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land,

Burnside, John, planter, was born about 1800 in Ireland. At the time of his death he was the largest sugar-planter in the United States. About 1852 he began to invest money in sugar lands eventually owned ten of the finest plantations in the sugar district of Louisiana and also owned the finest residence in New Orleans. In spite of the loss of more than two thousand slaves, he was among the first to try sugar-planting with free labor on a large scale; and his success had much influence in re-establishing the broken industries and credit of the south.



died June 39, 1881, in White Sulphur Springs, Va. Burnside, Thomas, lawyer, jurist, congressman. He was an associate justice of the supreme court of Pennsylvania in 1815. In 1815-16 he was 'a representative from Pennsylvania to the fourteenth congress. He died March 25, 1837, in Germantown, Va.

He

Burr, Aaron, clergyman, educator, college was bom Jan. 4, 1716, in Fairfield, Conn. He was a presbyterian clergyman; and was president of Princeton colpresident, author,

He married a daughter of Jonathan Edwards; and his son was the noted vicepresident Aaron Burr. His latin grammar was long in use at Princeton as the Newar^c Grammar. His only other work was The Supreme Divinity of Our Lord Jesus Christ.

lege.

He

died Sept. 34, 1757.

Burr, Aaron, soldier, United States senator, vice-president of the United States, was born Feb. 6, 1756, in Newark, N.J. In 1777

he was appointed

lieu-

tenant-colonel; and he distinguished himself as an able and brave officer. He was appointed attorney-general

of

New York

Burr, Albert G., lawyer, jurist, congressin 1839 in Illinois. He was elected to the Illinois legislature in 1851;

man, was born

was a member

of the state constitutional convention of 1862; and the author of the address to the people accompanying the constitution. He was re-elected in 1863. In 1867-71 he was a representative from Illinois to the fortieth and forty-first congresses. In 1877-85 he was judge of the seventh circuit, lie died

June

10, 1882, in Carrollton,

111.

Edmund, was born March 27,

Burr, Alfred

journalist, publisher, 1815, in Hartford, Conn. In 1841 he became the sole owner and proprietor of the Times of Hartford, Conn. He died Jan. 8, 1900, in Hartford, Conn.

Burr, Chauncey Rea, physician, surgeon, author, was born Oct. 16, 1862, in Portland,

Maine. He attended Dartmouth college; in 1884 graduated from Yale college with the degree of Ph.D.; and in 1888 graduated from Harvard with the degree of M.D. In 1888-89 he was an interne in Dublin and London hospitals. In 1893 he was physician at the Boston dispensary; in 1893 became assistant physician to out-patients at Boston state hospital; and is now physician to the clinic for diseases of the stomach and intestines at the Maine eye and ear infirmary. He has traveled in all parts of the world; in 1898 was assistant surgeon in the United States Navy; was medical officer at the battle of Manila; and in 1905 was appointed vice-consul of Spain. In 1906 he was president of the Portland medical college. He is the author of The Worth of a Man. Burr, Colonel Bell, physician, surgeon, auwas born on Nov. 3, 1856, in Lansing, Mich. He is a specialist in insanity and mental disease; and in 1878-89 was connected with the Eastern Michigan asylum at Pontiac. Since 1889 he has been medical director of the Oak Grove hospital at Flint, Mich. He is the author of Primer of Psychology; and Mental Diseases. Burr, Enoch Fitch, clergyman, author, was born Oct. 31, 1818, in Westport, Conn. In 1850-1907 he was a congregational clergyman of Lyme, Conn. He is the author of

thor,

Pater Mundi; Ad Fidem Doctrine of Evolution; Ecce Coelum; Sunday Afternoons for Little People About

in

1789; and in 1791-97 he was United States senator. At the election of president of the United States for the fourth presidential term, Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr had each seventy-three votes; and the choice was decided by congress, on the thirty-sixth ballot, in favor of Jefferson for president and Burr for vicepresident. In 1801-05 he was vice-president. On July 12, 1804, Colonel Burr gave Alexander Hamilton, long his professional rival and political opponent, a mortal wound in a duel. He died Sept. 14, 1836, on Staten Island, N.Y.

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Spiritualism; the Straight

Ecce Terra; the

Gate;

Work

Vineyard



in

From

.Dark to Day; Facts in Aid of Faith; Celestial Empires; Universal Beliefs; Long Ago as Interpreted by the 19th Century; Tempted to Unbelief; Dio the Athenian and The Voyage, and Other Poems; Aleph, the Chaldean; and Fabius, the Roman. He died in 1907 in Lyme, Conn. Burr, George Lincoln, educator, author, was born Jan. 30, 1859, in Oramel, N.Y. He has been a professor of history at Cornell

university since 1888.

He

is

the author of