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

CLARA (BRADLEY) BURDETTE, PASADENA
Born East Bloomfleld, N. Y., July 22, 1855. Educated in Syracuse public schools
and Syracuse Univ., 1872-6; one of the founders of Alpha Phi Sorority. Active in
educational and literary life and in women's club organizations and work;
federated the woman's clubs of Cal. and was first Pres. of State Federation;
also First Vice Pres. General Federation of Women's Clubs, 1902-4. Builder and
donor of Pasadena Maternity Hospital; trustee Throop Polytechnic Institute,
Pasadena, and First Vice Pres. and Chairman finance committee Auditorium
Company, Los Angeles. Mem. American Social Science Assn. and Archaeological
Institute of America. Lecturer on social and economic questions; magazine and
newspaper contributor; author of "The Rainbow and the Pot of Gold" and "To
Idealize Drudgery." Married, 1878, N. Milman Wheeler (died 1886); 1890, Pressley
C. Baker (died 1893); 1899, Robert J. Burdette.


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Greater Los Angeles & Southern California
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ROBERT J. BURDETTE
EDITOR

THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHICAGO          LOS ANGELES          NEW YORK
1910


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