Educator.
Born at York, Ontario on 25 January 1888, son of Alfred Burkholder (1848-1915) and Marion Smith (1855-1935), he taught in his native province before coming to Manitoba as Principal of Emerson School (1910-1911, 1911-1913) and Arden School (1913-1915), the latter at which he met fellow teacher Blanche Wathen (1888-1965). On 29 December 1915, he married her at Winnipeg and they had a daughter, Mary Louise Burkholder (1923-2018). He later returned to Ontario where he was Secretary-Treasurer of the Toronto General Burial Grounds (1937). He died at Toronto on 2 December 1962 and was buried in the Mount Pleasant Cemetery.
Ontario birth registration, Ancestry.
Marriage registration [Frederick Harold Burkholder, Blanche Wathen], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
1901 and 1911 Canada censuses, Automated Genealogy.
“Results for York County [Senior Teachers],” Richmond Hill Liberal, 15 August 1907, page 4.
“Local notes [F. H. Burkholder, of Arden],” Biggar Independent, 8 January 1914, page 1.
“Unsuspected graves are all too common,” Weston Times and Guide, 19 August 1937, page 4.
Edgeley Cemetery burial transcriptions, FindAGrave.
Mount Pleasant Cemetery burial transcriptions, FindAGrave.
This page was prepared by Nathan Kramer.
Page revised: 1 July 2024
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