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Burdick, Theodore Weld

soldier, congressman, was born Oct. 7, 1836, in Evansburg, Pa. He was deputy treasurer and recorder of Winneshiek county from 1854 until 1857, and treasurer and recorder from 1857 until 1862, when he resigned to recruit a company for the union army. He was commissioned a captain, and served throughout the war. After being mustered out he returned to Decorah and became cashier of the First national bank of that place; and was elected a representative from Iowa to the forty-fifth congress as a republican.