Eleazer Burbank (between January and April 1793 – March 30, 1867) was a 19th-century American physician and legislator in the State of Maine.[1]
Eleazer Burbank | |
|---|---|
| Born | Between January and April 1793 |
| Died | March 30, 1867 (aged 74) Yarmouth, Maine, U.S. |
| Resting place | Riverside Cemetery, Yarmouth, Maine |
| Occupation(s) | Physician, mill owner |
| Spouse | Sophronia Ricker Burbank (1822–1867; his death) |
Early life and education
editBurbank was born in early 1793 in Scarborough, Maine (then part of Massachusetts),[2] to Samuel Baird Burbank and Esther Boothby, one of their many children. They were married on August 7, 1791, at the Second Congregational Church in Scarborough.[3]
He studied as an undergraduate at Dartmouth College, in Hanover, New Hampshire, and walked the 100 miles (160 km) for his first day there.[1][2]
After obtaining an M.D. at Harvard College, he returned to Poland, Maine, to set up practice in 1816.[1]
Career
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In 1838, after 22 years working in Poland, he took over the practice of Dr. Gad Hitchcock, who died the previous year, at what is now known as the Mitchell House at today's 333 Main Street in Yarmouth, Maine. Its original owner, another physician, Ammi Ruhamah Mitchell (1762–1824),[4] died "suddenly", aged 62.[1] Burbank practiced on Main Street for the next 29 years, until his death.[1]
In 1847, Burbank founded the North Yarmouth Manufacturing Company at Sparhawk Mill in Yarmouth. The mill produced yarn and cloth.[5]
Personal life
editBurbank married Sophronia Ricker in 1822, with whom he had two known children: Augustus, in 1823,[6] and Esther, four years later.
Between 1857 and 1858, he was a Maine state senator.[1]
Burbank was also a deacon at Yarmouth's First Parish Congregational Church for sixteen years.[1]
Death
editBurbank died on March 30, 1867,[7] aged 74.[8] His funeral was held at the First Parish on April 23, officiated by pastor George Augustus Putnam.[9]
He was interred in Yarmouth's Riverside Cemetery, although the cemetery was not officially established for two more years.[5]
References
edit- ^ a b c d e f g "NRHP nomination for Mitchell House". National Park Service. Retrieved 2016-01-12.
- ^ a b Transactions of the Maine Medical Association, Volume 12, Maine Medical Association (1897), p. 425
- ^ The Maine Historical and Genealogical Recorder, Volume 4 (1887), p. 195
- ^ "The National Register of Historic Places" – Yarmouth Historical Society
- ^ a b Ancient North Yarmouth and Yarmouth, Maine 1636-1936: A History, William Hutchinson Rowe (1937)
- ^ The Harvard Graduates' Magazine (1897), p. 322
- ^ Portland Daily Press, April 1, 1867
- ^ Minutes of the General Conference of Maine, General Conference of Maine (1858), p. 105
- ^ A Bibliography of the State of Maine from the Earliest Period to 1891, Volume 2, Joseph Williamson (1896), p. 336