They Left Their Mark: William Austin Burt and His Sons, Surveyors of the Public DomainWilliam Austin Burt, son of Alvin Burt and Wealthy Austin, was born in 1792 in Petersham, Massachusetts. He married Phebe Cole in 1813 in New York. They moved to Michigan in 1824. He died in 1858 in Detroit, Michigan. |
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