The log cabin Democrat., 1921-03-29
J. BURROUGHS. NO1FDNATURE
 WRITER, DEAD
(By United Press)


 roughs, S4, famous naturalist, died at Z o'clock this morning on board the 1 train on which he was returning from l California to his home at West Park, ~. r., according to telegram re- ceived here by Dr. Walter Gray ] Crump. The telegram was from Dr. 1 Clara Barrus, secretary to the nat uralist, and was sent from Buffalo. It I indicated that his death occurred shortly before the train reached that city.
 Dr. Crump announced that the body of MT. Burroughs would be immedi- ately brought to Poughkeepsie, his home for years having been across the Hudson from that city. His body will be met by relatives at Pough- keepsie.
 Information given by Dr. Crump was that Mir. Burroughs, who had spent the winter at Pasadena, be- came i'll after the train had left Chicago on it's eastward journey. He was returning home to spend April 3, his eighty-fourth birthday, in company with Henry Ford, Thomas A. Edison and Henry S. Firestone, his three most intimate friends. The death of John Burroughs re- moves from American life it's best loved naturalist and one of it's most prominent essayists and critics. 1t | was ba ;,, ] in nature that appealed to him and gave his efforts a style peculiar to him alone. His literary quality gain i ed it's fascination from the acuteness of observation rather than from any elaboration of literary expression.
 In 1904 he made his famous attack on Ernest Seton Thompson and one or two other naturalists, sharply criticising statements made by them In their works on nature, and refer red to them as nature fakirs."
 Burroughs was born at Roxbury, N. l., April 3, 1887, of stock English on his fathers side, and a strong dash of Irish on his mothers side. He spent his early youth between study in the country school and in the field. He said of himself that his originality was fostered by growing up among people who neither read books nor cared for them.
 At the age of II, he began writing essays, and at the age of 19 was a contributor to the Atlantic Monthly. At the age of IT, he left home and Hooked for place where the crust was pretty thin, to break through into the world" as he put it. He first entered Ashland Seminary and in the year following, Cooperstowns Semi nary. He then began teaching school, devoting most of his time to that profession for the next eight or nine years.
 In 1863 Burroughs was appointed to the treasury department, first as keeper of the vault and later as chief of an organization bureau in the di- vision of national banks He left the department in 1873 and he same year acted as receiver of a broken bank in Middletown, N r. It was also during that year that he was appointed a special national bank examiner, a po- sition he held for 10 years.
 In 1874 he purchased small farm at Esopus, on the west bank of the Hudson river, and has spent most of his time in recent years on this farm, cultivating crops in the summer and devoting the winter to literary work. Burroughs was a close personal friend of Colonel Roosevelt, and the two often enjoyed tramps through the woods and dales bent on study of bird and animal life as we'll as fauna. During the past few years, he has spent most of his summer camping with Thomas A. Edison and Henry Ford, the party usually seeking some wild spot safely removed from centers of population.
 By turns Burroughs was an artist, naturalist, poet and sportsman, but always without the least pretense of i passion. The reader of his works could hardly resist the impulse to get out of doors and enjoy the full signi- fcance of surroundings which had pre- 1 YiOuSlV been meaningless