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Burdette, Robert Jones

journalist, author, lecturer, was born July 30, 1844, in Greensborough, Pa. After serving as a private through the war he returned to Peoria, where he was employed as clerk in the postoffice. Subsequently he became a proof-reader on the Peoria Transcript, and later filled the position of night editor on the same newspaper. In 1874 he was engaged on the Burlington Hawkeye, where he soon gained for himself and the journal a world-wide reputation. Ten years later he left the editorial staff of the Hawkeye and engaged himself with the Brooklyn Eagle. greatest success of Mr. Burdette has been as a lecturer; several of his humorous books, however, have attained fair circulations. His principal works are Hawkeyes; Rise and Fall of the Mustache; Innach Garden and Other Comic Sketches; and Life of William Penn. The BURDICK, CHARLES WILLIAMS, lawyer, public official, legislator, was born Aug. 15, 1860, in Toledo, Ohio. He is one of the foremost lawyers of the west at Cheyenne, Wyo. He was a member of the Wyoming constitutional convention; a member of the upper house in the eleventh territorial legislature; has been state auditor; and filled with distinction the office of secretary of state.