Eleazer Burbank
{{Short description|American physician, 1793–1867}}
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| birth_date = Between January and April 1793
| birth_place = Scarborough, District of Maine, Massachusetts, U.S.
| death_date = March 30, 1867 (aged 74)
| death_place = Yarmouth, Maine, U.S.
| resting_place = Riverside Cemetery, Yarmouth, Maine
| occupation = Physician, mill owner
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| spouse = Sophronia Ricker Burbank (1822–1867; his death)
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Eleazer Burbank (between January and April 1793 – March 30, 1867) was a 19th-century American physician and legislator in the State of Maine.{{cite web|url={{NRHP url|id=78000325}}|title=NRHP nomination for Mitchell House|publisher=National Park Service|accessdate=2016-01-12}}
Early life and education
Burbank was born in early 1793 in Scarborough, Maine (then part of Massachusetts),Transactions of the Maine Medical Association, Volume 12, Maine Medical Association (1897), p. 425 to Samuel Baird Burbank and Esther Boothby, one of their many children. They were married on August 7, 1791, at the Second Congregational Church in Scarborough.The Maine Historical and Genealogical Recorder, Volume 4 (1887), p. 195
He studied as an undergraduate at Dartmouth College, in Hanover, New Hampshire, and walked the {{convert|100|miles}} for his first day there.
After obtaining an M.D. at Harvard College, he returned to Poland, Maine, to set up practice in 1816.
Career
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In 1838, after 22 years working in Poland, he took over the practice of Dr. Gad Hitchcock, who died the previous year, at what is now known as the Mitchell House at today's 333 Main Street in Yarmouth, Maine. Its original owner, another physician, Ammi Ruhamah Mitchell (1762–1824),[https://www.yarmouthmehistory.org/the-national-register-of-historic-places/ "The National Register of Historic Places"] – Yarmouth Historical Society died "suddenly", aged 62. Burbank practiced on Main Street for the next 29 years, until his death.
In 1847, Burbank founded the North Yarmouth Manufacturing Company at Sparhawk Mill in Yarmouth. The mill produced yarn and cloth.
Personal life
Burbank married Sophronia Ricker in 1822, with whom he had two known children: Augustus, in 1823,The Harvard Graduates' Magazine (1897), p. 322 and Esther, four years later.
Between 1857 and 1858, he was a Maine state senator.
Burbank was also a deacon at Yarmouth's First Parish Congregational Church for sixteen years.
Death
Burbank died on March 30, 1867,Portland Daily Press, April 1, 1867 aged 74.Minutes of the General Conference of Maine, General Conference of Maine (1858), p. 105 His funeral was held at the First Parish on April 23, officiated by pastor George Augustus Putnam.A Bibliography of the State of Maine from the Earliest Period to 1891, Volume 2, Joseph Williamson (1896), p. 336
He was interred in Yarmouth's Riverside Cemetery, although the cemetery was not officially established for two more years.Ancient North Yarmouth and Yarmouth, Maine 1636-1936: A History, William Hutchinson Rowe (1937)
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Category:People from Poland, Maine
Category:People from Scarborough, Maine
Category:People from North Yarmouth, Maine
Category:People from Yarmouth, Maine
Category:Physicians from Maine
Category:19th-century American physicians
Category:Dartmouth College alumni
Category:Harvard Medical School alumni