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Burnham, William Power, soldier, author, was born Jan. 10, 1860, in Scranton, Pa. He graduated from the United States infantry and calvary school, where he was afterward

Burns, John Mavity, lawyer, jurist, statesman, was born, March 11, 1824, in Ashland, Ky. Early in life he was elected the county

attorney for Letcher county, Ky.; was subsequently elected to the Kentucky state

an instructor in the department of military art. During the Spanish-American war he served as lieutenant-colonel of the fourth Missouri volunteers; served in 1899-1903 in Cuba and in the Philippine Islands. He is now captain of the twentieth United States infantry. He is the author of Three Roads to a Commission in the United States Army; Duties of Outposts; Advance Guards; Historical Sketch of the Twentieth Infantry; and other works. Burns, Francis, clergyman, bishop, was born Dec. 5, 1809, in Albany N.Y. He was a methodist episcopal bishop of Liberia. He died April 18, 1863, in Baltimore, Md.

Burns, Frank Lorenzo, contractor, orniwas born Jan. 18, 1869, in Chester county, Pa. In 1888 he became iden-

thologist, author,

with the Wilson ornithological club inception; and in 1901 was one of ornithologists of Pennsylvania elected to

tified

upon five

its

the new class of members created by the American ornithologist union. He is the author of The American Crow; A Monograph of the Flicker; and A Bird Census. Burns, James Austin, soldier, educator, civil engineer, lawyer, author, was born Jan. 25, 1840, in Oxford, Maine. In 1861 he entered the United States volunteer service as lieutenant in the seventh regiment Connecticut infantry; and was promoted to be captain in 1862. He filled the chair of chemistry in the Southern medical college in Atlanta; where he practiced law. He was the author of a series of Juxtalinear Translations of the Classics. He died in 1902 in Atlanta, Ga.

educator, author, was bom Oct. 26, 1836, in Brownsville, Ohio. For three years he studied law ; and has received the degree of A.M. and Ph.D. Since 1858 he has been engaged in educational work. In 1877-80 he was state commissioner of common schools of Ohio; and for eight years was secretary of the Ohio teachers' reading circle. He is the author of The Eclectic Geometry; Story of Shakespeare's English

Burns, James

J.,

to Teach Reading and Composition; and Some Unsetting Lights of English Literature. Bums, John, soldier, was born Sept. 5, 1793, in Burlington, N.J. In the war of 1812 he was present in the actions at Plattsburg, Queenstown and Lundy's Lane; and in the last-named engagement he was one of Colonel Miller's regiment that captured the British battery in the center and turned the tide in favor of the Americans. He volunteered promptly for the war with Mexico; and again for the civil war. He died Feb. 7, 1873, in Gettysburg, Pa.
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Bums, Joseph, congressman, was born March 11, 1800, is Waynesboro, Va. In 185759 he was a representative from Ohio to the thi'ty-flfth congress.

He

died in Ohio.

from Floyd and Johnson counties; and then became a legislature

member

the state to Boyd county; and was elected superintendent of public instruction, serving two terms. He senate.

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was afterward elected to congress, but a contest was decided against him. In 1886 he was elected circuit judge of the sixteenth judicial district of Kentucky; presided for six years; and then retired to private life. He was frequently employed by the United States government in the secret branch of the internal revenue services. Bums, Eohert, state senator, congressman, was born in New Hampshire. He served three years in the New Hampshire state legislature as state senator and representative. In 1833-37 he was a, representative to the twenty-third and twenty-fourth congresses from New Hampshire. He died June 20, 1866, in Plymouth, N.H. Bums, Waller T., lawyer, jurist. Since 1902 he has been judge of the United States district court for the southern district of Texas. Bums, William Henry, railroad president, was born in July, 1848, in Boston, Mass. Since 1890 he has been president of the Montana union railway at Butte, Mont. Burns, William Wallace, soldier, was born 3, 1825, in Coshocton, Ohio. In 1843-47 he was a cadet in the United States military academy. After graduating he joined the third infantry; served through the war with Mexico; and after ten years of frontier, garrison and recruiting service, received a staff appointment as captain and commissary of subsistence. He died April 19, 1892, in Chi-Sept.

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Burnside, Ambrose Everett, soldier, manufacturer, governor. United States senator, was born May 23, 1824, in Libe'rty, Ind. He served with credit on the frontier as an officer of artillery. In 1853 he resigned his commission and turned his attention to the manufacture of guns; and invented the rifle which bears his name. During the continual progress of the civil war his services as a general will always be treasured in the military history of his country; and he was present at the battles of Newbern, Roanoke Is.