Norman Hammond BURNHAM
1873

Name: Norman Hammond Burnham
Estimated birth year: abt 1853
Estimated Age: 20
School: Yale University
School Location: New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Year: 1873
Yearbook Title: History of the Yale Class of 1873

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NORMAN HAMMOND BURNHAM

Antecedents - Son of Thomas H. Burnham (b. Union Springs, N. Y., 1820, d. New York city 1852) and Mary Reed Fisher. Thomas H. Burnham was the son of Asa N. Burnham (b. 1789, d. 1830, Union Springs, N. Y.) a lawyer of Shaftsbury, Vt., and of Martha S. Hammond of New Bedford, Mass. Mrs. Thomas H. Burhham (b. North Plymouth, M., 1826, m. New York city March 25, 1845, d. New London, Conn., 1895) was the daughter of Capt. Samuel Fisher (d. Brooklyn, N. Y., 1854) of North Yarmouth, Me., and of Mary Reed (d. 1840) also of North Yarmouth.

Early life - Born in New York city April 17, 1848, but lived during his boyhood in Brooklyn, N. Y., Simsbury, Conn., where his step-father, the Rev. Mr. Prince, had charge of the congregational church, and other places. He was prepared for college at the Hartford high school by Samuel M. Capron, Yale '53. During his college days his home was in New Haven and in Cornwall, Conn.

College honors, etc. - Gamma Nu. Third prize in junior union debate.

After career - Rested a year after graduation and spent two years in the Hartford theological seminary, except four months, during which he taught at Newport, R. I. Passed two years in the protestant-episcopal divinity school in West Philadelphia, and was graduated in June, 1878, being ordained a deacon by Bishop Stevens in Philadelphia in March 1879. He was ordained to the priesthood in West Bangor, N. Y., July 1880, by Bishop Doane. He held charges as follows: Brushton, Franklin county, N. Y., 1879-1880; Pittsfield, N. H., 1880-82; Collinsville, Conn., 1882-83; Plainfield, N. J., 1884-85; Norwich, Conn., 1888-91; Chesapeake City, Ind., 1894-95. Early in 1895 he removed to New London, Conn., and in the spring of 1896 he went to Brooklyn, where for a part of the time he had charge of Holy Cross mission, and where he remained until July, 1898, going thence to Suffield, Conn. He is engaged in conjunction with his sister in establishing a school, but also performs clerical service as opportunity offers.
Unmarried.

Address - Suffield, Conn.

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