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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (BURNHAM CAMPBELL.) 



Feb. 16, 1898. He was educated at Center College 

 and the University of Virginia; studied law in 

 Louisville; and was admitted to the bar there in 

 1844. In l&51-'53 he was a member of the Legisla- 

 ture; in 1861 was elected to the bench of the Ken- 

 tucky Court of Appeals; and in 1864- ? 65 was Chief 

 Justice of that Court. On July 5, 1863, Judge Bul- 

 litt and several other citizens were arrested by the 

 Federal authorities under the belief that they were 

 conspiring to invite the Confederates into the State. 

 In 1871 he was appointed one of the Commission- 

 ers to revise the " Code of Practice in Kentucky," and 

 in 1876 one of the editors of the " Civil Code." In 

 private practice he was considered one of the most 

 profound lawyers in the State. One of his best- 

 known cases was based on some mercantile con- 

 tracts, which he settled aftei suit had been pending 

 thirty-four years. 



Biirnham, Benjamin Franklin, lawyer, born 

 in Groton, Vt., Nov. 30,1830; died in Boston, Mass., 

 May 21, 1898. He was graduated at Wesleyan Uni- 

 versity in 1852, and was admitted to the bar in Illi- 

 nois in 1857. When the civil war broke out he was 

 practicing law at Newbury, Vt., and enlisted in the 

 8th Vermont Volunteers. In 1864 he was detailed 

 as assistant superintendent of education of freed- 

 men in Louisiana, and in 1865 commanded a com- 

 pany of United States colored infantry at Palmetto 

 Ranch. Subsequently he was detailed to the Freed- 

 men's Bureau to establish schools among the ne- 

 groes, and while engaged in this work at Monroe, 

 La., he was wounded by a mob that opposed such 

 schools. In 1867 he settled in Boston, where for 

 five years he was an associate justice of the South 

 Boston Court. Since 1879 he had applied himself 

 wholly to the preparation of digests and legal 

 works. In addition to his law writings, he was the 

 author of the " Life of Lives," ' Elsmere Elsewhere," 

 several theological works, and treatises on chess. 



Burroughs, William, actor, born in Akron, 

 Ohio, 1840 ; died in New York city, Nov. 9, 1898. 

 He was graduated at Columbia College, and studied 

 law in the office of Judge Edmunds, New York city, 

 but in 1864 joined the Winter Garden Theater stock 

 company, of which his brother Claude was a mem- 

 ber, and made his first appearance in a small part, 

 Aug. 18. The next year ne organized a traveling 

 company, with his brother and himself as the lead- 

 ing members, and played very successfully. In 1869 

 William became a leading member of the California 

 Theater stock company, San Francisco, and par- 

 ticipated in the opening of that house on Jan. 19. 

 1869, under the management of John McCullough 

 and Lawrence Barrett. In the autumn of 1870 he 

 returned to New York, and became leading man at 

 Niblo's Garden Theater. When Madame Helena 

 Modjeska came to New York in 1877 to appear be- 

 fore a metropolitan audience, Mr. Burroughs was 

 engaged as her principal support. He was the Ar- 

 inaiiil Duval to ner Camille on the occasion of her 

 first performance, Dec. 7 of that year, at the Fifth 

 Avenue Theater. From 1880 to 1884 he played with 

 various companies, and he retired with a modest 

 competency in the last-mentioned year. He was a 

 graceful, dignified, and painstaking actor. At the 

 time of his death (the result of accidental leakage 

 from a broken gas tube) he was secretary of the 

 Actors' Society of America. 



Burt, Mary Towne, benefactor, born in Cincin- 

 nati, Ohio. March 28, 1842; died in New York city, 

 April 29, 1898. She was educated at Brown's In- 

 stitute, Auburn, N. Y. ; married Edward Hurt, of 

 that city, in 1865 ; and was identified with tem- 

 perance work nearly all her life. She was the first 

 president of the Auburn branch of the Women's 

 Christian Temperance Union, and since 1882 had 

 been president of the New York State Society of the 



Union. In 1875 she became the publisher, and sub- 

 sequently the editor, of " Our Union," the organ of 

 the society, and in 1878-'80 was the corresponding 

 secretary of the National Union. For several years 

 Mrs. Burt had had charge of the legislative interests 

 of the union, and several laws for the protection of 

 women and young girls resulted from her efforts. 



Busteed, Richard L., lawyer, born in Cavan, 

 Ireland, Feb. 16, 1812 ; died in New York city, Sept. 

 14, 1898. He was admitted to the bar in 1846 ; was 

 appointed corporation counsel of New York city in 

 1856, and held this office for three years. He took 

 an active part in the presidential campaign of 1860, 

 and was a bitter opponent of Abraham Lincoln ; 

 but after the attack upon Fort Sumter he became a 

 war Democrat. He was appointed brigadier general 

 of volunteers, Aug. 17, 1862, and was stationed first 

 in New York and then in Washington. In Decem- 

 ber, 1862, he assumed command of a brigade at 

 Yorktown. He was appointed United States dis- 

 trict judge of Alabama, Sept. 17, 1863, and was 

 unanimously confirmed by the Senate on Jan. 20, 

 1864. In November, 1865, Judge Busteed had a 

 controversy with the military authorities in Alabama 

 that involved important questions relating to the 

 suspension of the habeas corpus act. In 1874 he 

 resigned his office and returned to New York city, 

 where he resumed the practice of law. 



Butterworth, Benjamin, lawyer, born in War-J 

 ren County, Ohio, Oct. 22, 1839 ; 'died in Thomas 

 ville, Ga., Jan. 16, 1898. He was the son of a Vir-1 

 ginian Quaker slaveholder, who had freed his slaves 

 and removed to Ohio, where he co-operated with 

 Levi Coffin in promoting the escape to the North of 

 fugitive slaves. Benjamin was educated at Ohio 

 University, and was admitted to the bar in Cincin- 

 nati in 1861. Soon afterward he enlisted in an 

 Ohio regiment, and during the war was promoted 

 to the rank of major. In 1870 he was appointed 

 United States district attorney for Cincinnati ; in 

 1873 was elected to the State Senate ; and in 1878 

 and 1880 was chosen to Congress as a Republican. 

 While in Congress he drafted the compulsory 

 retirement act for the army. He was appointed 

 a commissioner to examine a part of the Northern 

 Pacific Railroad in 1883, and was retained by the 

 Government to prosecute the South Carolina elec- 

 tion cases. Toward the close of that year he was 

 appointed commissioner of patents, resigning in 

 1884 on being again elected to Congress, to which 

 he was also returned in 1886 and 1888. From its 

 inception to its close he was connected with thu 

 World's Columbian Exposition in an executive 

 capacity. On retiring from Congress he practiced 

 in Washington, chiefly in patent law, till April, 

 1897, when he was again appointed commissioner 

 of patents. 



Callis, John B., soldier, born in Fayetteville, 

 N. C., Jan. 3, 1828 ; died in Lancaster, Wis., Sept. 

 23, 1898. He went to Wisconsin in 1840. At tha 

 outbreak of the civil war he became captain in the 

 7th Wisconsin Volunteers ; was promoted lieuten- 

 ant colonel in 1862 ; wounded at Gettysburg, Julj 

 1, 1863 ; and mustered out of the service Dec. 29. 

 lie entered the regular army as captain in the 45ta 

 Infantry; was brevetted brigadier general, Marca 

 7. 1864, and, later, major and lieutenant coloneU- 

 Ile served as superintendent in the War Depart- 

 ment till December, 1865, when he was sent N> 

 lluntsville, Ala., as assistant commissioner of the 

 Freedmen's Bureau. He resigned this commission, 

 Feb. 4, 1868. He was elected to Congress from the 

 5th Alabama District in 1868, and he introduce 1 

 the original resolution on which was afterward 

 based the Ku-Klux-Klan bill. 



Campbell, Alexander, legislator, born in Con- 

 cord, Pa.. Oct 4, 1814 ; died in La Salle, 111., Aug. 



