page_title: Robert Jones Burdette
section_title: Ministerial career
hierarchical_section_title: Robert Jones Burdette / Ministerial career
caption_attribution_description: English: Clara Bradley Baker, Mrs. Robert J. Burdette, Who's who among the women of California
context_page_description: Robert Jones Burdette 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.
context_section_description: 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.
caption: Clara Bradley Baker, Mrs. Robert J. Burdette, Who's who among the women of California
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