DR. GEORGE W. BURNS, long a physician of Wilmington, but now of White Hall, was born in Mercer county, Penn., and is the son of Thomas and Sarah (Duff) Burns. Of this marriage Dr. Burns was the second child; his education was received in the district schools of his native place; for some time he became a school teacher, and then entered the Lebanon Academy. Prior to the war he studied medicine under Dr. T. H. Fulton. He enlisted in Co. A, 139th Penn. Inf., and was wounded at the second battle of Fredericksburg; transferred to the Army Medical Corps as an assistant to some of the most eminent army surgeons, he gained an experience that has helped materially to make of him a skillful physician and surgeon; he was among those detailed to bury the dead after the famous second battle of Bull Run; among the battles participated in by him were Antietam and Fredericksburg. While on duty at Armory Square hospital he was the student of Prof. G. K. Smith, of the Long Island College hospital. When the war closed he returned to Pennsylvania, where he studied medicine under Dr. White of Harlemsburg; preceding to Philadelphia, he attended the medical college there for two terms pursuing the higher medical studies; in 1868 he moved to Wilmington, Greene county, where his skill as a physician is well known. In 1872 he was united in marriage with Helen M. Black. He is now numbered among the physicians of White Hall.