Kalkaska County MI Archives Biographies.....Burnham, Allen E April 14, 1830 - 
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Author: H.R. Page & Co., 1884 - Chicago


"The Traverse Region, Historical and Descriptive, with Illustrations of 
Scenery and Portraits and Biographical Sketches of some of its Prominent Men 
and Pioneers"
Chicago: H.R. Page & Co., 1884
Page 319

ALLEN E. BURNHAM, carpenter and joiner and farmer, was born in Shelby, Orleans 
County, N. Y., April 14, 1830. He came with his parents to Washtenaw County, 
Mich., in 1833, and, with the exception of two years, remained there until his 
removal to Traverse Region. In August, 1847, he enlisted in Company D, First 
Michigan Infantry, and served his country in the Mexican war until its close. 
His honorable discharge was on July 26, 1848.  On April 6, 1854, he was 
married to Miss Nancy A. Squier, of Milan, Monroe County. She was born in 
Villanovia, Chautauqua County, N. Y., Dec. 7, 1880. Their children are Charles 
E., William A. and Minnie G. In October, 1872, Mr. Burnham located lands in 
Section 20, in Cold Springs, Kalkaska County, and opened them a pioneer home 
in the waving forest, before Kalkaska village was commenced. He then had to 
obtain their supplies from Grand Traverse and Elk Rapids. He thinks his was 
the third family that settled in that township. After clearing forty acres and 
erecting good buildings on his homestead land, he sold it, and in March, 1882, 
removed to Section 36, where he is again causing the wilderness to bud and 
blossom as the rose. He took part in the organization of Cold Springs 
Township; was its first treasurer and its second supervisor. He has also been 
superintendent of schools, highway commissioner and justice of the peace. He 
is a member of the I. O. O. F. In the fall of 1864, Sept. 1, he again 
enlisted, and on November 3 mustered Company B, Hall's Battalion Independent 
Sharpshooters, Michigan Volunteers (afterward consolidated with the First 
Michigan Volunteers). He received his commission as captain and served until 
honorably discharged April 10, 1865. His regiment was the first to plant the 
Union flag in Petersburg.

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