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HERRINGSHAW'S LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY.

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edited Charter Oak, an anti-slavery paper in Hartford, Conn; and translated Victor Hugo's Legend of the Centuries. He was the author of Anti-Slavery Hymns; The Maniac and Other Poems; and Signal Fires, or The Trail of The Pathfinder. He died in 1903 in Providence, R.I. Burleigh, Henry Gordon, congressman, was born June 2, 1833, in Canaan, N.Y. He was a representative in the New York state legislature in 1875 and in 1883-87 he was a representative from New York to the forty eighth and forty-ninth congresses. He died Aug. 15, 1900, in Whitehall, N.Y. Burleigh, John H., manufacturer, congressman, was bom Oct. 9, 1833, in South Berwick, Maine. He commanded a ship on foreign voyages seven years; and in 1853 engaged in manufacturing. He was a member of the Maine state house of representatives in 1863, 1864, 1866 and 1872; and a, dele-

gate-at-large to the national republican convention at Baltimore in 1864. In 1873-77 he was a representative from Maine to the forty-third and forty-fourth congresses as a republican. Burleigh, Walter A., congressman, was born. In 1865-69 was a territorial delegate from Dakota to the thirty-ninth and fortieth congresses. He died March 8, 1896, in Yankton, S.D. Burleigh, William, lawyer, congressman,

was born in Rockingham, N.H. In 1833-27 he was a representative from Maine to the eighteenth and nineteenth congresses. He died in July, 1837, in South Berwick, Maine. Burleigh, William Henry, journalist, poet, was born Feb. 2, 1812, in Woodstock, Conn. He was an anti-slavery journalist of Hartford and elsewhere; and attained note as a poet.

He

died

March

18, 1871,

In Brooklyn,

N.Y. Burleson, Albert Sidney, lawyer, congressman, was born June 7, 1863, in San Marcos, Texas. For eight years he was district attorney. In 1899-1911 he was a representative from Texas to the fifty-sixth, fifty-seventh fifty-eighth, fifty-ninth, sixtieth, and sixty-first congresses- as a democrat. Burleson, Rufus Columbus, clergyman, college president, author, was bom Aug. 7, 1823, near Decatur, Ala. He graduated from the Nashville university; and from the Western baptist theo-

In 1847-50 he was pastor of the First baptist church of Houston, Texas; and was then logical

elected

institute.

president

of

Baylor university, and which position he filled for half a century. He instructed ten thousand students, male and female, many of whom now occupy the most eminent positions in Texas and the ad-

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He preached and lectured on education in every town and city in Texas.

joining states.

He was in Texas more than fifty years, and knew more about the state and her history than any other man in the world; and wrote its history three times. He died May 15, Waco, Texas. Burleson, Solomon S., lawyer, missionary, was born Jan. 31, 1833, in Cortland, N.Y. In 1858-62 he published the Minnesota Patriot, and the North Pepin Independent; and became district attorney. He became missionary to the Oneida Indians in northern Wisconsin. He died in 1896 in Minnesota. 1901, in

Burling, George Childs, soldier,

was born

New

Jersey. In 1861 he became captain in Jersey infantry; in the sixth regiment and in 1865 was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers. He died Dec. 24, 1885.

New

Burling, Gilbert, painter, artist, was bom in 1843. He excelled in studies of game birds. His last and best works were Nor-

Sketches; Beach Below EasthampCanadian Lake. He died in 1875. ton; and Burlingame, Anson, lawyer, diplomat, congressman, was bom Nov. 14, 1830, in New Berlin, N.Y. In 1846 he began the practice of law in Boston, Mass. In 1852 he was elected to the state senate; and in 1853 was a member of the convention for revising the constitution of Massachusetts. In 1855-61 he was a representative from Massachusetts to the thirty-fourth, thirty-fifth and thirtysixth congresses. In 1861 he was appointed minister to Austria and subsequently to China; and in 1867 accepted a diplomatic

mandy

A

appointment from China to the European powers, as well as to the United States. He died Feb. 23, 1870, in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Burlingame, Edward Livermore, journalist, was born May 30, 1848, in Boston, Mass. He was on the editorial staff of the New York Tribune in 1871; and on that for the revision of the American Cyclopasdia in 1873-76. In 1879 he became connected editorially with the publishing house of Charles Scribner's Sons of New York City; and in 1886 was appointed editor of its new magaauthor,

He translated and edited Art Life and Theories of Richard Wagner.

zine.

Burlingame, James Montgomery, soldier, lawyer, journalist, statesman, author, was born March 34, 1836, in Sterling, Conn. He was educated in the Plainfield academy and at the university of Michigan. In 1863-64 he taught in the Albany female seminary; in 1864-66 served in the federal army; and in 1866 became editor of the Illinois Tribune of Decatur. In 1872-83 he was prosecuting attorney in Minnesota; was city attorney of Owatonna in 1872-80; and in 1885 became a member of the Minnesota state legislature. Bunneister, Richard, pianist, composer, was born Dee. 7, 1860, in Hamburg, Germany. In 1885-97 he was head of the piano department of Peabody institute at Baltimore, Md.; has made concert tours all over