Census: 1880 Pleasant Springs, Dane Co., Wisconsin: age 5
Residence: 1881 Alfred, Allegany Co., New York
GRAD: 30 JUN 1897 Milton College - Classical, Milton, Rock Co., Wisconsin
GRAD: 1905 Milton College, MA, Milton, Rock Co., Wisconsin
GRAD: 1905 Chicago Dental Surgery, DDS, Chicago, Cook Co., Illinois
Residence: 1905 North Loup, Valley Co., Nebraska
Residence: 1916 Milton, Rock Co., Wisconsin
Deacon of the Milton S.D.B. Church 1922-1938.

George Merton Burdick 1874-1938
"Seventh Day Baptist Yearbook - 1939", p 17, 18
G. Merton Burdick, son of Rev. George W. Burdick and Mary Watson Burdick, was born near Utica, Dane Co., Wis., October 20, 1874, and died in Wisconsin General Hospital, Madison, Wis., September 30, 1938.
With his father and mother he moved to Alfred, N. Y., in 1881, and two years later to Little Genesee, N. Y., where his father was a pastor of the Seventh Day Baptist Church until called to the pastorate of the church in Milton Junction, Wis., in 1893.
Merton entered Milton College and was graduated in 1897. He taught school for three years before entering the Chicago College of Dental Surgery, from which he was graduated in 1905. He practiced dentistry in North Loup, Neb., until 1916, moving then to Milton Junction. Three years later the condition of his health necessitated giving up his dental practice. He was custodian of buildings and grounds at Milton College for one year, after which he accepted a position with the Burdick Corporation of Milton. This he held till last July when his poor health forced his retirement.
He was married in September, 1900, to Bertha Lawton of Milton Junction. To them were born two children; Harold, now professor of science in North Dakota State Teachers College at Mayville, N. D., and Mary, at home. Doctor Burdick's family was an unfailing source of help and strength to him.
Early in life Doctor Burdick joined the Seventh Day Baptist Church, being the youngest of the group in which he was baptized. In his various places of residence he held many church offices, being made a deacon by the church at Milton.
He is survived by his widow and two children, his brother, Harvey, and his sister, Bernice (Mrs. Archie Hurley), both of Milton, and by three nephews and two nieces.
Funeral services were held in the Milton Seventh Day Baptist church, Sunday afternoon, October 2, 1938, conducted by Pastor Carroll L. Hill. Interment was in the Milton Cemetery.

Census: 1880 Albion, Dane Co., Wisconsin: age 2

Bertha Maud (Lawton) Burdick 1877-1954
"Sabbath Recorder", Vol 156, No 9, p 104, 1 Mar 1954.
Burdick, Bertha Lawton, daughter of Mary Ann Wood and Charles Dennison Lawton, was born at Albion, Wis., July 22, 1877, and died in a Texarkana, Ark., hospital Jan. 11, 1954.
Bertha Lawton was married to Dr. G. Merton Burdick in 1900 and to this union two children were born: Harold, now of Kansas City, Mo., and Mary (Mrs. Trevah R. Sutton), now of Fouke, Ark. Dr. Burdick preceded her in death in 1938.
The life of Mrs. Burdick was actively Christian throughout her seventy-six years. She was baptized by Rev, George W. Hills in 1893, and affiliated with the Milton Junction Seventh Day Baptist Church. When she moved with her husband to North Loup, Neb., they were both active in the life of that church. Returning to Milton they joined the Milton Church where she kept her membership until her death. In her church experience she served in such capacities as church clerk, superintendent of the primary department of the Sabbath school, president and treasurer of the Ladies' Aid, and as a Sabbath school teacher.
After failing health forced her to give up her work as a seamstress at the Rock County Farm, Janesville, Wis., she lived with her daughter and son-in-law, first at Jackson Center, Ohio, and then at Fouke, Ark.
Surviving her, in addition to her son and daughter, are two sisters, Mrs. Jessie Freeborn and Mrs. George Palmer, both of Milton Junction; two granddaughters; and several nieces and nephews. Funeral services were conducted, first at Texarkana, Ark., and then in the Milton Church on Jan. 14, 1954. Pastor Elmo Fitz Randolph officiating. Interment was in the Milton Cemetery. E. F. R.