About Isaac Burns
Lived 1869 – 1946 (aged 76). Isaac Burns was a politician.
Isaac Burns (9 November 1869 – 7 February 1946), often known as Ike Burns, was a British trade unionist and political activist.
Born in Moor Row in Cumberland, Burns worked from the age of twelve in an iron ore mine at Yarlside, joining the Cumberland Iron Ore Miners' Association on his first day. He was one of twelve children, but after his father was injured in an accident, he became the main wage earner for his family.
The mines in Yarlside were flooded in 1891, and Burns moved to Hemsworth in Yorkshire to find work at the South Kirkby Colliery. Later in the year, he migrated to the United States, working at copper, silver and gold mines from Montana to Arizona, but he returned to Hemsworth in 1895, and joined the Yorkshire Miners' Association (YMA).
In 1922, Hemsworth was given an Urban District Council, and Burns was elected to it, chairing it on two occasions.
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British trade unionist and political activist
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Isaac Burns was born on 9 November 1869.
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Isaac Burns died on 7 February 1946.
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Isaac Burns was a politician.
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