When Adam Kurtz Burkholder was born on 27 June 1917, in Ephrata, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, David Weber Burkholder, was 41 and his mother, Ida Wenger Kurtz, was 37. He married Elsie Bauman Gingrich on 11 May 1940, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He lived in Ephrata Township, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States in 1940. He died on 23 July 1994, in Ephrata, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Martindale, Earl Township, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States.