Los Angeles County CA Archives Biographies.....Burdette, Robert Jones 
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Author: Robert J. Burdette (1910)

ROBERT JONES BURDETTE, PASADENA

Humorist, author, lecturer, preacher, philanthropist; born July 30, 1844;
Greensboro, Pa. Educated in public schools, Peoria, Ill.; private soldier in
47th Illinois Infantry; reporter on Peoria (Ill.) Transcript, 1869-72; editor
Peoria Evening Review, 1872-75; editor Burlington (Ia.) Hawk-Eye, 1876-84.
Popular lecturer, 1876-1905. Licensed to preach, Lower Merion Baptist Church
(Bryn Mawr, Pa.), 1897; ordained to the Baptist ministry Temple Baptist Church,
Los Angeles, Cal., Aug., 1903. Married, first Caroline Spaulding Garrett,
Peoria, Ill., March 4, 1870 (died, May, 1884); second, Clara Bradley Baker,
Pasadena, Cal., March 27, 1898. His home, "Sunnycrest," on Orange Grove Ave.,
Pasadena.


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Greater Los Angeles & Southern California
Portraits & Personal Memoranda

ROBERT J. BURDETTE
EDITOR

THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHICAGO          LOS ANGELES          NEW YORK
1910


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