Biographical Sketch of Hon. McKenzie Burton, Washington County, Missouri

>From "History of Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, Crawford and 
Gasconade Counties", Biographical Appendix, Goodspeed Publishing 
Company, 1888.

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Hon. McKenzie Burton is associate judge of the county court of Washing-
ton County, and was born in Guilford County, N. C., March 11, 1830. His
father, Levi G. Burton, was also a native of North Carolina, and was
born in 1809; the latter was reared on a farm in his native State, and
in 1829 married Elizabeth Hall, of the same State.  They subsequently
moved to Tennessee, and in 1844, with an ox team, immigrated to Miss-
ouri, settling in Washington County.  Levi G. burton went to California
in 1852, where he remained until 1855; during the late war he served 
three years in the Federal army.  He is the father of eight children,
viz.: McKenzie, Louis J., Sarah A. (now Mrs. Campbell), James M., 
Martha E. (now Mrs. Huddleston), Mary (now Mrs. Self) and Levi E.
McKenzie Burton came to Washington County with his parents, and was
reared to the occupation of farming.  In 1850 he went to California, 
and for fifteen years lived on the Pacific slope engaged in mining, in
which vocation he met with fair success.  In 1859 he married Miss
Harriet Salmon, a native of Pennsylvania, who died in 1860.  Mr. Burton
returned to Washington County, in 1866, and since that time has been
engaged in agricultural pursuits.  He has held the office of justice of
the peace, and in 1884 he was elected one of the judges of the county
court, which position he fills to the satisfaction of all and his own
credit.

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