George Baxter Burrows (October 20, 1832 – February 25, 1909) was an American businessman, Republican politician, and Wisconsin pioneer.
That year, Burrows moved to Madison, Wisconsin, where he purchased the Northwestern Land Agency from James Richardson.
[5] In the mid-1870s, Burrows purchased a home located at 406 N. Pinckney Street which had been built in 1858 by Wisconsin Supreme Court justice Orsamus Cole.
In 1894, Burrows rebuilt the porches and roof, and he also added the two-story projecting octagonal tower, featuring leaded glass windows and ornately carved limestone columns and quoins.
Burrows did make a run for the seat in 1884, but was defeated by Democrat James Conklin, who had recently completed three years as mayor of Madison.
[11] Burrows died February 25, 1909, at the Madison Sanitarium, where he had been a patient for several months, suffering from Catarrh of the stomach.
Baxter Burrows was an ordained Baptist minister and a staunch abolitionist who supported the Liberty Party and worked as part of the Underground Railroad.
[1][3] George Burrows' maternal grandfather was John Boynton, a colonel of the Massachusetts militia in the American Revolutionary War.