Burgess, E.D.

BURGESS, LANNING, DODDER, BASSETT, SLADDEN

Posted By: Janelle Martin (email)
Date: 5/23/2009 at 20:45:00

History of Hamilton County Iowa,1912, Vol II p.89

E. D. BURGESS

E. D. Burgess is now librarian of the Kendall Young Library of Webster City, Iowa, and has done efficient work in this capacity since 1898. He was born in 1851 at Lafayette, New Jersey, and is a son of Jesse Raymond and Huldah Lanning (Dodder) Burgess. His parents came to Hamilton County in 1857 and settled in Webster City where the father practiced medicine until his death. The mother is still living in this city.

After he obtained his grammar-school education Mr. Burgess entered the State University of Iowa and attended within a few months of graduation. He studied civil engineering and followed that profession until 1878. He studied law and was admitted to the bar of Iowa and practiced in that state for twenty years. In 1898 he became librarian of the Kendall Young Library and has retained this identification since that time.

In 1883 Mr. Burgess was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth Bassett Sladden, a daughter of W. C. Sladden of Webster City. Mr. and Mrs. Burgess reside at No. 902 Wilson avenue and have many friends in the social circles of the city in which they live. Mr. Burgess is a man of wide reading and has a cultivated and well trained mind. He has been of valuable assistance to patrons of the library in directing their reading.