 "BURTON HULBERT. Among the prosperous farmers of Eddy county, who have passed through pioneer experiences and have made a success of grain raising and are now enjoying the comforts of rural life, the gentleman whose name heads this personal history deserves special mention. He was one of the earliest settlers of township 148, range 66, and has persevered although many discouragements beset his path, and he is now regarded as a farmer who is conducting an extensive business.
Our subject was born in Ontario county. New
York, on a farm in 1842. His forefathers fought in the Revolutionary war, and the family record on
the paternal side is as follows : Daniel, Russel and the father of our subject, Anson Hulbert. The last named was a farmer throughout his career, and the family is of English descent.
Mr. Hulbert was the fifth in order of birth in a family of six children, and was raised on a farm. At the age of eighteen years he enlisted in the Twenty-first New York Cavalry, in 1862, and was sent to join the Army of the Potomac. He participated in many of the hard fought battles of the war, including Gettysburg, Winchester and was at Richmond and Petersburg. He saw nearly three years of active service, and on one occasion the horse on which he was mounted was killed, and at another time one was wounded. After the close of the war he returned to New York state and followed painting, continuing in that trade twenty-five years in New York and Michigan, spending four years of the time in the latter state. He went to North Dakota in the fall of 1882 and looked over the country through Foster and Eddy counties, and in the spring of 1883 located in Carrington, and made his home there two years, working at his trade. Carrington was but a small place upon his arrival there, and the hotel being full of guests he was compelled to sleep the first two nights in a hogshead. His family joined him July 10, of that year, and in the spring of 1884 he took government land in Eddy county, which when surveyed proved to be the southeast quarter of section 2, in township 148, range 66. He built a claim shanty and began farming and also worked at his trade, and during the first two years farmed with oxen. His nearest neighbor was then two miles away, and there was not a house between his place and New Rockford. He and his wife now own four hundred and eighty acres of land, their son has three hundred and twenty acres, and their daughter one hundred and sixty acres, making a total of nearly one thousand acres controlled and owned by the family. Mr. Hulbert has four hundred acres under cultivation, and on his farm has all necessary machinery and buildings for the conduct of a modern farm. He engages in wheat raising almost exclusively, and in this line has been remarkably successful. He is a man of energy, and
July 17. 1890, took the contract to carry the mails between New Rockford and Manis, by way of Tiffany, for four years. The distance is twenty-five miles, and it is to be made daily and home again, fifty miles in every kind of weather.
Our subject was married, in 1871, to Miss Eliza Waite. Mrs. Hulbert is of English descent and was born and raised in Kingston, New York. Her father, Hiram Waite. was an engineer on the great lakes. Three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Hulbert, all of whom were born in New York state, and are named as follows: Angeline, now Mrs. Johnston; Mark and Ellen. Mr. Hulbert is a highly esteemed citizen of his community and is a man who keeps pace with current events. Politically he is a Republican."
Additional Research:
The surname in records is found as Hurlbert, Hulburt, and Hurlburt.
Burton was born in Victor, Ontario County, New York to Anson and Angelina Hulbert. His tombstone shows his birth as 27 June 1845 and the information from his wife on his death certificate is 1841. His known siblings and half-siblings are Warren (1836), Sarah (1840), Alden, Charles, Anson, and Frank.
The Hulberts were farmers in Ontario County, New York. Burton entered the Civil War at Troy, Rensselaer County, New York.
Burton enlisted 28 August 1863 as a Private in Company H, 21st New York Infantry. On 9 September 1865 he was transferred to Company F, 21st New York Cavalry and on 26 June 1866 was mustered out in Denver, Colorado.
After the war, Burton returned to Victor where in 1873 he married Eliza Lavender Waite who was born on 21 March 1852 in Canada and in 1870 was living in Erie County, New York. While in Victor, Burton was a house painter and their children were born there. In the 1910 census they indicate four children were born to them and three were surviving. Their children were; Angeline, Mark, and Ellen (Nellie) (married Maurice Oliver).
Between 1880 and the Dakota Territory census of 1885, the family moved to Eddy County. The family became farmers on their patented land in Section 2, Township 148, Range 66 (Superior Township). One of the township schools was named Hulbert or Dodds school and was later moved to New Rockford as one of the three Eddy County Museum buildings. After Burton's death, Eliza moved to New Rockford until her death.
Eliza's Burial, Tombstone Photo |