Lacrosse-Kenosha-Waupaca County WI Archives Biographies.....Burnham, J. March 7, 1839 - 
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PROF. J. BURNHAM Principal of the Second Ward School of La Crosse, is now on 
the third year in his present position. He was born March 7, 1839, in 
Caledonia Co., Vt. His father, D. B. Burnham, came to Wisconsin in 1841, and 
was among the first settlers in Kenosha County. He is now living at Waupaca, 
Wis., at the age of 77, having lost his wife in 1875. Mr. Burnham was educated 
at Waukegan Academy, Ill., and Antioch College, and commenced teaching in Lake 
Co., Ill., in 1855. He was Principal of the Richmond Public School, in McHenry 
Co., Ill., from the fall of 1858 till the spring of 1859. He then went to the 
Pacific coast, and was in Nevada and California till 1864; he then returned to 
Wisconsin, and in December of that year, was married in Jefferson Co., Wis., 
to Miss Marilla Tousley and settled in Waupaca, Wis. He was Principal of the 
Weyanwega Public School in 1866 and 1867, and was then elected Superintendent 
of Schools for Waupaca County, which office he resigned in 1869 to accept the 
position of Principal of the Waupaca High School, which he retained till 1872. 
He then resigned and spent one year in the life insurance business. In 
October, 1874, he lost his wife, and the same fall was again elected County 
Superintendent of Schools and served two years. In July, 1877, he again 
accepted the position of Principal of the Waupaca High School, where he 
remained two years and came from there to La Crosse. His second wife, to whom 
he was married in 1876, was Miss Jennie E. Snell, of New London, Wis. He has 
three children, all by his first wife - Allison, Ralston and Myrtle.

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From History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin, 1881, p. 743.

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