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500 the United States; and in 1897-99 was director of the Soharwenka conservatory of New York City. Since 1903 he has been head of the piano department of the Eoyal conservatory of music in Dresden, Germany. He is the composer of The Chase After Fortune and numerous fantasies and songs.

Burn, Belle Sumner Angier, journalist, author, was born April 25, 1870, in Carlisle, Pa. In 1899-1907 she wrote for several Los Angeles papers. She is a lecturer on civic improvements and gardening; and organizer of the human progress club. She is the author of The Garden Book of California.

Bumam, Anthony Sollins, lawyer, jurist,

was born Oct. 10, 1846, in Richmond, Ky. For four years he was United States collector of internal revenue. In 1897-1903 he was an associate justice of the Kentucky court of appeals; and since 1903 has been chief justice.

Burnap, George Washington, clergyman, was born Nov. 30, 1803, in Merrimack, N.H. He was a unitarian clergyman of Baltimore and prominent as a controversialist. He was the author of Popular Objections to Unitarian Christianity Considered; author,

What is a Unitarian; Lectures to Young Mc3i; Lectures on the History of Christianity; and Christianity, its Essence and Evidence. He died Sept. 8, 1859, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Bumell, Arthur T., educator, was born July 9, 1853, in Davenport, Iowa. He was educated iu the public schools of Ohio; attended the Williston seminary of Easthampton, Ma«s3. studied in Oberlin college of Ohio; and has received the degrees of A.B., A.M. and Ph.D. In 1833 he was ordained. He has been principal in the Southern Kansas academy at Eureka ; professor of latin in the state university at Seattle, Wash.; and for the past eighteen years has held principalship under the American missionary association. For the past nine years he has been principal of the Emerson normal and industrial institute of Mobile, Ala.

Burnell, Barker, state legislator, congressman, was born in Nantucket, Mass. He was a member of the Massachusetts house of representatives; and later passed into the state senate. He was a member in the convention which framed the present constitution of Massachusetts; and took an active part in the Harrisburg convention of 1840. In 184143 he was a representative from Massachusetts to the twenty-seventh congress. He

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Frank C, soldier, congressman, was born March 9, 1843, in Wyoming county. Pa. He was a private soldier in the fifty Burnell,

second regiment Pennsylvania volunteers in the civil war. In 1873 he was a representative from Pennsylvania to the forty-second congress to fill a vacancy. Burnell, George W., lawyer, jurist, was born in December, 1838, in' St. Albans, Vt. In 1863 he enlisted in the union army; and

became sargeant, lieutenant and captain. He was for several terms district attorney of Winnebago county. Wis.; and in 1884 was appointed a judge of the circuit court. Bumes, Daniel Dee, lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 4, 1851, in Ringgold, Mo. In 1893-95 he was a representative from Missouri to the fifty-third congress as a democrat. He died Nov. 3, 1899, in St. Joseph, Mo.

Bumes, James Nelson, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Aug. 33, 1833, in Morgan county, Ind. He was a presidential elector in 1856; was circuit attorney in 1857; and in 1868-73 was judge of the court of common pleas. He then engaged in railroad construction and other business. In 1883-87 he was a representative from Missouri to the forty-eighth and forty-ninth congresses as a democrat, serving four terms, 1883-88. He died Jan. 34, 1889, in Washington, D.C.

Burnet, David G., planter, statesman, was born April 4, 1789, in Newark, N.J. In 1836 he gave over the government of Texas into the hands of Houston, the constitutionally elected president. He was afterward elected vice-president. He remained in the south during the civil war; and in 1866 was elected to the United States senate from Texas, but congress refused to admit him. After that he resided in retirement on his plantation near Houston. He died Dec. 5, 1870, in Galveston.

Burnet, Jacob, lawyer, jurist and United States senator, author, was born Feb. 33, 1770, in Newark, N.J. He was a member of the first legislative council of Ohio in 1799. In 1831-38 he was one of the judges of the supreme court of Ohio. In 1838-31 he was United States senator to fill a vacancy. He was the first president of the astronomical society of Cincinnati; and was for many years president of the colonization society of Hamilton county. In 1847 he published a volume entitled Notes on the Early Settlement of the Northwestern Territory. He died May 10, 1853, in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Burnet, Joseph, physician, continental congressman, was born Dec. 13, 1730, in Elizabethtown, N.J. He practiced medicine in New York City. In 1776 and 1780 he was a member of the continental congress. He died in 1791 in New York City,

Burnet, Robert, soldier, agriculturist, was born Sept. 33, 1763, in Little Briton, N.Y. He served in the revolutionary war; and was promoted to the rank of major. He died Dec. 1, 1854.

Burnet, William, colonial governor, was born March, 1688, in Holland. He was colonial governor of New York in 1730-38; and in 1730 was governor of New Hampshire. He died Sept. 7, 1749.

Burnet, William, physician, surgeon, congressman, was born Dec. 13, 1730, in Elizabeth, N.J. He was elected to congress under the confederation in 1776 was a member of congress in 1780-81; and was surgeon-general of the eastern district of the United States from 1776 till the close of the revolu-