Alfred Burdick

BURDICK

Posted By: Gordon Felland (email)
Date: 10/5/2005 at 22:30:58

Alfred Burdick, farmer and retired merchant, is a native of Pennsylvania. He was born Aug. 24, 1830. He lived there until 1854, when he went to Adrian, Mich.; lived there one year; thence to Rock Island, Ill.; lived there six months; the moved to Decorah, Iowa; lived there one year; then moved to Osage, Mitchell Co., Iowa, in 1856; lived there one year, and moved to Bristol township, Worth county, Iowa, where he has continued to live up to the present time. He has been engaged in contracting and building; also engaged in the mercantile business in Bristol, and now engaged in farming. He owns 1,060 acres of fine land, well improved. He has been school director of Bristol township. He was married to Sarah Platt in 1860. She was born in Massachusetts, near Boston, March 12, 1845. They are the parents of eight children – Bravette, Mary, Belle, Jane, Ada, Alice Fannie and an infant that is not named. Mr. Burdick is one of Bristol's oldest and most respect citizens.

Source: History of Mitchell and Worth Counties, Iowa, 1883, page 715.

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