repeated reëlections for twenty-eight years, when the adoption of the new state constitution of 1850 rendered him ineligible. The fees which he received, however, were barely sufficient, with the utmost economy, to support his family. Tardy in pressing for the small sums due him, he thereby frequently lost them altogether, and he was more attentive to his official duties than he was to his own pecuniary affairs.

Judge Burnside and his first wife were the parents of nine children. Cynthia Ann was born June 4, 1815, married to Benjamin Gould Nov. 20, 1832, and died July 10, 1879. Henrietta was born May 21, 1817, married to Norman Ross, Nov. 26, 1840, and died March 7, 1847. Henry M. was born Sept. 15, 1819, married to Camilla Cornell Nov. 18, 1845, and died Aug. 9, 1874. Ambrose E. was born May 23, 1824, married to Mary R. Bishop April 27, 1852, and died Sept. 13, 1881. Benjamin F. was born May 30, 1826, married Lydia Ann Zoudst, and died Nov. 16, 1831. Ellen W., born Oct. 30, 1829, is now living at Liberty, Indiana. Thomas Brown was born July 11, 1832, and died April 9, 1833. Harrison E. was born May 28, 1834, and died April 13, 1835. William Brown was born May 24, 1838, and died Sept. 7, 1838.

BIRTH AND NAME

YOUTHFUL TRAITS

QUAKER EDUCATION - DETECTIVE SKILLRELIGIOUS VIEWS - LOVE OF THE MILITARY APPLICATION FOR A CADETSHIP- POLITICAL INFLUENCE-APPOINTMENT AS A CADET LETTER OF ACCEPTANCE - DEPARTURE FOR WEST POINT.

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MBROSE E. BURNSIDE (the fourth child of Judge Edghill Burnside), was born in the log cabin on his father's farm, near Liberty, Union County, Indiana, on the twenty-third day of May, 1824. The attendant physician, Dr. Sylvanus Everts, at first almost despaired of establishing respiration, but by titillating the nostrils with the feather of a chicken, he excited a spasm of the respiratory apparatus, and gave the boy a start in life. The wife of Dr. Everts, who was Mrs. Burnside's most intimate friend in their new home, had recently lost her first-born child, who had been named Ambrose, after his grandfather, Ambrose Everts, an emi

From a sketch by B. S. Fosdick, Esq., of Liberty, Ind.

grant from Vermont to Ohio in 1794. Mrs. Burnside, as a mark of sympathy and of affection for her friend, named the babe Ambrose Everts Burnside. A few years afterwards Dr. Everts removed to La Porte County, Indiana, and when the youth's name was inscribed on the roster of the military academy, Everts was unintentionally changed to Everett, an error that was never corrected.

The village of Liberty was noted for the good order and quiet of its citizens, but was more particularly distinguished for the excellence of its schools. The Miami University, then Ohio's favorite institution of learning, was but a few miles distant, yet her professors, except in number, could claim no superiority over the teachers in the seminary at Liberty. The principal was Dr. Houghton, a Quaker preacher, who was a ripe scholar, endowed with the happy faculty of imparting knowledge and of inspiring his pupils with a spirit of inquiry that secured their advancement. Young Ambrose was acknowledged in his youth to be an obedient scholar and a faithful student. Under the guidance of Dr. Houghton he rapidly acquired a sound knowledge of the practical branches of mathematics, rhetoric, logic, and moral philosophy. When he left the seminary he was further advanced in education than boys of his age generally are.

An incident which occurred while Ambrose was a pupil. at the seminary shows the determined courage of the coming man. He and an elder brother were members of a debating club which held its sessions at the Court House. One evening, at the close of the debate, when the members were about to separate, the elder Burnside missed his pocket-book, containing a small sum of money. At first he supposed that it had been taken as a joke, but no one offered to return it, and Ambrose, to the surprise of all