Kenosha-Racine County WI Archives Biographies.....Burt, William 1835 - 
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Author: Western Historical Society ((1879))

    WILLIAM BURT, carriage trimmer; born in Greenwich, England, in 1835; his
father, William Burt, Sr., came with his family to America in 1849; stopped in
Pennsylvania until 1850, when they came to Wisconsin, locating in Racine, where
William Burt, Jr., in 1851, began the business of carriage painter; followed it
until 1854; then came to Kenosha, and since has engaged in wagon painting. He
married in Waukesha, Wis., in 1865, Miss Mary Devlin, a native of Franklin Co.,
N. Y. Mr. Burt enlisted in August, 1862, in the 22d W. V. I.; served with the
regiment until the close of the war, and participated in all engagements in
which the regiment took part; mustered out June 28, 1865. Is a member of the
Temple of Honor.

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THE HISTORY OF RACINE AND KENOSHA COUNTIES, WISCONSIN,

CONTAINING A HISTORY OF EACH COUNTY, ITS EARLY SETTLEMENT, GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT,
RESOURCES, ETC., AN EXTENSIVE AND MINUTE SKETCH OF ITS CITIES, THEIR
IMPROVEMENTS, INDUSTRIES, MANUFACTORIES, CHURCHES, SCHOOLS, SOCIETIES, ETC.,
ETC., WAR RECORD, BIOGRAPHICAL 8KBTCHES, PORTRAITS OF PROMINENT MEN AND EARLY
SETTLERS, VIEWS OF BUILDINGS, ETC., ETC.; ALSO HISTORY OF WISCONSIN, COSTITUTION
OF THE UNITED STATES AND OF WI8CON8IN, CONDEN8ED AB8TRACT OF LAWS OF WI8CONSIN,
MISCELLANEOUS, ETC., ETC.

ILLUSTRATED.
CHICAGO: WESTERN HISTORICAL COMPANY.
MDCCCLXXIX.
((1879))

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