Thornton Burgess
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 59 years ago |
Date of birth | January 14,1874 |
Zodiac sign | Capricorn |
Born | Sandwich |
Massachusetts | |
United States | |
Date of died | June 5,1965 |
Died | Hampden |
Massachusetts | |
United States | |
Resting place | Springfield Cemetery |
Movies/Shows | Here Comes Peter Cottontail: The Movie |
Here Comes Peter Cottontail | |
Children | Thornton Waldo Burgess III |
Rest place | Springfield Cemetery, Springfield, Massachusetts |
Springfield Cemetery | |
Springfield | |
Massachusetts | |
Books | Old Mother West Wind |
Education | Sandwich High School |
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Date of Upd. | |
ID | 967066 |
Thornton Burgess Life story
Thornton Waldo Burgess was an American conservationist and author of children's stories. He was sometimes known as the Bedtime Story-Man, after his newspaper column Bedtime Stories. By the time he retired, he had written more than 170 books and 15,000 stories for the daily newspaper column.