Marion County, KY - Bios:  Burton, Judge Robert A.
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Robert A. BURTON 5043, Marion Co. 

Surname: Burton, Chandler, McNeal, Nantz, Irven, Robards, Phillips, Lowry

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Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 4th ed., 1887 Marion Co.

JUDGE ROBERT A. BURTON, deputy collector of internal revenue for the Fifth District of 
Kentucky, was born in 1834, and is the son of Capt. John A. and Louisana (Chandler) Burton. 
Robert Burton, the grandfather of our subject, came from Virginia a short while after the 
close of the Revolutionary war, and settled at or near the present site of Perryville. 
John A. Burton was born there in 1801; he married Miss Louisana Chandler, and reared five 
children; was a life-long Democrat, but a supporter of the administration during the late 
civil war. He died in 1874. Louisana Chandler was born in Kentucky in 1810, and died in 1878. 
She was a descendant of one of the pioneer families of what is now Marion County, being the 
daughter of Richard Chandler, who, according to the only surviving member of the family, was 
born in what is now Marion County in 1775, but four miles from the town of Lebanon. He married 
Isabella McNeal, who was born in 1872, in Fayette County, Kentucky. The issue of Richard and 
Isabella Chandler were Quinton M., Richard L., Edward G., Sallie, Maria, Louisana, Susan, 
Eusebia Ellen and Elizabeth, each of whom, except Sallie (who died in early life), married 
and reared families. The only one of this family now living is Maria, widow of Henry Nantz. 
John A. and Louisana Burton reared five children, viz.: Col. Richard C., Robert A., Isabella 
M. (Irven) deceased, Augusta C. (wife of Dr. W.O. Robards of Mercer County) and Eusebia Q. 
(wife of J.G. Phillips, Jr., of Lebanon, Ky.) Judge Burton was born, and reared and educated 
in Perryville, Boyle County, and while he has turned his attention largely to agriculture, 
he has nevertheless been prominent among the public men of his district. In 1858 he was 
admitted to the bar, though he has never made the practice of law a profession. in 1859-60 
he represented his county in the lower house of the Kentucky Legislature; served for three 
terms as judge of the Marion County Court, and in 1869 was elected to represent Marion, 
Taylor and Washington Counties in the Kentucky Senate. He was appointed to his present office 
in 1885. Judge Burton is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and in politics is an able 
advocate of the principles of Democracy. He was married May 17, 1860 to Miss Margaret Lowry, 
daughter of the Hon. James Lowry of Jessamine County, Ky. They have four children, John A., 
Mary A., Robert Lee and Marion C. Burton.