PREZ. C. BURDICK, merchant, Edgerton; born in Brookfield, Madison Co., N.Y., May 23, 1815; son of Aden and Martha (Cheesebrough) Burdick; his father visited Wisconsin in 1842, returned East, and brought his family in 1843, and settled in Albion, Dane Co., on Sec. 27. Married, in 1836, Catherine Bardeen, daughter of Cyrus Bardeen, of New York; she died in May, 1857, leaving four children - Priscilla (married D. F. Hokes, and now resides in Oakland, Cal.), Ellen F. (married James Williams, and is now a widow), Marietta (married Mr. William Hill, and is now dead), Julia (married A. A. Robinson, of Pueblo, Colo.), Anna (married I. B. Campbell, of Greeley, Iowa). Mr. Burdick again married, in February, 1858, Mrs. Elizabeth Son, daughter of Thomas I. Son, of Columbia Co., N.Y., they have two children - Blanche and Willard R. Member of Masons and I.O.O.F., of Edgerton; liberal in religion; was elected in fall of 1852, member of Legislature for Dane Co.; Democrat.
