Biography

09/06/1856 - 05/14/1940

BURDICK, William Elton, a Representative from McKean County; born, September 6, 1856 in Alfred, Allegany County, NY; graduated, Alfred University, 1876; attorney-at-law (1879-1940); secretary, school board, Bradford; chair, McKean County Republican Committee (1886); elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1889, 1891 and 1893 terms; not a candidate for reelection to the House for the 1895 term; died, May 14, 1940 in Bradford, McKean County, Pennsylvania; interred, Willow Dale Cemetery, Bradford, McKean County, Pennsylvania.