Allen Leeds Burditt

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A few years after the death of his father went to the west, Eau Claire,Wis.. In 1860 he is living with Alfred Hendershott as a farm laborer and has $300 to his name. Also living there is 1860 was a lumberman named O.L. Ingraham. In Eau Claire he engaged in the lumber business where he was a partner in what was known as the Dells Lumber Co. "Prescott, Burditt and Co. built a mill here(Eau Claire,WI) in 1867-68 and it was rebuilt and enlarged in 1873-74. It cut from 10 to 15 million feet a year. It was organized in 1879 as Dells Lumber Company and operated until 1899, when it cut nine million-feet of lumber." In 1880 A.Burditt is living in 6th Ward of Eau Claire,WI with his wife Mary and son Allen, working as a lumberman. In 1893 he was Vice President of the Dells Lumber Company, living at 922 3rd Avenue in Eau Claire,WI. His widow Mary was still living there according to the 1900 and 1910 census. Four children were born to them; two sons and two daughters. One son and two daughters died in childhood.

Allen married Mary Jane Pond on 11 Dec 1865 in Eau Claire, Eau Claire County, Wisconsin. Mary was born on 13 Jul 1840 in New York; died on 9 Apr 1915 in Palouse, Whitman County, Washington; was buried in Lakeview Cemetery, Eau Claire, Eau Claire County, Wisconsin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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As of 1905 was running what was known as the Boston Grocery Store in Eau Claire, Wis. 1910 living in Mountain Meadow, Latah Co., Idaho working as a laborer for a Lumber Co. 1915 living in Plumer, Divide Co., North Dakota.

Allen J. Burditt Ashes Interred in Family Lot Here
The ashes of Allen John Burditt, 52, who died Nov. 4 near Tacoma, Wash., were shipped to Eau Claire and interred in the Burditt lot in Lakeview cemetery Tuesday, Nov. 22. He is survived by no immediate relatives. Funeral services were held at Aberdeen, Wash., November 10, according to information received here by J.F. Ellis from E. J. Murnen, Tacoma, in whose employ Mr. Burditt was a the time of his death. Jack Burditt, as he was known here, was born the son of Allena and Mary Burditt, in Eau Clarie and lived here until the World war at the Burditt homestead between the Lange and Wyman homesteads on Third avenue. He never married. Allen Burditt, the father, was at the time of his death, many years ago, a partner and owner with George W. Prescott of the Dells Lumber Co. and operated one of the large sawmills on the Chippewa river in this city, which business later became the New Dells Lumber Co. the last lumber firm to go out of business in this city, whose mill was torn down during this year. Jack Burditt followed the lumber industry to the west coast after the war. He entered the employ of E. J. Murnen, who had gone west from Chippewa Falls.
(Leader-Telegram, Eau Claire, WI, Friday, November 25, 1932, page 8)