Charles A. Burns

Charles Alonzo Burns (January 3, 1863 – December 31, 1930) was a Massachusetts, USA, businessman and politician who served on the Board of Aldermen and as the fifteenth mayor of Somerville, Massachusetts.

Biography

Burns was born on January 3, 1863, in Wilton, New Hampshire^[2] to Charles Henry and Sarah Naomi (Mills) Burns.^[3]

Burns attended St Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, and Chauncey Hall School in Boston, from which he graduated in 1881.^[1]

Burns was married to Lulie C. Jones. They had three children: Robert A., Charles Henry and Elizabeth. Lulie Burns died on August 25, 1896.^[1]

Burns first entered into the business of manufacturing cotton yarn in Wilton.^[1] He later managed soapstone quarries in Chester, Vermont, and in Virginia, and in 1893 moved to Somerville where he worked as the president of the Union Soapstone Co.^[2]

In 1927, Burns moved to Winchester, Massachusetts. He died there on December 31, 1930.^[3]

Notes

1. 1 2 3 4 5 Stearns, Ezra S. (1908), Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire, Volume 1, Chicago, Il: The Lewis Publishing Company, p. 314. 
2. 1 2 Hill, William Carroll (1943), The family of Bray Wilkins: Patriarch of Will's Hill, of Salem (Middleton), Mass, The Lewis Cabinet Press, p. 161. 
3. 1 2 Hill, William Carroll (1942), The Family of Captain John Mills of Medway and Sherborn, Mass: and Amherst, N. H., Milford, N.H: Cabinet Press, p. 92.