Biography

01/07/1852 - 03/01/1937


BURTON, John, a Representative from Montgomery County; born, January 7, 1852 in Warwickshire, England; attended, Underwood’s Academy, Litchfield; florist; elected, school director, Springfield Township (10 years); elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a Democrat in 1890; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1892); died, March 1, 1937 in Springfield Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania; interred, Ivy Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.


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