Burbank, Gideon Webster, was born at Deer- field, N. H., May 24, 1803, and died at Rochester, N. Y., March 4, 1873
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Post by Jim CurranBurbank, Gideon Webster, was born at Deer- field, N. H., May 24, 1803, and died at Rochester, N. Y., March 4, 1873. His father, when Gideon was eighteen years of age, removed to New York City, and gave him a business education. Here the son remained for several years as a clerk in a dry goods house. The father went to North Carolina, and became a successful merchant. Upon his death the son went for a time to that State to settle his father’s affairs. On his return to New York he decided to go into business for himself, and in 1824 fixed upon Kendall, Orleans Oo., as his future home. The region was then just emerging from a wilderness, but he foresaw the opportunity opening there for a man of nerve and enterprise, and em- bracing it, he prospered with the growth of the country. At length he found a better field for his capacities in Rochester, the rising city of West- ern New York, and in 1839 he removed there to – manufacture flour, for which that city is so cele- brated. Here, honored by all men, he lived, illus- trating the virtues of a Christian character to the He was a member of the First Baptist church of that city. His interest in education was shown by the gift of $20,000 towards the endowment of the professor- ship of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy which bears his name in the University of Rochester. This gift was supplemented by one from his son- in-law, Mr. Lewis Roberts, a member of the board of trustees of the university, and a liberal donor to its later funds. This donation to the young in- stitution did more probably than any sum of double the amount since to create confidence in the per- manent success of the enterprise. He will always have a distinguished place among the founders of the university, and the citizens of Rochester, among whom his memory is warmly cherished.
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