Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 7th ed.,
Campbell Co.

JOHN BURKE, a native of Lawrence County, Ohio, was born in 1848, and is a
son of Samuel and Mary (Griffith) Burke.  Samuel Burke, a son of William
Burke, was born in 1807, emigrated from Greenbrier County, Va., to Ohio
in 1809; he was a farmer and was commissioner of Lawrence many years; he
died in 1879.  William Burke was an Irishman by birth, and was a leading
citizen of the county in early times.  Mr. Burke, the mother of our
subject, was a daughter of Frederick and Ruth (Osborn) Griffith, of
Pennsylvania but of German descent.  Frederick Griffith was a farmer and
also a collier.  Mrs. Burke was born in Lawrence County, Ohio, in 1816,
and died in 1872, a member of the United Brethren Church.  John Burke,
the seventh in a family of eight children, was reared on the farm, and
received his education at Lebanon, Ohio, having had but two months'
schooling a year until he was twenty-one years of age.  He was graduated
in 1871, since which time he has taught eight years in normal school,
and also served as county examiner of Lawrence County.  From the latter
county he moved to Newport Ky., where for four years he was principal of
the First District schools, and afterward superintendent of the public
schools and principal of the high school.  In 1872 he married Miss Lena
M. Johnson, of Lawrence County, Ohio.  Eight children blessed their
union, six of whom are living: Blanche, Alma, Myrtle, Lena, Roxy and
John V.  Mr. Burke is a member of the I. O. O. F. and Masonic fraternity,
is a Republican in politics, and, with his wife, is a member of the
Baptist Church.

Burke Griffith Osborn Johnson
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Lawrence-OH Greenbrier-VA OH Ireland PA

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