Lake Co. IN Bio

JAMES BURGE, one of the early settlers of Lake County, was born in 
Chautauqua county, N. Y., January 18, 1814; his father was a native of 
Vermont, there times married, and a farmer; by his first wife he had 
nine children, by his second eight, by his third, none.  He came to 
Porter County, Ind., in 1838, where he died in 1877, aged ninety years.  
James Burge remained in New York until he was twenty-two years of age, 
receiving such education as was at that day attainable. On August 6, 
1835, he was married to Adaline Griswold, a native of Oneida County, 
N.Y.  In 1836, he emigrated  to Porter county, Ind., where a brother was
living, and located in Union Township; where he remained firve years, 
and moved to Horse Prairie, there remaining seven years.  In 1848, he 
purchased in Winfield Township, where he spend most of his life.  Mrs. 
Burge was a member of the M. E. Church, and died June 13, 1861, a loving 
and faithful consort, leaving five children - Jane A. (deceased), Orrin 
P., Mary A., Hersey I., Jasper D., Gilbert L. (deceased), and Myron L. 
Mr. Burge married a second wife, Ann Underwood, by whom he had one 
daughter - Minnie M. (now Mrs. Frank Holmes); she died June 28, 1881.
On September 21, 1881, Mr. Burge married his present wife, Mrs.
Elizabeth (Welchhonce) McWilliams, and now lives in retirement at Crown
Point.  Mr. Burge is one of the few remaining old settlers who can 
recall the ordeals of his pioneer experience.  In politics, he is a 
Republican; he was at one time a Methoidst, but left the church on
account of its tolerance of secret societies, of which he is a strong
opponent.

Counties of Porter and Lake - Historical Biographical - Weston A.
Goodspeed and Charles Blanchard, Chicago: F.A. Battey & Co., Publishers
1882.  Page 603 and 604, Crown Point and Centre Township.


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