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Subject: [IAHENRY] Henry County Bio-Martin Burket
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 17:34:29 EST

>From Portrait and Biographical Album of Henry County, Iowa, Acme Publishing,
Chicago, 1888.

Page 236-237:

MARTIN F. BURKET has been a dealer in stoves, tinware and kindred articles in
Mt. Pleasant for twenty-one years. He was born in Huntingdon County, Pa.,
Dec.9, 1829, and is a son of John and Lydia (Funck) Burket, both natives of
Pennsylvania, and on both sides of German extraction. Our subject, when eight
years of age, was taken by his parents to Blair County, Pa., and seven years
later, when he was fifteen, to Center County, same State. In these places his
boyhood days were passed, living in the latter county until he was twenty-one.
He learned the tinsmith’s trade, and when about twenty-two years of age
embarked in business on his own account at Warrior’s Mark, Huntingdon County, where
he remained for over two years, then selling out to come west.



In the spring of 1855 Mr. Burket came to Iowa, locating at West Point, Lee
County, in which place he successfully carried on the trade until 1866, when he
came to Mt. Pleasant, and here he again engaged in the business of a stove and
tinware dealer, beside doing all kinds of jobbing in his line. For four
years, from 1876 to 1880, he had as a partner Oliver Griffith, but in the latter
year the firm sold out, and Mr. Burket worked as a journey-man until 1887, in
the spring of which year he recommenced business, and now carries a full stock,
besides being well prepared to do all kinds of work in his line. He is a good
mechanic, and has always borne the reputation of an upright business man.

Mr. Burket was married in Center County, Pa., Nov. 11,1852, to Miss Nancy
Glenn, daughter of John Glenn. She was born in Center County. Three children
were born to them, of whom one, a daughter, Ina S., died when nineteen years old.
Wilbur F. is married and lives at Lyons, Kan., and John G. is single and a
resident of Page County, Kan.

Mr. and Mrs. Burket are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In
politics he is a supporter of the Republican party, and socially is a member of
Mystic Lodge No. 55, I.O.O.F., and is personally held in esteem by his neighbors
and fellow-citizens.

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Pat Ryan White
Camarillo, CA

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