California State Officials Biographies 1911

BURTON A. TOWNE

Submitted by Nancy Pratt Melton

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HIGHWAY COMMISSION ADVISORY BOARD
BURTON A. TOWNE (Republican) was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, September 24, 
1874, and attended the public schools and university of that State. After 
leaving the university he was in the employ of the Southern Pacific Railroad 
Company at Sacramento in the machinery, drafting and testing departments. Since 
then, he has been engaged in viticulture near Lodi, and during the year 1909, 
1910 and 1911 he was a member of the San Joaquin County Highway Commission, 
which position he resigned to take a membership in the Department of Engineering 
of the State of California, as one of the three appointed members of that board.

Source: California Blue Book, or State Roster, 1911
Compiled by Frank C. Jordan, Secretary of State
Friend W. Richardson, Superintendent of State Printing, Sacramento, CA, 1913