BURTON, CHARLES PIERCE: 1862-
Charles Pierce Burton , born in Anderson, Ind., on Mar. 7, 1862, lived there only three months. He is qualified by birth for inclusion here, and, when he once expressed doubt as to his eligibility to be known as an Indiana author, he was assured by Booth Tarkington that "three months was long enough for inoculation."
His mother died when he was ten months old, and he lived with his grandmother and a maternal aunt until 1873, when his father re-married and brought him to Aurora, Ill., where the senior Burton was editor and publisher of a weekly newspaper. With the exception of three years in Valparaiso and Gary, Ind., 1912-16, Charles Pierce Burton remained in Aurora as newspaper and trade paper editor, contributor to periodicals and writer of juvenile fiction.
Information from Charles Pierce Burton.
- The Bashful Man and Others.
Chicago, 1902.
- The Boys of Bob's Hill. New
York, 1905.
- The Bob's Cave Boys. New
York, 1909.
- The Bob's Hill Braves. New
York, 1910.
- The Boy Scouts of Bob's Hill. New
York, 1912.
- Camp Bob's Hill. New
York, 1915.
- Raven Patrol of Bob's Hill. New
York, 1917.
- The Trail Makers. New York,
1919.
- Bob's Hill Trails. New
York, 1922.
- Treasure Hunters of Bob's Hill.
New York, 1926.
- Bob's Hill Meets the Andes; Doings of the Band in
South America as Told in the Minutes of the Meetin'.
New York, 1929.
- Bob's Hill Boys in the Everglades.
New York, 1932.
- Bob's Hill on the Air; Some Adventures That the
Secretary Failed to Record in the Minutes of the Meeting.
New York, 1934.
- Moving the Earth. New York,
1936.
- Bob's Hill Boys in Virginia. New
York, 1939.
