Burnham, Edwin Otway

Burnham, Edwin Otway a Congregational minister, was born at Ghent, Ky., in 1824. He graduated at Hamilton College, N. Y., in 1852, and was a student at Union Theological Seminary for three years. From 1855 to 1856 he was a teacher at Pennington, N. J. In 1858 he was ordained, after having been stated supply at Columbus, Iowa, in 1856, and at Wilton, Minn., in 1857. At Tivoli he also served as stated supply. From 1871 to 1873 he was an invalid, in California. He died at Los Angeles, Cal., Aug. 1, 1873. See Gen.. Cat. of Unions Theol. Sem. 1876, p. 74.