Samuel Reis Burkholder^[1]

1859 - 1925  (66 years)

• Name	Samuel Reis Burkholder
  Born	28 May 1859	Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Residence	1861	Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [2]
  	Protestant
  Residence	1871	Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [3]
  	Mennonite
  Eby ID Number	00020-1540
  Died	23 Jun 1925	, Marion Co., Kansas   [4]
  Buried	Marion Cemetery, Marion, Marion, Kansas, USA   [4]
  Person ID	I16584	Generations
  Last Modified	1 Dec 2024

  
  

  Father	Samuel B. Burkholder,   b. 2 Jan 1816, , Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania ,   d. 13 Mar 1893, , Marion Co., Kansas  (Age 77 years)
  Mother	Eva Reis,   b. 1822, , Germany ,   d. 29 Mar 1893, Canada, Marion, Kansas, United States  (Age 71 years)
  Married	17 Feb 1850  [3, 5]
  Family ID	F4372	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Florence Miesse,   b. 23 Dec 1864, , Fairfield Co.., Ohio ,   d. 27 Nov 1938  (Age 73 years)
  Last Modified	3 Dec 2024
  Family ID	F4378	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Samuel Burkholder, "was born May 28th, 1859. He is married to Florence Miesse. They reside in Marion County, Kansas. Their family consists of three children." Eby, Ezra E. (1895). A biographical history of Waterloo township and other townships of the county: being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin: as also much other unpublished historical information chiefly of a local character. Berlin [Kitchener, Ont.]: [s.n.]. _________________ Biography of William M. Burkholder William M. Burkholder is one of the younger native Kansans filling places of responsibility and action and recently became proprietor and editor of the Anthony Bulletin. He had one of the older papers of Harper County. The Bulletin had enjoyed an independent existence since 1891, but is a continuation of several earlier papers. The old Harper County Enterprise was founded at Anthony in 1884, was consolidated in 1891 with the Alliance Bulletin of Harper, and was continued under the name Weekly Bulletin. The editor and publisher prior to Mr. Burkholder's ownership was R. P. McColloch. The Bulletin is independent in politics and had a circulation all over Harper and surrounding counties and also in Oklahoma. The offices and plant are on North Jennings Avenue. William H. Burkholder was born at Tribune, Kansas, October 10, 1890, and represents a family that had been identified with this state for over forty years. He is descended from one of eight brothers who came out of Switzerland and founded homes in Pennsylvania in 1754. These brothers were early members of the Mennonite sect, and it was owing to religious persecution in Switzerland that they sought new homes and freedom of worship in America. The great-grandfather of William Burkholder in 1816 moved with a party of people of similar religious views to Ontario, Canada, and the colony founded there the Town of Waterloo in Waterloo County. Samuel Burkholder, grandfather of the Kansas editor, was born in 1816 at Bowmansville in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and in the same year was taken by the family to Ontario. He became a prominent contractor in Canada but in 1873 brought his family to Marion County, Kansas. He was a man of considerable property and owned much land in Kansas. He died in Marion County in 1893. His wife was a Miss Reis, who was born in Wuertemberg, Germany, and died in Marion County, Kansas. Samuel Burkholder, Jr., father of William M., is a prominent attorney at Marion, Kansas. He was born in Waterloo County, Ontario, May 28, 1859, and was fourteen years of age when he came with his parents and his five brothers to Marion County, Kansas. Two or three years later he went back to Canada and attended the Academy at St. Catherines in Ontario. While there he was a member of the military organization known as the Queen's Guards. In 1886 he graduated from Kansas University in the classical course, taught a year at Bethel College then situated at Halstead, now at Newton, Kansas, and was then admitted to the bar and had now been in active practice for thirty years. For a time he had a law practice in Greeley County, Kansas, and was the first county attorney there. In 1891 he again located at Marion, and had enjoyed a practice which ranks him among the successful lawyers of the state. As a republican he had filled the office of county attorney of Marion County three terms and had also been mayor of Marion. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, the Masonic fraternity in which he had attained the Royal Arch degree, the Beta Theta Pi college fraternity, and is a member of the County, State and American Bar associations. Samuel Burkholder married Florence Miesse, who was born in Fairfield County, Ohio, December 23, 1864. William M. is the oldest of their four children. Arthur L. is at the experimental station at Hays, Kansas, working for the Kansas Agricultural College, of which he is a graduate. Margaret Lucile is a graduate of the Marion High School and of the State Normal at Emporia, and is now teaching in Marion County. Lieutenant Edwin had been a student at Kansas University but is now enrolled in the Federal service as a lieutenant in the Third Kansas Regiment of the National Guard. William M. Burkholder was educated in the public schools of Marion, graduating from the high school in 1908, and in 1913 took his A. B. degree from Kansas University. He is one of the most scholarly editors in Kansas and had made himself familiar with a broad range of subjects. In 1915-16 he was a special student of economics and history in Harvard University. Mr. Burkholder had had considerable experience in educational work, taught a year in the rural schools of Marion County, one year in the Beloit High School and one year in the Wichita High School. He became editor and publisher of the Anthony Bulletin on January 1, 1917. Mr. Burkholder is, like his paper, independent in politics, a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity. He is unmarried. "Biography Of William M. Burkholder | Access Genealogy". 2011. Access Genealogy. https://accessgenealogy.com/kansas/biography-of-william-m-burkholder.htm. __________________ Samuel R. Burkholder was a prominent attorney in Marion County, Kansas. He was born in Waterloo County, Ontario, May 28, 1859, and was fourteen years of age when he came with his parents and his five brothers to Marion County, Kansas. Two or three years later he went back to Canada and attended the Academy at St. Catherines in Ontario. While there he was a member of the military organization known as the Queen's Guards. In 1886 he graduated from Kansas University in the classical course, taught a year at Bethel College then situated at Halstead, now at Newton, Kansas, and was then admitted to the bar. For a time he had a law practice in Greeley County, Kansas, and was the first county attorney there. In 1891 he again located at Marion, and enjoyed a practice which ranks him among the successful lawyers of the state. As a republican he filled the office of county attorney of Marion County three terms and had also been mayor of Marion. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, the Masonic fraternity in which he had attained the Royal Arch degree, the Beta Theta Pi college fraternity, and a member of the County, State and American Bar associations. Samuel Burkholder married Florence Miesse, who was born in Fairfield County, Ohio, December 23, 1864. They had four children, William M., Arthur L., Lucille, and Edwin. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/96405221/samuel-r-burkholder

  
  

• Sources

  [S3] Book - Vol I A Biographical History of Waterloo Township and other townships of the county : being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin..., 380. [S1885] Census - ON, Waterloo, Waterloo City - 1861, Waterloo 1861 Dist. 3 Page 28. [S2658] aaaaWaterloo Village 1871, Sect. 1 Page 35. [S3231] Find A Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/96405221. [S3] Book - Vol I A Biographical History of Waterloo Township and other townships of the county : being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin..., 379.

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 28 May 1859 - Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - Protestant - 1861 - Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - Mennonite - 1871 - Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Died - 23 Jun 1925 - , Marion Co., Kansas Buried - - Marion Cemetery, Marion, Marion, Kansas, USA  = Link to Google Earth