Annie Sherman James Burling, student and school principal, attended Mount Holyoke Female Seminary from 1863-1864. The catalogue for that year lists her residence as Millburn, New Jersey. After leaving Mount Holyoke, she was principal of a school in Millburn, New Jersey. She married John B. Burling, a doctor, in 1882 and they had four children. She died in 1920 in Summit, New Jersey.