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where he remained until iiis advancement to the episcopate. He was a deputy to the general con- vention from 1844 to 1877, representing succes- sively, Maine, Long Island, and Massachusetts. In 1877 he was president of the house of deputies. He was also a member of the standing coiumittee of Maine, Long Island and Massachusetts succes- sively from 1843 to 1868. After his brother's death, April 23, 1866, he was elected by the clergy of Maine to be bishop, but he declined to allow liis name to be presented to the laity for confirmation. He I'eceived the degree of S.T.D. from Brown university in 1866, and from Racine college in 1881 ; from Grissvold college the de- gree of LL.D. in 1889. He was chosen bishop of the newly formed diocese of Quincy, 111., and was consecrated in Christ church, Springfield, Mass., on May 15, 1878. He published a memoir of his brother, Bishop George Burgess. He died at St. Albans Vt., Oct. 8. 1901.

BURQESS. Frederick, 2d bishop of Long Island, and 204th in succession in the American episcopate, was born at Providence in 1853. He was graduated at Brown A. B., 1873, A.M. 1876; prepared for the priesthood at the General theo- logical seminary. New York citj^ and in Europe, and was ordained deacon by Bishop Mills in 1876 and priest by Bishop Clark in 1877. He was rector of Grace church, Amherst, Mass., 1877-82 ; rector at Pom fret. Conn., 1882-88 ; of St. Asaph Bala, Philadelphia, Pa., 1888-95 ; of Christ church. Detroit, Mich., 1895-97. and of Grace churc-h, Brooklyn, N.Y. 1898-1901. He was consecrated bishop of Long Island at Grace church, Brookh'n, N.Y., Jan. 15, 1902, by Bishops Potter, Doane, Worthington, Davies, Horner, and Du Moulin of Niagara. He received the degree of D.D. from Brown in 1899.

BURQESS, George, 1st bishop of Maine and 49th in succession in the American episcopate, was born in Providence, R. I., June 10. 1809 : son 'of Thomas Burgess, chief justice of Rhode Island. He was graduated at Broun university in 1826, and was for the following three years a tutor (there. He studied from 1831 to 1834 at Bonn, ' Gottingen and Berlin, and on his return to Am- erica in 1834, was ordained a deacon by Bishop Griswold, in Grace church. Providence. In 1834 he was admitted to the priesthood by Bisiiop Brownell, in Christ church. Hartford, he having been chosen as rector of that parish. He was made doctor of divinity by Trinit}- college in 1845, and by Union college and Brown in 1846. He was chosen bishop of the newly formed diocese of Maine, and was consecrated in the church of which he had been rector for thirteen years, Oct. 31, 1847. His literary works are numerous and varied in their character, among them tlie follow- ing being conspicuous : The Strife of Brothers, a

poem ; The Last Emnuy Conquering and Con- quered ; The Book of Psalms translated into En- glish Verse; Papers from the Ecclesiastical His- tory of New England, between 1740 and IS40, ser- mons, tracts, etc. He died at sea, April 23. 1866.

BURQESS, John William, educator, was born at Connersville, Tenn., Aug. 26, 1844. He was graduated at Amherst A. B., 1867, A.M. 1870, was admitted to the bar in 1869 and was professor of logic, rhetoric and English literature in Knox college 1869-71. He studied at Gottingen. Leip- zig and Berlin 1871-73, was professor of history and political science at Amherst 1873-76. and of history, politics^l science and international law at Columbia college from 1876, which chair was changed to that of history, political science and constitutional law in 1890. He was also professor of constitutional and international history and law in the school of political science, Columbia college. He received tiie degree Ph.D. from the college of New Jersey in 1883, and LL.D. in 1884; became a trustee of Columbia and in 1890 a mem- ber of the Universitj' council and dean of the faculty of political science. He is the autlior of Tlie Middle Period (1898) in American History^ Series ; The Civil War and the Constitution (1901) ; Reconstruction and the Constitution (1902).

BURKE, Andrew H., governor of North Dak- ota, was born in New York city. Ma}- 15, 1850. He was left an orphan at an earh- age, and until he was eight years old was cared for bj' the New York charitable aid society, bj- whom he was sent to Indiana. At the age of twelve years he enlisted as a drummer boy in the 75th regiment Indiana volunteers. At the close of the war he went to Asbury college, Greencastle, Ind., after which he followed commercial pursuits until 1880, when he settled in North Dakota. He be- came cashier of the first national bank of Cassel- ton, and treasurer of Cass c;ounty. After serv- ing three terms in that office he was, in 1890, elected by the Republican partj' governor of North Dakota. After the adjournment of the legislature of 1891, the grasshoppers began the devastation of crops in the northern part of the state, when he immediately took such vigorous lueasures to exterminate them through concerted action, that, by means of large drafts on his pri- vate fortune, in the absence of a state appropiia- tion, the pest was soon destroyed, and thousands of acres of grain were saved. He engaged in business in Dulutli. Minn., in 1893.

BURKE, Charles H., representative, was born in Genesee county, N.Y., April 1, 1861. He re- ceived a liberal education ; removed to South Dakota in 1882, where he studied law and was ad- mitted to the bar in 1886. He was married Jan. 14, 1886, to Caroline Schlo-sser and engaged in practice at Pierre. He was a representative in