Mr. Burkitt was a senior member of the firm of N. Burkitt & Co., lumber manufacturers, of Kingsley, Grand Traverse County, Michigan, and a native of Ohio. He was born in 1819, when at five years of age his parents moved to Indiana where he was brought up on a farm. He was there about thirty years, engaged in the saw-mill business, in St. Joseph County, Indiana. The firm started their present business in the fall of 1883, purchasing the mill building, and putting in machinery brought from Indiana.

He married in 1849 to Mary Ann Leonard, native of North Carolina, and had four sons and one daughter.  One of the sons, Loren F., junior member of the family firm was born in St. Joseph County in 1858. Loren's family consisted of a wife and two children. 

Source: The Traverse Region, published 1884.

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