OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (BURGESS BUTTERFJKLD. ; 



converted under the preaching of Dwight L. 

 Moody, and he at once became interested in the 

 condition of men who were slaves to intemper- 

 ance. With some outside help he succeeded, in 

 1877, in establishing in a private house a home 

 where such unfortunates would find a welcome 

 and be treated to every essential bodily comfort, 

 on the condition of reforming their habits. 80 

 great was his success that in 1879 $100,000 was 

 raised William H. Vanderbilt, Frederick H. Cos- 

 sitt, Thomas Hope, Hector C. Havemeyer, and 

 others contributing liberally and the Christian 

 Home for Intemperate Men at Eighty-sixth 

 Street and Madison Ave., New York city, was 

 built. Mr. Bunting remained its resident manager 

 and director till the spring of 1899, when he was 

 retired on a pension, and was succeeded in his 

 work by the Rev. George S. Avery. He afterward 

 resided in Keyport, N. J. Mr. Bunting, who was 

 a constant student of the Bible, advocated a 

 " Gospel method " of treatment, and no cure of 

 any description ever was used in the home. He 

 believed that intemperance was a sin, and that 

 the treatment for it should be the same as for any 

 other sin. He also condemned the use of tobacco, 

 holding that every accessory of the habit should 

 be abandoned, saying that his experience had 

 proved that a rescued man that returns to it will 

 also soon return to drink. 



Burgess, Alexander, clergyman, born in 

 Providence, R. I., Oct. 31, 1819; died in Saint Al- 

 bans, Vt., Oct. 8, 1901. He was a son of Thomas 

 Burgess, a Rhode Island judge, and a younger 

 brother of George Burgess, the first Bishop of 

 Maine. After graduation at Brown University 

 he studied at the General Theological Seminary 

 in New York city, and was ordained deacon in 

 1842 and priest in 1843. .He was successively rec- 

 tor at East Haddam, Conn., 1842-'43; St. Mark's, 

 Augusta, Me., 1843-'54; St. Luke's, Portland, Me., 

 1854-'67; St. John's, Brooklyn, N. Y., 1867-69; 

 and Christ Church, Springfield, Mass., 1869-78. 

 He was consecrated the first bishop of the recently 

 formed diocese of Quincy, in Illinois, in 1878. He 

 was the author of a popular religious text-book, 

 Questions for Bible-Classes and Sunday-Schools 

 (1855), and a Memoir of the Life of George Bur- 

 gess, First Bishop of Maine (1869). 



Burleson, Rufus C., clergyman and educator, 

 born near Decatur, Ala., Aug. 7, 1823; died in 

 Waco, Texas, May 13, 1901. He was a Baptist, 

 and was elected president of Baylor University, 

 Independence, Texas, in 1853, and served in that 

 capacity till 1861, when he removed to Waco, and 

 established a coeducational school known as 

 Waco University. Waco and Baylor were con- 

 solidated into Baylor University in 1885, and Dr. 

 Burleson was made its president and continued in 

 office till 1897. 



Burnham, Sarah Maria, educator, born in 

 Chester, Vt., in 1818; died in Cambridge, Mass., 

 Aug. 24, 1901. From 1843 to 1879 she taught in 

 the public schools of Cambridge. She published 

 Roman Stories in the Time of Claudius; The His- 

 tory and Uses of Limestones and Marbles (1883) ; 

 Precious Stones in History and Literature (1886) ; 

 Struggles of the Nations (1891); Pleasant Mem- 

 ories of Foreign Travel (1896); and Biographical 

 Sketches of Some Ancient People (1899). 



Burr, Franklin Lewis, journalist, born in 

 Hartford, Conn., Dec. 9, 1827; died there, Feb. 2, 

 1901. He learned the printer's trade, and worked 

 in the office of the Hartford Times. From 1854 

 to 1856 he held a place in the Navy Department 

 in Washington, and after the latter date resided 

 in Hartford. He became an editorial assistant in 

 the Times office, and soon afterward, in partner- 



ship with his brother, i.he |.,t,. \ M 

 became its owner. Jit; n-taimd hi- j 

 paper till 1888, when he, sold !,,. 

 brother, himself remaining a^ on. , 

 His single public oilico WHS one :. 

 commissioner of Hartford, J.SH'J to J 

 an ardent lover of nature, and wn,1- 

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Burroughs, George Stockton, d 

 educator, born in Waterloo, N. Y., .Juri. <i, 1- 

 died in Clifton Springs, N. Y., Oct. 22, 1901. 

 was graduated at Princeton in 1873, arid 

 Princeton Theological Seminary in 1877. lie _ 

 ceived the degree of Ph. D. in 1884, and that of 

 D. D. in 1887 from Princeton, and from Marietta 

 College in 1895 the degree of LL. D. He served 

 successively as pastor of the First Church of 

 Christ, Fairfield, Conn., First Church of Christ, 

 New Britain, Conn., and the First Church of 

 Christ in Amherst College. In 1886 he was made 

 Professor of Biblical Literature in Amherst; he 

 served till 1892, when he became president of 

 Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Ind. He retired 

 from that office in 1899 to accept the chair of 

 Old Testament Language and Literature in Ober- 

 lin Theological Seminary. 



Busiel, Charles Albert, ex-Governor of New 

 Hampshire, born in Meredith, N. H., Nov. 24, 

 1842; died in Laconia, N. H., Aug. 29, 1901. He 

 was educated at Guilford Academy, and engaged 

 in manufacturing. At his death he was president 

 of the Laconia National Bank and of the City 

 Savings-Bank, and was a director of the Concord 

 and Montreal Railway. He was formerly a Demo- 

 crat in politics, but in later years he connected 

 himself with the Republican party. From 1872 

 to 1885 he was chief engineer of the Laconia fire 

 department. He served in the Legislature in 1878- 

 79, and was a delegate to the Democratic Na- 

 tional Convention in 1880. He was the first 

 mayor of Laconia in 1893-'94, and Governor of 

 New Hampshire in 1895-'96. He was a candidate 

 for the United States Senate in 1896, but was de- 

 feated. 



Butterneld, Daniel, soldier, born in Oneida 

 County, New York, Oct. 31, 1831; died in Cold 

 Spring, N. Y., July 17, 1901. His father, John 

 Butterfield, was one of the first to embark in the 

 express business in the United States, organized 

 the American Express Company, and was its 

 president till his death, in 1869, built the tele- 

 graph-line between New York city and Buffalo, 

 and was president of the Overland Express Com- 

 pany, which carried the triweekly mails between 

 San Francisco and Missouri river. Daniel Butter- 

 field was graduated at Union College in 1849, and 

 removed to New York city as general superintend- 

 ent of his father's express company. At the reor- 

 ganization of the 12th Regiment of Militia, in 

 1859, he was chosen as its colonel. On April 12, 

 1861, the regiment started for Washington, and 

 in July joined the Army of the Potomac, in which 

 its colonel received the command of a brigade. 

 When the army was enlarged he was commis- 

 sioned a lieutenant-colonel, and assigned to the 

 12th Regiment of Infantry. In September, 1861, 

 he was appointed brigadier-general of volunteers, 

 and ordered to the corps of Fitz-John Porter. In 

 this capacity he made the campaign of the Pen- 

 insula. He was wounded at the battle of Gaines's 

 Mill. His next campaigns were fought under 

 Gens. Pope and McClellan, in August and Sep- 

 tember, 1862, and at the close of October he took 

 command of MorelFs division. He became major- 

 general of volunteers Nov. 29, 1862, and was made 

 colonel of the 5th Infantry in the regular army 



