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  William Burnside - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Burnside was born in London, and attended St.
The central part of Burnside's group theory work was in the area of group representations, complementing and sometimes competing with the work of Frobenius, who had founded the subject in the 1890s.
Burnside is also remembered for the formulation of Burnside's problem, and for Burnside's lemma, though the latter should actually be attributed to Frobenius and Cauchy.
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 William Burnside -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-20)
William Burnside (July 2 1852 - August 21 1927) was an (An Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch; the official language of Britain and the United States and most of the Commonwealth countries) English (A person skilled in mathematics) mathematician.
Burnside was born in London, and attended (A river in northeastern Florida that flows northward to Jacksonville and then eastward to empty into the Atlantic Ocean) St.
Burnside is also remembered for the formulation of (Click link for more info and facts about Burnside's problem) Burnside's problem, and for (Click link for more info and facts about Burnside's lemma) Burnside's lemma, though the latter should actually be attributed to Frobenius and Cauchy.
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 Burnside   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-20)
William Burnside Senior was of Scottish ancestry, his grandfather having moved from Scotland to London where he was a partner in the booksellers Seeley and Burnside.
William Burnside Senior was a merchant who lived at 7 Howley Place, Paddington, where William, the elder of his parents two sons, was born.
In 1899 Burnside was elected to the Council of the
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 Mr. Lincoln's White House: Ambrose E. Burnside (1824-1881)
Burnside's slow arrival at Antietam turned a potential Union victory into a draw; nevertheless, he was appointed to head the army after McClellan failed vigorously to pursue the Confederates.
Burnside was a loyal and well-meaning, but ill-starred general, whose every move seemed to be thwarted by circumstance.
Burnside was Governor of Rhode Island (1866-68) and a Senator (1875-81).
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 Amazon.ca: Books: Burnside   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-20)
Burnsides is depicted as a very intelligent man that invented a breech loaded rifle but was politically naive particularly that even his alleged friend, McClellan undermined him for his own purpose without Burnsides being aware of it.
Also, if Burnsides was aware or more personally involved with the crater attack, he should have recognized that the officer in charge of the attack was unfit and when the attack was misdirected, perhaps organized a better follow-up of troops although Meade aborted support.
Burnside appears to be a patriotic soldier who was prepared to give everything to the cause regardless of the cost to himself and his reputation.
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 Ambrose Burnside   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-20)
With the outbreak of war Burnside was among the earliest troops to arrive in Washington, D.C. and became a friend of President Lincoln.
A subsequent congessional investigation of the battle exonerated Burnside to a degree.
Burnside served as president of various corporations, and as governor and senator of Rhode Island until his death in 1881.
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 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-20)
Elizabeth Collins 2.JOHN BURNSIDE 1.WILLIAM BURNSIDE John Burnside, a son of William and Margaret Burnside, was born in Ireland in 1778 and came to America with his parents in 1800.
Rebecca b.Jul 6 1828 5.ROBERT BURNSIDE 2.JOHN BURNSIDE 1.WILLIAM BURNSIDE Robert Burnside, a son of John and Elizabeth (Collins) Burnside, was born in Harrison County Va December 24, 1804.
Burnside, a daughter of Robert B. and Matilda Kathryn (Fox) Burnside, was born in Gilmer County October 16, 1905 and died in Kanawha County WV August 12, 1999.
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 Spens History - pafg43 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
William Burnside [Parents] was born on 13 Dec 1850 in Bathgate, W Loth, Scotland.
Marion Burnside was born on 16 Sep 1877 in American Fork, Utah, UT. She died on 9 Apr 1952 in Fairview, Sanpete, UT. She was buried on 11 Apr 1952 in Fairview, Sanpete, UT.
Annie Burnside was born on 20 Jul 1880 in Mountainville, Sanpete, UT. She was christened on 3 Nov 1880 in Mountainville, UT. She died.
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 Major General Ambrose Everett Burnside, Rhode Island's Own, Part One: Biography
Burnside and his units actually fired the first shots to open the historic battle and were among the last off the field in good order when it ended.
Burnside was ordered to set up garrison defenses in the territories he captured in North Carolina and return to Washington with the 9th Corps to rejoin the Army of the Potomac, which was in hot pursuit of Robert E. Lee's Rebel forces invading Maryland.
Burnside reluctantly accepted command of the "Grand Army of the Potomac" at a time when its numbers had grown to about 225,000 men and the most that Lee could ever hope to muster to oppose him was about 90,000 men.
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 WilliamHBurnsidebio   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-20)
William H. Burnside, one of the most substantial farmers in Schuyler County, resides on section 29, Buena Vista township.
He was born in Bainbridge township, this state, on July 3, 1848, his parents being Thomas and Sarah J. (Henry) Burnside, natives of Ireland and Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, respectively.
They had seven children: Lillie, who married Washington Lawler, of Woodstock township; William H., the subject of our sketch; Sarah, who resides on the homestead; James, also a resident of the homestead; Thomas, living in Buena Vista township; Robert, a resident of Bainbridge township; and Margaret, living on the homestead.
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 Burnside, William   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-20)
Burnside was born in London and educated at Cambridge, where he became a lecturer.
Burnside's study of elliptic functions led him, over the years, to study the functions of real variables and the theory of functions in general.
One of his most influential papers, written 1892, was a development of some work by French mathematician Henri Poincaré on automorphic functions.
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 The UNC Press, Burnside by William Marvel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-20)
Ambrose Burnside, the Union general, was a major player on the Civil War stage from the first clash at Bull Run until the final summer of the war.
Marvel challenges the traditional evaluation of Burnside as a nice man who failed badly as a general.
Marvel's extensive research indicates that Burnside was often the scapegoat of his superiors and his junior officers and that William B. Franklin deserves a large share of the blame for the Federal defeat at Fredericksburg.
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 William Parsons (1701-1757)
William Parsons was born in England, May 6, 1701, where he learned the trade of shoemaking, and before attaining his majority, came to Pennsylvania.
William Parsons was married at Philadelphia in 1722, to Johanna Christina Zeidig, born May, 1699, a daughter of John Julius Zeidig and Salome Margaret Sprogel, a daughter of the Rev. John Henry Sprogel, a widely known clergyman and educator of Quedlinburg, in the Saxon province of Prussia.
There personally appeared William Wofsoncraft Richard Heath and W……..according to law did declare that they ….aforenamed Robert Parsons his testators sign seal publish declare the named to be his last will and testament and that at this day thereof he was of sound mind memory and understanding to the best of their knowdledge.
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 Genealogy Biographies - Thomas Burnside biography with Burnside genealogy resources by Ancestor Search   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-20)
He came with his father's (William Burnside) family in 1792 to Montgomery County, his father locating near Fairview, in Lower Providence, in that county.
Judge Burnside took a deep and lively interest in all the public enterprises of the day, turnpikes, canals, railroads, and there are few public improvements, whether in our own immediate neighborhood or in more remote portions of the State, which do not owe much of their success to his exertion and influence.
Burnside in thousands of birth, marriage & death, church, immigration & naturalization, court & probate, and military databases.
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 The Clarion-Ledger: Mississippi's News Source
William David Burnside, 44, self-employed in commercial flooring, died Saturday, October 11, 2003, at home of Lou Gehrig's Disease (ALS).
Burnside was a member of Leavell Woods Methodist Church in Jackson.
Survivors include: wife, Linda Roberson Burnside; son Bryan of Hattiesburg; daughters Courtney of Richland and Kimberly and Stephanie of Brandon; parents W.L. and Peggy Burnside of Jackson; brother, Barry Burnside of Clinton; sister, Donna Gallagher of Richland; three grandchildren, Hannah, Raygen and Tyler; and a host of wonderful family members and close friends.
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 Spears
Carrie Buckley Johnson was the daughter of William Burnside Johnson and Mary Jane Buckley, Children: John M., Hassell, Shellybarger, Russell, Anna Jane, Rebecca, Theodocia, Monty, Carrie Buckley..
William Burnside Johnson was the son of Pleasant and Anna Burke Johnson.
William Burnside Spears (born July 15, 1917) son of Lorenzo and Carrie Buckley) married August 23, 1939 to Mae Johnson (May 16, 1919), daughter of Bertha Quillen and Morgan Beckner Johnson: Children: Jewel Fay, Hope (Judy) Lee, William B., Jr., David Morgan.
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 THIS WEEK IN THE CIVIL WAR September 14, 1862
After a free interchange of opinion it was agreed unanimously that in view of all the circumstances of the case the position should be evacuated.
After the firing ceased in front, we discovered the enemy, who was concealed behind a stone fence on the right of the pike, in front of the Seventh Wisconsin, annoying them by a deadly fire behind their breastworks.
Burnside has been demoted from commanding a wing of the Army of the Potomac and has lost the confidence of his long time confidant George McClellan.
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William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield and Mansfield
William Pitt the Elder, 1st Earl of Chatham
William Pitt the Elder, 1st Earl of Chattingham
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 Good Hope   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-20)
Jackson and H. Lynch were the stewards, and J. Pritchard, H. Lynch, William Law, William Scott, A. Cowen, J. Morrison, E. Pritchard, and T. Thornhill were the leaders,at this same Quarterly Meeting.
John A. Williams was granted license to preach.
The William Burnside farm and part of the old Post farm is owned by James Findley.
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 The Whiteford Almanac
She was married to Robert Burnside WHITEFORD on 15 Nov 1902 in Newhouse Hill Chapel, Mellor, Cheshire, England.
Edith Francis BURNSIDE was born on 5 Jun 1907.
Isabella BURNSIDE was born on 2 Nov 1833.
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Dedication of the Equestrian Statue of MajorGeneral Ambrose E. Burnside, in the City of Providence, July 4, 1887, with the Oration of General Horatio Rogers.
Burnside p.2 Tenney, Craig D. "Major General Ambrose E. Burnside and the First Amendment." Thesis, IN Univ, 1977.
Major General Ambrose E. Burnside and the Ninth Army Corps: A Narrative of Campaigns...During the War for the Preservation of the Republic.
carlisle-www.army.mil /usamhi/Bibliographies/CivilWarBiographies/UnionBiographies/burnside.doc   (276 words)

  
 References for Burnside   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-20)
Biography by A R Forsyth, rev. J J Gray, in Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, 2004).
P M Neumann, A lemma that is not Burnside's, Math.
A Wagner, A bibliography of William Burnside (1852-1927), Historia Mathematica 5 (3) (1978), 307-312.
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 Carolina Morning News on the Web | Obituaries - Obituaries for July 12, 2001 07/12/01
of Pooler; three sons, Jeffrey Morgan, Bryan Morgan and Billy Burnside, all of Pooler; her parents, Henry and Varnell Mincey of Pooler; a brother, Jimmie D. Mincey of Pooler; three sisters, Janell Wall and Darlene Waters, both of Pooler, and Wanda Paul of Guyton; a daughter-in-law, five grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.
She was a member of Bethany Methodist Church in Brooklyn, the NAACP, the National Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, the Clinton Hill Political Organization and the SENECA Club.
William Earl Warren, 53, of Savannah, died July 8.
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 The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Burnside to Burque
Burnside, Ambrose Everett (1824-1881) — also known as Ambrose E. Burnside — of Providence,
Burnside, J. — also known as Jim Burnside — of
Burnside, Maurice Gwinn (1902-1991) — also known as M.
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 Major General William Tecumseh Sherman - Union General
Probably the second best known of the Union Generals, William Tecumseh Sherman earned a reputation as an eccentric but tough fighter and ruthless leader in the prosecution of total warfare as practiced in the latter stages of the war.
Following Vicksburg’s fall he conducted a successful operation against Jackson, Mississippi and was sent by Grant to the relief of Chattanooga.
After the Federal victory at Missionary Ridge, in which he performed less well, Sherman was sent to relieve the pressure on Burnside on Knoxville.
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 Family 25
5 William Kinnaird b: 16 August 1857 in Leslie, Fife d: 1857 in Leslie, Fife...........................................
5 William J Kinnaird b: 02 June 1861 in Middlesboro, Kentucky.................................................
4 William Robertson Kinnaird b: 19 April 1837 in Lancaster, Kentucky d: 07 December 1913 in Idaho Falls, Idaho......................................
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 Our Family Web Pages Genealogy - by Tom McKnight
William (Sudie Giles) Haguewood is the daughter of
Susan E. Giles Haguewood was buried on 10-18-1960, in SG1 190 in Elmwood Cemetery.
William Haguewood was buried 7-23-1927, and was buried beside her in SG1 189.
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 Earl Gregg Swem Library Special Collections
The University Archives houses the official and unofficial records of William and Mary.
Includes deposition of William Reynolds; telegram, 10 October 1862, inquiring whether Ewell can be allowed through Union lines to inspect the College as well as letters from U.S. Grant, George Meade, O.O. Howard, Ambrose Burnside, William T. Sherman and George B. McClellan supporting efforts to rebuild the College.
A Memorial of the College of William and Mary to the Legislature of Virginia.
www.swem.wm.edu /departments/special-collections/exhibits/findingAids/civilwar/archives.cfm   (768 words)

  
 BURNSIDE, Ambrose Everett (1824-1881) Bibliography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-20)
Cullen, Joseph P. “ ‘The very Beau Ideal of a Soldier’: A Personality Profile of Ambrose E. Burnside.” Civil War Times Illustrated 16 (August 1977): 4-10, 38-39.
“Burnside: A Rhode Island Hero.” Rhode Island History 16 (January 1957): 1-23.
Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of Ambrose E. Burnside (a Senator From Rhode Island).
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