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SOURCE: History of St. Clair County, Mich.
        A. T. Andreas & Co., Chicago - 1883

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         WILLIAM BURD, ship carpenter, is a native of Michigan, and was
      born in the city of Detroit November 23, 1840.  He had good educa-
      tional advantages, and attended both the Boston and Bishop union
      schools, and speaks three languages.  He learned the trade of ship
      carpenter, and served three years in JONES' shipyard, and afterward
      clerked in store five years.  He came to Port Huron in 1868, and
      since then has been engaged in ship building, and for the past seven
      years with the Wolverine dry dock; for two years was boss-calker.
      Mr. BURD'S first wife was Miss VICTORIA GREFFORD, a native of St.
      Clair.  She died August 28, 1880.  She left two children, ANGELINE
      and FLORENCE; he married his present wife, Miss VIOLA NORMANDUM from
      South Dover, Ontario, Canada.  They have one son, JOSEPH EDMOND.

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