American author, born in Woodstock, CT, on the 2nd of February 1812; died in Brooklyn, NY, on the 18th of March 1871. He early entered a printing-office, where he learned type-setting and wrote for the press. From 1832 to 1835 he was in charge of newspapers which advocated reforms. His principles were in favor of peace and temperance, and against slavery. He was more than once the object of mob-violence. He was editor of the Prohibitionist. In 1855 he became harbor-master of the New York port, which office he held for fifteen years. A collection of his poems which had appeared in his newspapers was published in book-form. See also “The Brook” and “Rain.”—His wife, Celia, was born in Cazenovia, NY, in 1825; died in Syracuse on the 26th of July 1875. Mr. Burleigh was her third husband, she having been divorced from C. B. Kellum, and later from Charles Chauncey Burr. After Mr. Burleigh’s death she studied theology, entered the Unitarian ministry, and was pastor of a church in Brooklyn, CT, till her health failed.
