The Burdick Families of New Philadelphia

The Burdick Families of New Philadelphia. . , Two Burdick families lived in New Philadelphia. The Spaulding Burdick family was one of the first to live within the town limits. Descendants of the Abel R. Burdick family built the last house in New Philadelphia. Spaulding and Abel were distant cousins from an old New England family., Spaulding and Ann Hadsell Burdick , Spaulding Burdick and his second wife, Ann Hadsell, came to New Philadelphia in the early 1840s. They lived on Block 4, where Spaulding worked as a shoemaker and farmed 40 acres. In Spaulding's day, many shoemakers were farmers who practiced cobbling in the slack season. Spaulding and Ann raised six children, all of whom left for Western states. In his old age, Spaulding returned to New York and lived with a son from his first marriage., Abel R. and Marion Horton Burdick , Joshua Burdick came to Pike County in the early 1850s and acquired land near New Philadelphia. In a few years, his brother Abel joined him. Joshua left for Kansas, but Abel and his wife Marion stayed to farm and raise their family. They died within days of each other in 1895. Four children survived: Lua Louise (Sackett), Horace, Elmer, and Dow. Lua Louise and Elmer remained here, and some of their descendants still live in Pike County., The Burdick House , The first house on Block 19 was built by Leander Hadsell about 1864. The property passed through several owners until Virgil Burdick bought it in 1921. Virgil was the grandson of Abel R. and Marion Burdick. In 1941 the Virgil Burdick family built a new house next to the old one. The older house was later torn down; the 1941 house is still standing., [Photo captions, left to right, read] , . [Burdick House] 1864-1941 , . [Burdick House] 1941-Present , . Children of Elmer and Nancy Burdick in 1908: Ethel, Virgil, Russell and Geneva