San Benito-San Luis Obispo County CA Archives Biographies.....Burns, Robert 1839 - 
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Author: Luther A. Ingersoll, Editor (1893)

ROBERT BURNS, who resides near Mulberry, San Benito county, California, is one
of the most substantial farmers of the county.

  Mr. Burns is a native of Madison, a town on the Kennebec river in Somerset
county, Maine, and was born May 18, 1839. His father, Samuel S. Burns, a farmer
by occupation, was of Scotch nativity and a relative of Robert Burns, the
eminent Scotch poet. The subject of our sketch came to California in 1860,
making the journey via Panama, and landing at San Francisco. He located at San
Juan, on the San Justo ranch, and in 1878 went to San Luis Obispo, where he
continued stock-raising, operating on the Huerhuero ranch. In 1884 he took up
his abode on his present farm, 640 acres, on the San Benito creek.

  Mr. Burns was married in 1870, to Miss Florett Willington, a native of Maine.
  Their four children are: Willis L., Mabel E., Gertrude and Herbert,-all living
at present with their parents.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Memorial and Biographical History of the Coast Counties of Central California.

Illustrated.

Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast from the
Earliest Period of its Discovery to the Present Time, together with Glimpses of
its Auspicious Future; Illustrations and Full-Page Portraits of some of its
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers, and Prominent
Citizens of To-day.



HENRY D. BARROWS,
Editor of the Historical Department.

LUTHER A. INGERSOLL,
Editor of the Biographical Department.

"A people that take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendants."-Macaulay.


CHICAGO: THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY.
1893.


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