. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . n and brigadequartermaster on thestaff of (General IsaacS. Burrell, Massachu-setts First later he was ap-pointed captain andprovost marshal onthe staff of Brigadier-General H o 1) a r tMoore, i n w h i c hcapacity he servedfive years. He wasafterwards electedcaptain of Iroop I),First BattalionCavalry, resigningafter two years ser-vice. If Mr. Burn-ham as a young manbecame a soldierfrom a sense of duty,he is to-day a businessman from predilec-t
. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . n and brigadequartermaster on thestaff of (General IsaacS. Burrell, Massachu-setts First later he was ap-pointed captain andprovost marshal onthe staff of Brigadier-General H o 1) a r tMoore, i n w h i c hcapacity he servedfive years. He wasafterwards electedcaptain of Iroop I),First BattalionCavalry, resigningafter two years ser-vice. If Mr. Burn-ham as a young manbecame a soldierfrom a sense of duty,he is to-day a businessman from predilec-tion and because hisnatural gifts fit himfor commercial life. His business career commenced in 1865, when heentered the service of Batchelder Brothers as remained here, working his way up through variouspositions until 1868, when he entered into partnershipwith Charles F. Newell, under the firm name of Newell& Burnham, succeeding to the coal business of WilliamWood & Co., of No. 132 Charles Street. This partner-ship continued until 1871, when, Mr. Newell retiring,the firm assumed its present name of L. G. Burnham cS:. L. G. BURNHAM Co. Mr. Burnham lends material business aid towardskeeping Boston warm in winter, his firm supplying morecoal than any other retail house in the State. was born in the town and county of Essex,Massachusetts, on Aug. 5, 1844. He is the son of Wash-ington and Mary B. Burnham. As a boy he attendedthe district schools and afterwards the Putnam HighSchool at Newburyport. It was while attending thelatter that the note of the war was sounded, and he enlisted as a boysoldier. Mr. Burn-ham was formerlypresident of theBoston Board ofTrade. He is adirector in variousbanks, and is inter-ested in many social,business, and chari-table politics he is aconsistent Republi-can. He was marriedin 1881 to Miss Mayk. Wood, of Lowell,Mass. Mr. Burnhamresides in Boston, butowns a pleasant farmin Essex, which hemakes his home dur-ing part
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