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Author: TKNOX
Surnames: BURKE
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Based on the continuity of addresses in City Directories and Censuses, it appears that
Margaret L Burke (Wife of Louis L) is the same person as Margaret Sullivan Burke (the
female Washington correspondent) -
1880 Washington, Washington, District of Columbia
address: 1602 Fifteenth Street nw
Burke, Louis L/52:IN, Margaret L/44:IN,
(), Hinda L/18:IN, Oswald N/13:IL, Raymond L/8:VA
1900 Washington, Washington, District of Columbia
address: 1602 "15th St South of Sq"
Burke, Margaret/64:IN:KY:NC/Feb1836/widow/4:3children
(), Hinda L/28:IN
NOTE: Hmm - Margaret apparently had FOUR children.
1910 Washington, Washington, District of Columbia
address: 1602 15th St
Burke, Margaret L/74:IN/widow, Louisa H/48:IN
Boyd's Directory of The District of Columbia
incomplete list - I was looking for Louis -
1884 - Burke Louis
L, printer, 1602 15th nw
1886 - Burke Louis L, g pr o, 1602 15th nw
1886 - Burke Hinda L, draftsman, 1602 15th nw
1888 - Burke Margaret S, journalist, 1602 15th nw
1888 - Burke Hinda L, clk p o d, 1602 15th nw
1895 - Burke Margaret S, journalist, 1602 15th nw
1895 - Burke Hinda L, clk p o d, 1602 15th nw
Perry County: A History (Perry County, IN: page 293)
Similar conditions six years later determined the fate of the Cannelton Gazette, a weekly
founded during the summer of 1886, ... Louis L. Burke, for twenty years resident in the
District of Columbia, returned to Perry County, and established the paper which lasted
less than a year, ... Burke removed his plant to Brookville, where for several years he
published the American with fair success.
Articles in the Washington Post (Washington DC) appear with the byline MARGARET SULLIVAN
BURKE. (a journalist)
Washington Post, The (Washington, D.C.) > 1917 > March > 17
Deaths Reported - Margaret S. Burke, 78 yrs, 1602 15th st. nw.
By continuity of the address "1602 15th St nw" in censuses & city
directories, I would say that Margaret L Burke (mother of Hinda, wife of Louis) is the
same person as Margaret S/Sullivan Burke (writer & correspondent). I *do* point out a
discrepancy of age in the Death-Report versus the census - but then again, wanting to
remain a correspondent, she may have mis-reported her age at some point.
Washington Post, The (Washington, D.C.) > 1917 > March > 25
Members of The League of American Pen Women have joined numerous other literary
organizations in resolutions of condolence on the death of Mrs Margaret Sullivan Burke, of
this city for many years writer and newspaper correspondent. Mrs. Burke had a literary
career which covered a wide field and dated back to her seventeenth year. She made a
reputation as a writer of poetry in her native state of Indiana, where she was known
familiarly as "Maggie Lute". ...
NOTE: this article has no dates, and no mention of a husband.
Here's a possible Indiana marriage -
Indiana Marriage Collection, 1800-1941
Name: Lewis L Burke
Spouse Name: Margaret L Wann
Marriage Date: 20 Nov 1865
Marriage County: Marion
Source Title 1: Marion County, Indiana
Source Title 2: Index to Marriage Record 1861 - 1865
Hmm - that address doesn't quite work with Hinda's birth -
1870 Barry, Pike, Illinois
Burke, L L/41:IN, Maggie/33:IN, Hinda/8:IN, Oscar/3:IL
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