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Edwin Franklin Burdick

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Edwin Franklin Burdick

Birth
Darien, Genesee County, New York, USA
Death
26 Mar 1869 (aged 43)
Walworth, Walworth County, Wisconsin, USA
Burial
Walworth, Walworth County, Wisconsin, USA Add to Map
Plot
SECTION 2, LOT 36, GRAVE 6
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"The Sabbath Recorder", Vol 25, No 16, p 62, Apr. 15, 1869.
Dr. Edwin Burdick
The subject of this notice was born in Darien, N.Y., Feb. 12th, 1826. When about sixteen years of age, he professed faith in Christ, and was baptized into the Seventh-day Baptist Church at Darien, by Eld. W. B. Gillette. A few years after, he entered the Alfred Academy, and pursued a thorough course of study in that institution. Thrown as he was upon his own resources, he went nobly at the work of self-support and self-culture, greatly encouraged by Eld. N. V. Hull, in whose family he lived during most of his stay in Alfred. He at once became enamored of the study of Anatomy, Physiology, and the Laws of Health, and by his devotion to these studies, laid the foundation for that thorough mastery and enthusiastic practice of the healing art, which placed him among the most eminent and useful physicians in the country. He took his degree of M. D. at Castleton, Vt., in June, 1851, and entered at once upon practice in Western New York. About thirteen years ago, he removed to Walworth, Wis., where, by enthusiastic devotion to his noble profession, he won a practice and a reputation second to few in the State, and where he literally wore himself out, and in the prime of life died in the harness, when it seemed his life was most valuable. By day and by night he labored for his patients, when he was sicker than they and when scarcely able to rise from his bed, answered a call, and was so prostrated that he had to be carried home, and in twenty-four hours died, a martyr to his devotion to his chosen profession, March 26, 1859. His disease, the diabetes, had been preying upon him for several years. He knew full well that it was drying the fountains of his life, and that it would soon end his earthly career, but it was his highest ambition to die at his post, devoting himself to the good of others. This he did, with an unfaltering trust in Christ his Saviour. His last words were words of trust and hope of salvation, through the healing of the great Physician. Though he was educated to the allopathic practice, he soon became convinced of the superiority of homeopathic remedies, and it was by the use of these he achieved his success. He will be missed by a large circle of patrons and friends. He leaves a wife and four children, to mourn his loss, and that of a darling little boy, who died but a week before his father. The funeral was largely attended, and sermon preached by Rev. D. E. Maxson, of Milton, from these words: "But the last enemy that shall be destroyed is death." D. E. M.

Note: Burial in Walworth Cemetery

Resource: Jon Saunders, MyFamily.com: "They Came From Milton"
Submitted by Jean White Jorgensen 6-19-2010

Beside the grave of Dr. Edwin F. Burdick are the graves of his first wife, Mary Carpenter Burdick and three of his children: Ida Elizabeth, Allison Courtland and Clarence Edwin.
"The Sabbath Recorder", Vol 25, No 16, p 62, Apr. 15, 1869.
Dr. Edwin Burdick
The subject of this notice was born in Darien, N.Y., Feb. 12th, 1826. When about sixteen years of age, he professed faith in Christ, and was baptized into the Seventh-day Baptist Church at Darien, by Eld. W. B. Gillette. A few years after, he entered the Alfred Academy, and pursued a thorough course of study in that institution. Thrown as he was upon his own resources, he went nobly at the work of self-support and self-culture, greatly encouraged by Eld. N. V. Hull, in whose family he lived during most of his stay in Alfred. He at once became enamored of the study of Anatomy, Physiology, and the Laws of Health, and by his devotion to these studies, laid the foundation for that thorough mastery and enthusiastic practice of the healing art, which placed him among the most eminent and useful physicians in the country. He took his degree of M. D. at Castleton, Vt., in June, 1851, and entered at once upon practice in Western New York. About thirteen years ago, he removed to Walworth, Wis., where, by enthusiastic devotion to his noble profession, he won a practice and a reputation second to few in the State, and where he literally wore himself out, and in the prime of life died in the harness, when it seemed his life was most valuable. By day and by night he labored for his patients, when he was sicker than they and when scarcely able to rise from his bed, answered a call, and was so prostrated that he had to be carried home, and in twenty-four hours died, a martyr to his devotion to his chosen profession, March 26, 1859. His disease, the diabetes, had been preying upon him for several years. He knew full well that it was drying the fountains of his life, and that it would soon end his earthly career, but it was his highest ambition to die at his post, devoting himself to the good of others. This he did, with an unfaltering trust in Christ his Saviour. His last words were words of trust and hope of salvation, through the healing of the great Physician. Though he was educated to the allopathic practice, he soon became convinced of the superiority of homeopathic remedies, and it was by the use of these he achieved his success. He will be missed by a large circle of patrons and friends. He leaves a wife and four children, to mourn his loss, and that of a darling little boy, who died but a week before his father. The funeral was largely attended, and sermon preached by Rev. D. E. Maxson, of Milton, from these words: "But the last enemy that shall be destroyed is death." D. E. M.

Note: Burial in Walworth Cemetery

Resource: Jon Saunders, MyFamily.com: "They Came From Milton"
Submitted by Jean White Jorgensen 6-19-2010

Beside the grave of Dr. Edwin F. Burdick are the graves of his first wife, Mary Carpenter Burdick and three of his children: Ida Elizabeth, Allison Courtland and Clarence Edwin.


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