DEATH TAKES JERE H. BURNS
PROMINENT IN LUMBER BUSINESS
HAVING HEADED LOCAL COMPANY IN DEVELOPMENT
OF WEST VIRGINIA TIMBER LAND
JERE H. BURNS died at his home, West Fourth St., at 1 o'clock Sathurday morning, after an illness of about three years.
Mr. Burns was one of the best known citizens and business men of Mansfield. He was born in Mansfield, November 8, 1854, and was a son of the late Col. Barnabas Burns and Urath Gore Burns. Mr. Burns was graduated from the Mansfield High School in 1870.
After finishing school he entered the employ of the firm of McVey & Allison and remained with them until they went out of business. He then entered the employ of S. N. Ford & Co., of which lumber company he was the general manager for a number of years. Later he went into the wholesale lumber business with Daniel Carpenter, a brother of Reid Carpenter.
From the jobbing of lumber, Mr. Burns turned his attention to the manufacture of lumber and became interested in lumber mills in West Virginia. Mr. Burns was the promoter of the famous Virginia land deal, which was one of the most successful business ventures ever put up to Mansfield people. For 19 years Mr. Burns had held an option on 30,000 acres of timber and coal lands in West Virginia and he laid the matter before local people, and it was by them financed. One of the companies which grew out of the Virginia land deal was the Gailego Coal & Land company.
At the time of his passing away, Mr. Burns was president of The Peytona Lumber company which has headquarters at Huntington, WV. He was also president of the J. H. Burns & Bros. Lumber Co. which has mills in West Virginia and owns 12,000 acres of timber land.
Although a busy man from a business standpoint, Mr. Burns was a great lover of sports and particularly of baseball. He was instrumental with a number of other public-spirited and liberal citizens, including C. H. Voegele, Capt. W. H. Taylor, J. E. Brown, Dan Webster, M. D. War and others in keeping Mansfield in leagues such as the Tri-State when the salary list was away beyond what the town could afford to support. Mr. Burns officiated as secretary and treasurer of the Mansfield club in those days.
The deceased was a member of Mansfield Lodge, No. 35, F. & A. M., and all the Masonic bodies up to and including Mansfield Commandery, No. 21, Knights Templar. He also held membership in Madison Lodge No. 26, Knights of Pythias, and in Mansfield Lodge No. 56, B. P. O. Elks.
He is survived by his wife and three children, Dr. John M. Burns and Mrs. Edward B. Snyder, of this city, and Hugh G. Burns, of Huntington, WV.
The funeral will take place from the family residence, Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Burial is private.
~Mansfield News (Mansfield, OH)
Sat., 3/1/1913, pg. 3
PROMINENT IN LUMBER BUSINESS
HAVING HEADED LOCAL COMPANY IN DEVELOPMENT
OF WEST VIRGINIA TIMBER LAND
JERE H. BURNS died at his home, West Fourth St., at 1 o'clock Sathurday morning, after an illness of about three years.
Mr. Burns was one of the best known citizens and business men of Mansfield. He was born in Mansfield, November 8, 1854, and was a son of the late Col. Barnabas Burns and Urath Gore Burns. Mr. Burns was graduated from the Mansfield High School in 1870.
After finishing school he entered the employ of the firm of McVey & Allison and remained with them until they went out of business. He then entered the employ of S. N. Ford & Co., of which lumber company he was the general manager for a number of years. Later he went into the wholesale lumber business with Daniel Carpenter, a brother of Reid Carpenter.
From the jobbing of lumber, Mr. Burns turned his attention to the manufacture of lumber and became interested in lumber mills in West Virginia. Mr. Burns was the promoter of the famous Virginia land deal, which was one of the most successful business ventures ever put up to Mansfield people. For 19 years Mr. Burns had held an option on 30,000 acres of timber and coal lands in West Virginia and he laid the matter before local people, and it was by them financed. One of the companies which grew out of the Virginia land deal was the Gailego Coal & Land company.
At the time of his passing away, Mr. Burns was president of The Peytona Lumber company which has headquarters at Huntington, WV. He was also president of the J. H. Burns & Bros. Lumber Co. which has mills in West Virginia and owns 12,000 acres of timber land.
Although a busy man from a business standpoint, Mr. Burns was a great lover of sports and particularly of baseball. He was instrumental with a number of other public-spirited and liberal citizens, including C. H. Voegele, Capt. W. H. Taylor, J. E. Brown, Dan Webster, M. D. War and others in keeping Mansfield in leagues such as the Tri-State when the salary list was away beyond what the town could afford to support. Mr. Burns officiated as secretary and treasurer of the Mansfield club in those days.
The deceased was a member of Mansfield Lodge, No. 35, F. & A. M., and all the Masonic bodies up to and including Mansfield Commandery, No. 21, Knights Templar. He also held membership in Madison Lodge No. 26, Knights of Pythias, and in Mansfield Lodge No. 56, B. P. O. Elks.
He is survived by his wife and three children, Dr. John M. Burns and Mrs. Edward B. Snyder, of this city, and Hugh G. Burns, of Huntington, WV.
The funeral will take place from the family residence, Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Burial is private.
~Mansfield News (Mansfield, OH)
Sat., 3/1/1913, pg. 3
DEATH TAKES JERE H. BURNS
PROMINENT IN LUMBER BUSINESS
HAVING HEADED LOCAL COMPANY IN DEVELOPMENT
OF WEST VIRGINIA TIMBER LAND
JERE H. BURNS died at his home, West Fourth St., at 1 o'clock Sathurday morning, after an illness of about three years.
Mr. Burns was one of the best known citizens and business men of Mansfield. He was born in Mansfield, November 8, 1854, and was a son of the late Col. Barnabas Burns and Urath Gore Burns. Mr. Burns was graduated from the Mansfield High School in 1870.
After finishing school he entered the employ of the firm of McVey & Allison and remained with them until they went out of business. He then entered the employ of S. N. Ford & Co., of which lumber company he was the general manager for a number of years. Later he went into the wholesale lumber business with Daniel Carpenter, a brother of Reid Carpenter.
From the jobbing of lumber, Mr. Burns turned his attention to the manufacture of lumber and became interested in lumber mills in West Virginia. Mr. Burns was the promoter of the famous Virginia land deal, which was one of the most successful business ventures ever put up to Mansfield people. For 19 years Mr. Burns had held an option on 30,000 acres of timber and coal lands in West Virginia and he laid the matter before local people, and it was by them financed. One of the companies which grew out of the Virginia land deal was the Gailego Coal & Land company.
At the time of his passing away, Mr. Burns was president of The Peytona Lumber company which has headquarters at Huntington, WV. He was also president of the J. H. Burns & Bros. Lumber Co. which has mills in West Virginia and owns 12,000 acres of timber land.
Although a busy man from a business standpoint, Mr. Burns was a great lover of sports and particularly of baseball. He was instrumental with a number of other public-spirited and liberal citizens, including C. H. Voegele, Capt. W. H. Taylor, J. E. Brown, Dan Webster, M. D. War and others in keeping Mansfield in leagues such as the Tri-State when the salary list was away beyond what the town could afford to support. Mr. Burns officiated as secretary and treasurer of the Mansfield club in those days.
The deceased was a member of Mansfield Lodge, No. 35, F. & A. M., and all the Masonic bodies up to and including Mansfield Commandery, No. 21, Knights Templar. He also held membership in Madison Lodge No. 26, Knights of Pythias, and in Mansfield Lodge No. 56, B. P. O. Elks.
He is survived by his wife and three children, Dr. John M. Burns and Mrs. Edward B. Snyder, of this city, and Hugh G. Burns, of Huntington, WV.
The funeral will take place from the family residence, Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Burial is private.
~Mansfield News (Mansfield, OH)
Sat., 3/1/1913, pg. 3
PROMINENT IN LUMBER BUSINESS
HAVING HEADED LOCAL COMPANY IN DEVELOPMENT
OF WEST VIRGINIA TIMBER LAND
JERE H. BURNS died at his home, West Fourth St., at 1 o'clock Sathurday morning, after an illness of about three years.
Mr. Burns was one of the best known citizens and business men of Mansfield. He was born in Mansfield, November 8, 1854, and was a son of the late Col. Barnabas Burns and Urath Gore Burns. Mr. Burns was graduated from the Mansfield High School in 1870.
After finishing school he entered the employ of the firm of McVey & Allison and remained with them until they went out of business. He then entered the employ of S. N. Ford & Co., of which lumber company he was the general manager for a number of years. Later he went into the wholesale lumber business with Daniel Carpenter, a brother of Reid Carpenter.
From the jobbing of lumber, Mr. Burns turned his attention to the manufacture of lumber and became interested in lumber mills in West Virginia. Mr. Burns was the promoter of the famous Virginia land deal, which was one of the most successful business ventures ever put up to Mansfield people. For 19 years Mr. Burns had held an option on 30,000 acres of timber and coal lands in West Virginia and he laid the matter before local people, and it was by them financed. One of the companies which grew out of the Virginia land deal was the Gailego Coal & Land company.
At the time of his passing away, Mr. Burns was president of The Peytona Lumber company which has headquarters at Huntington, WV. He was also president of the J. H. Burns & Bros. Lumber Co. which has mills in West Virginia and owns 12,000 acres of timber land.
Although a busy man from a business standpoint, Mr. Burns was a great lover of sports and particularly of baseball. He was instrumental with a number of other public-spirited and liberal citizens, including C. H. Voegele, Capt. W. H. Taylor, J. E. Brown, Dan Webster, M. D. War and others in keeping Mansfield in leagues such as the Tri-State when the salary list was away beyond what the town could afford to support. Mr. Burns officiated as secretary and treasurer of the Mansfield club in those days.
The deceased was a member of Mansfield Lodge, No. 35, F. & A. M., and all the Masonic bodies up to and including Mansfield Commandery, No. 21, Knights Templar. He also held membership in Madison Lodge No. 26, Knights of Pythias, and in Mansfield Lodge No. 56, B. P. O. Elks.
He is survived by his wife and three children, Dr. John M. Burns and Mrs. Edward B. Snyder, of this city, and Hugh G. Burns, of Huntington, WV.
The funeral will take place from the family residence, Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Burial is private.
~Mansfield News (Mansfield, OH)
Sat., 3/1/1913, pg. 3
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