Will County ILGenWeb Biographies..... Burnet, Thomas
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Author: History of Will County IL, 1878

Thomas BURNET, farmer; P. O. Tamarack; was born in Scotland in 1811, and is the son of 
James BURNET, a weaver by trade; Mr. BURNET, at the age of 12, commenced to learn his 
trade - weaver; this business be followed while in Scotland; in 1834, he emigrated to 
America; he first stopped in Saratoga Co., N. Y.; here he remained about one and a half 
years, then West to Michigan and thence to Connecticut, from Connecticut he returned to 
New York, and, in 1852, he came West and settled in Will Co., IL; here he has remained 
ever since. Mr. BURNET is one of the deacons in the Union Scotch Church in Wheatland. 
Married Miss M. WILLIE, of Ayrshire, Scotland, by whom they have three children. Mr. 
BURNET owns 105 acres of improved land. He was the cause of naming Tamarack, as, when 
he came West, he brought some tamarack trees with him; these were planted, and the 
present post office Tamarack derived its name from these trees.


Additional Comments:
HISTORY OF WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS; Chicago: Wm LeBaron Jr & Co, 186 Dearborn Street, 1878.