Bio of Burdick, F. H. Wabasha Co., MN
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This bio comes from "HISTORY OF WABASHA COUNTY" 1884.
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Burdick, F. H., agent for Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company at 
this point since 1876. From 1876 to 1879, the first three years of Mr. 
Burdick's agency at this place, he was without an assistant, performing 
the work of ticket-seller, freight agent and depot superintendent alone. 
Since then, particularly since the completion of the Wabasha and Chippewa 
Valley divisions of the road, the increase of business at this point has 
become so marked and rapid that a force of eight persons is required to 
perform the work of this office and the branch station at East Wabasha. 
Mr. Burdick is a native of Rock county, Wisconsin. He received a common 
and high school education in his native state, and commenced service as a 
railway agent and telegraph operator at Castalia, Iowa, in 1870, and was 
for five years at Cresco, Iowa, in charge of the company's business at 
that point, before coming to this city in 1876. Mr. Burdick married Miss 
L. J. Niles, of Cresco, Iowa, November 28, 1875. They have three children, 
two born in this city: Adin, born September 25, 1876; Niles, born 
September 25, 1878; Francis, born 1882.