Burton Edmond Green (September 6, 1868 – May 13, 1965) was an American oilman and real estate developer.

Burton Edmond Green was born on September 6, 1868, near Madison, Wisconsin.

[2] Green worked as an orange grower in Redlands, California for five years.

[2] He then decided to return to Los Angeles and invest in the oil industry.

Porter and Frank H. Balch, known as the Amalgamated Oil Company, he purchased Rancho Rodeo de las Aguas from Henry Hammel and Andrew H. Denker and renamed it Morocco Junction.

[1][4] He hired architects Wilbur David Cook and Myron Hunt to design the master plans of the city.

[1] They had three daughters: Dorothy (Dolly), Liliore, and Burton, who was named after her father.