Thornton Waldo Burgess was an American conservationist and author of children's stories.
12 Facts About Thornton Burgess
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Thornton Burgess was sometimes known as the Bedtime Story-Man, after his newspaper column Bedtime Stories.
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Thornton Burgess relocated to Springfield, Massachusetts, where he accepted a job as an editorial assistant at the Phelps Publishing Company.
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Thornton Burgess married Nina Osborne in 1905, but she died in childbirth a year later, leaving him to raise their son alone.
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Thornton Burgess remarried in 1911; his wife Fannie had two children by a previous marriage.
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Thornton Burgess returned frequently to Sandwich, which he always claimed as his spiritual home.
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Thornton Burgess used his outdoor observations of nature as plots for his stories.
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From 1895 to 1962, Thornton Burgess wrote "nearly 900" stories, natural science articles, and poems for magazines, including 201 children's stories for People's Home Journal magazine.
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For over 16 years from May 1913 through the magazine's demise following its final December 1929 issue, Thornton Burgess published a children's story in every issue of People's Home Journal magazine.
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From 1912 to 1960, without interruption, Thornton Burgess wrote his syndicated daily newspaper column, Bedtime Stories.
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In 1960, Thornton Burgess published his last book, Now I Remember, Autobiography of an Amateur Naturalist, depicting memories of his early life in Sandwich as well as his career highlights.
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Thornton Burgess died on June 5,1965, at the age of 91.