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es as a republican. In 1905 he was a member of the United States senate for the term ending in 1911. Burkett, Jacob F., lawyer, banker, jurist, was born March 35, 1837, in Perry county, Ohio. Since 1887 he has been president American national bank of Findlay, Ohio. Since 1893 he has been judge of the state supreme court of Ohio and is now chief justice of the state supreme court of Ohio for the term of 1900-10. Burkett, John William Newton, editor, banker, journalist, publisher, was born Jan. 26, 1854, in Woodruff county. Ark. In 1891 he organized and became president of the Jackson banking company of Jackson, Miss. In 1895 he began his journalistic career; and since 1898 has been editor and publisher of the Jackson Dispatch. In 1896 he was a delegate to the democratic national convention. He has served as treasurer of the city of Jackson; and for several years was president of the board of trade. Burkhardt, Richard Peter, manufacturer, inventor, was born Oct. 28, 1845, in Germany. Since 1891 he has been president of the

Stomps-Burkhardt company of Dayton, Ohio. He has invented a number of valuable machines used in the manufacture of chairs. Burkhardt, Samuel, soldier, was born in Illinois. In 1885 he entered the United States military academy at West Point as a cadet from Illinois; in 1889 graduated from that institution; and was made a second lieutenant in the twenty-fifth regiment of United States infantry; in 1897-99 he served through the Spanish-American war as a first lieutenant in the tenth regiment United States infantry. Since 1899 he has been captain in the nineteenth regiment United States infantry. Burkhart, Harvey Jacob, dentist, mayor, was born Aug. 14, 1864, in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1890 he began the practice of dentistry in Batavia, N.Y. In 1902-06 he was mayor of that city. He was chairman of the committee to organize the fourth international dental congress in St. Louis, Mo. Burkhart, Joseph Elijah, soldier, farmer, clergyman, jurist, was born Jan. 3, 1838, in Butler, Pa. He was educated in the public and high schools of his native state. During the civil war he enlisted as a private soldier in company A, sixth -?

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editor's chair on several Kansas newspapers. His poems have been incorporated in standard works. Burks, Edward C, lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born May 20, 1821, in Bedford county, Va. In 1861-63 he was a member of the Virginia state legislature. In 1876 he was elected judge of the supreme court of appeals. He was president of the Virginia state bar association; and in 1895 became editor-in-

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Burks, Martin Parks, educator, author, 23, 1851 in Bedford City, Va. He is professor of common and. statute law at the Washington and Lee university. He is reporter for the supreme court of appeals of Virginia. He is the author of The Property Rights of Married Women in Virginia; and Notes on Conveyancing.

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Burleigh, Charles, physician, genealogist, 26, 1855, in Lewiston, Maine. He is the author of the Burleigh and Guild Genealogies; and a prolific contributor to historical and genealogical publications.

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Burleigh, Charles C, abolitionist, lawyer, journalist, author, was born Nov. 10, 1810, in Plainfield, Conn. With his brother he edited an abolitionist newspaper called the Unionist. He was one of the earliest advocates of women's rights and of liberalism in religion. He was the author of Thoughts on

the Death Penalty; and a tract on the Sabbath, in which he advanced anti-Sabbatarian views. He died June 14, 1878, in Florence,

Mass. Burleigh, Clarence Blendon, journalist, auwas born on Nov. 1, 1864, in Linneus,

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and in 1887 graduated from Bowdoin college. He has been chairman of the republican city

committee; was president of the Maine press association; was state printer; was president of the Augusta board of trade; and president of the Augusta city hospital. Since 1887 he has been editor of the Kennebec Journal of Augusta, Maine. He is the author of The Raymond Burson Series and Maine Wood Series, boy's books. Burleigh, Edwin Chick, state legislator, governor, congressman, was born Nov. 27, 1843, in Linneus, Maine. In 1885-89 he was treasurer of the state of Maine. In 1889-95 he was the thirty-first governor of Maine. In 1897-1913 he was a representative from Maine to the fifty-fifth, fifty-sixth, fiftyseventh, fifty-eighth, fifty-ninth, sixtieth and sixty-first congresses as a republican. Burleigh, George Shepard, author, poet, was born March 26, 1821, in Plainfield, Conn.