| James W. Burhans |
| James W. Burhans, of the firm of Burhans
Brothers, proprietors of the Burlington House, Postville,
was born in Nov., 1824, in New York, came to Rock County,
Wisconsin, in 1845, remaining till 1865, when he returned
to New York, and in 1868 moved to Camden, Missouri, where
he engaged in farming six years; after which, in company
with a brother, he engaged in general merchandising. In
the winter of 1882 he came to Postville and engaged as
above. He married Miss Mary M. Davis, of New York, in
1848. She died in Missouri in 1873, leaving one daughter
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