"American Humorist" Robert Jones Burdette Note On 3.5X2 Card For Sale
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"American Humorist" Robert Jones Burdette Note On 3.5X2 Card:
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Up for sale "American Humorist" Robert Jones Burdette Note On 3.5X2 Card Dated 1888.
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Robert
Jones Burdette (July
30, 1844 – November 19, 1914) was an American humorist and clergyman who became
noted through his paragraphs in The Hawk Eye newspaper in Burlington, Iowa. Mary G. Burdette was his sister. He was born in Greensboro, Pennsylvania,
and received a secondary education in Peoria, Illinois. During the Civil War he served
as a private in the 47th Illinois infantry. In 1869 he became night editor of
the Peoria Daily Transcript and
afterward was associated with other newspapers. He joined the staff of
the Burlington Hawkeye in
1872, and his humorous paragraphs soon began to be quoted in newspapers
throughout the country. With the encouragement of his first wife, the former
Caroline S. Garret of Peoria, he began speaking in public. Consequently, he
made a number of successful lecture tours. His lecture, "The Rise and Fall
of the Mustache," was delivered well over three thousand times during a
30-year period. He also wrote the poem "Orphan Born," as well as
"My First Cigar." He was sometimes referred to as the Burlington
Hawkeye Man. In 1884, he left the Hawkeye to replace Stanley
Huntley as the staff humorist for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. He
became a licensed minister of the Baptist church in 1897 and took charge of the
Temple Baptist Church, Los Angeles, California, in 1903, becoming its pastor emeritus in 1909. His first
wife died after 16 years of marriage, and in 1899 he married Clara (Bradley) Baker (1855-1954), a Pasadena widow active
in the Temple Baptist Church and various civic organizations. She was a founder
of Alpha Phi Fraternity, author of several books, and a philanthropist. During
his final years, the couple lived in Pasadena, in a home on Orange Grove
Boulevard, where he died in 1914.
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