William Homer Burnett 

Born, Feb 18, 1845, at Milton, Vt.  After graduation he was employed by the Rutland and Burlington R. R. Co., in the general ticket office until the following June.  He then went to Kewanee, Ill., as station and freight agent, where he remained until his health failed.  Deciding to go among the mountains, his friends presented him a purse of one hundred and twenty-five dollars, which was collected in a few minutes, and he went to Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory, where he lived three or four months.  In his last sickness he was visited by the Episcopal and Methodist clergymen, both of whom thought he died a Christian.

He died at Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory, Oct. 23, 1869.

                                  --Wesleyan University Alumni Obituary Record.

Source:  "History of Class of 1865 Wesleyan University," Fortieth Reunion, Middletown, Connecticut, June 27, 1905

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