Background
Burdette, Robert Jones was born on July 30, 1844 in Greensboro, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Frederick E. and Sophia Eberhardt (Jones) Burdette.
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Robert Jones Burdette
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Removed in boyhood to Peoria, Illinois. Educated in public schools. (Doctor of Divinity, Kalamazoo College, 1908.
Doctor of Laws, Occidental College, California, 1913).
Career
Private 47th Illinois Volumes, 1862-1865. Was on several newspapers at Peoria, Illinois. Later associate editor Burlington (Iowa) Hawkeye, where he made reputation as humorist.
Later on Brooklyn Eagle.
Editorial contributor Los Angeles Times, since 1900. Licensed minister Baptist Church, 1887, ordained, 1903.
Pastor Temple Baptist Church, Los Angeles, 1903-1909, pastor emeritus, July since 1909. Author: Sons of Asaph.
Smiles Yoked with Sighs, 1900.
The Silver Trumpets (poems), 1911. Home: Pasadena, California.
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Married Clara Bradley Baker, March 25, 1899.
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American