PORTAGE COUNTY OHIO
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File contributed to the Ohio Biographies Project by:
Betty Ralph
bralph@HiWAAY.net
February 5, 2000
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Copyright © 1999 by  Betty Ralph. This copy contributed for use in
the OH Biographies Project.  bralph@hiwaay.net


from "History of Portage County, Ohio" published by Warner, Beers & Co., 
Chicago, 1885

WARREN BURT, farmer, P.O. Kent, was born in Southampton, Mass., August 6,
1806, son of Martin and Philomela (Robinson) Burt, who settled in Franklin
Township, this county, in 1821, locating in the vicinity of Brady’s Lake,
where they lived and died.  They had six children:  Warren, Martin, Horace
(deceased), Dorcas C. (Mrs. Rodney Wing), Philomela (Mrs. Ormsby) and Electa
(Mrs. Samuel Wales.)  Our subject received a limited common school
education, and in 1828 settled on the farm now owned by Alonzo Johnson,
where he lived until 1863, when he removed to his present place.  He was
married, November 30, 1829, to Lydia, daughter of Selah and Pruanna
(Phillips) Shirtliff, who came from Hampden County, Mass., to Franklin
Township, this county, in 1819.  By this union there are two children:
Louisa A. (Mrs. T.M. Sawyer), of Akron, and Selah W.  Mr. and Mrs. Burt are
members of the disciples Church, with which they have been identified upward
of sixty years.  In politics Mr. Burt is a Republican.