| W.N. Burdick |
| W. N. Burdick, editor
and publisher of Review, was born in New York in 1837,
and in 1839 his parents immigrated to Kane Co., Ill.;
thence to West Union, Fayette Co., Iowa in 1852, where he
followed farming till 1856, when he engaged in a printing
office at Decorah, and subsequently at Cresco for a short
time, when he again resumed farming for two years, and
then engaged in the mercantile business. He served as
postmaster at Cresco nearly seven years. In 1873 he
purchased an interest in the Winneshiek Register, at
Decorah, and soon after the whole interest. In 1875 he
sold out and purchased the Review, at Postville. He
married Amy E. Halsted in 1860. She was born in Ohio.
They have three children, Edward L., Albert E. and Arthur
S. They have lost two sons. pg 474 |