Burt Z. Kasson
Burt Zelotes Kasson was an American engineer and politician from New York.Life
He was the son of Harvey Zelotes Kasson and Ella Kasson. He graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy in 1897. He attended Harvard College, but left without degree during his junior year, and then became a mining engineer and surveyor.
On November 22, 1911, he married Grace Adams Martin, and they had several children, among them John Martin Kasson who was Clerk of Fulton County.
Kasson was a member of the Board of Supervisors of Fulton County from 1912 to 1915; and was Chairman of the Board for two years. He was a member of the New York State Assembly in 1916, 1917 and 1918; and a member of the New York State Senate in 1919 and 1920.
Later he was Fulton County Superintendent of Highways.
