Burnham, Abraham

Burnham, Abraham a Congregational minister, was born at Dunbarton, N. H., April 9,1829. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1852; and taught in the academies at Haverhill, N. H., Danvers, Mass., Newmarket, and Durham, N. H. In 1857 he graduated from 'Andover Theological Seminary; was ordained pastor Sept. 30, 1857, at East Haverhill, Mass., remaining until May, 1865; from August, 1865, to April, 1872, was acting pastor in Hookset, N. H.; from 1872 to 1878, preached in East Concord; and from 1878 ministered in West Stewartstown until his death, March 18, 1879. See Cong. Year-book, 1880, p. 13.