History of Dunbarton Center, (Merrimack County) New Hampshire United States of America

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Biographies:

Henry Eben Burnham, senator, was born in Dunbarton, N. H., Nov. 8, 1844; son of Henry L. Burnham, and a descendant of John Burnham who came from Norwich, England, in 1635, and settled in what is now Essex, Mass. He was graduated at Dartmouth college in 1865; studied law in the office of Minot and Mugridge at Concord, N. H., and in the offices of E. S. Cutter and Judge Lewis W. Clark at Manchester, N. H. He was admitted to the New Hampshire bar in 1868; engaged in practice with Judge David Cross at Manchester, later with George I. McAllister, and subsequently became a member of the firm of Burnham, Brown & Warren. He served as judge of the probate court in Hillsborough county, 1876-79, and presided over the Republican state convention in 1888. He was elected to the U.S. senate from New Hampshire as a Republican for the term 1901-07.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Ephraim Orcutt Jameson, clergyman, was born in Dunbarton, N.H., Jan. 23, 1832; son of Daniel and Mary (Twiss) Jameson and grandson of Daniel and Hannah (Burnham) Jameson, and of Benjamin and Abigail (Russell) Twiss. His ancestor, Hugh Jameson, was of Scotch descent and sailed from Portrush, Ireland, for America, Aug. 4, 1746, and was one of the original proprietors of Dunbarton, N.H. Mr. Jameson attended the private schools of Dunbarton and Chester, N.H., and the academy in Gilmanton, N.H., and was graduated from Dartmouth college in 1855, and from Andover Theological seminary in 1858. He was married, Sept. 20, 1858, to Mary Joanna, daughter of the Rev. Dr. William and Joanna (Strong) Cogswell. During his academic and collegiate courses he taught several terms at public and private schools and academies and after graduation he supplied pulpits in Concord, N.H., Randolph, Mass., and other places. He was ordained, March 1, 1860, and was pastor of the East congregational church of Concord, N.H., 1860-65; the Union Evangelical church of Amesbury and Salisbury, Mass., 1865-71, and of the Church of Christ in Medway, Mass., 1871-93, when he removed to Boston, Mass., where he was appointed supervisor of the Emerson College of Oratory, Oct. 18, 1894. He was elected a member of the New England Historic Genealogical society, Sept. 3, 1879; of the New Hampshire Historical society; of the American Historical association in 1897, and of the South Carolina Historical society in 1899. He is the author of: Biography of Rev. William Cogswell, D.D. (1880); The Cogswells in America (1884); History of Medway, Mass. (1886); Medway Biographies and Genealogies (1886); Military History of Medway, Mass. (1886); The Choates in America (1896); The Jamesons in America (1901), and various sermons and addresses.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor