Bio: Burnett, David C. (1881)

Contact: crystal@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Burnett, Stahl, Haskin

----Source: The History of Northern Wisconsin, Marathon County, Wis. (1881) page 557

David C. Burnett, City Marshal, Wausau. First settled in Sauk County, with his parents, in 1856, where they lived a short time, and then removed to Lodi, and lived until 1864, when he went with his parents to near Coldwater, Mich., where they lived about five years. His father died at Corinth, Miss., in the meantime, having gone South, to work for the Government. Then himself and mother returned to Lodi, where he made it his home, until the Fall of 1876. He then sold his place, and moved to Wausau, where he has since lived, engaged in lumbering. He was elected City Marshal in the Spring of 1881. He was born in Gorham, Fulton Co., Ohio, Sept. 1, 1849. He was married in Lodi, in the Fall of 1874, to Louise Stahl; she died Oct. 11, 1876. He was again married, in Wausau, June 6, 1880, to Elnor Haskins, she was born in Wisconsin, March 29, 1849. He has one child by his first wife, named Samuel D.