Francis Marion Burdick
Francis Marion Burdick | |
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| Mayor of Utica, New York | |
| In office 1882–1883 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | August 1, 1845 De Ruyter, New York, US |
| Died | June 3, 1920 (aged 74) De Ruyter, New York, US |
| Spouse |
Sarah Underhill (m. 1875) |
| Children | 4 |
| Education | Hamilton College |
| Occupation | Jurist, politician |
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Francis Marion Burdick LL.D. (1845–1920) was an American legal scholar.
Personal life
Francis Marion Burdick was born at De Ruyter, New York on August 1, 1845.[1] His parents were Albert G. Burdick and Eunetia Yale Wheeler Burdick.[2]
On June 8, 1875, he married Sarah Underhill Kellogg, the daughter of Charles C. Kellogg, who founded a Utica lumber company.[3]
Francis and Sarah were Presbyterians.[2] They had a son, Charles (1883–1940), who graduated from Columbia Law School in 1908 and became a professor of law at Cornell.[1][4][5] They also had three daughters: Anna (1877–1960), Katherine (1879–1963), and Flora.[2]
On June 3, 1920, Francis Marion Burdick died at his home in De Ruyter[4] while working in his garden.[2] He had remained academically active up to his death.[5]
Early career
He attended the De Ruyter Institute and Oneida Conference Seminary in Cazenovia,[5] and went on to study at Hamilton College with Professor Theodore Dwight. In 1869, he graduated from Hamilton. He briefly taught Greek at Whitestone Seminary and—though personally a Democrat— he wrote editorials for the Utica Morning Herald, a Republican newspaper,[2] before returning to Hamilton. In 1872, he graduated from the law department.[1]
Upon receiving his law degree in 1872, he joined the firm of Beardsley, Burdick and Beardsley in Utica, N. Y. The Citizens Party asked him to run for mayor,[2] and he was elected and held office 1882–1883.[1]
Later career
Soon after Burdick was elected mayor, Theodore Dwight retired from Hamilton, and Burdick became his successor in the Maynard King professorship of law and history.[5]
When Cornell University opened its college of law in 1887, Burdick was among the first faculty members.[5]
In 1895, Hamilton gave him the degree of Doctor of Laws.[5]
In 1891, he was appointed as a law professor at Columbia University.[6] The following year, after the death of the school's founder, Theodore Dwight, he became the first professor to hold the chair named after Dwight; he held it from December 5, 1892–June 30, 1916.[7] Along with George W. Kirchwey, he retired from the faculty of Columbia Law School in 1916, each having completed 25 years.[8] The Dwight Professorship then passed to Charles T. Terry, who held it until 1922.[7]
From 1907 until his death, he was a Commissioner on Uniform Laws representing the State of New York.[5]
He was a member of the Committee of Fourteen in New York City.[5]
Works
Besides contributing extensively to legal periodicals he published:
- Cases on Torts (1895)
- The Law of Sales (third edition, 1913)
- Cases on Sales (second edition, 1901)
- The Law of Torts (1905, second edition, 1908)
- Law of Partnership (second edition, 1906)
- The Essentials of Business Law (1908)
References
- ^ a b c d The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Vol. XII. James T. White & Company. 1904. p. 262. Retrieved August 15, 2020 – via Google Books.
- ^ a b c d e f Tomaino, Frank (September 5, 2019). "Utica chooses legal scholar, reformer". Utica Observer Dispatch. Retrieved May 6, 2023.
- ^ Tomaino, Frank (May 21, 2019). "Full steam ahead for Utica". Utica Observer Dispatch. Retrieved May 6, 2023.
- ^ a b "Educator Dies Suddenly at De Ruyter Home". The Ithaca Journal. June 4, 1920. p. 7. Retrieved August 15, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Stone, Harlan F. (1920). "Francis Marion Burdick". Columbia Law Review. 20 (7): 723–732. ISSN 0010-1958. JSTOR 1111728.
- ^ "Untitled news brief next to 'Obituary — PT Barnum'". Tunkhannock Republican. April 10, 1891. p. 2. Retrieved May 6, 2023.
- ^ a b Goebel, Julius (1955). A history of the School of Law, Columbia University. The Bicentennial history of Columbia University. New York: Columbia University Press. p. 452.
- ^ "The Status of Armed Merchant Ships". Columbia Law Review. 16 (6): 496–499. 1916. doi:10.2307/1110105. ISSN 0010-1958. JSTOR 1110105.