Wood County OhArchives Obituaries.....Burritt, Dr. Harvey February 10, 1868
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The Weekly Perrysburg Journal.  Perrysburg, Wood County, Ohio. Feb 21, 1868, p. 3.
DIED.

At Maumee City, on the 10th inst., Dr. Harvey Burritt, aged 63 years.

	Dr. Buritt's early advantages in the study of his profession were of a 
high order. He graduated at the New Yolk College of Physicians and Surgeons, 
under the tuition of those giants of the profession - Willoughby, Delamater, 
McNaughton, Romeyn, Beck, and others.  His professional attainments 
corresponded with the advantages he thus possessed, of which his highly 
successful practice in this county, as well as at Maumee City, furnishes ample 
demonstration.

	The deceased came to the Maumee Valley in 1833, and settled at Gilead, 
Wood County, where for nearly twenty years he followed the practice of 
medicine "with continued success beloved and honored by all classes of his 
fellow citizens. In 1853, he removed to Maumee City, where he was engaged in 
his professional duties within but a few days of the time of his decease. In 
referring to his professional career, an old acquaintance of thirty years' 
standing observed:

	"I can most truly say of him that very few more useful men ever lived 
in this Valley. I never knew a physician who practiced the profession with as 
much assiduity, or who with equal generosity attended on both rich and poor; 
the hearts of' thousands in this Valley will beat with emotion, and their eves 
fill with tears at this announcement of his demise."

	It was not alone in the practice of his profession that Dr. Burritt's 
excellency of character was manifest. In all the relations of life, his actions 
reflected the genius and spirit of a noble-hearted and liberal citizen, ever 
ready to do good. The influence of his genial spirit and excellent judgment has 
often inspired the business, social and religious circles of his adopted city 
with the spirit of emulation and of hope. He was especially interested in 
advancing the educational interest of Maumee City, and although himself a 
member of the Protestant Episcopal Church, he gave other denominations a 
liberal and unsectarian support. He was active in every good enterprise tending 
to advance the best interests of the Community, and in the accomplishment of 
his plans his liberality and kind-heartedness became almost a fault.

	His funeral service was performed on the 12th inst., at his late 
residence, the Rev. J. Swan, of the Protestant Episcopal Church, officiating. A 
large concourse of citizens were in attendance. The remains were followed to 
their last resting place by a procession of friends an acquaintances conveyed 
by thirty-two teams.

	He hath now passed the portals of the grave, but the remembrance of his 
kindly acts survive. We may emphatically say of him, "The memory of the just is 
blessed."

	"Green be the turf above thee,

	Friend of my belter days,

	None knew thee but to love thee,

	Nor named thee but to praise."

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