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Eleanor Waring Burnham
1868–1959
An early 20th-century American writer, she published fiction under Eleanor Howard Waring and later wrote a warmly told history of the Morgan horse. Her best-known surviving work blends careful research with an obvious affection for animals and American history.
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Justin Morgan, founder of his race : the romantic history of a horse
by Eleanor Waring Burnham
About the author
Born in 1868, she published at least one novel, The White Path (1907), under the name Eleanor Howard Waring. After her marriage in 1909 to sculptor Roger Noble Burnham, she was also known as Eleanor Waring Burnham.
Her best-known book is Justin Morgan, Founder of His Race: The Romantic History of a Horse (1911), a lively historical work centered on the famous foundation sire of the Morgan horse breed. The book has remained accessible through major public-domain and library collections, which has helped keep her name in circulation.
Reliable biographical details about her life are limited in the sources readily available online, but the record that does survive suggests a writer with a strong interest in storytelling, history, and the bond between people and animals. She died in 1959.