Surname: Burdette Forename(s): Robert Jones b. 31 July 1844. d. 19 November 1914. Nationality: American. VIAF.
Newspaper editor, humorist, lecturer, and poet. Known as “the Burlington Hawkeye Man”
in his writings for an Iowa paper. Author of the lecture “The Rise and Fall of the
Mustache” (printed 1877). Biographical information: Oxford Reference; Los Angeles Herald, 19 November 1914, p.1. (DD)