Burrows Burdick
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Burrows Burdick (January 19, 1823 – June 30, 1899) was an American physician from Edgerton, Wisconsin, who spent a single term as a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from Rock County.[1]
Burdick was born January 19, 1823, in Rockville, Rhode Island, son of Alpheus and Abigail (Vincent) Burdick. He taught school in Little Genesee, New York, before becoming a student at the Alfred Academy and Teachers Seminary in 1844.[2] He studied medicine under Dr. John Hartshorn of Alfred (who was also a trustee of the Academy),[3] and graduated in 1849 from the University Medical College of New York University.[4] In November 1849, he married Phebe Ann Barker of Rockville,[5] who died November 25, 1852. He later married Caroline F. ( Sheldon ) Olney of Coventry, Rhode Island, with whom he had three children.