John Oscar Burleigh
- First Name
- John
- Additional Names
- Oscar
- Last Name
- Burleigh
- Born
- 8 June 1809
- Died
- 21 July 1848
- Spouse
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Evelina Moore Burleigh
- Date Married
- July 17, 1837
- Children
- Mary Evelina Burleigh, 1839–1863
- Charles Hartwell Burleigh, 1842–1929
- Agnes Marion Burleigh, 1846–1861
- Elida Frances Burleigh, 1847–1861
- Profession
- School teacher
- Note
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The signature is one of three retained in books donated by his granddaughter to the American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts. It was signed in the midst of the Canterbury Academy crisis, May 1833, and ironically was inscribed in John Milton's "Paradise Lost"
He died in Douglas, Massachusetts - a town which his nephew L.R. Burleigh would later illustrate in one of his lithographed bird's-eye-views. -
East Douglas, Mass. 1886.
- Site pages
- Seven Core Siblings
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