JOHN BURNS

BURNS, RENTGEN

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Date: 4/19/2019 at 14:50:52

Keokuk City
(P.O. Keokuk)

BURNS, JOHN, residence on Eleventh and Blondeau sts., Keokuk ; this gentleman, a pioneer settler of the Northwest, was born in Bucks Co., Penn., in 1813; in 1835, he came to Quincy, Ill., where he remained until 1837, when he came to Van Buren Co., Iowa, and engaged in mercantile business in that county until 1840, in which year he came to this city (Keokuk) and has been engaged in mercantile business the greater part of the time until 1877, when he retired from it. Mr. Burns was married in Quincy, Ill., in 1839, to Miss Maria C. Rentgen, now deceased, a native of Pittsburgh, Penn. Mr. Burns in early life acted with the Whig party ; on the organization of the Republican party, he became a Republican, and has remained a consistent supporter of the same.

Source: BIOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORY
HISTORY OF LEE COUNTY IOWA
CHICAGO: WESTERN HISTORICAL COMPANY, 1879

Transcription typed/proofed as article was originally published in 1879