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Aug 17, 1823 Died on 18 Oct 1894 (aged 71)
Confederate Army officer
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About James H. Burton
- James H.
- Burton (August 17, 1823 – October 18, 1894) was born in Shenandoah Spring, Virginia.
- Educated at the Westchester Academy in Pennsylvania, Burton entered a Baltimore machine shop at age 16.
- In April 1844, he went to work at the Harpers Ferry Armory, serving as a machinist.
- He subsequently served as Foreman of the Rifle Factory Machine Shop, where he gained a considerable amount of knowledge and respect for the work of John H.
- Hall.
- Hall pioneered mechanized arms production and interchangeable manufacture at Harpers Ferry between 1820-1840.
- According to Burton, Hall's Rifle Works housed "not an occasional machine, but a plant of milling machinery by which the system and economy of the manufacture was materially altered." During the next three decades, Burton followed Hall's example by furthering the mechanization of arms production.
