E.C. BURBAGE
History of Arizona, page 508

Among the leading business men of Winslow stands E.C. Burbage, 
who is meeting with marked success as the owner of the Ideal 
Laundry of which he has been the owner for the past six years.  
He was born in Los Angeles, California on February 12, 1889 and 
is a son of William H. and Margaret (Cashion) Burbage.  The 
father was born in New York City in 1854 and when but seven 
years of age was orphaned by the death of both of his parents. 
He was placed in a Catholic institution in Ohio in which he was 
reared and given a good education. In 1878 when twenty four 
years of age he started west and after spending some time 
prospecting in Kansas and other states, located in Trinidad, 
Colorado where he secured employment in the Colorado Trading 
Company. In 1882 he went to New Mexico and was there employed 
by a large mercantile house, having branches in Santa Fe and 
Albuquerque. Two years later he came to Holbrook, Arizona and 
formed a partnership with J.Q. Adamson and Milton Chenowith, 
under the firm name of Adamson and Burbage. They opened a 
general mercantile store which proved a very profitable 
venture and they ran it successfully for five years, when 
they sold out and going to Los Angeles, engaged in the 
wholesale meat business. Prior to leaving Ohio Mr. Burbage 
had devoted two years to the study of law in Hiram College 
and after settling in Los Angeles he devoted his spare time 
to the further study of Kent and Blackstone. In April 1893 
he was admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of 
California and in that same year he returned to Arizona 
and opened a law office in Winslow. In 1895 he formed a 
law partnership with F.W. Nelson, and for many years they 
were associated both in professional work and in business 
affairs. In 1894 Mr. Burbage was elected District Attorney 
of Apache County and was re-elected to that office in 1898 
and 1900 and was also appointed local attorney for the 
Santa Fe Railroad at Winslow.  In 1900 he and Mr. Nelson 
organized the Navajo County Bank of which he was chosen 
president and sold his interest in 1912, devoting his 
time to personal interest until the time of his death 
which occurred on January 27, 1929. In 1905 Messrs. 
Burbage and Nelson also organized the Apache County 
Bank at St. Johns of which Mr. Burbage became president 
and Mr. Nelson, vice president and cashier. In the fall 
of 1909 Navajo County Bank of Winslow and the Apache 
County Bank of St. Johns merged under the name of the 
Navajo Apache Bank and Trust Company with one hundred 
thousand dollars paid-in capital of which Mr. Burbage 
became president. In addition to his banking interests, 
he became the owner of much real estate in this locality. 
He was a man of progressive and enterprising disposition, 
sound and dependable.

E.C. Burbage received his early education in the public schools 
of California and St. Vincent's College in Los Angeles from 
which he graduated in 1915. He then went to work as a bookkeeper 
and general office man, which line of work he followed until 
1923 when he bought a laundry at Winslow to the operation of 
which he has since given his attention.

On June 12, 1919 Mr. Burbage married Jessie Caw of Cuper 
Fife Scotland and they are the parents of three children, 
William H., Doreen and Catherine.


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