Very little has been discovered about Charles beyond basic vital statistics. He was born in 1857 and first arrived in Peru in 1906 when he became manager of the Peru Electrical Company. By 1910 he was a widower living with his twenty-eight-year-old son, his sixteen-year-old daughter, and his eighty-one-year-old mother. On January 30, 1917 Charles was elected to the Board of Directors at the meeting of Miami County American Red Cross. He did not serve long though, because in 1918 he relocated and went to work as a manager of an electrical company in Trenton, New Jersey. At age 73, in 1930, Charles moved back to Peru. He became a member of the Rotary Club, the Peru Baptist Church and the Masonic Lodge. Then on September 20, 1935 Charles passed away. He is buried at Mount Hope Cemetery.
Researched, written
and submitted by Mary Rohrer Dexter
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Cited
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Burton Is Dead At Peru.” Logansport Press, 22 Sept.
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