Burnett was born in 1871 in Pennsylvania. He married a woman named Nellie from Iowa. Her parents were from Scotland. His father was originally from Ireland and his mother came from Scotland.

He operated the Klondike Bar in town and the 1910 census lists him as a “salon Keeper”.  He later served as a Town Councilman.

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