Burdine, Rev. Dr. Hugh

BURDINE, HARRIS

Posted By: Gary Norris (email)
Date: 1/3/2013 at 10:17:56

The History of Poweshiek County, Iowa
Des Moines: Union Hist. Co., 1880.

BURDINE, Rev. Dr. HUGH - Deep River Twp - pg 711-12. P.O. Deep River, and resides in the village of Dresden. He was born in Morrow county, Ohio, February 22, 1831, and raised a farmer boy. He conceived an early ambition to make something of himself, and especially aspired to a good education. Being poor, and having his mother as well as himself to support, in spite of his hard struggles, at first he could make but slow progress. By untiring effort he won the privilege of attending two terms at the high school in Delaware, Ohio, and five months at the Martinsburg (Ohio) Academy. Besides this he enjoyed no school advantages, but wore out many books in his pocket, which he kept constantly with him for study in the intervals of his work. His studies at this time were all directed toward fitting himself for the ministry, and he entered the Ohio Central Christian Conference in the fall of 1860, having been converted when sixteen years of age in the M.P. Church, from which he transferred his membership in the spring of 1853. His first appointment was to Veil - s Church, in Delaware county, Ohio, where he spent a successful year. After serving other charges he left that Conference, and is at present connected with the Iowa Conference. He was regularly ordained in September, 1863. Dr. Burdine acquired his medical education by his own unaided efforts, save only enjoying the brief privilege of reading medicine with Dr. Ira Brown, of his native county. In 1868 he left Ohio, and, after stopping three months in Crawford county, Illinois, where he was detained by an accident which resulted in the loss of his right eye, he arrived in Keokuk county, Iowa, about the 20th of March, 1869. He lived there for the next five years, when he moved to his present place, and immediately entered upon the practice of his medical profession. The doctor married Miss Rhoda A. Harris, of his native place, September 20, 1853. Mrs. Burdine was born April 6, 1833, and was converted when but thirteen years old. Their children are as follows: Ira C. (born April 24, 1855, and married Miss Anna Richey, of Deep River township), John H. (born November 7, 1856), Rachel E. (born November 7, 1858), Hugh P. (born March 20, 1861), Wm. E. (born December 7, 1864), Charlotte O. (born March 17, 1870), and Luella (born September 1, 1874), besides three dead.