Robert Jones Burdette
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Robert Jones Burdette (1844-1914) was an American humorist and clergyman, who became famous through his paragraphs in the Burlington (Iowa) Hawkeye. He was born in Greensboro, Pa., and received a secondary education in Peoria, Ill. During the Civil War he served as a private soldier. In 1869 he became night editor of the Peoria Daily Transcript and afterward was associated with other papers. 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 result that, beginning in 1876, he made a number of very successful lecture tours. He became a licensed minister of the Baptist church in 1887, and took charge of the Temple Baptist Church at Los Angeles, Cal., in 1903, and was made its pastor emeritus in 1909. His books include:
- The Rise and Fall of the Mustache and other Hawkeyetems (1877)
- Hawkeyes (1880)
- Life of William Penn (1882)
- Innach Gerden and Other Comic Sketches (1886)
- Chimes from a Jester's Bells (1897)
- Old Time and Young Tom (1912)
- This article incorporates text from an edition of the New International Encyclopedia that is in the public domain.
