[2] Born on 4 October 1881 in Cincinnati, Ohio, the son of Caspar H. Burton and Byrd Waithman.
He was ordained deacon in 1907 by the Bishop of New Hampshire Edward M. Parker, and priest in 1908 by the Coadjutor Bishop of Fond du Lac Reginald Heber Weller.
[4] He was initially curate at the Church of St John the Evangelist in Oxford, and after a period as a novice was then professed as a religious in 1912.
On November 3, 1938, he was elected Suffragan Bishop of Haiti and the Dominican Republic and consecrated on May 3, 1939 at Trinity Church Boston by Presiding Bishop Henry St. George Tucker.
A college he founded during his episcopate recently celebrated its 60th anniversary.