Commander of the G.A.R. Post, of Iron
Mountain, was born in Albany, New York,
June 30, 1846. His father, Robert G.
Burbank, was a native of Massachusetts,
was a piano-maker by trade, and followed
that occupation for Boardman & Gray, of
Albany, New York. The mother of our
subject, nee Mary Ann Silverd, was a
native of Montpelier, Vermont. They were the parents of six children, namely:
Edward S., Albina D., Joseph W., Robert
C., Sidney (deceased), and Emily
(deceased).
J.W. Burbank, the subject of this sketch,
remained in his native city until six years of
age, when he was adopted by his uncle,
Joseph Ward, of Randolph, Columbia
county, Wisconsin. In 1862, at the age of
sixteen years, he enlisted as a drummer
boy in Company H, Seventeenth Wisconsin
Volunteer Infantry, and served three years
and two months, receiving his discharge at
Goldsborough, North Carolina. Mr.
Burbank was taken sick at the battle of
Corinth, Mississippi, was sent to Memphis,
Tennessee, and two months afterward to
St. Louis, where he remained until the
capture of Vicksburg. Joining his regiment
at Natchez, Mississippi, he participated in
Sherman's march to the sea.
After returning from the war our subject
resided in Albany until 1868, and then
returned to his old home in Wisconsin, his
uncle having died in the fall of 1861. In the
spring of 1873 Mr. Burbank secured the
position of clerk in the store of N. Ludington
at Marquette, Wisconsin, and in the fall of
1880 was engaged by the same firm to run
the Pembina Farm Hotel, located forty miles
above the mouth of the Menominee river.
From the fall of 1880 until the spring of
1882 he resided on his own farm at
Stephenson, Michigan, was then engaged
in the piano and organ business in
Marquette until the spring of 1884, followed
the sewing-machine business at Fond du
Lac, Wisconsin, until the fall of 1887, from
that time until the fall of 1891 was employed
as a traveling salesman, worked in a
marble shop in Fond du Lac until July,
1892, and since that time has been
engaged in the furniture and undertaking
business in Iron Mountain.
Politically, Mr. Burbank allies himself
with the Republican party. In his social
relations, he has filled all the chairs in the
G.A.R. post, and is now serving his third
term as Commander of the P. O'Connell
Post, No. 426, Department of Michigan,
G.A.R.
July 2, 1876, Mr. Burbank was united in
marriage with Amanda P. Annas, a native
of New York, taken by her parents to Fond
du Lac, Wisconsin, when four years of age.
To this union have been born four children,
– Robert G., Etta M., Bertie O., and Nettie
P. [pages 546-547:MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES –
MEMORIAL RECORD OF THE NORTHERN PENINSULA OF
MICHIGAN – 1895
A SUDDEN PASSING
J.W. BUBANK DIED LAST EVENING AFTER A BREIF ILLNESS
Joseph W. Burbank died at 7 o'clock of asthma. He as 67 & leave wife & 4 children, Robert G., Mrs. Nettie Showalter, Mrs. Donald MacDonald & Bert. He is also survived by 1 brother, E. S. Burbank & 1 sister, Mrs. A. D. Wilson, both of New York. Mr. Burbank came to Iron Mountain from Fond du Lac, Wis. 20 years ago & was in the undertaking business.
(Thursday, February y8 1913, Iron Mountain Daily News, Dickinson, Michigan.)
The complete article can be found in the above newspaper at the Dickinson County Library, Iron Mountain, Michigan.
[Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings]
Mountain, was born in Albany, New York,
June 30, 1846. His father, Robert G.
Burbank, was a native of Massachusetts,
was a piano-maker by trade, and followed
that occupation for Boardman & Gray, of
Albany, New York. The mother of our
subject, nee Mary Ann Silverd, was a
native of Montpelier, Vermont. They were the parents of six children, namely:
Edward S., Albina D., Joseph W., Robert
C., Sidney (deceased), and Emily
(deceased).
J.W. Burbank, the subject of this sketch,
remained in his native city until six years of
age, when he was adopted by his uncle,
Joseph Ward, of Randolph, Columbia
county, Wisconsin. In 1862, at the age of
sixteen years, he enlisted as a drummer
boy in Company H, Seventeenth Wisconsin
Volunteer Infantry, and served three years
and two months, receiving his discharge at
Goldsborough, North Carolina. Mr.
Burbank was taken sick at the battle of
Corinth, Mississippi, was sent to Memphis,
Tennessee, and two months afterward to
St. Louis, where he remained until the
capture of Vicksburg. Joining his regiment
at Natchez, Mississippi, he participated in
Sherman's march to the sea.
After returning from the war our subject
resided in Albany until 1868, and then
returned to his old home in Wisconsin, his
uncle having died in the fall of 1861. In the
spring of 1873 Mr. Burbank secured the
position of clerk in the store of N. Ludington
at Marquette, Wisconsin, and in the fall of
1880 was engaged by the same firm to run
the Pembina Farm Hotel, located forty miles
above the mouth of the Menominee river.
From the fall of 1880 until the spring of
1882 he resided on his own farm at
Stephenson, Michigan, was then engaged
in the piano and organ business in
Marquette until the spring of 1884, followed
the sewing-machine business at Fond du
Lac, Wisconsin, until the fall of 1887, from
that time until the fall of 1891 was employed
as a traveling salesman, worked in a
marble shop in Fond du Lac until July,
1892, and since that time has been
engaged in the furniture and undertaking
business in Iron Mountain.
Politically, Mr. Burbank allies himself
with the Republican party. In his social
relations, he has filled all the chairs in the
G.A.R. post, and is now serving his third
term as Commander of the P. O'Connell
Post, No. 426, Department of Michigan,
G.A.R.
July 2, 1876, Mr. Burbank was united in
marriage with Amanda P. Annas, a native
of New York, taken by her parents to Fond
du Lac, Wisconsin, when four years of age.
To this union have been born four children,
– Robert G., Etta M., Bertie O., and Nettie
P. [pages 546-547:MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES –
MEMORIAL RECORD OF THE NORTHERN PENINSULA OF
MICHIGAN – 1895
A SUDDEN PASSING
J.W. BUBANK DIED LAST EVENING AFTER A BREIF ILLNESS
Joseph W. Burbank died at 7 o'clock of asthma. He as 67 & leave wife & 4 children, Robert G., Mrs. Nettie Showalter, Mrs. Donald MacDonald & Bert. He is also survived by 1 brother, E. S. Burbank & 1 sister, Mrs. A. D. Wilson, both of New York. Mr. Burbank came to Iron Mountain from Fond du Lac, Wis. 20 years ago & was in the undertaking business.
(Thursday, February y8 1913, Iron Mountain Daily News, Dickinson, Michigan.)
The complete article can be found in the above newspaper at the Dickinson County Library, Iron Mountain, Michigan.
[Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings]
Commander of the G.A.R. Post, of Iron
Mountain, was born in Albany, New York,
June 30, 1846. His father, Robert G.
Burbank, was a native of Massachusetts,
was a piano-maker by trade, and followed
that occupation for Boardman & Gray, of
Albany, New York. The mother of our
subject, nee Mary Ann Silverd, was a
native of Montpelier, Vermont. They were the parents of six children, namely:
Edward S., Albina D., Joseph W., Robert
C., Sidney (deceased), and Emily
(deceased).
J.W. Burbank, the subject of this sketch,
remained in his native city until six years of
age, when he was adopted by his uncle,
Joseph Ward, of Randolph, Columbia
county, Wisconsin. In 1862, at the age of
sixteen years, he enlisted as a drummer
boy in Company H, Seventeenth Wisconsin
Volunteer Infantry, and served three years
and two months, receiving his discharge at
Goldsborough, North Carolina. Mr.
Burbank was taken sick at the battle of
Corinth, Mississippi, was sent to Memphis,
Tennessee, and two months afterward to
St. Louis, where he remained until the
capture of Vicksburg. Joining his regiment
at Natchez, Mississippi, he participated in
Sherman's march to the sea.
After returning from the war our subject
resided in Albany until 1868, and then
returned to his old home in Wisconsin, his
uncle having died in the fall of 1861. In the
spring of 1873 Mr. Burbank secured the
position of clerk in the store of N. Ludington
at Marquette, Wisconsin, and in the fall of
1880 was engaged by the same firm to run
the Pembina Farm Hotel, located forty miles
above the mouth of the Menominee river.
From the fall of 1880 until the spring of
1882 he resided on his own farm at
Stephenson, Michigan, was then engaged
in the piano and organ business in
Marquette until the spring of 1884, followed
the sewing-machine business at Fond du
Lac, Wisconsin, until the fall of 1887, from
that time until the fall of 1891 was employed
as a traveling salesman, worked in a
marble shop in Fond du Lac until July,
1892, and since that time has been
engaged in the furniture and undertaking
business in Iron Mountain.
Politically, Mr. Burbank allies himself
with the Republican party. In his social
relations, he has filled all the chairs in the
G.A.R. post, and is now serving his third
term as Commander of the P. O'Connell
Post, No. 426, Department of Michigan,
G.A.R.
July 2, 1876, Mr. Burbank was united in
marriage with Amanda P. Annas, a native
of New York, taken by her parents to Fond
du Lac, Wisconsin, when four years of age.
To this union have been born four children,
– Robert G., Etta M., Bertie O., and Nettie
P. [pages 546-547:MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES –
MEMORIAL RECORD OF THE NORTHERN PENINSULA OF
MICHIGAN – 1895
A SUDDEN PASSING
J.W. BUBANK DIED LAST EVENING AFTER A BREIF ILLNESS
Joseph W. Burbank died at 7 o'clock of asthma. He as 67 & leave wife & 4 children, Robert G., Mrs. Nettie Showalter, Mrs. Donald MacDonald & Bert. He is also survived by 1 brother, E. S. Burbank & 1 sister, Mrs. A. D. Wilson, both of New York. Mr. Burbank came to Iron Mountain from Fond du Lac, Wis. 20 years ago & was in the undertaking business.
(Thursday, February y8 1913, Iron Mountain Daily News, Dickinson, Michigan.)
The complete article can be found in the above newspaper at the Dickinson County Library, Iron Mountain, Michigan.
[Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings]
Mountain, was born in Albany, New York,
June 30, 1846. His father, Robert G.
Burbank, was a native of Massachusetts,
was a piano-maker by trade, and followed
that occupation for Boardman & Gray, of
Albany, New York. The mother of our
subject, nee Mary Ann Silverd, was a
native of Montpelier, Vermont. They were the parents of six children, namely:
Edward S., Albina D., Joseph W., Robert
C., Sidney (deceased), and Emily
(deceased).
J.W. Burbank, the subject of this sketch,
remained in his native city until six years of
age, when he was adopted by his uncle,
Joseph Ward, of Randolph, Columbia
county, Wisconsin. In 1862, at the age of
sixteen years, he enlisted as a drummer
boy in Company H, Seventeenth Wisconsin
Volunteer Infantry, and served three years
and two months, receiving his discharge at
Goldsborough, North Carolina. Mr.
Burbank was taken sick at the battle of
Corinth, Mississippi, was sent to Memphis,
Tennessee, and two months afterward to
St. Louis, where he remained until the
capture of Vicksburg. Joining his regiment
at Natchez, Mississippi, he participated in
Sherman's march to the sea.
After returning from the war our subject
resided in Albany until 1868, and then
returned to his old home in Wisconsin, his
uncle having died in the fall of 1861. In the
spring of 1873 Mr. Burbank secured the
position of clerk in the store of N. Ludington
at Marquette, Wisconsin, and in the fall of
1880 was engaged by the same firm to run
the Pembina Farm Hotel, located forty miles
above the mouth of the Menominee river.
From the fall of 1880 until the spring of
1882 he resided on his own farm at
Stephenson, Michigan, was then engaged
in the piano and organ business in
Marquette until the spring of 1884, followed
the sewing-machine business at Fond du
Lac, Wisconsin, until the fall of 1887, from
that time until the fall of 1891 was employed
as a traveling salesman, worked in a
marble shop in Fond du Lac until July,
1892, and since that time has been
engaged in the furniture and undertaking
business in Iron Mountain.
Politically, Mr. Burbank allies himself
with the Republican party. In his social
relations, he has filled all the chairs in the
G.A.R. post, and is now serving his third
term as Commander of the P. O'Connell
Post, No. 426, Department of Michigan,
G.A.R.
July 2, 1876, Mr. Burbank was united in
marriage with Amanda P. Annas, a native
of New York, taken by her parents to Fond
du Lac, Wisconsin, when four years of age.
To this union have been born four children,
– Robert G., Etta M., Bertie O., and Nettie
P. [pages 546-547:MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES –
MEMORIAL RECORD OF THE NORTHERN PENINSULA OF
MICHIGAN – 1895
A SUDDEN PASSING
J.W. BUBANK DIED LAST EVENING AFTER A BREIF ILLNESS
Joseph W. Burbank died at 7 o'clock of asthma. He as 67 & leave wife & 4 children, Robert G., Mrs. Nettie Showalter, Mrs. Donald MacDonald & Bert. He is also survived by 1 brother, E. S. Burbank & 1 sister, Mrs. A. D. Wilson, both of New York. Mr. Burbank came to Iron Mountain from Fond du Lac, Wis. 20 years ago & was in the undertaking business.
(Thursday, February y8 1913, Iron Mountain Daily News, Dickinson, Michigan.)
The complete article can be found in the above newspaper at the Dickinson County Library, Iron Mountain, Michigan.
[Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings]
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