Burleigh, Rev. Lucian, son of Deacon Rinalde and Lydia (B.) Burleigh, was born in Plainfield, Conn., Dec. 3, 1817;

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Burleigh, Rev. Lucian, son of Deacon Rinalde and Lydia (B.) Burleigh, was born in Plainfield, Conn., Dec. 3, 1817; brought up a Congregationalist ; educated in the public school, the Plainfield Acad- emy, and the Connecticut Literary Institution at Suffield; chose the profession of teaching; was converted at the age of twenty; baptized by Rey. Smith Lyon; united with the Baptist church in North Oxford, Mass., where he was then teaching ; removed to Packersville, Conn., where he was or- dained as an evangelist; taught and preached in South and North Killingly, and North Granby, where he was principal of Green Academy ; soon after 1840 began his large and effective labors in the Temperance Reform, which he advocated widely throughout the country ; he wrote with a masterly pen; in 1849 he was agent of the American Asso- ciation for the Suppression of Gambling; made a temperance campaign in Wisconsin, filling 70 ap- pointments in 36 days; did the like in the State of New York; preached in the mean time; by re- quest returned, and became principal of the Plain- field Academy, and served five years; supplied also destitute churches ; taught the high school in Cen- tral Village; settled as pastor of the South Centre Baptist church in Ashford, Conn. (now Warren- ville) ; then served for thirteen years as agent of the Connecticut Temperance Union; his discourses and poems have won an extensive reputation; is now preaching and lecturing. From the Baptist Encyclopedia by William Cathcart photo from findagrave