Justin Herbert Burdick, M.D.

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Justin Herbert Burdick, 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, hewas 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 forbolts, 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, here-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 ofthe 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.

Justin married Clara Lenora Stillman on 02 Sep 1898. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Roger married Sylvia Kutzke on 01 Aug 1931 in Brooklyn, Green County, Wisconsin. Sylvia was born in 1906; died on 29 Sep 1966 in Milton, Rock County, Wisconsin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]