Curtis Field Burnam

Birth Date

1820-05-24

Death Date

1909-03-19

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Richmond, Kentucky, attorney and politician. Richmond native. Son of Thompson Burnam and Lucinda Field Burnam. Married to Sara Rollins Burnam. Father of Anthony R. Burnam, Robert R. Burnam, and Edmund T. Burnam. Graduated from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1840. Studied law under Daniel Breck in Richmond, Kentucky. Graduated from law school at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1842. Practiced law in partnership with William Clinton Goodloe in Richmond. Member of Masonic Lodge No. 25 in Richmond. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Madison County from 1851 to 1853 and from 1859 to 1863. Attorney in Richmond in 1860. Owned eleven enslaved persons in Richmond in 1860.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Madison County, Town of Richmond, p. 5.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Madison County, Town of Richmond, p. 3.
"Curtis Field Burnam (1820-1909)," Find A Grave, Memorial #33344480, accessed November 21, 2017, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/33344480.
Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Covington, Ky.: Collins & Co., 1882), 494.
Robert R. Burnam, A History of Masonry in Madison County, Kentucky, 1812-1913 (n.p., 1914), 69-71.

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