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James Austin
Burns
Soldier, educator. civil engineer, lawyer,
author, was born Jan. 25, 1840, in Oxford, Maine. In 1861 he entered the
United States volunteer service as lieutenant in the seventh regiment
Connecticut infantry; and was promoted to be captain in 1862. He filled
the chair of chemistry in the Southern medical college in Atlanta; where
he practiced law. He was the author of a series of Juxtalinear
Translations of the Classics. He died in 1902 in Atlanta, Ga.
[source: Herringshaw's National Library of
American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the
Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William
Herringshaw, 1909 Transcribed by Therman
Kellar]
Horatio
Bisbee
Soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born May
1, 1839, in Canton, Maine. He entered the union army in 1861 as a private
and rose to the rank of colonel. Since 1865 he has practiced law in
Jacksonville, Fla. He was United States district attorney in 1869-73; and
was for a short time attorney-general of the state. In 1877-85 he was a
representative from Florida to the forty-fifth, forty-sixth, forty-seventh
and forty-eighth congresses.
[Herringshaw's National
Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies
of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by
William Herringshaw, 1909 Transcribed by Therman
Kellar]
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