Benjamin Franklin Burch (1825 - 1893)

Born 2 May 1825 in Chariton, Missouri, USA

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Died 24 Mar 1893 at age 67 in Independence, Oregon, USA

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Biography

Benjamin Franklin Burch was an American farmer, soldier, and politician in what became the state of Oregon. A native of Missouri, he moved to the Oregon Country in 1845 and served in the Cayuse and Yakima wars. A Democrat, he represented Polk County at the Oregon Constitutional Convention, in the Oregon House of Representatives, and in the Oregon State Senate including one session as President of the Senate.

He was born in Chariton County, Missouri, on May 2, 1825, to Samuel Burch and Eleanor (née Lock) Burch. In 1845, he crossed the Great Plains on the Oregon Trail bound for the Oregon Country. He settled in what became Polk County in the Willamette Valley of Oregon. At the time it was under the authority of the Provisional Government of Oregon, and in 1848 became the Oregon Territory. In 1846, he helped Jesse Applegate and Levi Scott build the Applegate Trail, a route to the valley through Southern Oregon.

On September 6, 1848, he married Kentucky native Eliza A. Davidson who had immigrated to Oregon from Illinois the year before. They had seven children, including Benjamin, Jr. During the Yakima War in 1856 Burch served as a captain of a company of militia.

United States Census, 1870 for Oregon:

• Benjamin Burch M 45 Missouri
• Eliza Burch F 42 Kentucky
• Samuel Burch M 15 Oregon

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Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin_Burch

"United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHHW-JSV : 12 April 2016), Benjn F Birch, Polk county, Polk, Oregon Territory, United States; citing family 80, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

"United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDQV-M9S : 13 December 2017), B P Burch, 1860.

"United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MF81-99S : 12 April 2016), Benjamin Burch, Oregon, United States; citing p. 21, family 204, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 552,786.

"United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MNCP-XSR : 16 July 2017), B F Burch, Buena Vista and Luckamute, Polk, Oregon, United States; citing enumeration district ED 107, sheet 499B, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 1083; FHL microfilm 1,255,083.

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