History of Henderson, (Jefferson County) New York United States of America

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Daniel Hudson Burnham, architect, was born in Henderson, N. Y., Sept. 4, 1846; son of Edwin and Elizabeth (Weeks) Burnham; grandson of Nathan Burnham, and a descendant of Lieut. Thomas Burnham, who immigrated to Massachusetts in 1635. He removed to Chicago, Ill., with his parents in 1856, and was educated in various schools there and in Massachusetts. He studied architecture in Chicago, and settled in practice there in 1889. He was the architect of the Rookery, the Calumet club bouse, The Temple and Masonic Temple, Montauk block, Insurance exchange, Women's building, Northern hotel and several churches in Chicago, Ill., the Mills building, San Francisco, Cal., the Ellicott Square building, Buffalo, N. Y., the Society for Savings building, Cleveland, Ohio, and the Land Title building, Philadelphia. Pa. He became an authority on office buildings. He was chief architect and director of works of the World's Fair buildings, 1890-93, and was president of the American institute of architects, 1894.

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

Cushman Kellogg Davis, senator, was born in Henderson, Jefferson county, N.Y., June 16, 1838; son of Horatio N. and Clarissa F. (Cushman) Davis; grandson of Roswell Davis and of Peter Newcomb Cushman; and a descendant of Robert Cushman, the Puritan, who was prominent in fitting out the Mayflower; and of Mary Allerton, the last survivor of the Pilgrims. He removed with his parents to Waukesha, Wis., when a child; was graduated at the University of Michigan in 1857; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1859, practising in Waukesha, Wis. He served in the civil war as 2d lieutenant in the 28th Wisconsin infantry, 1861-62; was promoted 1st lieutenant in 1862; and was assistant adjutant-general on the staff of General Gorman, 1862-64. At the close of the war he removed to St. Paul, Minn., and was elected a member of the state legislature in 1867. He was U.S. district attorney for Minnesota, 1868-73. He was elected governor of the state in 1873, serving one term from Jan. 7, 1874, and declined a renomination. He was an unsuccessful candidate before the legislature of Minnesota for United States senator in 1875, but was elected in 1887, and re-elected in 1893 and 1897. He was chairman of the committees on foreign relations, territories and pensions, and a member of the judiciary, Pacific railroads, relations with Cuba, and Philippines committees. He was a member of the commission which negotiated the treaty of peace between the United States and Spain in 1898. He received from the University of Michigan the degree of LL.D. in 1886. He wrote Modern Feudalism ( 1870 ): The Law in, Shakespeare (1884). He died in St. Paul, Minn., Nov. 27, 1900.

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