Marion County OR Archives Obituaries.....Burch, Captain B. F. March 23, 1893
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The Daily Independent March 23 1893
A Pioneer Dead
 Captain B.F. Burch died at Independence this morning of kidney trouble. 
Captain Burch was about seventy yers of age and came to this country in '45. 
He was a member of the Oregon constitutional convention, which was held in 
this city, February,1859. The Hon.R.P.Boise, of this city, was also a member 
of this convention, of which Judge Deady, who also died this morning, was its 
presiding officer. During the Yakima INdian War, Captain Burch was captain of 
company B., second regiment, in command of Colonel Thos. Cornelius. Thi 
scompany and regiment was in the famous Snake River campaign, as was the 
company of Captain e.J. harding, of Fairfield. They all subsisted on alkili 
water and mule meat  for eighteen days, and come very near dying of starvation 
and thirst; Captain Burch was seeral times a representative from Polk county, 
and once a member and president of the senate. He was superintendent of the 
penintentiary, being appointed by Governor Chadwick, at the expiration of the 
term of W.H. Watkinds, and was succeeded by Hon. Ashael Bush, during the term 
of Governor Thayer. President Cleveland appointed him receiver of the Oregon 
City land office in 1886, and he held the office over five years. Captain 
Burch was a fine amn, and old pioneers will very much regret his death.

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