History of Steuben, (Oneida County) New York United States of America

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Samuel Dickerson Burchard, clergyman, was born at Steuben, N. Y., Sept. 6, 1812. He was educated at an academy in his native state, and on the removal of his parents to Kentucky in 1830 he entered Centre college, Danville, and was graduated in 1837. His lectures at this time on temperance, abolition, and religious questions made him widely known throughout his state. In 1837, when Kentucky was smitten with an epidemic of cholera, he volunteered as a nurse, and won much gratitude for his kindly services. He was licensed to preach in 1838, and for seven years was pastor of the Houston street Presbyterian church, New York; the church then moved to Thirteenth street, and after serving this congregation for nearly forty years, he became pastor of the Murray Hill Presbyterian church. Dr. Burchard was the originator of the phrase, "Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion," an alliteration with which he stigmatized the Democratic party near the end of the Blaine-Cleveland campaign in 1884, and which was supposed to have cost Mr. Blaine the presidency. Dr. Burchard was chancellor of the Ingham university, and president of Rutgers female college. His churches were noted for the amount of support which they gave to the various enterprises of the Presbyterian church. This feature was especially conspicuous in relation to the work of the Presbyterian Bible society and the educational enterprises of the denomination, and in furthering the Sunday school work of the communion. He died at Saratoga, N. Y., Sept. 25, 1891.

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

History of Steuben, (Oneida County) New York

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