Franklin

BURTON, Oscar Augustus

Encyclopedia Vermont Biography: A Series of Authentic Biographical Sketches 
of the Representative Men of Vermont and Sons of Vermont in Other States. 
Dodge. Burlington: Ullery Publishing Company, 1912, p 135

Oscar Augustus BURTON, physician and banker, Albert Lea [Freeborn County], 
Minnesota, was born 10 April 1870 in St. Albans Bay [Franklin County, 
Vermont], son of Carlos Carlton and Lemira Sophia (BARSTOW) BURTON. Educated 
at St. Albans and Albert Lea, Minnesota; Coe College, Cedar Rapids [Linn 
County], Iowa; Carleton College, Northfield [Rice County], Minnesota; College 
of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York; Rush Medical 
College, Chicago University, Chicago [Cook County, Illinois], 1898; St. 
Luke's Hospital, Chicago, 1898-1900; Vienna, Austria, 1903; practiced at 
Albert Lea, Minnesota, 1900-1908; chairman of board of health meanwhile; 
United States pension examiner; secretary Freeborn County Medical Society 
several years; local surgeon Illinois Central Railway; examiner for insurance 
companies; not engaged in active practice since 1908.

In 1904 [Dr. Oscar Augustus BURTON] married [Miss?] Alice Emilia HIBBS of 
Albert Lea [Freeborn County], Minnesota; they had four children: Alice 
Barstow, Frances Heston, Elizabeth Hibbs (deceased), and Annah Lemira. Dr. 
BURTON is interested in investments in Manatee County, Florida; is vice 
president of Citizens Bank of Sarasota, Florida. Republican. Presbyterian 
elder. Member Masonic fraternity; American Medical Association; Minnesota 
State Medical Association; Freeborn County, Minnesota, Medical Society; 
American Association of Railway Surgeons; and Phi Pho Sigma fraternity.

[Unknown to submitter if Bigelow BURTON was related to this family. A note 
about Bigelow BURTON, in the section on the history of Peru, Bennington 
County, Vermont (in Vermont Historical Magazine, No XI, October 1867, page 
212) relates the following: "Bigelow BURTON, grandson of Reuben BIGELOW, 
graduated at Union College, Schenectady [New York], and became a physician. 
Several others [BURTON], from Peru, have studied professions, and are now 
scattered here and there, exerting an influence, we trust, for good."]

Submitted by Cathy Kubly