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BURTON, ALONZO, far., Sec. 25; P. O. Denmark; son of Henry Burton, who was born in Connecticut; at the time of the Revolutionary war, was 16 years of age; enlisted and served through the war. When 30 years of age, he married Ann Hazen, who was born in Connecticut, and was the youngest of sixteen children; had nine children — five sons and four daughters; Alonzo, the youngest, was born in Norwich, Vt., in 1809; at the age of 26, he came to Lee Co., and settled where he now resides, and owns 110 acres of land, valued at $50 per acre. May 18, 1846, at his native town, he married Miss Eliza A., daughter of Harry Lyman; she was born in Vermont in August, 1826; with his wife, he returned to Lee Co., where she died in August of the same year. In the spring of 1850, joining the great emigration at that time, he took the overland route for California, stopping, for a time, in Oregon and Washington Territories; he arrived at Shasta the following winter; he remained there, mining and lumbering, for six years, then, via Panama and New York, returned to Lee Co., and, on the 24th of December, 1857, he married Miss Cynthia, daughter of Asahel Case, formerly of Connecticut; moved to Ohio, and to Lee Co., in 1856; she was born in Ashtabula Co., Ohio, in 1820; they have two children — Anna L., born in November, 1860, and Alonzo F., born in February, 1863. Liberal in politics, and has held various township and school offices.