Charles Alonzo Burns (January 3, 1863 – December 31, 1930) was a Massachusetts, USA, businessman and politician who served on the Board of Aldermen and as the fifteenth mayor of Somerville, Massachusetts.
[3] Burns attended St Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, and Chauncey Hall School in Boston, from which he graduated in 1881.
They had three children: Robert A., Charles Henry and Elizabeth.
[1] Burns first entered into the business of manufacturing cotton yarn in Wilton.
[1] He later managed soapstone quarries in Chester, Vermont, and in Virginia, and in 1893 moved to Somerville where he worked as the president of the Union Soapstone Co.[2] In 1927, Burns moved to Winchester, Massachusetts.