Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Burnham, Charles H 
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Author: History of Grundy County IL 1914

Burnham, Charles H. – One of the highly esteemed retired farmers and business 
men of Morris, who is now enjoying well-earned ease in his declining years, 
was born at Charlotte, Crittendon County, Vt., August 2, 1839, a son of 
Charles and Amanda (Beldind) Burnham, natives of Connecticut and Charlotte, 
Vt., respectively.  They were married in Vermont, and began their married life 
as farmers.  In October, 1852, following westward the tide of emigration, they 
came to Morris, Grundy County, and in partnership with their son-in-law, 
Alanson Keith, bought 160 acres in Mazon Township.  On this property the 
father died in 1871, the mother surviving him until 1875.

Charles H. Burnham attended the common schools of his native place, and grew 
up to farm work.  Until he responded to his country’s call, when civil war was 
devastating the country, he resided with his parents, but on August 13, 1862, 
he enlisted in Company A, One Hundred and Twenty-seventh Illinois Volunteer 
Infantry, at Mazon, and was assigned to the Second Division, Second Brigade, 
Fifteenth Army Corps.  He served until his honorable discharge May 31, 1865, 
at Washington, D. C.  Returning home, he resumed farming, taking care of his 
mother until the homestead was sold, when he received his share of the 
proceeds.  With this money he was able to arrange to begin farming for 
himself, and thus continued for a few years, and then went to Braidwood, and 
after two years to Morris.  Here he worked at carpentry, and was engaged in a 
tannery for nineteen years, but in 1907, he retired, and has a pleasant home 
on North Liberty street.

On April 29, 1877, Mr. Burnham married Mary Ann Granger, born at Chicago, a 
daughter of Robert and Eliza (Edmond) Granger, natives of London, England.  
Mr. and Mrs. Burnham have had two children:  Eddie Nelson, who is of Nettle 
Creek Township; and Charles Clifford, who is of Morris, Ill., the latter being 
written up at length elsewhere in this work.  In politics, Mr. Burnham is a 
Republican.  For years he has been a member of Darveau Post No. 329, G. A. R. 
and is well liked in it, as he is in the community in which he resided for so 
long.

pages 780-781

Additional Comments:
Source:  History of Grundy County, Illinois, Chicago: Munsell Publishing Co. 
Publishers; 1914

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