Putnam patriot., 1908-04-17
Obituary
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ndsBfi HAkEf AfA 4ttNf%@ Nt NAAtR8AN BNNfN disease and kidney troutie. aged ss vesfs, { nanths and day. Rev. Mir Bamham was admitted 10 the h0-pi- tai from the home Of daughter Mfs. Franklin sye, Auburn. lie hgd been siek since January.
 Re- HrtBlmham sas native of Easlfora. ei Hi. father die bheu he was Hqe eears old, and he was brought up in the family Of Jamez Lyon. who was an H8eIe 9f Gen. SalhanIel Lyon. After leaving tbe schools of fasifofd he finished his education aiAil5f~hsm aeadeHtf.
 Graduating from the aeadegyi he look q four year-t c9nrse win fhePf5T- ldenee conference of lhe Methodist church. and in is45 was ordained a deacon. h Is47 he va. dained as an elder and his first p4stefate ~as ai salem, Ct. lie had oihef charge in Portsmouth, R l., West Ihompson, CT. seifnats Harbor, Eastman. south Hafdwlek and Mariboro,tt. He eiosed his last pastOrate in Marlboro, Gt., in lS74. retiring.
 Soon after he became connected with the Recognized Church Of Jesust hfist of LalterDay Saints Of Providence and remained an cider in that church 3Z years
 Mr Burnham had lived in Colches- ter. New Haven and MIddletewn, e., and flor inc last If years with his daughter, Mrs. Franklin Nye, of Au. burn. MT. Burnham's grandfather, Nathan Bufnham, was soldier in the Revolution, and his father, Royal Burnham, served in the War Of 1872 Rev. MT. Bnrnham was chaplain of the l7th Connecticut regiment during the civil war.
 MT. Burnham married Miss Eliza beth A. Buss, Eastfofd, Ct, March i7, ls47. She died in lJb2. He leaves two daughters, saralE E., wife Of Franklin Nye, and Augusta C., vile of Edward A. Kanisdeil, MiddleloWn, tt., and two sons, Frederick \. and George Bnrnbumi Jr., both of New York.
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 Lient [. \. L. Totten, :. A, re- tired and fetmcr aIe Professor, died al hls home in Milford. Com, April f2th
 He Nas Il natile ef SeW London, Conn. aaa sa- tn his s=th te4f His mther WHs eteuttl 1anes Iatten. .- A., and his nncle wa. cen Joseph Toi teh s-sAa after Vham teft 4ouenE Ne8 4sgk. uanei
 Lieutenant ioiicn was efadaate of Tuutx College and ai Nest foinl wheHe he Nas among l#ie Eeaafei men ol his eias.s
 IIe sas detailed ns Professor of Miii- lats science and Tactics al various schools and colleges, and sfote much on military topics. lie mas Inst de- tailed for three years at Yale ntverst- ", after which he retired from the ar. my to devote himself ta his feal liie's work
 Prof. fetten was widely k4awn but Il eefY much nisundefstoad man iu his day nnd hY his own generation. His career reads like Il romance in these days IT mammon worship and looking out laf Nj -
 \ We.tf Pointer, from Il family Of West Pointers. with tine career a~ Professor iu various sehuols and col iegesi he voluntarily gave up all to de- vote himself mantuIly and aheedlcN~ of the worlds mocks, to what he con. sidefed hls daty-the application of hts unique mathematical. astronomical. aud chronological talenls te Biblical re- search. and the elucidation of what he was pleased te call "Fhe Highest Crit icism.a
 world has yeI seen, and future genera tons will delight io honor him for his wonderful discoveries in the science of Time He was also the leading writer in America on Anglo lsraeli>m," or the Idea that the people of Great Bri- tain and The niled States are the line al desecnlants al the so-called "i.ost Tribes of l~taelN and destined. n pa- niei's Fifth Kingdom, to dominate the world tn the near al hand Millenuial Age.
 
 The eruditsen and proof Prof. Totten brought to light on this subject which he termed the greatest discovery ot the lath tentap.i was something mar vcoas, and k emeodied In ! whole H. brarN of books and pamphlets, called Inc eoaf Raee Series, and "\ew> l Leaflets lie clearly SAW that chro- nology rigidly tied 10 astronomy was the only scientific method of treating the lime prophecies ol the scriptures, snd l; k this portion of his work that has been so much misunderstood. The press, pulpit and world at large, with but few exceptions, have Tor years persisted lu declaring that Prof Totten was predicting the end of the world an idea incorporated even in the Asso- eiated Press report of his death-where- as he claimed only to he an interpreter or the Prophets, who showed, by his Rihlical and chronological reSearch, that the world is rapidly approaching the End of the Gentle Age or, The
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