William Burkholder

As printed in 1910

WILLIAM BURKHOLDER.

The emigrant ancestor of the family of this name came from Germany during the eighteenth century and located in Pennsylvania. Subsequently he migrated to Ohio, where he was engaged in farming until his death. His son Henry, who had married in his native state of Pennsylvania, accompanied the former to the west in the early forties, became identified with farming pursuits and followed that occupation until his death. I le left a son named William, who married Mary, daughter of Daniel and Polly Smith, whose biographies are given elsewhere in this volume. Wiliam was born in Pennsylvania.in 1830, came to Ohio with his parents in boyhood and was reared in the family of John Kinney, who took care of him until he was able to do for himself. He engaged in the threshing business, when the custom was to go from neighborhood to neighborhood with the old-fashioned threshing outfit, and, as the saying was, threshed from Wooster to Medina. He accumulated a little money in this work and later took up farming, which he followed until a few years ago, when he accepted employment with the Wabash Railroad Company, with wh’ch he remained until his death in 1907. He was rather fond of politics and active in the local campaigns, first as a Republican and later as a Democrat. His widow and four children, two sons and two daughters, are living, the former having reached the age of eighty-two years at this writing (1909).

William Burkholder, one of the two surviving sons of William, was born in Canaan township, Wayne county, Ohio, on November 13. 1857. His education was obtained almost exclusively in the Ben school house, one of the buildings devoted to the common school purposes of Canaan township. In youth and early manhood his work was confined to the farm, but later he spent twelve years with Horr, Warner & Company, a firm engaged in business at Wellington. At the expiration of that time he returned to Jackson and bought a farm of thirty-five acres, fifteen of which, however, he disposed of later and now confines his operations to the remaining twenty acres. He owns a fine residence in Jackson, has a good income and enjoys general respect as one of the solid and reliable citizens of the community. He is extensively engaged in the poultry business, having a very fine strain of White Leghorns. He belongs to the Presbyterian church at Jackson and his political affiliations are with the Republican party. In July, 1880, Mr. Burkholder married Julia, daughter of Edward Edis, who is one of the early settlers of Wayne county and now living at Jackson, in the eighty-seventh year of his age. Mr. and Mrs. Burkholder have four sons: Clem, a conductor on the interurban railroad; Earl is also on the electric line as conductor; Ray and Roy, twins, now attending the Creston high school.

As printed in History of Wayne County, Ohio (1910). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.