U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Burlew, N. S. (1846-1937) ------------------------------------------------------------------- Men of West Virginia, Volume II Biographical Publishing Company George Richmond, Pres.: C. R. Arnold, Sec'y and Treas. Chicago, Illinois, 1903 Pages 724-725 GEN. N. S. BURLEW, one of the substantial and representative citizens of Charleston, West Virginia, a leading hardware merchant and part owner of the Burlew Opera House, was born August 20, 1846, in Seneca County, New York, and is a son of James and Sophia (Wood) Burlew, both of whom are natives of New Jersey. General Burlew was educated in the common schools of New York and New Jersey, and in young manhood learned dentistry, which profession he practiced about seven years, at Union Springs, New York. In 1873 he located in Charleston, Kanawha County, and engaged in the lumber business, conducting the same in that locality for three years. He was then appointed assistant United States marshal, under Marshal De Vail, and remained in office two years, resigning the position then in order to embark in the hardware business in Charleston, a good opening presenting itself at that time. General Burlew has given Charleston a first-class store, carrying every line of hardware goods and specialties, and has made that city a center for that line of trade in the central section of the State. In addition, he is part owner and the manager of the Burlew Opera House, is president of the Daily Mail Publishing Company, and vice- president of the South Side Improvement Company. In 1863 General Burlew enlisted for service in the War of the Rebellion in Company C, 126th Reg., New York Vol. Inf., in which he served two years. At Harper's Ferry he was made a prisoner although he was soon paroled. During George W. Atkinson's administration, he served as colonel on his staff and later as general on the staff of Governor A. B. White. In 1887 General Burlew was married to Elizabeth Rand, who is a daughter of William Rand and a descendant of an old Virginia family. She is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. In political conviction, our subject is a stanch Republican. Fraternally he is prominent in the different branches of Masonry, belonging to blue lodge, chapter, commandery, and Beni-Kedem Temple, of the Mystic Shrine. - - - - - - - - NOTE: Birth-year differs in his death-certificate (1841). ------------------------------------------------------------------- DEATH CERTIFICATE, Kanawha County WV, #8848 FULL-NAME: General N. S. Burlew BIRTH-DATE: August 20, I84I (as typed on the death-certificate) BIRTH-PLACE: Sherldrake N.Y. DEATH-DATE: June 21, 1937 AGE-AT-DEATH: 95y-10m-1d DEATH-PLACE: 1306 Kanawha St., Charleston, Kanawha County, WV USUAL-RESIDENCE: 1306 Kanawha St., Charleston, Kanawha County, WV MARITAL-STATUS: Widowed OCCUPATION: Hardward FATHER: Not Known MOTHER: Not Known CAUSE-OF-DEATH: Senility INFORMANT: Mr. Clarence Burdette (of Charleston, W.Va.) BURIAL: Mausoleum ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Kanawha County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/kanawha/bios.html -------------------------------------------------------------------