Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Burkholder, Perry G. December 10, 1869 - ????
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Judy Banja http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00004.html#0000757 January 5, 2025, 11:23 am

Source: Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Blair Co, PA: Philadelphia, 1892.
Author: Samuel T. Wiley

P. G. BURKHOLDER,  
an industrious and comfortably situated farmer of near Fostoria, is a son of
John J. and Lydia (Trout) Burkholder, and was born at St. Clairsville,
Bedford county, Pennsylvania, December 10, 1869.  The Burkholder family has
been resident of Bedford county for many years, and George Barkholder, the
paternal grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was born and reared in
that county, which he left in 1849 to settle in Antis township, this county,
where he died at Elizabeth furnace.  He learned the trade of millwright,
which he followed until his death.  He was a hard-working man, an old-line
whig in politics, and married Hannah Smith, by whom he had twelve children,
all of whom are dead but two:  Henry, of Altoona, and Sarah, wife of Harrison
Ammon, a farmer of Antis township.  One of his sons, John J. Burkholder
(father), was born near St. Clairsville, in Bedford county, in 1812, and came
with his father to Blair county in 1849.  He was a millwright by trade, and a
republican in politics.  He purchased a farm of fifty acres of land in Antis
township, and followed farming and working at his trade until his death,
which occurred August 31, 1886, when he was well advanced in the
seventy-sixth year of his age.  In 1837 he married Lydia Trout.  To Mr. And
Mrs. Burkholder was born a family of ten children, six sons and four
daughters:  Perry G., Margaret J., wife of Tony Mark, of Logan township;
Henry; Lloyd, now dead; Mary E., wife of Norval Hock; a machinist of Bellview, 
this county; Thomas; Julia, now dead; Levanda, deceased; Martin, and Lloyd (2).
   Perry G. Burkholder grew to manhood on the farm, received his education in
the common schools of Antis and Logan townships, and then was engaged in
working on a farm until 1861, when he embarked in farming for himself, which
he has followed continuously up to the present time.  In 1880 he purchased
his present farm of one hundred and eighty acres of land, near Fostoria, and
which he brought into a fine state of cultivation and productiveness.  He is
an excellent farmer, and has been interested to some extent for the last few
years in raising live stock, making a specialty of horses and cattle.  Mr.
Burkholder is a stanch republican in politics, and while not an extremist,
yet always takes an active part in the interest of his party, and has served
his township for several years as supervisor.
   Mr. Burkholder was united in marriage with Eliza J., daughter of James and
Polly Mulholland, of Tipton, Antis township.  Mrs. Burkholder died, and left
two children:  George and Frank.  In 1866 Mr. Burkholder wedded again, and by
his second marriage has five children, four sons and one daughter:  Henry, of
Altoona; Margaret, wife of Robert Hildeman, a carpenter of Altoona; William,
of the same city; Walter, and Jabish.

Additional Comments:
Originally submitted 2001. Transcribed by Eileen.

This file has been created by a form at http://www.usgwarchives.net/pafiles/

File size: 3.5 Kb