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a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in Fairmont, Va., Jan. 3, 1828. He joined the Church in 1848, and in 1851 entered the West Virginia Conference, in which he served with zeal and fidelity to the close of his life, Dec. 25, 1854. Mr. Burns was exemplary in his piety alike at home and abroad; in the pulpit, clear, practical, and remarkably zealous. See Minutes of Annual Conferences; 1855, p. 569.