The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 1040 

ALFRED W. BURNS, D. D. S.

A splendidly equipped office is indicative of the high efficiency to which Dr.
Alfred W. Burns has attained in the practice of dentistry. He ranks with the
leading representatives of the profession in Yakima, where since 1903 he has
made his home and engaged in active practice. He was born in Buffalo, New York,
August 29, 1878, a son of John Byron and Lillian (Hotchkiss) Burns. The father
was a physician who practiced in Yakima to the time of his death, which occurred
in 1917. He had been a resident on the Pacific coast since 1888, at which time
he made his way to California, there following his profession until 1900, when
he came to Yakima, where he opened an office. He was in general practice from
that time until his demise and served as health officer of Yakima. He was also
prominent in Masonry, attaining the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite,
and he occupied the chairs in the various branches of the order. Moreover, he
was the only man ever elected for a second term as exalted ruler of the Elks
lodge of Yakima. His genuine personal worth, his fidelity to any cause which he
espoused and his professional skill placed him high in the regard of his fellow
townsmen.

Dr. Alfred W. Burns pursued a public school education and supplemented it by a
year's study in the University of Buffalo. He was afterward graduated from the
Northern Pacific Dental College of Portland, Oregon, as a member of the class of
1903, after which he returned to Yakima, where the family home had been
established in 1900. Through the intervening period of sixteen years he has
continued in active and successful practice here. His standing in the profession
is indicated in the fact that he has been made a member of the state board of
dental examiners.

On the 10th of June, 1914, Dr. Burns was united in marriage to Miss Marion
Miller, a daughter of Alexander Miller, one of the prominent grain merchants of
this section of the state, mentioned elsewhere in this work. Dr. and Mrs. Burns
have a son, John L., now three years of age.

The Doctor belongs to Yakima Lodge, No. 24, F. & A. M., also to the Elks lodge,
the Knights of Pythias and to the Country Club and the Commercial Club. His
interests are broad and varied and his intelligently directed activities have
brought him prominently to the front in his chosen field of labor. Those who
know him, and his friends are legion, speak of him in terms of high personal
regard and Yakima is proud to claim him as a citizen.

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Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in January 2008 by Jeffrey L. Elmer.
Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.