Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1907 — NEW G. A. R. CHIEF. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NEW G. A. R. CHIEF.

C. G. Barton Chenen Commander of the Grand Army of the Republic. Charles G. Burton, who has been elected commander of the National G. A. R., was a resident of Nevada, Mo., several

years ago until his ippointment in ID<XS to he, revenue col"Ctoi*at Kansas City; He has been judge of the twentyfifth district and tlso served in the Fifty-fourth Congress and for many ears has been a leader in Republican ■oiities. Judge Buron was born at Cleveland, Ohio, in !H4({,and entered the Union army at tho ge of 15. Illness ompelled his discharge in a short time, but ho again

enlisted in ISUt, and served with the One Hundred and Seventy-first Ohio in a hundred days’ campaign. After tbe war closed be studied law and was admitted to the bar at Warren, Ohio. He then went to Missouri and speedily made a name for himself in legal circles. Before being elected to a judgeship he had been Circuit attorney and prosecuting attorney, and he has sat as special judge in important ca«ea.

CHAS. G. BURTON.