Illinois:  History of Cass County, Illinois, ed. William Henry 
Perrin. O. L. Baskin & Co. Historical Publishers, Chicago, 1882.  
Cass County

CHARLES E. BURNS, carpenter; P. O. Beardstown; was born in 
Springfield, Ill., July 25, 1842; son of T.J. and Eleanor (Craig) 
Burns.  T.J. Burns, who was a carpenter, architect, and builder, 
was born in Baltimore, Md., in 1811, and died in May, 1868; his 
wife, who was a native of New York City, died Nov. 1, 1866.  They 
had a family of eleven children.  Charles E. received a fair 
education, attending the Beardstown school, the brick school 
house, five miles east of that town, and also the brick school 
house in Beardstown Precinct.  He began the business of life as a 
carpenter, in Chicago, Ill.; engaged in farming for a time; 
traveled several years on account of ill-health, and for the last 
five years has been contracting and building in Beardstown.  He 
was in the army three years, serving in Co. C., Third Ill. Cav., 
under Capt. Dunbar; in Co. A. 14th Ill. Infty., under Captains 
Thompson and Nolton, and also in the 47th Ill. Infty., under Capt. 
Licks.  In Beardstown, July 25, 1869, he married Caroline Brown, a 
native of Manchester, England, born Sept. 15, 1846, daughter of 
Samuel and Elizabeth Brown, and by this union they have been 
blessed with four children:  Eleanor E., Lida M. (deceased), 
Benjamin F., Russell C. (deceased).  Mr. Burns is a Democrat; is a 
member of Protection Lodge No. 22, A.O.U.W., in Beardstown, and is 
connected with the Congregational Church.

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