- JUSTIN HERBERT BURDICK, M.D. Both grandfathers of this eminent
physician of Milton
- were pioneers of Rock County. The paternal grandfather,
George Stillman BURDICK, was a native of Rhode Island, and of
English extraction. In his native State he was a member of the
State militia. By occupation he was a lifelong farmer, and migrating
about 1842 to Wisconsin, he located in Lima township, Rock County,
where he followed farming for many years, removing to Milton
a few years before his death, in 1890, at the ripe old age of
eighty-nine years. His wife survived him several years, passing
away at the age of ninety-two. Both were devout members of the
Seventh-day Baptist Church. George S. BURDICK was a man of quiet,
retiring disposition, but of firm principles and strict integrity,.
He had four children, two sons and two daughters.
- The maternal grandfather of our subject, Abel BABCOK, also
a native of Rhode Island, about
- 1842 cast his lot with the fortunes of the growing Western
State of Wisconsin. In the East he had been a woolen manufacturer,
and after his arrival in Wisconsin he opened at Milton the "Dulac
House," one of the finest hotels of the village. A few
years later he entered mercantile business, which he followed
successfully until incapacitated by old age. He lived to about
the age of eighty years. His family consisted of twelve children.
- George BURDICK, the father of our subject, was born in New
York, and when a minor came
- with his parents to Lima township, Rock Co., Wis., where
he was reared on his father's farm. He married Harriet BABCOCK,
who was born in Pennsylvania, and to them were born two children:
Clifford R., who died at the age of two years; and Justin Herbert,
our subject. The father purchased land in Lima township, and
adopted farming as his vocation. For the past fifteen years
he and his wife have made Milton their home. They are prominent
members of the Seventh-day Baptist Church, of which society he
is a trustee.
- Justin Herbert BURDICK, our subject, was born in Milton Dec.
29, 1851. He was reared on
- the farm in Lima township, five miles northeast of Milton,
attending the district schools, and later, from 1868 to 1874,
Milton College, selecting the classical course. Choosing medicine
as his profession, he began his studies in 1874 under Dr. O.
ALLEN, and in 1875-76 attended the College of Physicians and
Surgeons, at Cincinnati, Ohio. He graduated from the Medical
Department of the Northwestern University, Chicago, in 1877.
Until September, 1878, he was connected professionally with
Mercy Hospital, Chicago, and then began private practice at Utica,
Dane Co., Wis., continuing thus from 1878 to 1887. There had
been inherited a taste for manufacture which now for a few years
asserted itself. Relinquishing his practice, Dr. BURDICK began
at Milwaukee the manufacture of steel elastic nuts for bolts,
a device that has been widely introduced among the leading railroads
of the country, East and West, and especially in the Northwest,
their advantages in the great saving of construction and maintenance
of track commending general use. For six years he continued
actively engaged in this manufacture, but professional life called
him back. He retains his stock in the National Elastic Nut Co.,
of Milwaukee, but in 1893, he re-entered the profession of medicine,
locating at Milton, where he has ever since enjoyed a lucrative
and growing practice.
- Dr. BURDICK married, Aug. 30, 1882, Miss Fannie E. COON,
daughter of Samuel H. and
- Lucy (COON). Five children were born to them, Percy Willard,
Paul Howard, Lucy Adene, Justin Hugh, and Clifford Leslie. Mrs.
BURDICK died Nov. 12, 1896, aged thirty-four years, and for his
second wife Dr. BURDICK married, Sept. 1, 1898, Miss Clara L.
STILLMAN, a native of Rhode Island, daughter of Jairus M. and
Clara (LANGWORTHY) STILLMAN. By this marriage Dr. BURDICK has
two children, William Stillman and Ruth Evelyn. Dr. and Mrs.
BURDICK are members of the Seventh-day Baptist Church at Milton.
Politically he has always been a Republican. For the past four
years he has been executive officer of the Milton board of health.
He is also a trustee of Milton College. His pleasant home in
Milton he erected in 1893. He is public-spirited, and both as
a physician and a citizen ranks high in the estimation of the
people of Milton and the surrounding region, where he is widely
known.
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- Taken from "Commemorative Biographical Record of
the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette Wisconsin"
(c) 1901, pp. 17-18.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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