This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: BURDETT, PERSONS Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2RB.2ACE/8337 Message Board Post: (unknown newspaper/unknown date- ca 1882- interesting bio) "DAVID BURDETT. David Burdett who died at the residence of his son-in-law, Capt. E.N. Persons, of the second ward in this city, Monday, July 31st, was well known to old residents of Ogdensburg. He came to Ogdensburg to do business about 1832, when he was a prominent member of the Baptist church. Upon the discovery of gold in California, in 1849, he went to that state to engage in mining. After several years of varying success he went to Australia and embarked in speculations in the gold fields. There he amassed a considerable fortune. He returned via California, bought a large farm in Wisconsin, and went to farming. He pursued the avocation of a farmer till the death of Mrs. Burdett, and then returned to Ogdensburg to reside with his daugther, Mrs. E.N. Persons. During the last year of his residence here he has been feeble in body, but received the best of care and attentions. In his business days he was active and enterprising. He was a native of Grafton, Vermont, where he ! was born on the 24th day of November, 1799, and came to Ogdensburg fifty years ago." (I am not related to this individual)