Lawyer
Centurion, 1875–1916
Born 26 December 1838 in Youngstown, Ohio
Died 4 January 1916 in New York (Manhattan), New York
Buried Slate Hill Cemetery
, Goshen, New York
Proposed by William E. Curtis and Edwin L. Godkin
Elected 6 March 1875 at age thirty-six
Century Memorial
Henry Lawrence Burnett, lawyer, entered the Civil War as Captain of the Second Ohio Cavalry. He was brevetted colonel and then brigadier-general of volunteers for meritorious services, and was one of those who were engaged in the prosecution of the assassins of President Lincoln. After the war, he returned to the practice of the law in Cincinnati and later in New York, where in 1898 he was appointed United States District Attorney for the Southern District of New York.
Henry Osborn Taylor
1917 Century Association Yearbook
