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 HBRRINGSHAW'S LIBBART OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. has campaigned from Maine to Colorado. In 1901-07 iie was United States senator from Kansas. Burton, Lewis, clergyman, theologian, was born July 3, 1815, in Erie, Pa. For fortyseven years a clergyman at Cleveland, Ohio. In 1884-93 was rector of St. John's church of Richmond, Va. He died Oct. 9, 1894, in Lexington,

Ky.

Burton, Lewis William, clergyman, bishop, was born Nov. 9, 1852 in Cleveland, Ohio. He was ordained deacon in 1877 and priest in tne next year; and has been connected with All Saints and St. Mark's of Cleveland; with St. John's of Richmond; and with St. Andrew's Louisville. He was chosen bishop of Lexington in 1896. Burton, Nathaniel Judson, clergyman, author, was born in 1824 in Connecticut. He was the author of In Pulpit and Parish; Yale Lectures on Preaching; and other works. Burton, Richard Eugene, journalist, author, poet, was born March 14, 1859, in Hartford, Conn. Since 1898 he has been professor of English literature at the university of Minnesota. He is a journalist of Hartford, Conn. He is the author of Dogs and Dog Literature;

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June and Other Poems.

Burton, Robert, planter, soldier, congressman, was born in 1747 in Mecklenburg county, Va. In 1775 he moved to Granville; and served in the revolutionary army, attaining the rank of colonel. In 1787-88 he was a delegate to the continental congress. In 1801 he was a member of a commission to fix the boundary between the Carolinas and Georgia. He died April 10, 1825, in Granville county, N.C. Burton, Theodore Elijah, lawyer, congressman, author, was born Dec. 20, 1851, in Jefferson, Ohio. In 1875 he began the practice of law in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1889-91 and 1895-1911 he was a representative from Ohio to the fifty-first, fifty-fourth, the fifty-fifth, fifty-sixth, fifty-seventh, fifty-eighth, fiftyninth, sixtieth and sixty-first congresses as a republican. He is the author of Financial Crises and Periods of Industrial and Com-

mercial Depression. Burton, Warren, author, was born Nov. 13, 1800, in Wilton, N.H. He was a minister at large in Boston in 1844-48 ; was chaplain to the state senate in 1852; and to the house in 1858-60. He was the author of Cheering Relig'iews of Man and Providence; ious Experience at my Native Home; The Divine Agency in the Material Universe-, Uncle Sam's Recommendations of Phrenology; The District School as it Was; Helps to Education; Culture of the Observing Faculties in the Family and School; and Scenery Showing. He died June 6, 1866, in Salem,

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Mass. Burton, William, governor, was born in Delaware. He was the twenty-third governor of Delaware in 1859-63. He died in Delaware. Burton, William Evans, actor, author, was born Sept. 24, 1804, in London, England. He

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was a popular comedian of New York City. He was the author of The Actor's Alloquy; Waggeries and Vagaries; and Cyclopaedia of Wit and Humor. He died Feb. 10, 1860, in

New York

City.

Burton-Opitz, Russell, physiologist, scien-

was born Oct. 25, 1875, in Ft. Wayne, Ind. In 1901-02 he was assistant of physiology in Harvard university; and since 1904 he has been at Columbia university. He is a fellow of the American association for the advancement of science. Burtt, John, clergyman, poet, was born May 26, 1789, in Scotland. He became pastor of a church in Salem, N.J.; and later in Blackwoodtown, N.J. He was the author of several poems. He died March 24, 1866, in Salem, N.J. tist,

Burweil, Arnistead, soldier, lawyer, jurist, Oct. 22, 1839, in Hillsboro, N.C. In 1869 he began the practice of law. He was a captain in the civil war. In 1881 he was a member of the North Carolina state senate; and in 1903-05 was an associate justice of the supreme court of North Carolina. Burweil, Benjamin Franklin, lawyer, jurist, was born April 15, 1866, in Armstrong county. Pa. He was educated in the public and private schools and at the state normal school at Glenville, W.Va. He stud-

was born

ied law in West Virginia and Kansas and practiced in Kansas at Gypsum City, where he was city clerk. In 1891 he located in Oklahoma City; and in

1898-1907 was an associate justice of the supreme court for the territory of Oklahoma. He is now actively engaged in the practice of law in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Burweil, Lewis, colonial governor. In 174952 he was colonial governor of Virginia.

Burweil, William Armistead, congressman, 15, 1780 in Mecklenburgh county, Va. In 1805-21 he was a representative from Virginia to the ninth to the sixteenth congresses. He was a wealthy tobacco planter; and was president Jeff'erson's friend and private secretary. He died Feb.

was born March

Washington City. William MacCreery, journalist, legislator, diplomat, was born Nov. 4, 1809, in Botetourt county, Va. Among his classmates were Edgar A. Poe, Alexander Stephens and Robert Toombs. He was elected to 16, 1821, in

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the Virginia state legislature, representing his county in 1840-55. He was a disciple of Henry Clay and was a forcible thinker and a ready debater. He died March 4, 1888, in Bedford county, Va. Burweil, William Turnbull, soldier, was born July 19, 1846, in Vicksburg, Miss. In 1868 he was promoted ensign; and in 1906 attained the rank of rear-admiral.