“B “is for Burton, Edward Milby (1898-1977). Museum director, naturalist, historian. Born in Pennsylvania, Burton's family moved to Charleston when he was only two months old. After graduating from high school in Charleston, he went to work for his family's lumber company. In 1924 he joined a prominent insurance firm and married Sally Morris Pinkney. He became a trustee of the Charleston Museum in 1930 and in 1932 was appointed its director, a position for which he was well suited. During the 1930s he secured the historic Joseph Manigault House for the museum, thereby saving it from destruction. Edward Milby Burton's intense interest in the culture and history of the South Carolina lowcountry resulted in three landmark books: South Carolina Silversmiths, 1690-1860; Charleston Furniture, 1700-1825; and the critically acclaimed Civil War narrative The Siege of Charleston, 1861-1865.
“B “is for Burton, Edward Milby (1898-1977)
