Daniel Webster Burchard b. 1858 MO-CA Leonidas Soule Burchard MO-CA
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Daniel had a brother who was a doctor in California, Leonidas Soule Burchard b 7 Jan 1851 MO and a sister Mary Burchard--and other siblings who died.Daniel Webster Burchard, Leonidas and Mary were children of Rev John Luther Burchard and his wife Louisa Ann Heath who married in Benton Co. MO and moved out to California. I have found one old photo of Daniel Webster Burchard as a young and prominent attorney.
Daniel Webster BURCHARD b. 5 March 1858 MO d.1912 CA m.31 Dec 1876 in Mendocino Co. CA 1. Mary Josephine BROADDUS b. 23 Apr 1856 Nevada City, Nevada Co. CA. d. 31 Dec 1878 and is buried in Little Lake Cem.Willits, CA. She was the daughter of James Lafayette Broaddus b 18 Nov 1824 Madison Co. KY and his wife Missouri Jane Broaddus b 1830 Madison Co. KY whom he married in 1855. Mary’s father J.L. Broaddus was also a Methodist Episcopal South minister who came to California in 1850. He converted to the church when 15 yrs old. J.L. Broaddus was licensed to preach in 1860 and supplied work some time before joining the conference. He was placed on the supernumerary list in 1878 and died August 21, 1886.J.L. Broaddus is mentioned on pages 314, 335, 336 and 455 in Fifty Years of Methodism: A History of the Methodist Episcopal Church by C.V. Anthony, published 1901. It can be viewed through a Google Book Search and is completely online for viewing and search through its contents. It mentions that J.L. Broaddus was in charge of Potter Valley circuit prior to 1854., and in 1874, 1876 and 1877 the Round Valley circuit.His working in these areas means that he would have known Rev John Luther Burchard, Louisa (Heath) Burchard’s husband very well, which is no doubt how Daniel Webster Burchard met his first wife Mary Josephine. Daniel Webster Burchard is buried in the Twombly Family Crypt located in Mountain View, Alameda Co. Ca. This crypt belongs to his sister Mary (Burchard) Twombly and her husband Charles H. Twombly and is also where his mother and father (Louisa Heath Burchard and Rev John L. Burchard are buried.) In the 1880 census he is living as a widower age just 22, with his two young girls in Round Valley, Mendocino Co. CA listed as an attorney.
Here is a 2nd biosketch I found for Daniel Webster Burchard:
Daniel W. Burchard. Born in Benton county, Missouri, March 5, 1858. When he was but a child his parents came to California and settled at Marysville. After a residence there of about two years the father went to Oregon and the family moved to Stockton. The father, Rev. J. L. Burchard, is a Methodist preacher, and he remained in Oregon about one year, and then returned to California, and has been in this Conference ever since. When the subject of this sketch was about thirteen years of age they moved to Oakland, where he was educated at the Oakland High School. In 1872 he came to this county and spent about one year in Round valley; then returned to Oakland, where he remained until the fall of 1873, when once more he returned to Round valley and was in the employ of the Government on the Indian reservation until 1876, when he commenced teaching, which he followed about eighteen months, when he, in company with J. L. Broaddus, engaged in merchandising at Covelo, under the firm name of Burchard & Broaddus. This, however, lasted but a short time. Closing out he went to Santa Rosa and entered the law office of Barclay Henley & George A. Johnson as a student. After a course of reading he was admitted to practice law May 18, 1880. He then returned to Covelo, where he is engaged in the practice of his profession. He married, December 31, 1876, Miss Mary Josephine Broaddus, daughter of Rev. J. L. Broaddus, of Little Lake. She died December 31, 1878, leaving two children, Martha M. and Mary J.
SOURCE: History of Mendocino County, California - San Francisco, Cal. Alley, Bowen & Co., Publishers. 1880 Pp. 596,597
Daniel and 1st wife Mary (Broadduss)had 2 children:
Martha ‘Marcie’ Mildred. BURCHARD b. 17 Nov 1877 Mendocino Co. CA
Mary JosephineBURCHARD b. 29 Dec 1878 Mendocino Co CA d.age 22 yrs 8 mos 8 days (living with maternal grandparents in 1880).
Daniel Burchard m. 2nd Cora McComas 6 March 1881(Rev Sam Brown performing the service) and had two children with her. Both were born in MO. Cora was a daughter of Rush and Ann E. McComas who first lived in MO before moving on to Santa Clara Co., California.(Rush was the son of Hiram McComas and Rebecca Hatfield from Cabell Co. VA, another son of Moses McComas and a brother to both Sanders W. McComas who married Laura Mary Heath and William Burke McComas who married Nancy Heath.). Cora’s father Rush McComas died April 1903 in Santa Clara CA. Daniel and Cora also moved to California. He was an attorney and they lived in Round Valley Twp, Mendocino Co. CA in 1880 and in San Jose, Santa Clara Co. in 1900. In 1900, two of Cora’s brothers, Allen McComas (b. 1872 CA) and Henry McComas (b. 1873 CA) were living in their household in San Jose. I found this biographical sketch of Daniel Webster Burchard:
Holding a prominent and important position among the public officers of this county, is Mr. Daniel W. Burchard, attorney at law and assistant district attorney. His father was the Rev. John L. Burchard, for ten years a member of the Missouri Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. While he was stationed in Benton County, Missouri, on March 5, 1858, the subject of this sketch was born, and came with his parents to California in the same year. His father was located first at Marysville, remaining there four years, and afterwards for six years in Stockton. In 1868 he was sent to Gilroy, where Daniel attended school. After a four years’ residence here, his father returned to Marysville, when he was appointed Indian agent at Round Valley. In 1872 the family removed to Oakland, in order to afford the children better educational advantages. After passing through the schools of Oakland, Daniel went up to the reservation, where he taught school and studied law. In 1879 and 1880 he studied law in the office of Henley & Johnson, of Santa Rosa, the senior member of that firm being Hon. Barclay Henley, late member of Congress from First District. Mr. Johnson is now attorney-general for the State.
Mr. Burchard was admitted to the Bar nine days only after attaining his majority, and first “hung out his shingle” in Washington Territory. He remained there but a short time, when he returned to California, and for three years practiced law in Hollister, serving one year as city attorney. Removing to San Jose, he entered into partnership with Moore & Moore, and on the election of Howell Moore to the office of district attorney he was appointed deputy.
Mr. Burchard is a hard worker, as can be gathered from the fact that he has appeared in fifteen hundred cases since he began practice, six hundred of them being criminal cases. It is noteworthy, also, that, although so young a man, he has been connected with many cases involving heavy interests. Among these may be noted the congressional election contest of Sullivan versus Felton; the senatorial contest of Ryland versus Conklin; a number of homicide criminal cases in which the final penalty was inflicted, and others.
On March 6, 1881, Mr. Burchard was married to Miss Cora, the eldest daughter of Hon. Rush McComas, the county treasurer. They have four children: Marcie, Mary, Ernest, and Ethel. Mr. Burchard’s family is of Scotch and German extraction, and is fully represented in professional and intellectual pursuits. His father is a thoroughly self-made man, educating himself for the ministry by his own efforts, and passing his life in the service of the Methodist Episcopal Church. His mother is a native of Virginia, a descendant of the pioneers who first settled in that State. His only brother is Dr. L. S. Burchard, of Oakland, and his only sister is the wife of C. H. Twombly, the San Francisco capitalist.
Pen Pictures From The Garden of the World or Santa Clara County, California, Illustrated. - Edited by H. S. Foote.- Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1888. p. 96
Daniel Webster Burchard and 2nd wife Cora (McComas) Burchard had two children:
Ernst B. BURCHARD b. 27 Dec 1881
Ethel M. BURCHARD b. 21 June 1884
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