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KANAWHA COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA - BIOS: BURLEW, Abraham
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Submitted to the West Virginia Biographies Project by:
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September 25, 1999
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History of Charleston and Kanawha County, West Virginia and Representative
Citizens
W.S. Laidley
Richmond Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, ILL.
1911
p. 378
ABRAHAM BURLEW, a well known member of the Kanawha County bar, who came first
to Charleston, in a professional capacity, in i865, has been a resident of
this city for the past forty-six years and is identified thoroughly with it9s
people and leading interests. He was born in Seneca County, N. Y., and is a
son of James and Sophia (Wood) Burlew, the latter being a daughter of Wynant
and Mary Wood. The
Burlew ancestry is French and Dutch. The grandparents apparently spent their
lives in New Jersey. The names of three of their children have been
preserved-Katherine, Stephen and James.
James Burlew was a young married man when he moved to Seneca County, N. Y.,
where he acquired a fine farm that has been kept in the family. Both he and
wife died on that place, their ages approximating seventy-five years. They
were devoted inembers of the Methodist Episcopal church and very liberal
supporters of the same. Ten children were born to James and Sophia Burlew,
all of whom survived to ma-turity and six are still living. The family
record is in part as follows: James B., the eldest, died in Cayuga County,
and is survived by a widow and three children, and they live in Cayuga
County; Cornelia, who is now deceased, was the wife of Charles Rose and a
surviving son, Charles R., is an attorney in New York City; Sarah, who is now
deceased, married Lawrence Hulyard, also now deceased; Noyes S., who is a
hardware merchant at Charleston; Anna, who is the widow of Henry Hill;
Sophia, who is the wife of Henry Cleveland; Kate M., who lives on the old
homestead in Seneca County; Mary, who is the widow of Charles White, lives in
Seneca County; and Abraham, who is of Charleston, W. Va.
Abraham Burlew attended the local schools and grew up on his father's
farm. He began his law studies with Judge Knapp, at Hackensack, N. J., and
later was a student in the office of the prominent law firm of Slossen,
Hutchinson & Platt, where he completed his course and was admitted to the bar
in 1864. He came to Charleston in 1865 in the interest of a body of New York
capitalists and while attending to their business became pleased with the
town and foresaw its possibilities as a field for his professional work.. Mr.
Burlew has been identified with much of the important law business in the
Kanawha County courts for many years. He is a Republican in politics, as was
his father. He attends the Episcapal church. Mr. Burlew has never married.
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