may retain its homely, unstudied human value.

I have arranged the autobiographical material under three
headings: Ancestry and Family Life, Childhood and Youth, and
Self-Analysis.--C. B.]



ANCESTRY AND FAMILY LIFE


I am, as you know, the son of a farmer. My father was the son of
a farmer, as was his father, and his. There is no break, so far
as I know, in the line of farmers back into the seventeenth century.
There was a Rev. George Burroughs who was hanged (in 1692) for a
witch in Salem. He was a Harvard graduate. I know of no other
Harvard graduate by our name until Julian [Mr. Burroughs's son]
graduated in 1901 from Harvard. My father's cousin, the Rev.
John C. Burroughs, the first president of Chicago University,
was graduated from Yale sometime in the early forties.

The first John Burroughs of whom I have any trace came from the West
Indies, and settled in Stratford, Connecticut, where he married
in 1694. He had ten children, of whom the seventh was John, born
in August, 1705. My descent does not come from this John, but from
his eldest brother, Stephen, who was born at Stratford in February,
1695. Stephen had eight children, and here another John turns
up--his last child, born in 1745. His third child, Stephen Burroughs
(born in 1729), was a shipbuilder and became a noted mathematician
and astronomer, and lived at Bridgeport, Connecticut. My descent