BIO: Albert P. BURNHAM, Huntingdon County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley: 
Comprising the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata and Perry, 
Pennsylvania, Containing Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens and Many of the Early Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. 
Runk & Co., 1897, page 316.
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  A. P. BURNHAM, Mill Creek, Huntingdon county, Pa., was born in 
Sinking Valley, Tyrone township, Huntingdon county, Pa., (now Blair 
county, Pa.), son of Dudley Hays and Margaret (Pool) Burnham. His 
father, Dudley Hays Burnham, was a native of New Hampshire, a school 
teacher, who died in 1842, aged forty-five years. His mother, Margaret 
(Pool) Burnham, was the daughter of a farmer who lived in Sinking 
Valley, Tyrone township, Huntingdon county, Pa., near Birmingham, and 
who died in 1884, aged eighty-four years; their children are: Albert 
P.; B. Franklin; Sarah Wentworth; Charles Emeigh; and two, Dudley Hays 
and Margaret, who died while very young.
  B. Franklin married Miss Mary Brubaker, of Somerset county, Pa.; 
Sarah Wentworth married William Menold, of Mercer county, Pa.; and 
Charles Emeigh married Miss Mary Myers, of Huntingdon county, Pa.
  After obtaining a good education in the schools of his native county, 
the Academy at Hollidaysburg, in that county, and at Washington (now 
Washington and Jefferson) College in Washington county, Pa., A. P. 
Burnham for some time made farming his principal occupation, being at 
times engaged in teaching until the autumn of 1864, when he was 
appointed assistant agent for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, at 
Lewistown, Mifflin county, Pa., which position he filled until the 
spring of 1867, when, without solicitation, he was made agent for the 
Pennsylvania Railroad Company at Mill Creek, Huntingdon county, Pa., 
and also express agent for the Adams Express Company, at Mill Creek. 
These positions he held for quite a number of years, and then engaged 
in the preparation and shipment of fire clay for use at furnaces and 
iron and steel works, and for other uses. His fire clay deposit is 
extensive, and is not surpassed in quality by any other in the state. 
He was interested also for a time in the preparation and shipment of 
glass sand for the manufacture of glass and glassware. During this time 
he conducted a store and was postmaster. He is Republican in politics, 
but has never aspired for office, believing office should be given, not 
aspired for, but has held a number of township offices several terms 
and now is an auditor.
  A. P. Burnham married Annie, daughter of James and Jane (Jamison) 
Walker, the former of Franklin county, Pa., and the latter of Bedford 
county, Pa. Mrs. Annie W. Burnham was born in Huntingdon county, near 
Burnt Cabins. Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Burnham are Presbyterians.