I'm researching the Robery Burns family. Robert was originally from Maine. I have the following information from him which I found in an old newspaper:

Author: Luther A. Ingersoll, Editor (1893)

ROBERT Burns, who resides near Mulberry, San Benito County, CA, is one of the most substantial farmers of the country.

Mr. Burns is a native of Madison, a town on the Kennebec River in Somerset County, Maine, and was born May 18, 1839. His father, Samuel S. Burns, a farmer by occupation, was of Scotch nativity and a relative of Robert Burns, the eminent Scotch poet. The subject of our sketch came to California in 1860, making the journey via Panama, and landing at San Francisco. He located at San Juan, on the San Justo ranch, and in 1878 went to San Luis Obispo, where he continued stock raising, operating on the Huerbuero ranch. In 1884, he took up his abode on his present farm, 640 acres, on the San Benito Creek.

Mr. Burns was married in 1870 to Miss Floretta Willington, a native of Maine. Their four children are: Willis L., Mabel E., Gertrude and Herbert, all living at present with their parents.

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Robert's son Herbert married my great aunt Ruth Mullen and their son was Robert Lowell Burns (born in 1925). If anyone has any more information about the family, please let me know!

Thanks!

Laura (Mullen) Zupko