SWINBURNE, John, physician, born in Deer River, Lewis County, New York, 30 May, 1820. He was graduated at Albany medical college in 1846, and began to practise in that city. In 1861 he was appointed chief medical officer on the staff of General John F. Rathbone, and placed in charge of the depot for recruits at Albany. In May, 1862, he was appointed by Governor Edwin D. Morgan auxiliary volunteer surgeon at the front with the rank of medical superintendent, and was reappointed by Governor Horatio Seymour on 13 June. He was subsequently made a surgeon in the United States service, and assigned to duty at Savage's station. He was taken prisoner, 29 June, 1862, and offered his liberty by his captors, but preferred to remain with his patients. He was appointed by Governor Seymour in 1864 health officer of the port of New York, reappointed by Governor Reuben E. Fenton in 1866, and held the post six years. He was surgeon-in-chief of the American ambulance corps in Paris during the siege of that city by the German army in 1870-'1. In 1882 he was elected mayor of Albany, and in 1884 he was chosen to congress and served for one term. He has been surgeon-in-chief to the Child's hospital and Homoeopathic hospital at Albany, and has been a frequent contributor to the medical journals and reviews. See "A Typical American, or Incidents in the Life of Dr. John Swinburne" (Albany, 1888).--His son, Louis Jud-son, author, born in Albany, New York, 24 August, 1855 ; died in Colorado Springs, Colonel, 9 December, 1887, went abroad with his family in 1870, and resided in Paris during the siege, his observations during that period being embodied in his "Paris Sketches" (Albany, 1875). He was graduated at Yale in 1879, and afterward resided almost entirely in Denver and at Colorado Springs in consequence of delicate health. He contributed to magazines, and had in press at his death a volume of essays entitled "English Romanticism."