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James A. Burden III
Photograph of Burden, by Arnold Genthe, 1914
Born
James Abercrombie Burden III

(1897-07-10)July 10, 1897
Lenox, Massachusetts, US
DiedMay 5, 1979(1979-05-05) (aged 81)
Locust Valley, New York, US
EducationGroton School
Alma materHarvard University
Spouse
Elizabeth Leake Walker
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(m. 1951; died 1979)​
Parent(s)James A. Burden Jr.
Florence Adele Sloane
RelativesW. Douglas Burden (brother)
Arthur Scott Burden (uncle)
William D. Sloane (grandfather)
Emily Thorn Vanderbilt (grandmother)

James Abercrombie Burden III (July 10, 1897 – May 5, 1979) was an American soldier, businessman and bridge player.

Early life[edit]

Photograph of James (left), his father James and younger brother, by Arnold Genthe, 1914

Burden was born on July 10, 1897, in Lenox, Massachusetts, but grew up in Manhattan, where the family lived at 7 East 91st Street in a home designed by Warren & Wetmore.[1][2][3] He was the eldest son of James Abercrombie Burden Jr. (1871–1932)[4] and Florence Adele Sloane (1873–1960).[5] His younger brother was William Douglas Burden,[6] and his younger sister was Florence "Sheila" Burden (the wife of Blake Leigh Lawrence, a descendant of the Chanler, Winthrop, and Astor families).[7][8] After his father's death in 1932, his mother remarried in 1936 to Richard M. Tobin,[9] a banker who had been the American Minister to the Netherlands under President Calvin Coolidge.[10]

His father's family had organized and ran the Burden Iron Works in Troy, of which his father served as president from 1906 until his death.[11][12] His paternal grandparents were Mary Proudfit (née Irvin) Burden (daughter of Richard Irvin) and James Abercrombie Burden (son of Henry Burden).[13][14] His uncle, Arthur Scott Burden,[15] was the first husband of Cynthia Roche (the daughter of the 3rd Baron Fermoy and Frances Ellen Work, and a sister of the 4th Baron Fermoy, a grandfather of Diana, Princess of Wales).[16][17] His sister, Adele Burden Lawrence, married the prominent writer Louis Stanton Auchincloss.[18] His maternal grandparents were William D. Sloane, the head of W. & J. Sloane, and Emily Thorn Vanderbilt (a daughter of William Henry Vanderbilt and granddaughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt). His aunt was Emily Vanderbilt Sloane.[19]

Burden attended Groton School before attending Harvard College where he graduated in 1920.[20]

Career[edit]

During World War I, Burden joined the U.S. Navy and in World War II, he was a colonel in the Army Air Corps.[20] He served as chief, Production Resources Section and was awarded the Army-Navy "E" Award "E" pin.[21]

Burden served as president and chairman of the Orange Roller Bearing Company,[20] which manufactured specialized stainless steel products, and was based out of 557 Main Street in Orange, New Jersey.[22] The company a subsidiary of Handy & Harman.[23] Burden retired in 1969 after the assets of its bearings division were sold to Raritan Bearing Corp., a subsidiary of Roller Bearing Co. of America.[24] He also served as a director of the Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation of New York.[25]

Personal life[edit]

Photograph of Burden, by Arnold Genthe, 1914

On June 25, 1951, Burden was married to Elizabeth Harris (née Leake) Walker (1914–2007) of Richmond, Virginia, in Paris with the civil ceremony in the Mairie of the first Paris district and the religious ceremony at the American Church in Paris.[25] She was the former wife of Bradford Hastings Walker.[26] She was a daughter of Judge David Harris Leake, who served as general attorney of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway.[27] Through Elizabeth, he became stepfather to twins Bradford Hasting Walker (a stockbroker who married Pamela Drexel, daughter of John R. Drexel III, in 1966)[28] and David Hastings Walker,[20] a yacht broker.[28]

He was a member of the Racquet and Tennis Club of New York, the Piping Rock Club in Locust Valley, and the Meadowbrook Club in Old Westbury, New York. Along with his cousin, Harold S. Vanderbilt, who founded the game, he was an "expert amateur contract-bridge player."[20]

After a long illness, Burden died at his home in Locust Valley, New York, a 1928 French Norman style mansion designed by Benjamin Wistar Morris of LaFarge & Morris,[29] on May 5, 1979.[20]

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References[edit]

  1. ^ "Burden Furnishings Sold". New York Times. April 21, 1938. Retrieved 2015-08-04.
  2. ^ "Burden Furnishings Sold. Auction Yields Total of $31,591. Old Tapestry Brings $5,000". New York Times. April 22, 1938. Retrieved 2015-08-04.
  3. ^ Christopher Gray (July 10, 1994). "The Burden Mansion. The Soot's Coming Off, but a Blemish Will Remain". New York Times. Retrieved 2015-08-04.
  4. ^ "James A. Burden Dead In Syosset". New York Times. June 2, 1932. Retrieved 2015-08-04. President of Iron Company Bearing the Family Name Victim of Embolism. Sequel To An Accident. Prominent In New York Society Prince of Wales Entertained at Woodside, His Estate
  5. ^ Times, Special to The New York (11 January 1960). "MRS. R.M. TOBIN, A SOCIAL LEADER; Owner of Vast L.I. Estate Once Used by Prince of Wales Is Dead at 86". The New York Times. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
  6. ^ Campbell, Barbara (16 November 1978). "WILLIAM D. BURDEN, NATURALIST, IS DEAD". The New York Times. Retrieved 19 September 2017.
  7. ^ "MISS SHIELA BURDEN ENGAGED TO MARRY; Kin of Commodore Vanderbilt to Wed Blake L. Lawrence Late This Autumn". The New York Times. 10 October 1929. Retrieved 19 September 2017.
  8. ^ "SHIELA BURDEN WED TO B.L. LAWRENCE; Bride a Descendant of the Late Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt. 200 ATTEND THE RECEPTION Ceremony in Quaint Little St. John's Church at Cold Spring Harbor, L.I." The New York Times. 27 October 1929. Retrieved 19 September 2017.
  9. ^ "MRS. J. A. BURDEN WED TO RICHARD M. TOBIN; Civil Ceremony Held in Paris Religions One Today by Cardinal Verdier". The New York Times. 7 July 1936. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
  10. ^ "RICHARD M. TOBIN, FORMER DIPLOMAT; Ex-Minister to the Netherlands, President of Hibernia Bank in San Francisco, Dies at 85". The New York Times. 24 January 1952. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
  11. ^ "Burden Iron Works". www.albanyinstitute.org. Albany Institute of History and Art. Retrieved 19 September 2017.
  12. ^ "THE BURDEN IRON COMPANY.; PROCEEDINGS IN THE SUIT TO HAVE A RECEIVER APPOINTED". The New York Times. 1885. Retrieved 19 September 2017.
  13. ^ "JAMES A. BURDEN'S WILL.; Bequests Made to Widow, Sons, and Business Associates". The New York Times. 19 October 1906. Retrieved 19 September 2017.
  14. ^ Reynolds, Cuyler (1911). Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs: A Record of Achievements of the People of the Hudson and Mohawk Valleys in New York State, Included Within the Present Counties of Albany, Rensselaer, Washington, Saratoga, Montgomery, Fulton, Schenectady, Columbia and Greene. Lewis Historical Publishing Company. Retrieved 19 September 2017.
  15. ^ "A. S. Burden Dies in White Plains | Victim of Pneumonia, He Passes Away in Hospital After a Brief Illness. He was 42 Years Old. Twice Injured by Falls From His Horse. Husband of Cynthia Roche". The New York Times. 16 June 1921. Retrieved 28 August 2009.
  16. ^ "MRS. GUY CARY, DIES; NEWPORT FIGURE, 82". The New York Times. 19 December 1966. Retrieved 14 June 2017.
  17. ^ "Deaths | CARY -- Cynthia Burke Roche". The New York Times. 20 December 1966. Retrieved 14 June 2017.
  18. ^ "ADELE LAWRENCE WED IN VERMONT; Bride of Louis Auchincloss, a Virginia Law Alumnus, in Shelburne Church". The New York Times. September 8, 1957. Retrieved 14 October 2016.
  19. ^ "A Love Match. An American Heiress is Content to Dwell in Her Native Land With an American Male. A Wedding Which Has Cost an Expenditure of a Round Million. A Vanderbilt Gathering". The Wichita Beacon. 6 June 1895. p. 1. Retrieved August 4, 2015 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  20. ^ a b c d e f "James A. Burden Is Dead at 81. Roller-Bearing Concern Ex-Head". New York Times. May 8, 1979. Retrieved 2015-08-04. James A. Burden, a former president of the Orange Roller Bearing Company, died Saturday at his home in Locust Valley, L.I., after a long illness. He was 81 years old
  21. ^ "Orange Roller Bearing Co., Inc. Wins "E" Award". The Morning Call. November 15, 1944. Retrieved 15 September 2023.
  22. ^ "Orange Roller Bearing Co., Inc". Automotive News. Jul 14, 1941. Retrieved 15 September 2023.
  23. ^ Seybold, Geneva (1968). Communicating with Employees about Mergers. National Industrial Conference Board. pp. 21–22. Retrieved 15 September 2023.
  24. ^ "Bearing Assets Sold to Raritan". Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Sep 4, 1969. Retrieved 15 September 2023.
  25. ^ a b "JAMES A. BURDEN MARRIES IN PARIS; Member of Noted Family Weds Mrs. Elizabeth Leake Walker --H.F. Byrd Jr. Escorts Bride". The New York Times. 26 June 1951. Retrieved 15 September 2023.
  26. ^ TIMES, Special to THE NEW YORK (5 February 1940). "ELIZABETH LEAKE A BRIDE; Wed in Virginia to Bradford H. Walker, Insurance Executive". The New York Times. Retrieved 15 September 2023.
  27. ^ "David Harris Leake, 79, Dies in Hospital Here". Richmond Times-Dispatch. May 9, 1955. p. 1. Retrieved June 26, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
  28. ^ a b "Pamela Noreen Drexel Married Here; Becomes the Bride of Bradford Hastings Walker, Broker". The New York Times. 22 November 1966. Retrieved 11 July 2023.
  29. ^ "1928 Gold Coast Estate Designed by LaFarge & Morris in Old Brookville, New York". Pricey Pads. 20 February 2023. Retrieved 15 September 2023.

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