(died 1925 aged 77), ranch manager. Born at Cashion’s Glen, GC. Burton, who followed a mining career, was a cousin of the railway contractors Angus A. and Lewis A. Grant. With them he was one of the directors of the Moraga Land Association which in 1889 undertook to develop a tract of more than 13,000 acres in the Moraga Valley, California. The Moraga Land Association lost its land in 1899 but Arthur Burton remained as manager of the Moraga Company Ranch at the same location. His obituary described him as superintendent of the Moraga grant for 35 years. The house he occupied as ranch manager is called the Burton Mansion and still survives in Burton Valley, which is named after him. His name is also commemorated in the nearby Burton Train Station. He died at Oakland, Calif. John A. Burton, who was also one of the directors of the Moraga Land Association of 1889, was probably Arthur’s brother. It is undetermined whether these 2 Burtons can be linked with the Burton of “Messrs. M’Rae, M’Phee & Burton, railroad contractors,” a firm or business grouping of evident GC connections which in 1887 was employing Glengarrians on a railway contract in Michigan. (Glengarrian 6 & 13 May 1887)

Obituary from unnamed California paper, repr. Cornwall Standard 2 April 1925 * Sandy Kimball, Moraga’s Pride: Rancho Laguna de los Palos Colorados (1987) * private information * Moraga Land Association: see A. A. Grant