William Fletcher Burden
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William Fletcher Burden (14 March 1830 – 7 December 1867) was an industrialist born in Troy, New York.
Biography
William F. Burden was born 14 March 1830 in Troy, New York, the third son of Henry and Helen Burden. Burden attended Troy Polytechnic Institute (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute). The steam derricks, used for unloading coal, at the Burden Iron Works were designed William. A wire cable stretched between, on which an iron carriage traveled three hundred feet from the dock to the coal heap, carrying a self-dumping bucket with the capacity to hold a ton of coal. A steam engine hoisted the filled bucket to the cable, along which it traveled to the point where the tilting apparatus overturned its contents upon the pile.[1]
In 1856 he married to Julia A. Hart, daughter of Richard P. Hart from Troy. They had a son, William Fletcher Burden, Jr. (b. 27 October 1856), and also Howard Hart Burden (b. 18 December 1857).
Burden died in Troy on 7 December 1867 at the age of thirty-eight, and was interred in family vault in the Albany Rural Cemetery.[2]
After his death, the iron works were inherited by his relative James A. Burden II.
A memorial plaque dedicated to William Fletcher Burden is in the Woodside Church, Troy, New York.
References
- ^ Sylvester, Nathaniel Bartlett. History of Rensselaer Co., New York, 1880
- ^ "William F. Burden, In Memoriam"