Montgomery County PA Archives Biographies.....Burling, Edward Harris May 29, 1832 - 
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Source: Biographical Annals of Montgomery County Pennsylvania, T. S. Benham & Company and the Lewis Publishing Company, 1904
Author: Ellwood Roberts, Editor

EDWARD HARRIS BURLING, a worthy and respected citizen 
residing at Huntingdon Valley, Montgomery county, 
Pennsylvania, is a native of Burlington, New Jersey, born 
May 2, 1832, a son of John Diehlman and Mary (Githens) 
Burling. The Burlings are of English ancestry. Three 
brothers of that name came to America at an early date, 
settling in New York and New Jersey.

John Diehlman Burling (father) was born at Westfield, New 
Jersey, in 1808, and spent his whole life in that state. He 
engaged in the manufacture of carriages, having established 
the business which has grown to such proportions at the 
present date. Later he moved to a farm, near the city, where 
he engaged in agricultural pursuits until his death, in 
November, 1855, at the age of forty-seven years, having lost 
his life by accident in being thrown from a carriage in a 
runaway. Mr. Burling was an active politician, being a 
supporter of the Whig party. His wife, Mary Githens, who was 
born in 1806 and died in the autumn of 1863, bore him the 
following named children: Edward H., mentioned hereinafter. 
George Childs, who enlisted in the Union army during the 
Civil war, raised a company and went out as captain in the 
New Jersey Infantry; he was appointed colonel of the Sixth 
Regiment, New Jersey Infantry, and for meritorious conduct 
on the field was promoted to general, commanding a brigade 
at the battle of Gettysburg; he was commissioned 
brigadier-general by President Johnson; his death in 1884 
was the result of a wound received at the battle of 
Chancellorsville. Elizabeth Ellis, wife of Henry J. Budd, of 
Mount Holly, New Jersey. John Githens, Abraham, Henry, and 
two children who died in early youth.

Edward H. Burling was educated in the public and private 
schools of the vicinity, and in Treemount Seminary, 
Norristown. He resided on the homestead farm, and at the 
early age of sixteen years, having a bent for commercial 
life, engaged in the mercantile business at Morristown, New 
Jersey, and in 1855 on his own account in the city of his 
birth, Burlington, New Jersey, with a partner, under the 
firm name of Burling & Rowand. Later he became the sole 
owner of the business, conducting the same in all about ten 
years. Having a desire to return to country life, he 
purchased a farm of one hundred and fifty acres in 
Burlington county, New Jersey, and engaged in its 
cultivation. After a few years an opportunity offering to 
dispose of the farm, he sold it on April 1, 1869, and moved 
to his present home in Huntingdon Valley, Montgomery county, 
Pennsylvania, which consists of fifteen and a half acres. 
While not engaged in any special business, his natural 
energy would not allow him to be very retired. His time is 
occupied much in travel, and in attending to his varied and 
numerous interests, besides taking a part in whatever is for 
the advantage of the community in which he lives. Mr. 
Burling was one of the organizers of the Huntingdon Valley 
Building and Loan Association, and its secretary for many 
years. He has taken an active part in politics, being an 
earnest supporter of the interests of the Republican party. 
He has been a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows 
for more than fifty years, and he is a past grand of Phoenix 
Lodge, No. 92, of Burlington, New Jersey.

At Burlington, New Jersey, February 28, 1861, Mr. Burling 
married Annie E. Hoeckly, daughter of Christian and Ann 
Eliza (Herman) Hoeckly. Mrs. Burling died May 18, 1891. Mr. 
Burling married, November 22, 1899, Mrs. Emma Josephine 
Chamberlain, daughter of Israel W. and Sarah Morris (Horner) 
Heulings, and widow of William Chamberlain, of Morristown, 
New Jersey, by whom she had one child, William Chamberlain 
(3d). No children were born of either of these marriages. 
Israel Heulings was a member of one of the old families of 
Burlington county, New Jersey.

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