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- The Harvard graduates' magazine, Volume 28, March 1920 p.504:
Frank Waldo Burdett, a temporary member of '83, died suddenly of cerebral hemorrhage, on Nov. 0. He was stricken while reading a paper in Ihc Harvard Church of Brookline, at the exercises attending the seventyfifth anniversary of its founding, and where he had been a deacon for many years. The son of Horatio Stearns and Mary Melvina (Martin) Burdett, he was born at Boston, Oct. 29, 1859, and prepared for College at the private school of G. W. C. Noble, '58. Leaving Harvard at the end of Freshman year, he entered business, first with the clothing firm of Burdett, Young & Ingalls, of Boston, and next as a partner of W. A. & P. \V. Burdett, wholesale paper warehousemen. In 1887 he entered the publishing house of Silver, Rogers & Co., of Boston, the firm name changing to Silver, Burdett & Co. with which he was identified for thirty years. The business had grown into one of the largest school book and college text-book publishing houses in the country, with branch offices in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Atlanta, Dallas and in London, England. He was a lifelong resident of Brookline, a member of the Harvard Musical Association and the Commonwealth Golf Club. He was married, Oct. 19, 1887, to Carrie Starr Dana, who died July 12, 1895, leaving three children: Dana Stearns, now in the office of the Boston & Albany R.R.; Carolyn Starr, Vassar, "15; and Alice Martin, who survive their father. Although Burdett was with us only for a year, he always felt the Class ties very strongly, and was a welcome figure at all '83 gatherings, where his cordial, frank and sympathetic nature made him a favorite. ? Thirty-one men assembled at the Harvard Club, on Jan. 17, for our Class Lunch, and on entering the room, found each table decorated with a beautiful bunch of orchids from the Beverly greenhouses of A. C. Burrage. There was no formal speaking, but those present listened delightedly to an hour's talk by C. P. Perin, who gave a vivid and detailed account of his work in India, on behalf of the British Government, by furnishing the supplies of iron and steel that were largely responsible for the winning of the Mesopotamian campaign.
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