
Circa 1835, Litchfield, New York.
August 30, 1901, at his son’s home in Newark, New York. He and his wife Jenette were fatally injured in a train wreck on the Northern Central Railroad between Fairville and Zurich, New York. They had been returning home from a week’s outing at their summer cottage at Lake Bluff, Sodus Point, on Lake Ontario.
Willow Avenue Cemetery, Newark, New York.

Burgess was a Presbyterian pastor. His works include: