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 HERRINGSHAWS LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. court of Missouri. In 1901-03 he was cliief justice of the supreme court of Missouri. Burgess, George, bishop, author, poet, was born Oct. 31, 1809, in Providence, R.I. In 1847 he was consecrated first bishop of Mainej He was the author of Pages from the Ecclesiastical History of New England; The Christian Life; The Book of Psalms in Eng-

Verse; the Last Enemy Conquering and Conquered; ana btrife of Brothers, a poem.

lish

He

died April 23, 1866, in the West Indies. Burgess, George Farmer, lawyer, congressman, was born Sept. 31, 1861, in Wharton county, Texas. He was educated in the public schools of his native state; studied

law; and in 1882 was admitted to the bar at Lagrange, Texas. In 1886-89 he was county attorney for Gonzales county, Texas; and in 1892 was presidential elector for the tenth district of Texas. He is a noted lawyer of

and numerous

Gonzales, Texas ;

he has

filled

and honor. In 1901-11 he was a representative from Texas to the fifpositions of trust

ty-seventh, fifty-eighth, fifty-ninth, sixtieth and sixty-first congresses as a democrat. Burgess, George Kimball, educator, physicist, author, was born Jan. 4, 1874, in Newton, Mass. He has taught physics at the Massachusetts intitute of technology, at the university of Michigan, and at the university of California; and is now assistant physicist at the national bureau of standards at Washington, D.C. He is the author of Ex-

perimental Physics ; High Temperature Measurements; and translator of Duhem's Thermodynamics and Chemistry. Burgess, H. C. M., business president, statesman, was born Aug. 20, 1858, in New York City. He was educated at the Methodist episcopal college at Fort Wayne, Ind. In 1902-04 he was a representative in the Nebraska state legislature; and was chairman of the committee on telegraph, telephone and electric companies. He has been president of the Mirage gold mining and tunnel company; treasurer of the American order company; and is now president of the American order of protection at Lincoln, Neb. He is chairman of the Nebraska state republic central committee for the term of 1904-08. Burgess, John William, educator, author, was born Aug, 36, 1844, in Comersville, Tenn. He is the dean of the school of physical science in Columbia college of New York City. He is the author of the American university. When Shall it Be, Where Shall it Be, and What Shall it Be? Political Science and

Comparative Constitutional Law; and The Middle Period. Burgess, Neil, actor, 1846, in Boston, Mass.

was bom June 18, a marked

He made

495

success as Widow Bedott in the play Widow Bedott's Papers. Burgess, Theodore Chalon, educator, author, was born April 27, 1859, in Little Valley, N.Y. Since 1897 he has been director of the Bradley polytechnic institute at Peoria, 111. He is the author of Epideictic Literature; and other works. Burgess, Walter S., lawyer, jurist. In 186881 he was an associate justice of the supreme court of Rhode Island. Burgess, William, manufacturer, diplomat, was born Jan. 18, 1857, in Brooklyn, N.Y. In 1877 he graduated from Princeton univer-

In 1879 he became engaged in the manufacture of pottery. In 1890-93 he was United states consul to Tunstall, England. sity.

He was

president of the international pottery company of Trenton, N.J. Burgett, John M. H., lawyer, was born April 28, 1850, in Hartland, Vt. Since 1875 he has practiced law in Chicago, 111. His practice has covered a large range of cases in the state and federal courts. Burgner, Jacob, soldier, educator, genealogist, author, was bom Nov. 5, 1833, in Seneca county, Ohio, of Swiss descent. He graduated from Otterbein university of Westerville, Ohio. He taught school for thirty-four terms; became a verbatim reporter for the press; and was the first court reporter of Sandusky county; and served at intervals for

about

twenty

years. soldier in the civil war in the onehundred and sixty-

He was a

ninth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry; and has since been adjutant of Manville Moore post, grand army of the republic at Fremont, Ohio. He held the office of civil-magistrate several terms. He is the author of History and Genealogy of the Burgner Family in America; and other works. Burhans, Daniel, clergyman, founder, was born July 7, 1763, in Sherman, Conn. He organized parishes in Pittsfield, Lenox, Tyringham and Williamstown, Mass.; and at New Lebanon Springs, Cooperstown, Richfield, Exeter and elsewhere in New xork. He wrote a history of the church at iNewtown; and published several sermons. At the time of his death he was the oldest episcopal clergyman in the United States. He died Dec. 30, 1853, in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Burk, Henry, congressman, was born Sept, 26, 1850, in Germany. In 1901-05 he was a representative from Pennsylvania to the fif ty-seventh and fifty-eighth congresses as a republican. He died in 1905 in Pennsylvania. Burk, John Daly, lawyer, author, was bom about 1760 in Ireland. He came to America in 1796; and for the last years of his life was a lawyer in Virginia. He was the au-