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offered the family a home, but there was no money for the return journey. A family friend in Los
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Burnham, Edwin Otway, a
Congregational minister, was born in Ghent, Kentucky, in 1824. He graduated at Hamilton College, New York, in 1852, and was a student at Union Theological Seminary for three years. From 1855 to 1856 he was a teacher at Pennington, New Jersey. In 1858 he was ordained, after
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from his frontiersman father. By the time he was 12, Fred was an expert with rifle or shotgun, hunting deer in Los
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procuring lead and powder, his wife
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Class of 1852. Edwin Otway
Burnham, aet.49. Born in Kentucky, September 24, 1824. Graduated from Union Theological Seminary in 1855. Pastor of Congregational Church in Wilton, Minn., 1859-61. Married Rebecca E. Russell, July 3, 1860. Died in Los Angeles, Cal., August 21,
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the train with only baby Howard. Fred was an outstanding horse rider, and he knew the environs around Los
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