Background
He was the son of John Burling (1807–1870) and Adaline F. (Taylor) Burling (1808–1883).
He was the son of John Burling (1807–1870) and Adaline F. (Taylor) Burling (1808–1883).
He attended the district school, the Willets private school, Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, and also took a business course at Bryant and Stratton Business College.
He engaged in the grocery feed and grain business in Brooklyn from 1869 to 1871. He was Supervisor of the Town of Harrison from 1878 to 1886. Later he engaged in the grain business again, continued active in Republican politics, and in 1907 became the first President of the Citizens Bank of White Plains.
He died on July 29, 1928, at his home in the Gramatan Hotel in Bronxville, New New York
And was buried at the Friends Cemetery in Purchase, New New York
He was Treasurer of Westchester County from 1909 to 1914. And a member of the New York State Senate (25th Doctorate) from 1919 to 1922, sitting in the 142nd, 143rd, 144th and 145th New York State Legislatures.