Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Burkhardt, Andrew John 
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Author: History of Grundy County IL 1914

Burkhardt, Andrew John – One of the oldest and most honored families of Good 
Farm Township, Grundy County, Ill., is that of Burkhardt, a worthy 
representative of which is found in the person of Andrew John Burkhardt, a 
successful farmer and public-spirited citizen.  His grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. 
Leonard Burkhardt, never left their native Bavaria, Germany, nor did five of 
their children, but the other eight emigrated to this country, among them 
being Frederick Burkhardt, the father of Andrew John of this review.  The 
others were:  Margaret, Mrs. M. Schoefler, who came to this country in 1848, 
first located in Oswego, Kendall County, Ill., removed to Good Farm Township 
in 1850, located on the farm subsequently known as the Balshar Rhoeder farm, 
and died in 1852; Barbara, Mrs. John Hemn, who came to Kendall County, Ill., 
in 1845, and is now a resident of Aurora, Ill.; Michael, deceased; and 
Leonard, deceased; both came to Kendall County, Ill., and are there buried; 
George Christian, who came as one of the first settlers of Good Farm Township, 
in 1845, purchased a farm two years later, and died in 1857; Andrew, who came 
to Kendall County, later to Grundy, then moved to Dwight, Ill., where he died; 
and Sophia, who came to Kendall County, but later moved to Du Page County, 
where she now resides.

Frederick Burkhardt, who was born March 5, 1830, and died November 12, 1912, 
came to Oswego, Ill., in 1850, and three years later located on Section 15, 
Good Farm Township, Grundy County, where he resided the rest of his life.  On 
first arriving in Oswego, as a young man of twenty years, he secured 
employment in a tavern, and in three years, out of a salary of $6 a month, 
managed to save enough to invest in his first eighty-acre purchase of land.  
From this modest beginning he worked his way upward until at one time he was 
the owner of 960 acres of land, all located in Good Farm Township, and gave 
all of his children a comfortable start in life.  In 1853 he was married to 
Mary Freewert, daughter of Leonard and Barbara Freewert, natives of Bavaria, 
Germany, and she survives, and as her late husband, has the respect and esteem 
of a wide circle of acquaintances.  Ten children were born to Mr. and Mrs. 
Burkhardt:  Barbara, who is deceased; Andrew John; Frederick John and Thomas 
John, farmers of Good Farm Township; Barbara, who married Leonard Bower, a 
farmer here; Amos, deceased; Caroline, who married Fred Haag, of Plainfield, 
Ill.; William, of Good Farm Township; Sophia, who married William Pfeiffer; 
and Minnie, who married Frank Gantzert, a farmer of this township.

Andrew John Burkhardt was born August 20, 1855, in Good Farm Township, and 
here attended the district schools and was reared to agricultural pursuits, 
remaining on the home farm and assisting his father until his marriage, 
December 12, 1876, to Miss Emma Zingrebe, who was born in Will County, Ill., 
April 30, 1858.  She is a daughter of George and Johanna (Ellsessor) Zingrebe, 
the mother of Wurtemberg, and the father of Germerode, Electorate of Hesse, 
Germany.  After his marriage Mr. Burkhardt began farming on a tract of eighty 
acres, and to this he has added from time to time until he is now the owner of 
240 acres.  For the past thirty-eight years he has operated a threshing 
machine and corn sheller in conjunction with working his farm, and in both 
lines has met with well-deserved success.  He has been the architect of his 
own fortunes and has builded wisely and well.  Through the careful direction 
of his business interests and by indefatigable industry he has acquired a 
handsome property and at the same time has so conformed to the ethics of 
business life that he has the unqualified confidence of all with whom he has 
had trade transactions.  His politics are those of the Republican party, and 
his religious faith that of the Church of God.

Mr. and Mrs. Burkhardt have had four children:  Clara, who is the wife of 
Charles Rogers, a farmer of Good Farm Township, and a contributor to this 
work, and they have two daughters, Ollie and Florence; Edward, who married 
Grace Jones, and they have two sons, Ellis and Merwyn; Charles married Lillian 
Nelson; one daughter, Given, at home; and Ollie, the wife of A. Clinefelder, a 
farmer of Good Farm Township, and they have one daughter, Fern.

pages 779-780

Additional Comments:
Source:  History of Grundy County, Illinois, Chicago: Munsell Publishing Co. 
Publishers; 1914

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