Alameda County Biographies

EDWIN E. BURDICK

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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	Was born in Stonington, New London County, Connecticut, March 11, 1829, where he was 
employed on his father�s farm, and a portion of the time at the blacksmith�s trade until 1846, 
when he joined a wrecking-vessel, but she being lost off Cape Fear he was landed at Wilmington, 
North Carolina, where he commenced working at his trade, and stayed one winter.  In March, 1853, 
he sailed from New York in the Crescent City to Aspinwall, and from Panama came to San Francisco 
in the Oregon, where he arrived on the 27th of the following month.  After a few weeks he 
proceeded to Grass Valley, but soon after came to Alameda County and obtained employment from H. 
K. W. Clarke, on the place he now occupies.  He then worked in different places and finally leased 
one hundred and thirty acres of land belonging to the South Pacific Coast Railroad, where he at 
present resides, being engaged in general farming.  He is married and has five children, viz.:  
Abbie L., Edward F., Charles H., Henry H., Mary L.

History of Alameda County, California�, Oakland, M.W. Wood Publ., 1883, p. 857-858