Burleigh, Lucien, 1817-1884

found: Library of Congress Manuscript Division for the Papers of Clara Barton, 1805-1958 (Lucien Burleigh; correspondent; school instructor)

found: Langford Family Ties website, Apr. 27, 2004 (Lucian Rinaldo Burleigh; b. 3 Dec. 1817, Plainfield, Windham, Conn.; d. 14 Mar. 1884, Plainfield, Windham, Conn.; received education mainly at Plainfield Academy and Conn. Literary Institution and started teaching at an early age; worked on the farm summers until 1837 when he became a Christian and united with Baptist church at North Oxford, Mass. where he was teaching; served as principal of Elm Grove Academy, Granby, Conn.; in 1845 preached occasionally and lectured on temperance in eastern Conn.; in 1849 became agent for Amer. Assoc. for the Suppression of Gambling and made temperance tours; in 1854 was made principal of the academy at Plainfield which he filled for five years but continued to preach; in 1865 resigned his post and became the agent of the Conn. Temperance Union until 1879; spent the rest of his life preaching and working on reform, living mostly on homestead in Plainfield; father of Lucian [Lucien] Rinaldo Burleigh, 1853-1923, lithographer, sketch artist, publisher, civil engineer)

found: Willimantic chronicle, year of 1884 on WWW, Apr. 27, 2004 (Rev. Lucien Burleigh, death notice; d. at home in Plainfield [Conn.] on May 14, 1884; b. Dec. 3, 1817 in Plainfield)

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