History of Fulton County, Illinois; together with
Sketches of its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious,
Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons
and Biographies of Representative Citizens. Chas. C. Chapman & Co.,
Peoria, Illinois, 1879, page 471, Banner Township
Dilazon Burhans, farmer, sec. 18; P. O., Canton. His father,
Peter I., was a native of New York State and died in 1863; his mother,
Sabrina (Seeley), was born in Connecticut, and died in 1855. Dilazon
was born in Kingston, Ulster Co., N. Y., in 1822; married Miss Jane M.
Turck at Saugerties, N. Y., April 29, 1843, who was of the same age and
nativity, and they have had 6 children, as follows: Melissa, born in
1844 and died April 25, 1846; Eugene, born in 1846 and died Oct. 13,
1866; Charles H., born Jan. 25, 1850, and died June 7, 1852; John
Harvey, born July 16, 1853; Adrian, born Nov. 13, 1859; and Wesley,
born Oct. 22, 1861. Mr. B. was formally a carpenter and worked as a
contractor. He now owns 225 acres of land. He and his wife joined the
M. E. Church 37 years ago, but are now members of the M. P. church.
Democrat. Emigration, first to Brooklyn, N. Y., thence in 1860 to this
county, where they have ever since resided, except 5 years back in N.
Y. and Penn. Mr. B. says that his forefathers have been natives of this
country as far back as 1646, when two brothers came from Holland, one
of which settled in New York, the other in Kingston on the Hudson
river. One of the brothers was the first 'Squire of New York and also
of Ulster county, N. Y. The families have increased and there are some
of them living in various parts of the east and west. Mr. D. Burhans'
grandparents lived in Kingston when it was burnt up by the British.
