Burr

(William Henry), American author, b. 1819, Gloversville, N.Y., graduated at Union College, Schenectady, became a shorthand reporter to the Senate. In 1869 he retired and devoted himself to literary research. He is the anonymous author of Revelations of Antichrist , a learned book which exposes the obscurity of the origin of Christianity, and seeks to show that the historical Jesus lived almost a century before the Christian era. He has also written several pamphlets: Thomas Paine was Junius , 1880: Self Contradictions of the Bible ; Is the Bible a Lying Humbug? A Roman Catholic Canard , etc. He has also frequently contributed to the Boston Investigator , the New York Truth seeker , and the Ironclad Age of Indianapolis .