Elijah B. Bricker

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• Eby ID Number: 00016-1268
• Residence: 1861, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite
• Residence: 1871, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite
• Occupation: 1900, Greenwood Township, St. Clair Co, Michigan; farmer

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Elijah Bricker," was born January 22nd, 1858. He is married to Louisa Burkholder and resides at Yale, Michigan, where he is engaged in farming. They have 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a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin: as also much other unpublished historical information chiefly of a local character.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.].

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ELIJAH B. BRICKER.

This young and prosperous agriculturist, residing in section 4, Greenwood township, was born on a farm in Waterloo county, Ontario, Canada, January 22, 1858, a son of Benjamin and Esther (Bechtel ) Bricker, residents of the same county and the parents of thirteen children. Elijah B. Bricker was reared to farming on the Canadian homestead, and was educated in the common schools. November 26, 1878, he married, in Waterloo, Ontario, Miss Louisa Burkholder, daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth (Erb) Burkholder, both of whom died in Waterloo county. Of the nine children born to these parents, Mrs. Bricker is the youngest, and was born October 19, 1861. The young couple came to St. Clair county, Michigan, in April, 1879, and settled on the farm which they still occupy, and which Mr. Bricker has improved with all the modern conveniences that go to make the farmer's life congenial and profitable. His dwelling is one of the best in the township, his outbuildings are commodious and substantial, and his one hundred and sixty acres are under a fine state of cultivation. Mr. Bricker gives a great deal of attention to the breeding, fattening and shipping of choice grades of live stock, as well as to buying and selling. For eight years he shipped stock quite extensively to Buffalo markets. His breeding has been of the grade shorthorn, his herd of about forty head being one of the choicest line of grade animals in the state. One of the modern improvements is a one -hundred-ton silo, which is filled with the corn crop, and furnishes the best food for all stock.

The three children born to Mr. and Mrs. Bricker on this farm were named as follows; Ira, who graduated from the Yale high school with the class of 1901, and is now the cashier of the State Savings Bank at Feck, Michigan, a position voluntarily offered him when he was attending the Detroit University; Ora, who died when but six months old, and Roy, a student in the Yale high school.

In politics Mr. Bricker is a Republican, and has served his party and his fellow citizens as delegate to convetitions and in the offices of school director and highway commissioner. He is public spirited, is a friend to public improvements, and a strong advocate of public instruction, and is ready at all times to aid financially such undertakings as will conduce to the prosperity and well doing of the public at large.

Fraternally Mr. Bricker Is a member of the Ancient Order of Gleaners, Modern Woodmen of America, and Star Grange, and has held all the principal offices in those societies. In social circles Mr. and Mrs. Bricker hold a very high station, being classed with the best people. As a business man Mr. Bricker's every transaction has been honest and straight forward, and his good faith has never been o'ercast by the shadow of a doubt. By his hard work and strict frugality he has become one of the most substantial citizens of Greenwood township, and the credit is dtie to himself alone, aided by the willing assistance of his amiable helpmate, who is entitled to a share of the credit.

Biographical memoirs of St. Clair County, Michigan to which is appended a comprehensive compendium of national biography; memoirs of eminent men and women in the United States. pg 542

Elijah married Louisa Burkholder 26 Nov 1878, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Louisa (daughter of Daniel Burkholder and Elizabeth Erb) was born 19 Oct 1861, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Eby ID Number: 00016-1268.4
• Residence: 1900, Greenwood Township, St. Clair Co, Michigan