MARTIN V. BURDICK 1826-1886

BURDICK

Posted By: Volunteer
Date: 6/30/2005 at 13:57:09

Died, at the residence of Geo. W. HALSTED, near Cresco, Iowa, on Saturday, May 8th, 1886, of paralysis and a complication of other diseases, Martin V. BURDICK, aged 60 years, two months and four days. We could wish that some other pen than ours might be given the task of writing these last words of our departed brother. The task has been ours so often in the past few years to write an obituary notice of a beloved relative and dear one who has been suddenly snatched away from us and hidden forever beneath the cold clods of the valley, that we are almost heart sick and our brain is hardly equal to the task of forming words fitting for the occasion. But there is none other who will be expected to say publicly these last words of good bye, and hence we assume the sad duty, trusting that when, in the now not distant future, we shall go down into the valley of shadows, some friend who still lingers by the wayside, may say a word of final farewell for us.

Martin V. BURDICK, was born in Pennsylvania, March 4th, 1826. In 1839, with his parents, he removed to Kane county, Ills., where he spent a few years at work on the farm, but his health never being good, he decided to study law and did so in the office of Edmund GIFFORD, of Elgin, Ill. After being admitted to the bar he removed to Iowa. In 1851, settling in Fayette county, afterward in West Union, where he resided a few years, removing thence to Howard county in 1854, practicing law and giving some attention to real estate and farming. [remainder was cut off]

- note: Mr. Burdick was the brother of the long-time editor of the Postville Review.
- source: Postville Review; 3/15/1886
- submitted by Sharyl Ferrall