Sedgwick County KS Archives Biographies.....Burt, Frank S. 1862 - 
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Author: O. H. Bentley (1910)

   Frank S. Burt is a well known and enterprising citizen of Wichita, Kansas. He
was born at Urbana, Illinois, June 23, 1862, and is a son of Jesse and Alma C.
(Hall) Burt. He had good educational advantages and supplemented his preparatory
studies by a course at the University of Illinois, where he was graduated with
the class of 1884. In March, 1885, Mr. Burt settled at Wichita in the real
estate and insurance business, with offices at 416 East Douglas street. In 1896
he was appointed by the state commissioners, chief of police of Wichita and
served till 1898. Resuming his insurance business, he continued it till 1901,
when, under the administration of Mayor McClain, he was again made chief of
police, serving four years. After that till 1909 he gave his attention to his
real estate and insurance matters, and then for the third time was appointed
chief of police by Mayor Davidson and served till September 1, 1910, when he
resigned the office.

   After the opening of the Spanish-American War, in 1898, Mr. Burt served some
nine months as commissary clerk under Capt. S. N. Bridgeman, first at
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, where twenty-two thousand men were cared for, and
afterwards at Atlanta, Georgia.

   In 1886 Mr. Burt married Miss Catherine E., daughter of Mrs. Rebecca Bolick,
of, Wichita. They have had four children, of whom two died in infancy. The
surviving children are named respectively, Ora D. and Jesse F.

   Mr. Burt is an active member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks
and is connected with the local lodge, No. 427.


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History of Wichita and Sedgwick County: past and present, including an account
of the cities, towns and villages of the county

Editor in chief: O. H. Bentley
Chicago: C.F. Cooper & Co. (1910)


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