William H. Burleigh

BURLEIGH, William Henry. b. Woodstock, Connecticut, 12 February 1812; d. Brooklyn, New York, 18 March 1871. He was a printer by trade, and Unitarian in belief, becoming an active editor of various periodicals such as the Christian Witness, the Temperance Banner (both edited and printed in Pittsburgh by him from 1837-43), and the Christian Freeman (Hartford, Connecticut, 1843-49). In 1849 he moved to New York to work for the New York Temperance Society. He was also active in the anti-slavery campaigns. In 1855 he became Harbourmaster at New York. He published his own Poems (Pittsburgh, 1841), containing many of his pieces contributed to the magazines; it was reissue in an enlarged form by...