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Charles Hiram Burnett Jr.
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Charles Hiram Burnett, Jr. was a Seattle City Councilor, President of the Seattle City Council and Acting Mayor of Seattle. Burnett officiated at the grand opening of Pike Place Market with fellow City Councilor Thomas P. Revelle.
Burnett was born in 1875 in Seattle, Washington. He was the son of Charles Hiram Burnett Sr and Jeanette McLean. Jeanette died when Charles Hiram Burnett Jr and his sister Amy Louise Burnett Bond were children. The two were raised as the foster children of Howard Cranston Potter and Alice Kershaw Potter. Charles Hiram Burnett Jr. was active in Puget Sound real estate and insurance businesses. The family were involved with development of made land created by the lowering of the surface of Lake Washington in 1916 His wife was Mary Florence Goodfellow of Seattle, Washington. In Wenatchee, Washington, three of Mary's brothers, John, James, and George Goodfellow, founded Goodfellow Brothers. Their son Charles H. "Buster" Burnett III moved to Maui where he worked for Alexander & Baldwin in a series of management jobs and eventually became manager of Pu'unene Sugarmill in Pu'unene, Hawaii. Charles Burnett Jr. moved to Maui, Hawaii about 1935 with his wife. They lived at Haiku Plantation Haiku-Pauwela, Hawaii, and owned Haiku Poultry Farm. Charles Hiram Burnett Jr. died in May 1941, and his wife Mary died in March 1962.
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