Death of A Journalist, in the Harrisburg Daily Independent, Nov 22, 1888
He was editor and proprietor of the Sunday Herald. Died at Garfield hospital on Nov 22 (i.e. this morning according to this paper) .
He has a wife, three sons, and two daughters, who were with him the at the time of his death.
Also found article in The Critic, Nov 24, 1888 page 1
in the forty ninth year of his age.
Interment Mount Olivet cemetery
obituary is found in the Evening Star, Nov 23, 1888 page 5
also in the Washington Post
Ira Nichols Burritt on leaving school learned the printers' trade in the office of the Independent Republican in Montress, Pa. On President Lincoln's call for volunteers he enlisted in the 25th Reg. Pa. Vol. After this Regiment was disbanded he enlisted in the 56th Reg. Pa. Vol. and was elected captain of Co. K. It has been said that he was at the head of his Company in more than one hundred battles and that he possessed a charmed life. But he received a bullet wound in the thigh at Gettysburg, a serious wound at the battle of the Wilderness, another at the Weldon Road battle, each time at the head of his Company.
After the War closed he settled in Washington. He bought and edited the Sunday Herald twenty-two years until his death. He was a martyr to pain from the effects of his wounds. He had a remarkable memory. It was said that he could spell any word he had seen and that when only three years old he could spell all the Bible names, even Nebuchadnezzar without hesitation.
Information thanks to FAG Member#47194125
Evening Star, Nov 23, 1888, page 1
The Members of Kit Carson Post No. 2 and Comrades of the GAR generally are invited to attend the funeral of our late Comrade, I. N. Burrito, from the residences... Interment at Mount Olivet Cemetery. No parade.
He was editor and proprietor of the Sunday Herald. Died at Garfield hospital on Nov 22 (i.e. this morning according to this paper) .
He has a wife, three sons, and two daughters, who were with him the at the time of his death.
Also found article in The Critic, Nov 24, 1888 page 1
in the forty ninth year of his age.
Interment Mount Olivet cemetery
obituary is found in the Evening Star, Nov 23, 1888 page 5
also in the Washington Post
Ira Nichols Burritt on leaving school learned the printers' trade in the office of the Independent Republican in Montress, Pa. On President Lincoln's call for volunteers he enlisted in the 25th Reg. Pa. Vol. After this Regiment was disbanded he enlisted in the 56th Reg. Pa. Vol. and was elected captain of Co. K. It has been said that he was at the head of his Company in more than one hundred battles and that he possessed a charmed life. But he received a bullet wound in the thigh at Gettysburg, a serious wound at the battle of the Wilderness, another at the Weldon Road battle, each time at the head of his Company.
After the War closed he settled in Washington. He bought and edited the Sunday Herald twenty-two years until his death. He was a martyr to pain from the effects of his wounds. He had a remarkable memory. It was said that he could spell any word he had seen and that when only three years old he could spell all the Bible names, even Nebuchadnezzar without hesitation.
Information thanks to FAG Member#47194125
Evening Star, Nov 23, 1888, page 1
The Members of Kit Carson Post No. 2 and Comrades of the GAR generally are invited to attend the funeral of our late Comrade, I. N. Burrito, from the residences... Interment at Mount Olivet Cemetery. No parade.
Death of A Journalist, in the Harrisburg Daily Independent, Nov 22, 1888
He was editor and proprietor of the Sunday Herald. Died at Garfield hospital on Nov 22 (i.e. this morning according to this paper) .
He has a wife, three sons, and two daughters, who were with him the at the time of his death.
Also found article in The Critic, Nov 24, 1888 page 1
in the forty ninth year of his age.
Interment Mount Olivet cemetery
obituary is found in the Evening Star, Nov 23, 1888 page 5
also in the Washington Post
Ira Nichols Burritt on leaving school learned the printers' trade in the office of the Independent Republican in Montress, Pa. On President Lincoln's call for volunteers he enlisted in the 25th Reg. Pa. Vol. After this Regiment was disbanded he enlisted in the 56th Reg. Pa. Vol. and was elected captain of Co. K. It has been said that he was at the head of his Company in more than one hundred battles and that he possessed a charmed life. But he received a bullet wound in the thigh at Gettysburg, a serious wound at the battle of the Wilderness, another at the Weldon Road battle, each time at the head of his Company.
After the War closed he settled in Washington. He bought and edited the Sunday Herald twenty-two years until his death. He was a martyr to pain from the effects of his wounds. He had a remarkable memory. It was said that he could spell any word he had seen and that when only three years old he could spell all the Bible names, even Nebuchadnezzar without hesitation.
Information thanks to FAG Member#47194125
Evening Star, Nov 23, 1888, page 1
The Members of Kit Carson Post No. 2 and Comrades of the GAR generally are invited to attend the funeral of our late Comrade, I. N. Burrito, from the residences... Interment at Mount Olivet Cemetery. No parade.
He was editor and proprietor of the Sunday Herald. Died at Garfield hospital on Nov 22 (i.e. this morning according to this paper) .
He has a wife, three sons, and two daughters, who were with him the at the time of his death.
Also found article in The Critic, Nov 24, 1888 page 1
in the forty ninth year of his age.
Interment Mount Olivet cemetery
obituary is found in the Evening Star, Nov 23, 1888 page 5
also in the Washington Post
Ira Nichols Burritt on leaving school learned the printers' trade in the office of the Independent Republican in Montress, Pa. On President Lincoln's call for volunteers he enlisted in the 25th Reg. Pa. Vol. After this Regiment was disbanded he enlisted in the 56th Reg. Pa. Vol. and was elected captain of Co. K. It has been said that he was at the head of his Company in more than one hundred battles and that he possessed a charmed life. But he received a bullet wound in the thigh at Gettysburg, a serious wound at the battle of the Wilderness, another at the Weldon Road battle, each time at the head of his Company.
After the War closed he settled in Washington. He bought and edited the Sunday Herald twenty-two years until his death. He was a martyr to pain from the effects of his wounds. He had a remarkable memory. It was said that he could spell any word he had seen and that when only three years old he could spell all the Bible names, even Nebuchadnezzar without hesitation.
Information thanks to FAG Member#47194125
Evening Star, Nov 23, 1888, page 1
The Members of Kit Carson Post No. 2 and Comrades of the GAR generally are invited to attend the funeral of our late Comrade, I. N. Burrito, from the residences... Interment at Mount Olivet Cemetery. No parade.
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