Guy Miles Burnham was a newspaperman and author born in Aurora, Illinois. He attended Iowa State Normal School in Cedar Falls and graduated from Iowa State Agricultural College in Ames, IA with a BS in 1883.

After working on various newspapers in Chicago, he moved to Ashland in 1891, where he became city editor of the Ashland Press until 1912 and later an editor of the Ashland News. He was deputy collector of customs for the port of Ashland from 1897 until 1939.

An authority on the history of the Ashland area, he edited the Chequamegon column in the Ashland Press from 1924 until 1939, and was the author of Lake Superior in History and Story in 1930. It was largely due to his research that the site of the first white dwelling in Wisconsin was located. He was a curator of the State Historical Society from 1931 until 1939.

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