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| 2. Howard James Burgwin, b. Grasmere, Fla., 9 January, 1890. | |||||
| 3. John Henry King Burgwin, b. Pittsburgh, 19 June, 1856; B. A. Trinity college, Hartford, 1877. | |||||
| 4. Sara Ormsby Burgwin, b. Pittsburgh. | |||||
| 5. Augustus Phillips Burgwin, b. Pittsburgh, 1 December, 1860; B. A. Trinity college, Hartford, 1882; admitted to the bar of Allegheny co., Pa., 1885. | |||||
| 6. Mary Burgwin, b. Pittsburgh. | |||||
| 2. Ormsby Phillips, b. Jefferson Barracks, Mo., 2 October, 1829; d. 12 November, 1884; ed. Western university of Penna., Pittsburgh; was commissioned captain of Company C, Fifteenth regiment of state militia, in 1862, and served until the regiment was mustered out; became director Western penitentiary in November, 1867, acting first as secretary, then as president; director Morganza house of refuge, and also served many years in connection with the Western Pennsylvania hospital and Dixmont insane asylum; one of the promoters of the Sanitary Commission fair; was trustee of Dollar Savings Bank for seventeen years, also director Boatman's Insurance Co.; vestryman and Sunday school superintendent of St. Andrew's Episcopal church; in 1874 elected mayor of Allegheny as an independent candidate, and it was largely owing to his vigilance and prompt action that the Railroad riots of Pittsburgh, in 1877, were not repeated in the sister city. M. 18 October, 1853, to Annie Steevenson Bakewell, dau. John Palmer Bakewell of Pittsburgh (who was son Benjamin | |||||
