"He was an African American doctor,poet,and medical association administrator.
He was born near Tates Creek,Kentucky.Thomas was the youngest of 15 children for Edward & Eliza Burton,who were slaves.His daddy died when he was five and his mama died when he was nine.
In 1881,Thomas attended Brea College in Kentucky .In 1889 he moved to Indianapolis,working with Dr.William Chavis ,waiting tables,working in a lumberyard ,and in private families to pay for school.From 1890-1891,he attended the Medical College of Indiana,and a year later,the Eclectic College of Physicians and Surgeons ,where he graduated on March 24,1892.
After becoming a full-fledged M.D.,he moved to Springfield,Ohio,April 5,1892,and started his own practice of medicine and surgery.On August 3,1893,he married Hattie B.Taylor of Cynthiana,Kentucky. In 1897,after serving as a doctor in the Army,he wrote a few articles for the articles the "Eclectic Medical Journal" printed monthly at Cincinnati.
Thomas also saw the need of a state medical society composed of Negro Physicians.He and a colleague,Dr.H.R. Hawkins of Xenia,Ohio,organized the Ohio Mutual Medical Association .In 1910,he published his first book,"What Experience Has Taught Me; An Autobiography of Thomas William Burton." When Dr. Burton the following day his picture with the announcement of his death was on the front page of the Springfield Daily News.
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