Hancock-Columbiana County OhArchives Biographies.....Burson, Aaron Fenton 1812 - 
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Author: Warner & Beers (1886)

   AARON FENTON BURSON, retired physician, Mt. Blanchard, was born August 27,
1812, in Loudoun County, Va., son of George and Susanna (Kent) Burson, who
settled in Columbiana County, Ohio, in 1818. They reared a family of nine
children, the Doctor being their seventh child. After receiving a literary
education our subject entered upon the study of medicine, in 1829, under the
celebrated Dr. George McCook, Professor of Surgery in the University at
Baltimore, Md., and father of Gen. McCook. Dr. Burson completed his course in
the Ohio Medical College, at Cincinnati, and in 1832 began the practice of his
chosen profession at Mt. Blanchard, this county, where he has since resided. He
was the first physician in Delaware Township, and also the first physician in
this part of the county. He was widely known for his skill and success in
treating milk-sickness and the numerous malarial troubles which afflicted the
pioneers of the early days. He built up a very large practice, which extended
into parts of several of the adjoining counties, and, on retiring, in 1862, he
found it very difficult to relinquish his connection. But, having acquired a
competency, and finding that, after having practiced medicine for over thirty
years, further active interest in the profession would be injurious to his
health, he retired, and for years has devoted himself to experimental chemistry.
Dr. Burson has discovered a process for producing engravings by light and
electricity, a process by which a reproduction of photographs, drawings,
engravings, etc., can be produced in the most minute detail, and either in
relievo or intaglio, as desired. A brief outline of his process, which the
Doctor has named " Helio-chemical Engraving," may be here given: A metal plate
is first highly polished, then sensitized to light and placed under the drawing,
photograph or other object desired to be reproduced. It is then exposed to the
light for a short time, and after certain manipulations, the plate is placed in
the decomposition cell of a galvanic battery, and left there long enough to
receive a metallic deposit, which elevates the lights and leaves the shades
sunken, so that the shades will hold ink, and impressions can betaken from the
plate by means of a press; or, after silver or gold has been deposited on the
lights, the plate itself may be framed and kept, the same as a photograph,
engraving or other picture.

Additional Comments:
Book Title: History Of Hancock County
Delaware Township




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