Edwin Otway Burnham
Rev Edwin Otway Burnham was a Congregational minister and missionary.
He was born in Ghent, Kentucky, his father died when he wasand his mother died the following year. He and his younger sister, Caroline, moved to Madison, New York to live with their grandfather Abner Burnham, a soldier of the American Revolutionary War, but Abner died soon thereafter. Burnham graduated Hamilton College, New York, in 1852 and was a member of the Delta Upsilon fraternity. On July 18, 1852 he was ordained, after having been stated supply at Columbus City, Iowa and he became a student at Union Theological Seminary in New York . He graduated in 1855 and was licensed as a preacher of the gospel. He was a teacher in Pennington, New Jersey , and a Pastor of Congressional Church in Wilton, Minnesota . At Tivoli, Minnesota, an Indian Reservation, he preached and served as a missionary and also served as stated supply . An exceptional marksman with a Kentucky long rifle, Burnham could consistently split in two a soft lead slug placed on an axe head from 100 and 200 yards. To m
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