BIOGRAPHIES:  Fred BURTON, Stanfold Township, Barron Co., WI

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Transcribed by Kate Wilson. 
Edited and submitted by  Vic Gulickson <vic@indy.net>  5 October 2003
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Fred Burton, a successful farmer of Section 26, Stanfold Township, was born
in Quebec, Canada, Jan. 22, 1874, the son of Seford and Almen (Demars)
Burton. The father, as a young man, served three years and three months in
the Civil War. After the war he went to Canada. Later he came back to the
States, and located in Rice Lake Township, this county. He died in May,
1907, and his widow now lives in Rice Lake City. Fred came to Rice Lake
Township with his parents and remained at home until he was eighteen years,
attending school and helping his father on the farm. Then he entered the
employ of the Rice Lake Lumber Co., working in sawmills and in the lumber
woods. In 1913 he bought a partly improved farm in Sumner Township. Three
years later he sold out, and then rented for a while. In 1918 he bought a
farm in Stanfold Township. This he sold the same year, and then lived in
Rice Lake for a few months. In 1919, he bought his present place of 80
acres in Section 26, Stanfold Township. It has a good frame house, a barn
with full basement, and other suitable buildings. Mr. Burton successfully
carries on general farming, and dairying, and has a good herd of cattle,
headed by a full-blooded Holstein sire. He believes in modern methods, he
is gradually improving his farm, and he already has a good start in life.
Fraternally, he is a popular member of the Modern Woodmen of America. Mr.
Burton was married Jan. 23, 1893, at Rice Lake, to Nabelia Amans, daughter
of Andrew and Mary (Demars) Amans, natives of Canada, and for many years
farmers in Barron County, the former of whom died Sept. 23, 1916, and the
latter of whom lives in Rice Lake. Mr. and Mrs. Burton have two children:
Raymond W. and Laverne A., born Feb. 6, 1896, and May 21, 1898,
respectively.

--Transcribed from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper,
Jr., & Co., 1922, pg. 174.

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