Biographical Sketch of Nathan L. Burwell, Phelps County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, 
Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties, Missouri" The Goodspeed Publishing
Company, 1889.
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Nathan L. Burwell, proprietor of the hotel at Newburg, Mo., was born
July 15, 1854, in Covington, Ky., and is the son of John and Sarah
Mountjoy (Best) Burwell.  The paternal grandparents were natives of
New Jersey, and immigrated to Zanesville, Ohio, where they spent the
remainder of their days.  They were of Scotch parentage.  John Burwell
was born at Zanesville, Ohio, was a civil engineer by occupation, and
was engaged on the Slack Wter Navigation Works on the Muskingum River,
continuing at this business until thirty-five years of age.  He went
to Covington, Ky., about 1845, but later moved to Ohio, where he died
in 1870.  He was superintendent of the Bloom Forge Iron Works for 
Gaylord & Co., of Portsmouth, at that time.  His wife was born in 
Kentucky, attained her growth in that state, and was there married to
Mr. Burwell, by whom she had eleven children, four now living:  Mary,
widow of Hobert Weatherby; John B., Stephen B. and Nathan L.  Mrs.
Burwell died in Ironton, Ohio, in 1859.  Her parents were natives of
Kentucky, where they lived and died.  Nathan L. Burwell received a
liberal English education in the schools of Portsmouth, and remained
with his father until his death.  At the age of sixteen he began life
for himself by engaging in the iron business.  He came to Missouri in
1881, engaging as bookkeeper at Nova Scotia Iron Works, Dent County,
where he remained for a year and a half.  He then occupied the same
position at Ozark Iron Works, in Phelps county, remaining until the 
works closed in the latter part of 1883.  Mr. Burwell then opened the
'Frisco Eating House at Newburg, where all trains stop for meals,
and there he has since remained.  He was married in 1873 to Miss Ella
Lloyd, a native of Sampsonville, Ohio, and the daughter of William
Lloyd.  Mr. Burwell now runs a thriving business, feeding on the
average seventy-five people per day.  He is a strong Republican in
politics, and an excellent citizen.

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