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Robert Waln and Julia (Scott) Leaming had issue, four children, viz :
Rebecca Waln Leaming, m. William W. Montgomery, of the Phila. bar; she is de- ceased; they had three children, viz. :
Mary Scott Montgomery;
William W. Montgomery, Jr., of the Philadelphia bar ;
Robert Leaming Montgomery.
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Mary Emlen Leaming, m. R. Francis Wood, of Phila., b. in Phila., May 10, 1850, son of Charles Stuart and Julia F. (Randolph) Wood. R. Francis Wood graduated at the Univ. of Penn., and was admitted to the Phila. bar, June 7, 1873; is an active member and officer of the Civil Service Reform Association, and of the Municipal League. They had issue:
Julia Leaming Wood;
Rebecca Leaming Wood; Charles Stuart Wood ; R. Francis Wood, Jr .;
Robert Leaming Wood;
Emlen Wood ; Edward F. R. Wood.
Julia Leaming, m. Nicholas Lennig, of Phila., who served during the Civil War, in Anderson's Fifteenth Penna. Cavalry, 160th Regiment, Penna. Vols., from Aug. 22, 1862, to June 21, 1865;
THOMAS LEAMING, the subject of this sketch.
THOMAS LEAMING, youngest child of Robert Waln and Julia (Scott) Leam- ing, was born in Philadelphia, May 29, 1858. He entered the University of Pennsylvania, after preparation at the Protestant Episcopal Academy, in 1875, class of 1879, but did not finish the course. He read law in the offices of Hon. Wayne McVeagh and George Tucker Bispham, was admitted to the Philadel- phia bar in 1884, and has since been in active practice of his profession, being considered one of the leaders among the active practitioners in his native city. He is a member of the Philadelphia Club, the Rittenhouse Club, the Pot and Ket- tle at Bar Harbor, the Country Club, Philadelphia Racquet Club, Lawyers' Club, of Philadelphia ; the Down Town Club, of New York; the Junior Legal Club ; the Law Association; the Historical Society of Pennsylvania; the Pennsylvania Society Sons of the Revolution, etc.
He married, June 18, 1888, Josephine Lea (Baker) Brown, widow of Henry Armitt Brown, Esq., and daughter of John Remigius Baker, of Philadelphia; and his wife, Anna Robeson (Lea) Baker. Mrs. Leaming is a member of the Colonial Dames of America. They reside at 115 South Twenty-first Street, Philadelphia.
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ALFRED HUNTINGTON BURNHAM
The Burnham family, of Norman ancestry, took their surname from the ancient Saxon village of Burnham, included in a manor of the name, in the county of Bucks, England, granted by William the Conqueror, in 1068, to his. liege-man, William de Warren, Earl of Surrey, who married Gundred, the daughter of William, and accompanied him to England and assisted in its con- quest in 1066. Burnham had been the residence of the Saxon Kings of Mercia, in the ninth century, and the marriage of Roderick the Great with Aethelswith was solemnized there in 851 A. D. It was also the residence of the Norman successors of the Saxon Kings, and the remnants of the mote of the "Palace of Kings" is still visible there.
Walter Le Veutre, a cousin of William, Earl Warren, accompanied William of Normandy to England, and acquired from his relative, Earl Warren, the manor of Burnham, and from it his descendants acquired the name and title of de Burnham, which became the permanent surname of the family, the elder male line of which held the manor for several centuries, cadets of the same fam- ily acquired lands, titles and honors in other parts of England.
Two representatives of the Burnham family, both bearing the same name, came to New England at about the same time. Thomas Burnham, born in 1617, of a family long seated at Hatfield, near Leaminster, Herefordshire, sailed from Gravesend, for Barbadoes, November 20, 1635, and about 1649 located at Hart- ford, Connecticut, where he lived until his death, June 20, 1688, at the age of seventy-one years. He left a family of five sons and four daughters, and has numerous descendants.
THOMAS BURNHAM, the ancestor of the subject of this sketch, a son of Robert Burnham, of Norwich, county Norfolk, England, came from England in the ship "Angel Gabriel" in 1636, and located at Chebacco, near Ipswich, Essex county, Massachusetts, where he was prominent in public affairs, a lieutenant of Provincial forces, etc. He died in June, 1698.
LIEUTENANT THOMAS BURNHAM, son of Thomas Burnham, born in Ipswich, Massachusetts, in 1646, died there February 21, 1728. He married, February 13, 1666, Lydia, daughter of Moses Pingree. She died at Ipswich, March 19, 1698.
BENJAMIN BURNHAM, son of Thomas and Lydia (Pingree) Burnham, born in Ipswich, Massachusetts, December 21, 1686, married there, April 20, 1727, Mary Kinsman, born in Ipswich, Massachusetts, January 20, 1707-08, daughter of Robert Kinsman (born May 21, 1677, died June 7, 1761), and his wife Re- becca Burleigh, (born March 29, 1683, died November II, 1775) who were mar- ried June 28, 1705; and granddaughter of Robert Kinsman, who served in the expedition against the Narragansett Indians, in 1676, and his wife Mary Bore- man; and also granddaughter of Andrew and Mary (Conant) Burleigh.
When a young man, Benjamin Burnham removed to Norwich, New London county, Connecticut. He was, in 1710, the second teacher of the first grammar
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and Latin school at New London. He died in Norwich, which has since been the residence of many of his descendants, October 15, 1737.
BENJAMIN BURNHAM, son of Benjamin and Mary (Kinsman) Burnham, born at Norwich, Connecticut, February 9, 1729, died there, in May, 1799. He married (first) Jemima Perkins, born September 14, 1731, died prior to 1776, and (second) Hannah Bishop, born March 14, 1744-45, daughter of Joseph and Deborah Reynolds Bishop, of Norwich, granddaughter of Samuel Bishop and his wife Sarah Forbes, and great-granddaughter of Samuel Bishop, of Ipswich, Massachusetts, who graduated at Harvard, in 1665, and his wife, Hester Coggs- well. Samuel Bishop was a resident of New London county, probably at Nor- wich, in 1758, when with his son of the same name and others resident in the "North Parish" he was released from attending the meeting and paying rates in said parish, by reason of the distance of their residence from the meeting house. He died November 18, 1760, at the age of seventy-two years. John Reynolds, the grandfather of Deborah (Reynolds) Bishop, came from Barba- does and was one of the first settlers at Saybrook, Connecticut, selling his land there December 3, 1659, and removing to Norwich with a large party of early Saybrook settlers, comprising Simon and Christopher Huntington, John Gager, (whose daughter married Caleb Forbes) and many others. John Reynolds, of Norwich, was killed by the Indians, January 28, 1675-76, during King Philip's war, he and Josiah Rockwell having crossed to the east side of the Shetucket river to spread flax, were surprised, slain and scalped by the Indians.
CAPTAIN BISHOP BURNHAM, son of Benjamin and Hannah (Bishop) Burn- ham, born in Norwich, Connecticut, July 27, 1783, an officer of Connecticut Mi- litia during the war of 1812, settled in Lisbon township, New London county, Connecticut, where he died July 1, 1853. He married, December 20, 1815, Elizabeth H. Clark, born October 18, 1794, died April 13, 1860, daughter of Cap- tain Andrew Clark, of Lisbon, born June 30, 1757, a soldier in the Revolutionary war, his first service being in the Lexington Alarm of April 22, 1775, when as a private in the company of Captain James Clark, he marched from Lebanon, Con- necticut "to relief of ye Country". Bishop Burnham was a captain in the War of 1812.
ANDREW CLARK BURNHAM, son of Captain Bishop and Elizabeth H. (Clark) Burnham, born at Lisbon, New London county, Connecticut, September 25, 1816, lived in Jewett City, Griswold township, New London county, died January 23, 1899. He married, January 1, 1843, Cynthia Cruff Remington, who died No- vember 20, 1887, daughter of Thomas and Patience (Matteson) Remington, of Coventry, Rhode Island.
HENRY HARRISON BURNHAM, the father of the subject of this sketch, born at Norwich, New London county, Connecticut, August 2, 1845, was the younger son of Andrew Clark and Cynthia Cruff (Remington) Burnham. He graduated at Yale University, 1869, studied law, and was admitted to the bar of New London county, where he practiced for a number of years, and is now judge of the courts of that county at Jewett City. He married, November 23, 1871, Sophia Lydia Bennett, born September 3, 1846, died December 21, 1906, daughter of Elisha Huntington Bennett, born January 21, 1810, who removed to Kinsman, Ohio, and there died August 9, 1873, and his wife, Lydia Kent Burnham, born No- vember 19, 1815, died May 9, 1897. The latter was a daughter of Captain Jede-
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diah Burnham, of Kinsman, Ohio, born July 17, 1786, an officer in war of 1812, died February 25, 1874, who married, December 27, 1814, Sophia Bidwell, born February 3, 1797, died January 5, 1851 ; granddaughter of Jedediah Burnham, M. D., and his wife, Lydia Kent ; great-granddaughter of Benjamin and Jemima (Perkins) Burnham, of Norwich, Connecticut; and great-great-granddaughter of Benjamin and Mary (Kinsman) Burnham, of Norwich, before mentioned as the ancestor of Henry Harrison Burnham, whose wife, Sophia Lydia Bennett, was eighth in descent from Thomas Burnham, from Norwich, county Norfolk, England, who came to Massachusetts in 1636, in the "Angel Gabriel" while he was a descendant in the seventh generation.
The last common ancestor of Mr. and Mrs. Burnham was Benjamin Burnham (2), born February 9, 1729, died May, 1799) who was twice married; Mrs. Burnham being a descendant of his first wife, Jemima Perkins, born September 14, 1731, died prior to 1776, and Mr. Burnham, from his second wife, Hannah Bishop, as before stated.
Jemima Perkins, whom Benjamin Burnham (2), of Norwich, Connecticut, mar- ried as his first wife, November 6, 1750, was a daughter of Jacob Perkins, of Norwich, Connecticut, born May 23, 1709, who married, October 14, 1730, Jemima Leonard, a descendant of Thomas Leonard, who settled at New London in 1657, and a granddaughter of Jabez Perkins, who married, June 30, 1698, Hannah Lathrop, a granddaughter of Samuel Lathrop, who removed to Nor- wich from New London, Connecticut, in 1668, and died there in 1700. He was one of the first settlers at New London, "att Nameeug, on the West side of the Gret River" and was chosen with John Winthrop, Robert Hempstead and Thom- as Miner, at a meeting of the inhabitants held February 25, 1647-48, "to act in all Towne affaires". He was an "Assistant" or justice of the Lower Court, ap- pointed by the General Court, or Provincial Assembly, May, 1649; was one of those present at a town meeting, November 10, 1650, to arrange for the co-op- eration of Mr. Winthrop in establishing a corn mill at New London. His farm on the west side of Pequot river, five miles from New London, remained in the family until 1735, when it was sold by his grandson, Nathaniel Lathrop. His son, John Lathrop, born in 1646, married, December 15, 1669, Ruth Royce. Samuel Lathrop married (second) Abigail Doane, daughter of John Doane, of Plymouth, who survived him thirty-five years, dying at Norwich, Connecticut, January 23, 1735, in her one hundred and fourth year. The Perkins family were early settlers of Saybrook and Lyme, and long prominent in the affairs of New London county.
Jedediah Burnham, M. D., son of Benjamin and Jemima ( Perkins) Buril- ham, and half-brother to Bishop Burnham, the paternal great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was born in Norwich, New London county, Connecticut, April 3, 1755, died there March II, 1840. He was an assistant surgeon, or "Surgeon's Mate" of Connecticut troops during the Revolutionary war, and long prominent as a physician in Norwich. He married, April 27, 1779, Lydia Kent, born September 19, 1752, died December 11, 1846, daughter of Captatft Joseph Kent, of Marshfield, Massachusetts, born 1718, died January 1, 1801, and his wife, Lydia Thomas, born 1721, died April 9, 1810, daughter of John Thomas, of Marshfield, born November 8, 1684, died April 14, 1770, who mar- ried, December 23, 1714, Lydia Waterman, born February 20, 1689, died January
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17, 1750, daughter of Joseph Waterman, of Marshfield, Massachusetts, born 1649, died January 3, 1711, and his wife, Sarah Snow, born June 1651, died Sep- tember II, 1741.
John Thomas was a son of Samuel Thomas, of Marshfield, Massachusetts, born 1655, died September 2, 1720, who married, May 27, 1680, Mercy Ford, born April 29, 1662, died September, 174I.
CAPTAIN JEDEDIAH BURNHAM, son of Jedediah Burnham, M. D., and his wife, Lydia (Kent) Burnham, was born at Norwich, New London county, Connecti- cut, July 19, 1786. He married, December 27, 1814, Sophia Bidwell, of Canton, Hartford county, Connecticut, and later removed to Kinsman, Trumbull county, Ohio, where he died February 25, 1874. His wife died January 5, 1851.
Sophia (Bidwell) Burnham, born at Canton, Connecticut, February 3, 1797, was a daughter of Riverius Bidwell, of Canton, born August 20, 1762, died July 22, 1822, who married, about 1784, Phebe Roberts, born September, 1760, died August 17, 1837, daughter of William Roberts, who married, in 1756, Phebe Wilcox, (1731-1819) granddaughter of William Roberts, and great-granddaugh- ter of Major William Roberts, a Scotchman, "who spent most of his time in the army before coming to Eastern Connecticut in 1710".
John Bidwell, the earliest American ancestor of Sophia (Bidwell) Burnham, of whom we have any definite record, died in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1687. He married, in 1648, Sarah, daughter of John Wilcox, one of the original set- tlers of Hartford, and their son, John Bidwell, Jr., of Hartford, married, No- vember 6 or 7, 1678, Sarah, daughter of Governor Thomas Welles, of Hart- ford.
Thomas Bidwell, son of John Jr. and Sarah (Welles) Bidwell, born at Hart- ford, Connecticut, December 27, 1682, died there in 1716. He married, in March, 1707, Prudence Scott, born 1682, died February 14, 1763, and their son Thomas Bidwell, born May 16, 1711, died 1746, married Ruhannah Pinney.
Captain Thomas Bidwell, son of Thomas and Ruhannah (Pinney) Bidwell, born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1738, died at Canton, in the same county, De- cember, 1802. He was a captain in the Connecticut troops during the Revolu- tionary war. He married Esther Orton, born May 12, 1737, died 1823, daugh- ter of Thomas Orton, of Hartford, Connecticut, born 1709, who married, June 18, 1730, Elizabeth Sedgwick, and granddaughter of Thomas Orton Sr., of Hartford, born about 1675, and his wife, Anna (Buckingham) Orton. Captain Thomas and Esther (Orton) Bidwell were the parents of Riverius Bidwell, and the grandparents of Sophia (Bidwell) Burnham, wife of Captain Jedediah Burn- ham, and maternal great-grandmother of the subject of this sketch, her daugh- ter, Lydia Kent Burnham, becoming the wife of Elisha Huntington Bennett, and the mother of Sophia Lydia Bennett, who married, in 1871, Henry Harri- son Burnham and was the mother of the subject of this sketch. The Bennett's were among the earliest settlers of New London county, Connecticut, and are all probably traceable to a common ancestor.
John Bennett was at Mystic as early as 1658, and died at New London, Sep- tember 22, 1691, leaving sons, William, John and Joseph. James Bennett, a shipwright at New London and the builder of several vessels there, died May 7, 1690. Thomas Bennett, of Mystic, married Sarah, daughter of Lawrence Cod- ner, of New London, and granddaughter of Edward and Priscilla Codner, who
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came to New London from Saybrook, Connecticut, in 1651, and returned later to Saybrook or Lyme and died at the former place in 1671. Henry Bennett, of Lyme, Connecticut, died in 1726, leaving three sons and four daughters.
Benjamin Bennett, the great-great-grandfather of Sophia Lydia (Bennett) Burnham, married, April 24, 1753, Abigail Clark, and resided at Preston, New London county, Connecticut. He was a soldier of the Connecticut troops in the Revolutionary war.
Daniel Bennett, son of Benjamin and Abigail (Clark) Bennett, born at Pres- ton, New London county, Connecticut, January 18, 1756, was also a soldier in the Revolutionary war. He married, October, 1774, Hannah Read, born June 29, 1754, daughter of Joseph Read, another veteran of the Revolution, and his wife, Thankful (Andrews) Read, granddaughter of Joseph Read, who married, August 25, 1708, Mary Guppie, and great-granddaughter of Josiah Read, of Norwich, Connecticut, who married, November 1666, Grace Holloway, of Marshfield, Massachusetts. Thankful (Andrews) Read was a daughter of John Andrews, of Norwich, and his wife, Sarah (Cook) Andrews, daughter of Richard Cook, and granddaughter of John Andrews, Sr.
Elisha Bennett, son of Daniel and Hannah (Read) Bennett, and father of Elisha Huntington Bennett, before mentioned, the maternal grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was born in Preston, New London county, Connecticut, in 1784, died in Warren, Trumbull county, Ohio, January 25, 1861. He was a soldier of Connecticut militia in the war of 1812. He married, January 1, 1807, Lydia Pendleton, born February 4, 1789, died March 10, 1873, daughter of Captain Joshua Pendleton, of Westerly, Rhode Island, born May 6, 1744, died August 9, 1824. He was commissioned a lieutenant by the General Assembly of Rhode Island, at the recommendation of General Washington, October 12, 1776, and rose to the rank of captain. He is mentioned in a letter to General Wash- ington from the Rhode Island Assembly dated at Providence, November 6, 1776, as belonging to the State of Connecticut, though commissioned in accord- ance with the Commander-in-Chief's recommendation of the 12th ultimo. He was a son of Colonel William Pendleton, of Westerly, Rhode Island, born March 23, 1704, died 1786, an officer of the Rhode Island Line, in the Revolu- tion; grandson of Lieutenant Joseph Pendleton, of Westerly, Rhode Island, born December 29, 1661, died November 29, 1707, a Provincial officer in the Colonial wars; and great-grandson of Captain James Pendleton, born in Eng- land in 1626, who was a captain in King Philip's war, from Sudbury, Massa- chusetts, where he died November 29, 1706. He married, April 29, 1656, Han- nah Goodenow, born November 8, 1639, daughter of Edmund Goodenow, who had come to Massachusetts from Southampton, England, in the ship, "The Con- fidence". Captain James Pendleton was a son of Brian Pendleton, who came from Lancashire, England, and was a resident of Waterbury, Connecticut, prior to 1632, with his wife Eleanor.
Lieutenant Joseph Pendleton, (1661-1707) married, June 8, 1698, Patience Potts, born in New London, Connecticut, daughter of William Potts, from New Castle, England, who settled at New London, about 1678, and about that date married Rebecca Avery, born October 6, 1656, daughter of Captain James Avery, one of the leading men and principal officers of the early New London colony, coming there from Gloucester, Massachusetts, where he had married.
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November 10, 1643, Joan Greenslade. He was a son of Christopher Avery and Mary his wife, from Salisbury, England, who was a selectman of Gloucester, Massachusetts, 1646-54, later a resident and landowner at New London, where he died about 1685.
Captain James Avery was born in England in 1620. He came to New Lon- don from Gloucester, in 1648, with his wife and three children, and seven oth- ers were born to them there, Rebecca (Avery) Potts being the sixth child. He was chosen townsman of New London in 1660, and held that office for twenty- three years. He was successively ensign, lieutenant and captain of the train band of the town, and took an active part in the almost constant warfare with the Indians, taking an especially prominent part in King Philip's war. He was a judge of the County Courts for many years and was twelve times selected as a deputy to the General Court, or Provincial Assembly, between 1658 and 1680, beside serving on practically all the important commissions for the local colony.
Colonel William Pendleton (1704-86), married, March 10, 1726, Lydia Bur- roughs, born April 19, 1703, died August 17, 1750, daughter of John Bur- roughs, of Groton, New London county, Connecticut, and grandson of John Burroughs, of the same place and his wife, Hannah (Culver) Burroughs.
ROBERT BURROUGHS was a resident of Wethersfield, Connecticut, in 1645, when he married there, Mary Ireland, widow of Samuel Ireland, with whom she had come to America in 1635. Robert Burroughs came to New London, Connecticut, in 1650, receiving a grant of land there on June 2, of that year, in the southern part of the town. He received a grant of land on the west side of the Mystic river at Groton, April 3, 1651, and became proprietor of a ferry there. At a session of the General Court, in May, 1660, "Goodman Bur- rose is chosen ferryman for Mystick river, to ferry a horse and a man for a groat". His wife died in December, 1672, and he died in August, 1682. They had two children, Samuel and John.
John Burroughs, son of Robert and Mary Burroughs, born at Wethersfield in 1646, came to New London with his parents in 1650. He was made a freeman of the Colony in 1669, and was one of the original patentees of Groton, men- tioned in the Royal Charter of New London, October 14, 1704. He died at Groton, in 1699. He married, December 14, 1670, Hannah Culver, baptized at Roxbury, Massachusetts, April II, 1651, died at Groton, Connecticut, February 12, 1716.
Edward Culver, father of Hannah (Culver) Burroughs, was a resident of Dedham, Massachusetts, 1640-45, and the record of births of three of his chil- dren, John, Joshua and Samuel, appear there during that period. He removed to Roxbury, Massachusetts, where two more were baptized in 1648 and 1651, the latter being Hannah, above mentioned. He was at New London, in 1653, when he purchased the town lot of Robert Burroughs and established himself there as a baker and brewer. In 1664 he relinquished the homestead to his son John and removed to a place near Mystic within the bounds of New London known as Chepados Hill. During King Philip's war, he was a noted soldier and partisan, and was often sent out with Indian scouts to explore the wilder- ness. He died in 1685.
John Burroughs, Jr., son of John and Hannah (Culver) Burroughs, was born at Groton, New London county, Connecticut, in 1671, died there in 1752. He
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married there, Lydia Hubbard, October 14, 1700, and they were the parents of Lydia (Burroughs) Pendleton, above referred to as the wife of Colonel William Pendleton.
Hugh Hubbard, father of Lydia (Hubbard) Burroughs, (who was born at New London, Connecticut, February 7, 1675-76) came from Derbyshire, Eng- land, and was one of the later arrivals at New London, making his appearance there in 1670. He married, March, 1672-73, Jane, daughter of Cary Latham, of New London, who had come there from Boston, with the first settlers, and was one of the foremost men of the Colony until his death in 1685; was one of the "townsmen" or selectmen for sixteen years, six times a delegate to the General Court, 1664 to 1670, and one of the largest landowners in the settlement. The wife of Cary Latham was a daughter of John Masters, and widow of Edward Lockwood. Their eldest child, Thomas Latham, was born in Boston, Massachu- setts, in 1639. Hugh Hubbard died in New London, and his widow Jane mar- ried (second) John Williams in 1685 or 1686, and lived to an advanced age. Her second husband succeeded to the ferry kept for many years by her father, Cary Latham, from Groton to New London. Jane (Latham) Hubbard-Williams died May 3, 1739, at the age of ninety-one years.
Captain Joshua Pendleton (1744-1824), married, January 6, 1768, Nancy Clark.
ALFRED HUNTINGTON BURNHAM, son of Henry Harrison and Sophia Lydia (Bennett ) Burnham, born at Norwich, New London county, Connecticut, Sep- tember 12, 1872, was educated at Norwich Free Academy. He learned the cot- ton manufacturing business at Slater's Mills, Jewett City, Connecticut, and came to Philadelphia in 1896 with the view of engaging in that business there, and in preparation therefor, gave three years to the study of the manufacture of cot- ton goods in Philadelphia, working in two of the largest mills. In March, 1900, he became superintendent of the Glasgow Mills, and secretary of the corpora- tion bearing that name, manufacturers of madras and novelty goods. Mr. Burn- ham is a member and secretary of the Cloth Manufacturers' Association of Philadelphia, and actively identified with the industrial interests of the city. He is a member of the Society of Sons of American Revolution, as a lineal de- scendant of Dr. Jedediah Burnham, assistant surgeon; Captain Thomas Bidwell, Captain Andrew Clark, and Privates Benjamin and Daniel Bennett, all of the Connecticut troops, during the Revolution, and of Colonel William Pendleton, and Captain Joshua Pendleton, of the Rhode Island Line, in the Continental ser- vice. He is also a descendant of Captain Bishop Burnham and Captain Jedediah Burnham, who commanded companies in the War of 1812. He is a member of the Frankford Country Club, the Frankford Checker Club, and other social or- ganizations.
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