Born: near Tipton, Indiana, 1870s? Died: 1933 James Calvin Burkhardt was born on a farm near Tipton, Indiana. He was educated in Butler College, from which he graduated in 1897. His first ministry was in Indianapolis, where he preached for five years. The next ministries were at Lexington, Waveland, Waynetown, Union, and country churches in Tipton and Montgomery Counties. The longest pastorate he has held was at Connersville, where he remained for seven years and nine months, in which time the church constructed one of the best church buildings in the State, a modern parsonage was also built, and eleven hundred members were received into the fellowship of the church. He is now located at Frankfort, Indiana, in his second year.