Burroughs
JOHN, an American essayist and descriptive writer, born in Roxbury, N. Y., April 3, 1837. He became a clerk in the Treasury Department and subsequently a National Bank Examiner. In 1874 he settled on a farm in New York State and has since de- JOHN BURROUGHS voted himself to nature study and literature. His books on rural themes include, "Wake Robin" (1871); "Winter Sunshine" (1875); "Birds and Poets" (1877); "Locusts and Wild Honey" (1879); "Pepacton; Notes of a Walker" (1881); ; "Fresh Fields" (1884); "Signs BURTON an library, a museum, and a school of art, erected in honor of Josiah Wedgwood, who was born at Burslem in 1730.
Burslem has extensive manufactures of china and earthenware, in which trade and coal mining the inhabitants are chiefly employed. Pop. about 45,000.