A physician graduated from New York University.

The evidence

• “BURDICK, Edgerton ; born, in 1823, in Hopkinton, Washington Co., R. I.; educated at New York University, New York City, graduating from there in 1849 ; attended, as a student, Bellevue and city hospitals ; came to Wisconsin in 1853, locating at Delavan, Walworth Co. Married”

  1879-history-of-rock-county/26-bios-la-prairie.md, PDF p. 838 / book p. 842

  Butterfield, C. W., et al. The History of Rock County, Wisconsin: its early settlement, growth, development, resources, etc. Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1879. Cornell University Library via the Internet Archive, archive.org/details/cu31924028871585.

  Grade A: Found on a page of one of our sources