Burnet

Jacob, an American jurist, born in Newark, N. J., Feb. 22, 1770. Admitted to the bar in 1796, he removed to Cincinnati, then a village with about 500 inhabitants, and was a member of the territorial government from 1799 till the establishment of a State Government in 1803. In 1821 he was appointed Judge of the Supreme Court of Ohio, and was elected United States Senator in 1828. Burnet was elected a member of the French Academy of Sciences upon the recommendation of lafayette. He died in Cincinnati, May 10, 1853. | Burnett, Frances Hodgson, an Anglo-American novelist, born in Manchester, England, Nov. 24, 1849. Her family removed to Tenne ee in 1865. She early wrote stories. In 1873 Mi Hodgson married Dr. Burnett, from whom she obtained a divorce in 1898, | afterwards marrying Stephen Town send. Her most succe ful work was “Little Lord Fauntleroy.” “The Making of a Marchione ” appeared 1901, Burney, Charles, an English composer and writer on music; born in Shrews bury, England, April 7, 1726; died April 12, 1814. | Burney, Frances (Madame @Arblay), an English novelist, daughter of Charles Burney; born in King’s Lynn, Norfolk, June 18, 1752; died in Bath, Jan. 6, 1840. | Burnham, Clara Louise, an American story writer, born in Newton, Ma ., May 25, 1854> She is the: daughter of George F. Root, and has’ lived in Chicago since childhood. She has written several novels, and has also written libretti for her father’s cantatas. | Burnham, Daniel Hudson, an gg architect, born in Henderson, N. Y., Sept. 4, 1846. He studied | architecture in Chicago and designed notable structures there, including the Rookery, Calumet Club, the Temple, | Masonic Temple, and the Great Northern Hotel, as well as large buildings in other cities. He was Director of Works at the Chicago World’s Fair.