Burnham, Abraham (1775-1852)

Name:

Burnham, Abraham (1775-1852)

Title:

Secretary, NH Home Missionary Society, 1822-1837
President, NH Home Missionary Society

Born:

11/18/1775

Birthplace:

Dunbarton, NH

Died:

09/12/1852

Death Location:

Pembroke, NH

Residence:

Dunbarton, NH / Hanover, NH / Concord, NH / Pembroke, NH / Bradford, MA / Byfield, MA

Nationality:

American

Occupation:

Taught school in Concord, NH, and Bradford Academy, Haverhill, MA
Ordained pastor, Pembroke (N.H.) Congregational Church, 02/02/1808; dismissed in 1850.

Father:

Burnham, Samuel (Deacon) (1744-1811)

Mother:

Perkins, Mary (1745-1818)

Relations:

Studied for the ministry with the Rev. Elijah Parish, D.D., of Byfield, MA.
Great great granddaughter: Janet Burnham Stears (donor).

Spouse:

Married (1) Anna Perley
Married (2) Mary Calef White
Married (3) Martha Barnard
Married (4) Elizabeth Robinson

Children:

Burnham, Mary Anna (1810-1873; m. Prof. C. G. Burnham, cousin)
Burnham, Elizabeth White (1813-1882; m. Hon. Nathaniel G. Upham)
Burnham, Martha Barnard (1815, d. inf.)

Notes:

Nathan F. Carter, "History of Pembroke, N. H. 1730-1895." In Two Volumes, 1895, Vol. I, pp 252-55, 268; Vol II, p.26, illustration, old man;

Nathan F. Carter, "Native Ministry of N.H." (1906), p. 206;

George T. Chapman, Sketches of the Alumni of Dartmouth College, From the First Graduation in 1771 to the Present Time, With a Brief History of the Institution. (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Riverside Press,1867), 116.

small illustration in "Granite Monthly, XXII, p.337;