his seat, 23 Jan.. 181*5, to assume the ofllce of V. S. senator, to which he had been elected by the legislature to fill out the unexpired term of Francis B. Stockbridge, di^'<'a.'i«Ml. Senator Burrfiws's term of service ex- pired in .March. 1HU9. He was re-elected.

'''BURTIN. Nicholas Victor''', missionary-, b. in Met/.. Als«<'.-l,orr«inp, 16 Dec. 18'28. He studied for the Roman Catholic priesthofxl, and was or- daineil at Marseilles in December, 1852. In June. 1854, he arrived in Canada, and was sent toCaugh- nswaga in S<-ptember, 1855. In August. 1856, he went to Ottawa college as pn>fe8sor of classics and theology. Here he remained for two years until December. 1H.V<. when he was sent again toCaugh- nawaga as assistant pastor. He was made pastor of the mission in .pril, 18ft4. Father Burtin is the author of several works which an- still in manuscript, prayers, chants, and other devotional works in the Mohawk language, besides a history of the mission at Caiighnawaga, which he hopes soon to see published.

'''BURTON. Clarenco Monroe'''. lawyer, b. in "Whiskey Diggins." Cal.. 18 Nov.. IS-'iS! He was gradwatelothe Cadillac. Founder of l)elrr>il." n " Di- rectory of I>etn>it tx'lween 1701 and 1710," "In the Fixilsteps of Ca<lillac." and " A Chapter in the Hislorv of Clevelanil. (thin."

'''BURTON. Mconre Willlam'''. Canadian jurist, b. in Sandwich. Kent, 21 July. ISIN. He w a son of Ailmiral Burton of the Kiiglish navy. He came to Canada, studied law. and was ailnntted to the Ontario bar, practising suc<'i'ssfullv in Hamilton. He was appointed a y. C. by Ijonl Monck in 186;t. and in 1874 he became a judge of the court of ap|H'ai. Judge Burton served in 1885 as chairman of a commiltee then appointed for the revision of the provincial statutes. He was ap- pointetl chief justice and president of the supreme court of judicature of Ontario in April, 1897.

BURTON, Lewis William. P. E. bishop, b. in Cleveland, Ohio. 9 Nov., 1852. He was graduated with first honors at Kenyon college in 1873, and at the Philadelphia divinity school four years later. He was ordained deacon in 1877 and priest in the next year, and has been connected with All Saints and St. Mark's, Cleveland ; St. John's, Richmond ; and St. Andrew's, Louisville. He was chosen bishop of I. m. Ky.,in January, 1890, and has since received the degree of D. 1). from the University of the south.

'''BURWAS. Nathaniel''', Canadian clergyman, b. in Argentueil, Quebec, 25 July, 1839. He was graduated at Victoria university, at Harvard, and at Garrett biblical institute. He became a clergy- man in the Methodist Episcopal church in 1861, was professor of natural science in Victoria uni- versity, and has been di'aii of its theological faculty and professor of biblical and systematic theology since 1873 in Gan-etl biblical institute. He is the author of "Genesis. Nature, and Results of Sin" (Toronto, 1878); "Wesley's Doctrine and Standard" (1881); and "Relation of Children to the Fall, the Atonement, and the Church" (1882).—His brother. John, b. in 1842, also a clergyman, has been since 1891 professor of English Bible and practical theology in 'ictoria university.

BURWELL, William Armistead (bur-rell), legislator, b. in Met'klenburgh county, Va., 15 March, 1780; d. in Washington. D. C., 21 Feb., 1821. He was graduated at William and Mary college, and in the following year removed to Franklin county, Va., which he sul>.«oquently rep- resenled in the legislature. He was residing on his plantation in 1804, a wealthy tobacco-planter, when he was invited by President Jefferson to be- come his private .secretary. Accepting the offer, Mr. Burwell removc<l to Washington, where he remained throughout Jefferson's ailministnition. He was also electe er of the ninth con- gress as a Democrat, and seven times re-elected, serving from 1 Dec, 1806. until his death. While in ctmgress Mr. Burwell handed to Josiah Quincy an old manuscript account of Bacon's rebellion that had been preserved in his family, with the request that it might be preser»-ed in tlie archives of the Ma.ssachusetts historical society, there being at that time no similar association in Virginia. From this record Bancroft afterward wrote his account of the first -American rebellion. The Virginia Burwells were descended in one line from the Bacons, the estates originally intended by President Nathaniel Bacon for his nephew, Na- thaniel, "the Rclx'l," having U-en bequeathed to the niece of the former. Mrs. Burwell, of (ilouces- ter county, Va. Mr. Burwell enjoyed the friend- shiji of Mr. Jefferson, who wrote for his tomb the following epitaph : " Died at his post in Congress : his Hisly here, his .Spirit with its Kindrwl — the Just, the GiKxl, the Beloved of Men." — His .son, William .MacCrpcry, journalist, b. in Botetourt county. Va.. 4 Nov.. 1809; d. in Bcilford county, Va., 4' .March. 1888. was graduated in 1809 at the University of Virginia. Among his cla.ssmates were Edgar A. Poe. .Mcxander Stephens, and Robert TiMniilw. Although he was left by his father the heir to large estates, and hiul every inducement to lead an idle life, he had also inherited a taste for a nuldic career, and. entering [wlitics. he was elected to the legislature, representing his county from 1840 till 185.'». He was a dis<-iple of Henry Clay, a forcible thinker and a ready de- bater.' In "1850 he was sent as an envoy to the