
Born: May 24, 1887, University Place, Lancaster County, Nebraska.
Died: February 17, 1958, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Buried: Forest Home Cemetery, Forest Park, Illinois.

Burton was the son of Frederick Burton Bosworth and Amelia Brydia, husband of Margaret E. Robinson, and father-in-law of Merrill Dunlop.
He and his brother Fred were Pentecostal evangelists, based in the Chicago, Illinois, area.