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JUDGE C. G. BURTON FUNERAL TOMORROW
Services to Be Held at the Christian
Church at 2 O'Clock--Masonic
Services at Deepwood
Cemetery.
The news of the death of
Judge C. G. Burton, which was received yesterday afternoon by Judge O.
H. Hoss, was a distinct shock to the many friends of Judge Burton in
this city.
Death occurred in Kansas
City in the home of his niece, Mrs. A. C. Stowell, Jr., Chatham Hotel,
whom he and Mrs. Burton had been visiting, arriving there from their
home, Portland, Oregon, three weeks ago.
Their daughter, Mrs. Ralph
Coan, of Portland, has been in Kansas city since Saturday.
The message to Judge Hoss
did not state the nature or duration of Judge Burton's illness.
The body, accompanied by
Mrs. Burton and daughter, Mrs. Ralph Coan, niece, Mrs. A. C. Stowell,
and Mr. Stowell, and Mrs. Prudence Morrison, will arrive at 12:10
o'clock tomorrow from Kansas City.
The body will be taken
directly to the Christian church where it will lie in state until the
hour of the funeral, 2 p.m. A Masonic guard of honor will be
stationed at the church.
Rev. J. A. Stout will
conduct the funeral and the service will be concluded at Deepwood with
the Masonic burial service.
Honorary pallbearers will be
Judge B. G. Thurman, Col. H. C. Moore, Dr. E. A. Dulin, J. B. Robinson,
M. T. January and Charles A. Logan.
Active pallbearers will be
selected from the Masonic order.
The American Legion will act
also as an honorary escort and will fire a salute at the grave.
Mrs. Burton and party will
be the guests of Judge O. H. Hoss and Mrs. Hoss.
Judge Burton was a native of
Ohio, born in Cleveland, April 4, 1846, and was therefore nearly four
score years old.
He enlisted at the age of
nineteen, and before he had finished his studies in the public schools,
in the Nineteenth Ohio Infantry, and entered the Union army, taking part
in the battle of Pittsburg Landing and skirmishes before Corinth.
After returning from the war he continued his studies, deciding upon the
law as his profession. He was admitted to the Ohio bar in 1867 and
served a short time as clerk of the court of common pleas, but in 1868
went to Virgil City, Mo., and there, except for a short time spent in
Kansas, practiced his profession three years.
In 1871 he settled in
Nevada, and the following year was elected circuit attorney and filled
the position until that office was abolished. In the legislature
of 1879 he had the unanimous support of the republican members for
United States senator, but Missouri having a large democratic majority
he failed of an election.
In 1880 he was elected judge
of the twenty-fifth judicial circuit and served six years.
In 1894 Judge Burton was
elected congressman, his majority of 2,500 votes in a largely democratic
district attested to his personal popularity.
He was for many years vice
president of the Thornton Bank, one of this section's oldest and
strongest financial institutions.
Judge Burton was united in
marriage January 1, 1874, to Miss Alice A. Rogers of Clinton, who
survives him. Three children were born to them, a son who died in
infancy and a daughter who passed away at the age of five years.
One daughter, Mrs. Ralph Coan, of Portland, Oregon, also survives him.
In 1907 judge Burton
received the appointment from President Roosevelt of internal revenue
collector at Kansas City, the appointment coming without solicitation
and to the Judge's great surprise.
Judge and Mrs. Burton then
moved to Kansas City and remained there until 1913 when they moved to
Portland, Oregon, where their daughter resided, but still called Nevada
home.
Judge Burton was a man of
forceful and magnetic personality, a brilliant and eloquent orator,
ranking with the most able in the halls of congress. He possessed
a keen mentality and was a clear and logical thinker, with a
comprehensive grasp of the affairs of state and nation and stood high in
the national councils of his party. He numbered among his personal
friends both President McKinley and President Harding. As an after
dinner speaker and raconteur he was most happy, his fame extending all
over the country.
He served as
commander-in-chief of the G. A. R. a number of years ago. He was a
member of the Mystic Shrine Ararat Temple of Kansas City, but retained
his membership in the Osage Lodge No. 303 A. F. and A. M. Nevada, Royal
Arch Chapter No. 56, and O'Sullivan Commandery No. 15 in Nevada.
He was a charter member of the Elks Lodge of this city and its first
exalted ruler.
The Nevada Daily Mail and Evening Post,
Nevada, MO.
February 25, 1926.
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