Background
Burwell, Benjamin Franklin was born on April 15, 1866 in Armstrong Company, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Joseph Yarenton and Maxia (Lanham) Burwell.
Burwell, Benjamin Franklin was born on April 15, 1866 in Armstrong Company, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Joseph Yarenton and Maxia (Lanham) Burwell.
Education public and normal schools, West Virginia.
Admitted to bar, 1890. Practiced at Gypsum City, Kansas, 1890-1891, Oklahoma City, since 1891. Candidate for probate judge, Oklahoma Company, 1892.
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma, 1898-1908.
Resumed practice, 1908.
Married Agnes Jane Carnahan, December 25, 1888.