Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1909-12-07
Men and Women of .Newark
Il 10 most brilliant, daring. fascinating and ambitious native al New
ark was the famous Colonel Aa ron Burr son If tbn pew aaro,p rrr
NO. 10: COLONEL AARON BURR.

most prhhant daring. Fascinating and ambitious native 81 New
ar wa he famous Colonel Aaron Burr, son or the Rev. Aaron Burr
seventh pastor Of the old First Presbyterian Church, founder and
OF te College of New Jersey o Princeton University, a pous
s u .aa, 1 nan ~ as written Of Aaron Burr. j, that he inherited the
talents ut none Oft the virtues Of his ilustrous father. He al graduated
from Princeton With the highest honors when he as sixteen years old. be-
eame a solonei IN tn Continental army, an assennbiyman and attorney-gen-
era1 of New York State a United States senator. vice-President Of the United
states can within one or two voteso of being elected President killed Alex
anu. nahh'on IN a dels cnened % found al empire in Mexico "a sarrested
tried on a charge of treason % his country. vas acquitted, ent to Eu-
~ iaHs returned 10 America, opened a law Office in New York city. married
the wealthy Madame Jumel separated from her, died in a boarding house, and
a buried in the cemetery at Princeton near the grave of his father.
Colonel Burr "a born OF February g 1855 in the parsonage of the First.
PRESBYTERIAN Church, 0 the west side of Broad street, thirty-four feet south
grandparents of Burr died and he and his sister Sally were sen to their
uncle, Timothy Edwards eldestso son o. President Jonathan Edwards at Enza-
for admission to Princeton College, but was lot accepted a a student becaus
NJ was 80 young and sc small" Two years later he vas admitted a a sopho-
nere and in 1772 graduated 1t the head of his class
Burr vas nineteen years old when the American Revolution began. He
Jcshed the contnentar army near Cambridge. Mass; marched with Colonel
Canada, and when rear Quebec a cali for a volunteer vas made by Colonel
Arnold to go to General Montgomery the brave Irish soldier. who
was 1t Montreal 125 miles away. Burr volunteered, and disguised IS a
Norman Catholic monk saided by the monks. hi got to Montreal General
stornning Of Quebec young Burr tried o carry the body away He returned to
New York, where his strategy saved General Putnams army in September
i77s He "a colonel under GeneralK Knox commando a bugaae at the battle
Of Monmouth, took part in oher engagements, resigned in 1s, studied law,
was admitted to the New York bar when h was tweny-ix years DID,, mar
red a widow. had a mansion at Richmond Hill, where he had Is guests Louis
PHILIPPE, Taneyrand, foreign ministers. United States Senators, Judges and
statesmen. e
In 1854 Burr al elected to the New York Assembly, becane attorney
appointment OF the Supreme Court bench. He became vice-Presdent Of the
United States in 1901, and represent tives voted for him after he kied
Hamilton At Fort Lee in 1904. He went nut West. met Blennerhasset who
had bought an island in the Ohio river Burr planned o organize an army
capture Mexico and found a United empire there He a getting ready to
max a raid IN what is % the State of Texas when he was betrayed and ac-
cused Of treason
Biennerhasst was arrested. Burr fled into the wilderness President
jefferson CAV orders to capture him dead pr alive" He wal arrested in
Alabama. After tnafand acquttal he sailed for England, a exile, in 1905
and was orderedo out of that country after fascinating the greatest men and
women. At Paris he failed Ito get an audience with Napoleon /, became poor.
but finally got into america. His daughter, Theodosa. a drowned at sea
IN 1872 BWr practsed law in New York city He died In the fall Of
1888 al the age of so years Z months and 8 days. His meteode career ended
in poverty One morning q stone slab was found OF his grave att Princeton
1t had beer. put III at night. A woman Burr had befriended paid for the
stone Burr was very short and slender, but had massive head.